289 research outputs found
Ethical projects, ethnographic orders and colonial notions of modernity in Dutch Borneo: G.L. Tichelman's Queen's Birthday photographs from the late 1920s
No full text‘Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography
Full text linkQ&A from questions posed by the editors Daniel Foliard and Sean Willcock to authors Pierre Schill, Susie Protschky, Nancy Rushohora, Alexander L Fattal and Andrés F. Caicedo Sierra, and Elissa Mailänder
Photography and the Making of a Popular, Colonial Monarchy in the Netherlands East Indies during Queen Wilhelmina’s Reign (1898-1948)
Full text linkPhotography and the Making of a Popular, Colonial Monarchy
The Netherlands East Indies during Queen Wilhelmina’s Reign
(1898-1948)
Public celebrations in the Dutch East Indies (colonial Indonesia) for the House of Orange during Queen Wilhelmina’s reign were of an historically unprecedented scale and frequency, regularly attended by large crowds and reported in newspapers. Scholars typically emphasize the leading role of colonial elites in orchestrating these festivals, and the symbolic importance of the monarchy as a conservative institution that bound the colony to the metropole. The agency of spectators and non-elite participants, and the extent to which a popular ‘oranjegevoel’ (Orange-sentiment) can be said to have existed in the colonies, remains to be demonstrated. This article uses a range of popular photographic sources – amateur photographs in personal albums, and published photographs of the Dutch monarchy in private collections as well as commemorative books – to examine the meanings that ordinary people in the Indies derived from engaging with the House of Orange through images. Susie Protschky argues that, for many Indies residents, photographs of royal celebrations and the Dutch monarchy enabled the cultivation of transnational networks and cosmopolitan identities, and integrated international events into colonial and family histories.
Fotografie en de wording van een koloniale ‘volksmonarchie’. Nederlands-Indië ten tijde van koningin Wilhelmina (1898-1948) Openbare Oranjefeesten in Nederlands-Indië waren tijdens de regering van koningin Wilhelmina van een historisch ongekende omvang en frequentie. De feesten werden regelmatig bijgewoond door een groot publiek en er werd over geschreven in de kranten. Historici benadrukken meestal de leidende rol van de koloniale elite tijdens de organisatie van deze vieringen of de symbolische betekenis van de monarchie als een conservatieve instelling die de banden tussen kolonie en het moederland versterkt. De rol van toeschouwers, deelnemers aan deze feesten die niet uit de elite afkomstig waren, en de mate waarin een ‘oranjegevoel’ in de koloniën bestond, zijn vooralsnog onderbelicht gebleven. In dit artikel worden diverse populaire fotografische bronnen – amateurfoto’s uit privéalbums en gepubliceerde foto’s van de Nederlandse monarchie in privécollecties en gedenkboeken – gebruikt om te onderzoeken welke betekenis gewone mensen in Nederlands-Indië aan de monarchie ontleenden. Susie Protschky beargumenteert dat voor veel bewoners van Nederlands-Indië de foto’s van de Oranjefeesten en de Nederlandse monarchie de ontwikkeling van transnationale netwerken en kosmopolitische identiteiten bevorderden, en dat zij internationale gebeurtenissen integreerden in koloniale- en familiegeschiedenissen
Historicising sulfur mining, lime extraction and geotourism in Indonesia and Australia
No full textIn both Australia and Indonesia, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) have thus far been neglected by historians of colonialism and scholars of geotourism alike. Our two case studies historicise the practices of mining, quarrying and tourism at volcanic sulfur mines in Indonesia and along limestone coasts in southeastern Australia. Our case studies suggest how toxic work in spectacular settings of interest to geotourists is deeply embedded in modern histories of leisure and consumption. We propose a more critical interpretation of geotourist sites that accounts for the ways that environmental and labour histories have shaped these spectacular ‘natural’ environments.The research for
this article was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery
Grant (DP1700948, 2017–19) awarded to Susie Protschky, and an
Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE160101125, 2016–19) awarded to Ruth Morga
Susie and John Fulton
No full textThe author discusses the life of Susie and John Fulton and the challenges they faced in establishing the first church school and constructing the first mission ship in Fiji as Adventist missionaries
The empire illuminated: Electricity, “ethical” colonialism and enlightened monarchy in photographs of Dutch royal celebrations, 1898–1948
No full textThis article examines photographs of royal festivals in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia) during the reign of Queen Wilhelmina (1898-1948). The association of electricity with the royal House of Orange in vernacular visual culture expressed the idealised connections made, in colonial as well as in Dutch politics, between the queen and the Ethical Policy in the Indies. Electric lights and nocturnal illuminations featured strongly in images of royal celebrations in the Indies from the early 1900s onwards—a pattern that was not followed in the Netherlands until the late 1930s. Monarchy was thus particularly linked with modernity in Dutch colonies in Asia during the twentieth century
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