Dutch colonial administration long tried to engineer loyal domestic and schooling environments

Evidence

For decades after, a central, if unresolved, question remained: what sorts of domestic and pedagogic environments could instill loyalty to Dutch rule, and what sorts would nurture affective attachments dangerous to it. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 565

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: the colonial state’s betting on household design and pedagogy as instruments of loyalty — the family as infrastructure of empire.