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Data, What gets measured reflects power structures, Data can be…
Data
Evidence - Used to support narratives or historical claims.
Narrative
Storytelling as power
Thos who tell stories control collective memory
Selective memory
Cultural perspective
Rewriting history
Postcolonial scholarship reclaims stories from the margins
Interpretation - Data doesn't speak for itself; interpretation gives it meaning.
Power determins which interpretations are accepted
Absence of data - What's missing tells a story too.
Silence
Memory and forgetting - Collective silence shapes identity
Nations forget uncomfortable histories to preserve myths of unity
Interpretive gaps - What's unsaid can reveal underlying tensions
Reading Silence shapes identity
Erasure - Silence is the absence of representation in data or stories
Silenced Data creates wholes in the full picture of a population
Resistance through silence - Silence can also be a choice or protest
The choices of whether to be silent or not depends on the person who does
Representation - Data represents what is recorded, but not always what is true.
Power
Control of narrative - Those in power decide which stories are told
Institutions legitimize certain voices
Silencing - Power can suppress alternative stories or knowledge
Knoledge prodouction - Power influences what counts as "truth"
Resistance - Power is not toal; others resist through counter-narratives.
Oral histories, protests, and art reclaim erased voices
What gets measured reflects power structures
Data can be manipulated to justify authority or erase other's perspectives
Silence in data shows who was excluded from history