race and the intimate in colonial rule
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stoler, Ann Laura
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3669 - B
- Thesaurus
- kolonialisme, etniciteit, relaties, ouderschap, kinderen, Nederlands-Indië, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In these essays, the author focuses on parents and parenting, nursing mothers, servants, orphanages, and abandoned children to reveal how crucial these were to imperial governance and why they have been so consistently absent from its historiography. This analysis of colonial Indonesian society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries yields insights that translate to a global, comparative perspective. In both tracking and questioning recent shifts in colonial studies, Stoler calls for a new engagement with the history and 'politics of comparison'.