Objects of belonging and displacement; Artefacts and European migrants from colonial Indonesia in colonial and post-colonial times
As colonial Indonesia never was intended to be a “settler colony”, many Dutch citizens spent only a certain period of their lives there before returning to the Netherlands. However, there were also Europeans, many with Asian-European roots, who had called the colony home for generations and were for...
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Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities
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| description | As colonial Indonesia never was intended to be a “settler colony”, many Dutch citizens spent only a certain period of their lives there before returning to the Netherlands. However, there were also Europeans, many with Asian-European roots, who had called the colony home for generations and were forced to leave that home after 1945.
All these different types of colonial migrants were displaced and maintained, built and reinforced their relations with the country (whether it was the colony or the “motherland”) they had left. This transnationalism (or, as I argue here, imperial orientation) took shape not only legally or relationally but also experientially (D. Ip, C. Inglis, and C.T. Wu 1997).
In this article I show how, in both the colonial and post-colonial periods, objects helped European colonial migrants establish and maintain social relationships. Objects shaped identities and people’s status; bolstering increase migrants’ sense of “a continuous transnational self and identity”, a feeling of home, but also feelings of displacement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e06b3217386e455b991a00f856bfa9b22023-06-27T08:07:25ZengUniversitas Indonesia, Faculty of HumanitiesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia1411-22722407-68992022-10-0123363565310.17510/wacana.v23i3.1005Objects of belonging and displacement; Artefacts and European migrants from colonial Indonesia in colonial and post-colonial timesCaroline Drieënhuizen0Open Universiteit (Heerlen, The Netherlands)As colonial Indonesia never was intended to be a “settler colony”, many Dutch citizens spent only a certain period of their lives there before returning to the Netherlands. However, there were also Europeans, many with Asian-European roots, who had called the colony home for generations and were forced to leave that home after 1945. All these different types of colonial migrants were displaced and maintained, built and reinforced their relations with the country (whether it was the colony or the “motherland”) they had left. This transnationalism (or, as I argue here, imperial orientation) took shape not only legally or relationally but also experientially (D. Ip, C. Inglis, and C.T. Wu 1997). In this article I show how, in both the colonial and post-colonial periods, objects helped European colonial migrants establish and maintain social relationships. Objects shaped identities and people’s status; bolstering increase migrants’ sense of “a continuous transnational self and identity”, a feeling of home, but also feelings of displacement.https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol23/iss3/6/objectstransnationalismimperial networksidentitybelonging. |
| spellingShingle | Caroline Drieënhuizen Objects of belonging and displacement; Artefacts and European migrants from colonial Indonesia in colonial and post-colonial times Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia objects transnationalism imperial networks identity belonging. |
| title | Objects of belonging and displacement; Artefacts and European migrants from colonial Indonesia in colonial and post-colonial times |
| title_full | Objects of belonging and displacement; Artefacts and European migrants from colonial Indonesia in colonial and post-colonial times |
| title_fullStr | Objects of belonging and displacement; Artefacts and European migrants from colonial Indonesia in colonial and post-colonial times |
| title_full_unstemmed | Objects of belonging and displacement; Artefacts and European migrants from colonial Indonesia in colonial and post-colonial times |
| title_short | Objects of belonging and displacement; Artefacts and European migrants from colonial Indonesia in colonial and post-colonial times |
| title_sort | objects of belonging and displacement artefacts and european migrants from colonial indonesia in colonial and post colonial times |
| topic | objects transnationalism imperial networks identity belonging. |
| url | https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol23/iss3/6/ |
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