Colonial filing systems themselves produced methods of domination.

Evidence

As some of the best of this work now recognizes, filing systems and disci- plined writing produce assemblages of control and specific methods of domination. More than ever, new studies of archival production tackle the politics of colonial knowledge and the “arrested histories”—those histories suspended from received historiography—that are its effects. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 201

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘arrested histories’ as histories suspended from received historiography.

Related

• Filing systems and disciplined writing are themselves methods of domination (similarity 0.91)
• Colonial archives could be reactivated to serve new governing strategies. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial archival power was partial and vulnerable to dissent, not monolithic. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial archives actively produce categories rather than merely record them (similarity 0.82)
• Netherlands Indies colonial archives functioned as a reactivatable arsenal for governance. (similarity 0.82)
• Archival form itself constitutes a technology of colonial governance (similarity 0.81)
• The archival field both consolidates and internally resists colonial authority (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial archival fields both consolidate state authority and register resistance to it. (similarity 0.81)
• Archived document bundles reveal contested epistemic habits under colonial conditions. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial archives functioned as active technologies of rule, not passive records (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial archives actively shape what counts as legitimate knowledge (similarity 0.80)
• Institutional filing practices shape historical memory by highlighting some events and obscuring others (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial archives could arm the state to justify inaction and abort policy. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial archives record administrators’ uncertainty about matching rules to reality (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial documents systematically erased facts of subjugation and recast colonized violence as inherent unreason. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial archives simultaneously conceal and reveal state investments #corroborates (0.80) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 317
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. #expands (0.60) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 737
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted #complicates (0.40)