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{"title":"Dissenting Voices: Challenging the Colonial System","authors":"Maartje Janse, A. Hoek","doi":"10.1163/25425099-00102001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25425099-00102001","url":null,"abstract":"This publication emerges from a process of co-creation in which\u0000 historian Maartje Janse and research journalist Anne-Lot Hoek challenge the\u0000 dominant national narrative about the colonial experience in the Dutch East\u0000 Indies (present-day Indonesia). In combining journalistic and academic writing\u0000 with musical performance by musician Ernst Jansz they amplify the critical\u0000 voices that have spoken out against colonial injustice and that have long been\u0000 ignored in public and academic debate. Even though it is often suggested that\u0000 the mindset of people in the past prevented them from seeing what was wrong with\u0000 things we now find highly problematic, they argue that there was indeed a\u0000 tradition of colonial criticism in the Netherlands, one that included the voices\u0000 of many ‘forgotten critics’ whose lives and criticism are the subject of this\u0000 publication. The voices however were for a long time overlooked by Dutch\u0000 historians. The publication is organized around the biographies of several\u0000 critics (whose lives Janse and Hoek have published on before), the historical\u0000 debate afterwards and includes reflective videos and texts on the process of\u0000 co-creation.\u0000 Maartje Janse started the process by tracing the life history of an outspoken\u0000 nineteenth-century critic of the colonial system in the Dutch East Indies,\u0000 Willem Bosch. The authors argue that it was not self-evident how criticism of\u0000 colonial injustices should be voiced and that Bosch experimented with different\u0000 methods, including organizing one of the first Dutch pressure groups.\u0000 The story of Willem Bosch inspired Ernst Jansz, a Dutch musician with Indo roots,\u0000 to compose a song (‘De ballade van Sarina en Kromo’). It is an interpretation of\u0000 an old Malaysian ‘krontjong’ song, that Jansz transformed into a protest song\u0000 that reminds its listeners of protest songs of the 1960s and 1970s. Jansz, in\u0000 his lyrics, adds an indigenous perspective to this project. He performed the\u0000 song during the Voice4Thought festival in 2016, a gathering that aimed to\u0000 reflect upon migration and mobility in current times. Filmmaker Sjoerd Sijsma\u0000 made a video ‘pamplet’ in which the performance of Ernst Jansz, an interview\u0000 with Maartje Janse, and historical images from the colonial period have been\u0000 combined.\u0000 Anne-Lot Hoek connected Willem Bosch to a series of twentieth-century\u0000 anti-colonial critics such as Dutch Indies civil servant Siebe Lijftogt,\u0000 Indonesian nationalists Sutan Sjahrir, Rachmad Koesoemobroto, Dutch writer Rudy\u0000 Kousbroek and Indonesian activist Jeffry Pondaag. She argues that dissenting\u0000 voices have been underrepresented in the post-war debates on colonialism and its\u0000 legacy for decades, and that one of the main reasons is that the notion of the\u0000 objective historian was not effectively problematized for a long time.\u0000 http://dissentingvoices.bridginghumanities.com/","PeriodicalId":306747,"journal":{"name":"Bridging Humanities","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124661037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}