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: | Immler , N L 2022 , ' The Netherlands-Indies. Rethinking post-colonial recognition from a multi-voiced perspective ' , Wacana , vol. 23 , no. 3 , pp. 692-720 . https://doi.org/10.17510/wacana.v23i3.1007 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28780649 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.uvh.nl/en/publications/e6308473-2033-4d37-9c99-845d9a68879f |