M Bloembergen
Biographic Data
| ID | 57804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Bloembergen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloembergen |
| SIGNATURE | BLOEMBERGEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6232-484X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
While We Were Watching: Violence and the Releasing of Objects from Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology
Decolonial approaches to Southeast Asian art and archaeology are needful, as they help to unsettle dominant structures of studying and looking at objects in/from the region. Over time, this field, and the world of museums and art journals that it embraces, have disconnected these objects from (changing) local practices of meaning-giving, and from local memories in the region of origin. This afterword first contemplates the impact of the notion of…
Suffering like a Mountain: Unsettling ‘Environmental Empathy’ in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia
Decolonizing 'Nature as Subject: Sites, Histories, and Legacies of Environmental Knowledge Production in Indonesia
round tableBijdragen tot de taal-, land-en volkenkunde 181 (2025) 71-77Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-en volkenkunde 181 (2025) 71-77 that resonates worldwide, articulated in different ways.It is to this broader end that imaginings of a decolonial nature-as-subject should be nourished and sustained
Cats and the Vegetarian Dish in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia: Unsettling Sources for Environmental History
Colonial and Global History 1200-present
Monsoon Asia: A reader on South and Southeast Asia
Meditation matters: The politics and networks of yoga and spiritual reform between Indonesia, India and the West, 1900s–1970s
Starting from sites of yogic and Buddhist learning connecting Indonesia and India this article explores the politics, practices, transformation, dissemination and uses of knowledge on yoga and meditation in late colonial and postcolonial Indonesia, and their relation to moral geographies of Greater India.It follows, across (violent) regime changes, the trajectories of learning of a number of self-made experts and entrepreneurs in this field who w…
Introduction. Unsettling encounters: Sites, knowledge exchange, and the making of religion in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean
This article introduces a special issue on practices of religious and scholarly knowledge exchange in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. In both regions, the makings of religion have been informed by unsettling encounters between religious experts on the one hand and academic scholars of, and in, religion on the other. These encounters, we argue, can be revealed and productively analyzed through a focus on sites of learning and exchange, such as s…
The Politics of 'Greater India,' a Moral Geography: Moveable Antiquities and Charmed Knowledge Networks between Indonesia, India, and the West
Since the nineteenth century, today's South and Southeast Asia have become part of scholarly and popular geographies that define the region as a single, superior, civilization with Hindu-Buddhist spiritual traits and its origins in India. Thesemoral geographiesof 'Greater India' are still current in universities, museums, textbooks, and popular culture across the world. This article explores, for the period from the 1890s to the 1960s, how networ…
The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History
This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both local and transregional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesia, the focus is on people's encounters and the knowledge exchange taking place across colonial and postcolonial regimes. Objects are followed as they move from their site of origin to other locations, such as …
The Open Ends of the Dutch Empire and the Indonesian Past: Sites, Scholarly Networks, and Moral Geographies of Greater India across Decolonization
Focusing on the practices of knowledge exchange within Dutch colonial heritage politics, and the related transnational scholarly networks, in the years immediately before, during and after decolonization, this chapter re-examines the impact of the ends of empire on Indonesia and elsewhere, including their cultural resonances in the post-colonial period. Starting from sites in the Netherlands Indies/ Indonesia, this chapter links up with transnati…
Colonial Re-Collections: Memories, Objects, and Performances
Colonial Re-Collections is a critical response to a range of theoretical and empirical problems that shape individuals' multifaceted engagements with colonial pasts.Among these engagements there is a remarkable fascination with the colonial, visibly present since at least the 1990s, both in formerly colonized and formerly colonizing societies.Scholars have defined this fascination as nostalgia that is 'colonial' (Werbner 1998;Bissell 2005), 'impe…
Exchange and the Protection of Java's Antiquities: A Transnational Approach to the Problem of Heritage in Colonial Java
