Students of colonialism map structure onto colonizers and agency onto subalterns

Evidence

Schooled to think “from the bottom up,” students of colonialism located “structure” with colonizers and the colonial state, and “human agency” with subalterns, in small gestures of refusal and silence among the colonized. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 303

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills the subaltern-studies analytic division between colonizer-structure and colonized-agency.