Colonial regimes deliberately cultivated habits and redirected sentiments, a neglected topic.

Evidence

Still, how sentiments have figured in and mattered to the shaping of statecraft has remained marginal to studies of colonial politics. What are barely addressed are those habits of the heart and the redirection of sentiments that were fostered by colonial regimes themselves. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 379

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: colonial statecraft as emotional engineering — regimes that manufactured the very passions scholarship discounts.