{"title":"Ann Laura Stoler","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnn Laura Stoler’s work invites readers into the complex terrains of colonial history and its enduring legacies. Her titles, such as \u003cem\u003eAlong the Archival Grain\u003c\/em\u003e, blend rigorous historical analysis with nuanced reflections on power, race, and social hierarchies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection is essential for those interested in the intersections of history, culture, and memory within colonial and postcolonial contexts. Stoler’s sharp interrogation of archives and imperial histories offers profound insights into the shaping of modern societies.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"along-the-archival-grain-by-ann-laura-stoler-9780691146362","title":"Along the Archival Grain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlong the Archival Grain\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNavigating 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRejecting the notion that archival labour 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462591365356,"sku":"9780691146362","price":104.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691146362-along-the-archival-grain.jpg?v=1775017263"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ann-laura-stoler.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}