Sites, here the eighth-century Buddhist shrine Borobudur and other remains of the Hindu-Buddhist past located in colonial (predominantly Islamic) Java, are in this article our analytical tool to provide insight into the local and transnational dimensions of heritage politics and processes of in- and exclusion in Asia and Europe around 1900. Because we recognize these "sites" as centers of multiple historical, political, and moral spaces that tran…
Vol, meurtre et action policière dans les villages javanais: Les dynamiques locales de la sécurité aux Indes néerlandaises orientales dans les années 1930
À partir de l’étude détaillée d’une série d’attaques à main armée ( rampok ) dans la ville de Madiun en 1934, l’article s’interroge sur les dynamiques policières à l’œuvre au niveau local aux Indes néerlandaises orientales. L’échec de la prévention policière des cambriolages à Madiun eut beaucoup à voir avec le caractère fragmentaire des dispositifs policiers. La solution finalement choisie par l’État colonial – des arrestations et des incarcérat…
The Perfect Policeman: Colonial Policing, Modernity, and Conscience on Sumatra’s West Coast in the Early 1930s
Conserving the past, mobilizing the Indonesian future: Archaeological sites, regime change and heritage politics in Indonesia in the 1950s
The archaeological sites that the Indonesian Republic inherited from the past were not neutral. In this article we investigate the multilayered processes of signification connected to these sites - scattered all over Indonesia, and selected, uncovered, investigated, conserved and partly put on display by state archaeologists under Dutch and Japanese colonial regimes - and their meanings for the young Indonesian Republic in the 1950s. Taking a sit…
Conserving the past, mobilizing the Indonesian future: Archaeological sites, regime change and heritage politics in Indonesia in the 1950s
The archaeological sites that the Indonesian Republic inherited from the past were not neutral. In this article we investigate the multilayered processes of signification connected to these sites - scattered all over Indonesia, and selected, uncovered, investigated, conserved and partly put on display by state archaeologists under Dutch and Japanese colonial regimes - and their meanings for the young Indonesian Republic in the 1950s. Taking a sit…
Exchange and the Protection of Java's Antiquities: A Transnational Approach to the Problem of Heritage in Colonial Java
Sites, here the eighth-century Buddhist shrine Borobudur and other remains of the Hindu-Buddhist past located in colonial (predominantly Islamic) Java, are in this article our analytical tool to provide insight into the local and transnational dimensions of heritage politics and processes of in- and exclusion in Asia and Europe around 1900. Because we recognize these "sites" as centers of multiple historical, political, and moral spaces that tran…
The Politics of 'Greater India,' a Moral Geography: Moveable Antiquities and Charmed Knowledge Networks between Indonesia, India, and the West
Since the nineteenth century, today's South and Southeast Asia have become part of scholarly and popular geographies that define the region as a single, superior, civilization with Hindu-Buddhist spiritual traits and its origins in India. Thesemoral geographiesof 'Greater India' are still current in universities, museums, textbooks, and popular culture across the world. This article explores, for the period from the 1890s to the 1960s, how networ…
The Perfect Policeman: Colonial Policing, Modernity, and Conscience on Sumatra’s West Coast in the Early 1930s
The Perfect Policeman: Colonial Policing, Modernity, and Conscience on Sumatra’s West Coast in the Early 1930s
Conserving the past, mobilizing the Indonesian future: Archaeological sites, regime change and heritage politics in Indonesia in the 1950s
The archaeological sites that the Indonesian Republic inherited from the past were not neutral. In this article we investigate the multilayered processes of signification connected to these sites - scattered all over Indonesia, and selected, uncovered, investigated, conserved and partly put on display by state archaeologists under Dutch and Japanese colonial regimes - and their meanings for the young Indonesian Republic in the 1950s. Taking a sit…
Vol, meurtre et action policière dans les villages javanais: Les dynamiques locales de la sécurité aux Indes néerlandaises orientales dans les années 1930
À partir de l’étude détaillée d’une série d’attaques à main armée ( rampok ) dans la ville de Madiun en 1934, l’article s’interroge sur les dynamiques policières à l’œuvre au niveau local aux Indes néerlandaises orientales. L’échec de la prévention policière des cambriolages à Madiun eut beaucoup à voir avec le caractère fragmentaire des dispositifs policiers. La solution finalement choisie par l’État colonial – des arrestations et des incarcérat…
Exchange and the Protection of Java's Antiquities: A Transnational Approach to the Problem of Heritage in Colonial Java
