Rethinking Histories of Indonesia
Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality
Edited by: Sadiah Boonstra
, Bronwyn Anne Beech Jones , Katharine McGregor , Ken M.P. Setiawan , Abdul Wahid Please read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality provides a critical evaluation of histories of Indonesia from the formal period of colonisation to the present day. The volume approaches Indonesian history through the lens of coloniality, or the structures of power and control that underpin colonisation and which persist into the present. Bringing together seventeen authors from across the world, the volume offers an alternative conceptualisation of Indonesian history and lays bare the enduring legacies of and processes that reproduce coloniality.
‘This is a significant and exciting volume in terms of its scale, the range of disciplines, approaches and topics included and, ultimately, for its contribution to the field of Indonesian history and historiography, and Indonesian studies and decolonial studies more broadly … The contributors to this book do [a great service to] students of Indonesian history, its cultures, society and politics, offering new sources, voices, approaches and perspectives. Overall, they provide a fresh and vital critique of not only Indonesia’s colonial history but its continuing lived influences on present day Indonesia and beyond.’
—Jemma Purdey, Australia-Indonesia Centre, Monash University
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781760466978
- ISBN (online):
- 9781760466985
- Publication date:
- Aug 2025
- Note:
- Asian Studies Series Monograph 20
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/RHI.2025
- Series:
- Asian Studies Series
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies, History
- Countries:
- Southeast Asia: Indonesia
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- Preliminary pages (PDF, 142 KB)
- List of illustrations (PDF, 81 KB)
- Abbreviations (PDF, 48 KB)
- Glossary of terms (PDF, 70 KB)
- Acknowledgements (PDF, 60 KB)
- Contributors (PDF, 91 KB)
Part 1. Colonial categories across and beyond the colony
- Rethinking histories of Indonesia: A decolonial approach (PDF, 1 MB) – Sadiah Boonstra, Bronwyn Anne Beech Jones, Katharine McGregor, Ken M.P. Setiawan and Abdul Wahid doi
- ‘Oedjan belasting, the raining of taxes’: Coloniality and the Dutch economic exploitation of the Chinese (PDF, 507 KB) – Abdul Wahid doi
- Locating colonial Indonesia in colonial Ceylon: Geography, language and belonging (PDF, 172 KB) – Ronit Ricci doi
- ‘So I say my name’: Towards a decolonial ethics for reading girls’ worlds in letters (PDF, 535 KB) – Bronwyn Anne Beech Jones doi
- Dealing with modernities: East Java’s plantation society in colonial times and the revolution (PDF, 928 KB) – Grace T. Leksana doi
- Rethinking histories of military atrocity, ethnic violence and photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian national revolution (PDF, 2.5 MB) – Susie Protschky doi
- Francisca Fanggidaej: A decolonial perspective on colonial elites and the Indonesian revolution (PDF, 223 KB) – Katharine McGregor1 doi
- Giving voice to the voiceless: ‘Sin Po’ and the Chinese massacres during the revolutionary period (PDF, 2.3 MB) – Ravando and F.X. Harsono doi
Part 2. Colonial legacies: The persistence of and attempts to dismantle coloniality
- Beyond the point of no return: The re-emergence of Indonesian debates about concepts of the return of cultural objects (PDF, 733 KB) – Sadiah Boonstra doi
- How to liberate the colonised archives? Describing the Djogdja Documenten after their return (PDF, 194 KB) – Michael Karabinos and Rika Theo doi
- The rise and fall of Glodok (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Abidin Kusno doi
- Decolonising a colonial fort? The case of Fort Rotterdam, Makassar (PDF, 662 KB) – Ajeng Ayu Arainikasih doi
- After recognition: Decolonial re-affect outside/within the museum (PDF, 657 KB) – Brigitta Isabella doi
- Confronting coloniality through the courts? Reconsidering the Rawagede case (PDF, 232 KB) – Ken M.P. Setiawan1 doi
- Seeking the Morning Star: Young Papuans and the ongoing struggle against Indonesian colonialism (PDF, 1.7 MB) – I Ngurah Suryawan doi
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