Historical knowledge gets co-opted for administrative manipulation
Evidence
Institutions create shadowed places in which nothing can be seen and no questions asked. They make other areas show in finely discriminated detail, which is closely scrutinized and ordered. History emerges in an unintended shape as a result of practices directed to immediate, practical ends. To watch these practices establish selective principles that highlight some kinds of events and obscure others is to inspect the social order operating on individual minds. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 153 (
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Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Institutional bureaucratic practices secretly shape which historical events get recorded (similarity 0.90)
- Bureaucratic selective practices shape which historical events become visible. (similarity 0.90)
- Institutional filing practices shape historical memory by highlighting some events and obscuring others (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Institutional bureaucratic practices secretly shape which historical events get recorded
#expands(0.88) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 153 - Bureaucratic selective practices shape which historical events become visible.
#corroborates(0.85) - Official history is engineered to blind public opinion for political ends
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