But what constitutes common sense is at once historical and political; colonial contexts teach us clearly that dispositions are trained and disci- plined and not without deliberation. Like habitus, they are neither uniform nor uncontested. Dispositions emerge out of a habitus that is rejected, ac- cepted, or uneasily accommodated. Dispositions are not given, they are interpretations, discerned and made.

Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ E…, loc. 241