Postcolonial Netherlands
Sixty-Five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2012
288 pages
978-90-485-1402-1 (ISBN)
Description
Gert Oostindie is director of the KITLV/Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology in Leiden and professor of Caribbean history at Leiden University.
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Gert Oostindie is director of the KITLV/Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology in Leiden and professor of Caribbean history at Leiden University.
Content
Introduction
1. Decolonization, migration and the postcolonial bonus
From the Indies/Indonesia
From Suriname
From the Antilles
Migration and integration in the Netherlands
The disappearance of the postcolonial community and bonus
2. Citizenship: rights, participation, identification
The right to remain Dutch
Postcolonial organizations: profiles and meaning
Political participation
Ambivalent identities
3. The struggle for recognition: war and the silent migration
From war to exodus
War and bersiap
The 'cold' reception
The uprooting of the Moluccans
Veterans and the Indisch community
Memorial culture
West Indian and Dutch stories and silences around war and exodus
4. The individualization of identity
Identity: individual perception, public significance
Indish identity, from Tjalie to Indo4Life
Moluccan identity around and after the RMS
Diversity without unity: Caribbean identity
Recognition and erosion
5. Imagining colonialism
The Companies
'Something magnificent was done there!'
The West Indies: without pride
Colonial slavery, postcolonial settlement
Unfamiliar discourses and new silences
Pleasing everyone, all of the time?
6. Transnationalism: a turning tide?
Decolonization, migration circuits and generations
Citizens and their transnational orientations
Postcolonial organizations and transnational politics
Cultural transnationalism, 'diaspora' and community
7. An international perspective
Migrations in post-war Europe
France: republican dilemmas
The United Kingdom: Britishness and multiculturalism
Portugal: reluctant re-migrants
A typical case: slavery in European memorial culture
Colonial past and postcolonial migrations: a broad comparison
Typically Dutch?
8. 'Postcolonial' (in the) Netherlands
Postcolonial migrants: integration, identification, community
New ideas about the 'Netherlands'
Intermezzo: international heritage policy
Postcolonial studies in the Netherlands, a missed opportunity?
The future of the colonial past
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index of people, organizations and memorial sites
1. Decolonization, migration and the postcolonial bonus
From the Indies/Indonesia
From Suriname
From the Antilles
Migration and integration in the Netherlands
The disappearance of the postcolonial community and bonus
2. Citizenship: rights, participation, identification
The right to remain Dutch
Postcolonial organizations: profiles and meaning
Political participation
Ambivalent identities
3. The struggle for recognition: war and the silent migration
From war to exodus
War and bersiap
The 'cold' reception
The uprooting of the Moluccans
Veterans and the Indisch community
Memorial culture
West Indian and Dutch stories and silences around war and exodus
4. The individualization of identity
Identity: individual perception, public significance
Indish identity, from Tjalie to Indo4Life
Moluccan identity around and after the RMS
Diversity without unity: Caribbean identity
Recognition and erosion
5. Imagining colonialism
The Companies
'Something magnificent was done there!'
The West Indies: without pride
Colonial slavery, postcolonial settlement
Unfamiliar discourses and new silences
Pleasing everyone, all of the time?
6. Transnationalism: a turning tide?
Decolonization, migration circuits and generations
Citizens and their transnational orientations
Postcolonial organizations and transnational politics
Cultural transnationalism, 'diaspora' and community
7. An international perspective
Migrations in post-war Europe
France: republican dilemmas
The United Kingdom: Britishness and multiculturalism
Portugal: reluctant re-migrants
A typical case: slavery in European memorial culture
Colonial past and postcolonial migrations: a broad comparison
Typically Dutch?
8. 'Postcolonial' (in the) Netherlands
Postcolonial migrants: integration, identification, community
New ideas about the 'Netherlands'
Intermezzo: international heritage policy
Postcolonial studies in the Netherlands, a missed opportunity?
The future of the colonial past
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index of people, organizations and memorial sites
