Postcolonial Netherlands : Sixty-five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing

Oostindie, Gert

Amsterdam University Press（2011/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789089643537
• DDC分類 949.2

Full Description

The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies - Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in the Dutch language and culture as well as a strong rhetorical argument ("We are here because you were there!") were important assets of the first generation, facilitating its integration into the Dutch society. The current Dutch population counts two million non-Western migrants, and the past decade witnessed heated debates about multiculturalism, the most important ones centered on acknowledgement and inclusion of colonialism and its legacies in the national memorial culture. Postcolonial Netherlands, which elicited much praise but also controversy following the publication of its Dutch edition, is the first scholarly monograph to address these themes in an internationally comparative framework.

Contents

Table of Contents - 6 Introduction - 8 Decolonization, migration and the postc olonial bonus - 24 Citizenship: rights, participation, identification - 49 The struggle for recognition: war and the silent migration - 74 The individualization of identity - 102 Imagining Colonialism - 131 Transnationalism: A Turning Tide? - 164 An International Perspective - 189 'Postcolonial' (in the) Netherlands - 216 NOTES - 244 Bibliography - 263 Acknowledgements - 282 index of people, organizations and memorial sit es - 283