The Netherlands-Indies; Rethinking post-colonial recognition from a multi-voiced perspective
In the communication of pain, language matters. Telling someone to feel pain is not just a description of one’s pain, it is – as philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein informs us – also asking for recognition of that pain. This requires a shared language which communicates it. Do we need a new language which can communicate and recognize the pain of the colonial past more effectively? Commencing with the recent apology for waging “a colonial war” in Indonesia by the Dutch prime minister, this article suggests an intervention in post-colonial recognition politics by exploring the idea of the multi-voi... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, Vol 23, Iss 3, Pp 692-720 (2022) |
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Universitas Indonesia
Faculty of Humanities |
Schlagwörter: | reparations / recognition / transitional justice / generation / family memory / entangled history / dialogical self / multi-voicedness / identity politics / diaspora / History of scholarship and learning. The humanities / AZ20-999 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27584157 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.17510/wacana.v23i3.1007 |