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Mar 25, 2024

Decolonising memory

Removal of the Rhodes Statue 'Rhodes Must Fall' / Desmond Bowles CC @wikicommons

By KATE MCGREGOR & ANA DRAGOJLOVIC

Mar 25, 2024

Mendekolonisasi memori

By KATE MCGREGOR & ANA DRAGOJLOVIC

Mar 25, 2024

Review: Decolonising heteropatriarchal silencing

Indisch zwijgen, Sven Peetoom and Juliette Dominicus, Mei Oele

A documentary draws new attention to intergenerational grief and decolonial healing

By ANA DRAGOJLOVIC & ASTRID KERCHMAN

Mar 25, 2024

Interview Muhammad Fadli: A history of the Banda Islands

Locals commemorate the Banda Island massacre / Mhd Fadli

By MUHAMMAD FADLI & KATHARINE MCGREGOR

Mar 25, 2024

Beyond decolonisation?

Museum of the Batavian Society for Arts and Sciences in Batavia, ca. 1930 / KITLV, inv. nr. A344.38.520

The National Museum of Indonesia is perpetuating colonial narratives and needs to actively engage with younger generations

By SADIAH BOONSTRA

Mar 25, 2024

Colonial nostalgia in an Indonesian night market

Stalls at the Tong-Tong Night Market in Malang/Grace Leksana

Despite more critical attention being paid to Indonesia’s colonial past there is also evidence of nostalgia

By GRACE LEKSANA

Mar 25, 2024

Working with colonial objects in the Rijksmuseum

Portraits of former Governor Generals in the Rijksmuseum Storage Depot/ Author

When an artist applies a critical lens to museum collections, colonial objects are framed in new ways

By TIMOTEUS ANGGAWAN KUSNO

Mar 25, 2024

Bekerja dengan artefak kolonial di Rijksmuseum

Dengan menggunakan lensa kritis, seniman dapat melihat artefak kolonial dengan sudut pandang yang baru saat meneliti koleksi museum

By TIMOTEUS ANGGAWAN KUSNO

Mar 25, 2024

Dutch memory of slavery

Caption: National Slavery Monument, Amsterdam / Wikimedia commons

There is increasing public recognition of slavery in Dutch history but silences remain

By NANCY JOUWE

Mar 25, 2024

‘Our Colonial Inheritance’ at the Wereldmuseum

Still from the film Prologue of a nation by Bibi Fadlalla in the exhibition 'Our Colonial Inheritance'/ Bibi Fadlalla reproduced with permission Amsterdam Wereweldmuseum

Some Dutch museums are taking more critical approaches to colonial history

By SUSIE PROTSCHKY

Mar 25, 2024

Decolonising Dutch cultural memory

The njai and the babu have been iconic figures of nostalgia in Dutch cultural memory but a recently published novel challenges such remembrance

By PAMELA PATTYNAMA

Mar 25, 2024

Mendekolonisasi memori budaya Belanda

Nyai dan babu kerap muncul sebagai tokoh ikonis dalam memori budaya Belanda. Namun sebuah novel yang diterbitkan baru-baru ini berupaya menantang memori tersebut.

By PAMELA PATTYNAMA

Mar 25, 2024

Colonial industrial heritage and memory

Museum Goedang Ransoem Sawahlunto / Ministry of Education and Culture /CC wikimedia

A UNESCO-listed colonial mining town in West Sumatra raises complex questions about framing Indonesia’s industrial heritage

By KATHARINE MCGREGOR

Mar 25, 2024

Warisan industri kolonial dan kenangan di baliknya

Sebuah kota pertambangan kolonial di Sumatra Barat yang masuk dalam daftar UNESCO menimbulkan sejumlah pertanyaan kompleks tentang cara Indonesia memandang warisan industri.

By KATHARINE MCGREGOR

Apr 12, 2024