Sanne Ravensbergen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5530942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanne Ravensbergen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravensbergen |
| SIGNATURE | RAVENSBERGEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Meetings and minutes
Central to this article are the minutes of nine codification meetings held in 1865 at various locations in West Sumatra. During these meetings the draft regulations for a new colonial legal system were discussed and negotiated by West Sumatran elites and Dutch officials. This episode and its unique archives serve as a microhistory of lawmaking, legal translation, and erasure. The article argues that the process of making colonialism procedural, a…
Do Not Harm the Decorum”
In this article four photographs of mixed law courts (landraad) in nineteenth-century colonial Indonesia are approached as a window to study the materiality and meaning of cloth in courtrooms. The photos grant access to a careful colonial curation as well as complex Javanese hierarchies that were translated onto and through cloth, and its colors and patterns. Batik sarongs, tablecloths, head scarves, robes and gowns, coats and turbans reveal a co…
Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Anchors of Colonial Rule
Through an institutional approach and by focusing on long-term developments, this article offers a genealogy of the pluralistic character of the landraad (regional colonial court) in colonial Java. It argues that the pluralistic landraden—consisting of a Dutch president, Javanese judges, a local prosecutor, and Islamic and Chinese advisers—were crucial to the process of colonial state formation. This long-term process reflects continuities rather…
I Find it Very Claustrophobic to be Stuck in a Small Place”
After graduating from Stanford with undergraduate degrees in economics and anthropology, Ho
The Indian Ocean of Law
A sixteenth-century Arabic legal text entitled Tuh fat al-Muh tj, by Ibn ajar al-Haytam, travelled from the Middle East to South Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia. It was used in Muslim legal circles as well as in the colonial courts of British India, Zanzibar, and the Dutch East Indies. It was translated into Javanese (Kitab Toehpah), then retranslated into Dutch and interpreted by some colonial lawyers as a legal code of Javanese origin. Wh…
History as Renegade Politics
In May 2016, Professor Ann Laura Stoler visited Leiden University as the Spring 2016 Global Asia Scholar. On the last day of her stay, Amrit Dev and Sanne Ravensbergen—historians affiliated with the Leiden Humanities Faculty—met Stoler on a sunny terrace situated alongside one of the canals for a conversation about the developments in her scholarly work, career choices, sources of inspiration, and the motivations for doing history. Professor Ann …
Do Not Harm the Decorum”
In this article four photographs of mixed law courts (landraad) in nineteenth-century colonial Indonesia are approached as a window to study the materiality and meaning of cloth in courtrooms. The photos grant access to a careful colonial curation as well as complex Javanese hierarchies that were translated onto and through cloth, and its colors and patterns. Batik sarongs, tablecloths, head scarves, robes and gowns, coats and turbans reveal a co…
Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Anchors of Colonial Rule
Through an institutional approach and by focusing on long-term developments, this article offers a genealogy of the pluralistic character of the landraad (regional colonial court) in colonial Java. It argues that the pluralistic landraden—consisting of a Dutch president, Javanese judges, a local prosecutor, and Islamic and Chinese advisers—were crucial to the process of colonial state formation. This long-term process reflects continuities rather…
The Indian Ocean of Law
A sixteenth-century Arabic legal text entitled Tuh fat al-Muh tj, by Ibn ajar al-Haytam, travelled from the Middle East to South Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia. It was used in Muslim legal circles as well as in the colonial courts of British India, Zanzibar, and the Dutch East Indies. It was translated into Javanese (Kitab Toehpah), then retranslated into Dutch and interpreted by some colonial lawyers as a legal code of Javanese origin. Wh…
History as Renegade Politics
In May 2016, Professor Ann Laura Stoler visited Leiden University as the Spring 2016 Global Asia Scholar. On the last day of her stay, Amrit Dev and Sanne Ravensbergen—historians affiliated with the Leiden Humanities Faculty—met Stoler on a sunny terrace situated alongside one of the canals for a conversation about the developments in her scholarly work, career choices, sources of inspiration, and the motivations for doing history. Professor Ann …
Anchors of Colonial Rule
Through an institutional approach and by focusing on long-term developments, this article offers a genealogy of the pluralistic character of the landraad (regional colonial court) in colonial Java. It argues that the pluralistic landraden—consisting of a Dutch president, Javanese judges, a local prosecutor, and Islamic and Chinese advisers—were crucial to the process of colonial state formation. This long-term process reflects continuities rather…
I Find it Very Claustrophobic to be Stuck in a Small Place”
After graduating from Stanford with undergraduate degrees in economics and anthropology, Ho
The Indian Ocean of Law
A sixteenth-century Arabic legal text entitled Tuh fat al-Muh tj, by Ibn ajar al-Haytam, travelled from the Middle East to South Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia. It was used in Muslim legal circles as well as in the colonial courts of British India, Zanzibar, and the Dutch East Indies. It was translated into Javanese (Kitab Toehpah), then retranslated into Dutch and interpreted by some colonial lawyers as a legal code of Javanese origin. Wh…
Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Do Not Harm the Decorum”
In this article four photographs of mixed law courts (landraad) in nineteenth-century colonial Indonesia are approached as a window to study the materiality and meaning of cloth in courtrooms. The photos grant access to a careful colonial curation as well as complex Javanese hierarchies that were translated onto and through cloth, and its colors and patterns. Batik sarongs, tablecloths, head scarves, robes and gowns, coats and turbans reveal a co…
Meetings and minutes
Central to this article are the minutes of nine codification meetings held in 1865 at various locations in West Sumatra. During these meetings the draft regulations for a new colonial legal system were discussed and negotiated by West Sumatran elites and Dutch officials. This episode and its unique archives serve as a microhistory of lawmaking, legal translation, and erasure. The article argues that the process of making colonialism procedural, a…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)