Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality

In 'Rethinking Histories of Indonesia - Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality', editors Sadiah Boonstra and others provide 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.

From the many contributions in his reader:

  • Susie Protschky, Rethinking histories of military atrocity, ethnic violence and photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian national revolution
  • Sadiah Boonstra, Beyond the point of no return: The re-emergence of Indonesian debates about concepts of the return of cultural objects
  • Michael Karabinos and Rika Theo, How to liberate the colonised archives? Describing the Djogdja Documenten after their return