"Along the Archival Grain" offers a unique methodological and
analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance
and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced
mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the
nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies, Ann Laura Stoler identifies
the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice,
revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused
epistemic space.
Navigating familiar and extraordinary paths through the
lettered lives of those who ruled, she seizes on moments when
common sense failed and prevailing categories no longer seemed to
work. She asks not what colonial agents knew, but what happened
when what they thought they knew they found they did not. Rejecting
the notion that archival labor be approached as an extractive
enterprise, Stoler sets her sights on archival production as a
consequential act of governance, as a field of force with violent
effect, and not least as a vivid space to do ethnography.
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