Dutch colonial governance centered on managing subjects’ affective states

Evidence

Here I argue that the “political rationalities” of Dutch colonial authority—those strategically reasoned forms of administrative common sense informing policy and practice—were grounded in the management of such affective states, in assessing both appropriate sentiments and those that threatened to run “out of control.” — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 356

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘political rationalities’ as strategically reasoned administrative common sense.