The Inlandsche kinderen were largely invisible to colonial statistics but omnipresent in state archives

Evidence

Here I explicitly do something else: several chapters stay largely within the state’s purview by attending to documents viewed by state officials but not always produced by them. As I use the term, the Dutch colonial “archives” were both a corpus of statements and a depot of documents, both sites of the imaginary and institutions that fashioned histories as they concealed, revealed, and contradicted the investments of the state. Power and control, as students of archiving are quick to point out, is fundamental — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 317 (#epitomizes, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Dutch colonial archives functioned as both repositories and sites of the imaginary shaping history (similarity 0.86)
• Inlandsche kinderen were invisible to statistics yet pervasive in archives. (similarity 0.81)
• Archival documents act as generative substances that shape the colonial apparatus. (similarity 0.81)
• Netherlands Indies colonial archives functioned as a reactivatable arsenal for governance. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial knowing relied on inattention and adverted gazes more than surveillance (similarity 0.80)
• Dutch colonial archives store unrealized plans as the real stuff of state knowledge (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial archives carry anxious labor and partiality, not settled knowledge (similarity 0.79)
• Access to colonial archives depends on knowing unstated governing logic, not just finding documents (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial archives could be reactivated to serve new governing strategies. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial archives should be treated as ethnographic sites not extraction sources (similarity 0.79)
• Archival form itself constitutes a technology of colonial governance (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial archives actively shape what counts as legitimate knowledge (similarity 0.79)
• Many Dutch colonial classified documents were not actual secrets. (similarity 0.78)
• Current colonial scholars read archives as places and cultural spaces (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial documentary practices failed to capture a racial underclass of mixed-race vagrants #exemplifies (0.85)
• Colonial archives simultaneously conceal and reveal state investments #epitomizes (0.75) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 317
• Colonial archives functioned as active technologies of rule, not passive records #expands (0.60)