Sites, here the eighth-century Buddhist shrine Borobudur and other remains of the Hindu-Buddhist past located in colonial (predominantly Islamic) Java, are in this article our analytical tool to provide insight into the local and transnational dimensions of heritage politics and processes of in- and exclusion in Asia and Europe around 1900. Because we recognize these "sites" as centers of multiple historical, political, and moral spaces that tran…
Colonial Re-Collections: Memories, Objects, and Performances
Colonial Re-Collections is a critical response to a range of theoretical and empirical problems that shape individuals' multifaceted engagements with colonial pasts.Among these engagements there is a remarkable fascination with the colonial, visibly present since at least the 1990s, both in formerly colonized and formerly colonizing societies.Scholars have defined this fascination as nostalgia that is 'colonial' (Werbner 1998;Bissell 2005), 'impe…
The Open Ends of the Dutch Empire and the Indonesian Past: Sites, Scholarly Networks, and Moral Geographies of Greater India across Decolonization
Focusing on the practices of knowledge exchange within Dutch colonial heritage politics, and the related transnational scholarly networks, in the years immediately before, during and after decolonization, this chapter re-examines the impact of the ends of empire on Indonesia and elsewhere, including their cultural resonances in the post-colonial period. Starting from sites in the Netherlands Indies/ Indonesia, this chapter links up with transnati…
The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History
This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both local and transregional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesia, the focus is on people's encounters and the knowledge exchange taking place across colonial and postcolonial regimes. Objects are followed as they move from their site of origin to other locations, such as …
The Politics of 'Greater India,' a Moral Geography: Moveable Antiquities and Charmed Knowledge Networks between Indonesia, India, and the West
Since the nineteenth century, today's South and Southeast Asia have become part of scholarly and popular geographies that define the region as a single, superior, civilization with Hindu-Buddhist spiritual traits and its origins in India. Thesemoral geographiesof 'Greater India' are still current in universities, museums, textbooks, and popular culture across the world. This article explores, for the period from the 1890s to the 1960s, how networ…
Monsoon Asia: A reader on South and Southeast Asia
Meditation matters: The politics and networks of yoga and spiritual reform between Indonesia, India and the West, 1900s–1970s
Starting from sites of yogic and Buddhist learning connecting Indonesia and India this article explores the politics, practices, transformation, dissemination and uses of knowledge on yoga and meditation in late colonial and postcolonial Indonesia, and their relation to moral geographies of Greater India.It follows, across (violent) regime changes, the trajectories of learning of a number of self-made experts and entrepreneurs in this field who w…
Introduction. Unsettling encounters: Sites, knowledge exchange, and the making of religion in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean
This article introduces a special issue on practices of religious and scholarly knowledge exchange in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. In both regions, the makings of religion have been informed by unsettling encounters between religious experts on the one hand and academic scholars of, and in, religion on the other. These encounters, we argue, can be revealed and productively analyzed through a focus on sites of learning and exchange, such as s…
Cats and the Vegetarian Dish in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia: Unsettling Sources for Environmental History
Colonial and Global History 1200-present
While We Were Watching: Violence and the Releasing of Objects from Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology
Decolonial approaches to Southeast Asian art and archaeology are needful, as they help to unsettle dominant structures of studying and looking at objects in/from the region. Over time, this field, and the world of museums and art journals that it embraces, have disconnected these objects from (changing) local practices of meaning-giving, and from local memories in the region of origin. This afterword first contemplates the impact of the notion of…
Suffering like a Mountain: Unsettling ‘Environmental Empathy’ in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia
Decolonizing 'Nature as Subject: Sites, Histories, and Legacies of Environmental Knowledge Production in Indonesia
round tableBijdragen tot de taal-, land-en volkenkunde 181 (2025) 71-77Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-en volkenkunde 181 (2025) 71-77 that resonates worldwide, articulated in different ways.It is to this broader end that imaginings of a decolonial nature-as-subject should be nourished and sustained
Asian Studies and History (10 works) · Colonialism (9 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)