Remembering Dutch-Moluccan radicalism:Memory politics and historical event television

This article examines memory politics in relation to radical actions of young Dutch-Moluccans, more specifically a train hijacking in 1977 at the village of De Punt in the Netherlands. The article examines how these historical events were remembered in the drama-documentary television film, De Punt (Smitsman, 2009), as well as in user-generated comments in an online discussion. The television film represented an inclusive memory culture that made room for the difficult memories of all parties involved including the radicalised, young hijackers. Based on a multidimensional model of mass media r... Mehr ...