The Netherlands served as an unexamined template for colonial reform
Evidence
The Netherlands was the transparency on which their models of colonial reform were drawn, explicitly or as a backdrop that set their plans in sharper relief. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 727
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: Idea of an unexamined metropolitan ‘transparency’ echoes the reader’s epistemic-anxieties framing.
Related
- Failed colonial proposals reveal anxieties about what was wrong in both colony and metropole (similarity 0.80)
- Dutch colonial planners compared experiments from Australia, the Caribbean, and India. (similarity 0.79)
- Dutch colonial archives store unrealized plans as the real stuff of state knowledge (similarity 0.78)