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Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Authenticity and Absurdity
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Movie director Ridley Scott is known for creating an authentic cinematic world within each of his films. The battle scenes in his newest blo...
Sunday, April 14, 2024
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This is an outtake from the award winning documentary "Selling a Colonial War", directed by In-Soo Radstake and featuring me as a...
Thursday, August 11, 2022
How Dutch Historians Unremembered Decolonization
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Irish historian Paul Doolan claims that for many decades, Dutch historians have inadequately investigated the decolonization of Indonesia (1...
A Fictional War: Dutch propaganda and the Indonesian War of Independence (1945-1949)
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In December 1949, the Netherlands was forced to hand over sovereignty of its colony, the Dutch East Indies, to the Republic of Indonesia. ...
Reservoirs of violence: Beb Vuyk's postcolonial stories
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The year 1945 marked the end of two occupations in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The first occurred with the German surrender in May. The...
Sunday, September 5, 2021
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Here is the cover of my book, due to be published on September 27th, the result of over ten years of work.
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
To Forget or to Remember
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The final work of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, History, Memory, Forgetting (2008), provides a densely argued defence of the conc...
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