Competing colonial plans encode rival readings of past, present, and future
Evidence
These disparate and competing visions marshaled different sorts of comparative colonial knowledge, local familiarity, and scientiļ¬c expertise. Not least, they registered different interpretations of a usable past, divergent assessments of present risks, and conļ¬icting visions of the future. ā Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemicā¦, 648