Susie Protschky
Biographic Data
| ID | 642004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susie Protschky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susie |
| FAMILY NAME | Protschky |
| SIGNATURE | PROTSCHKY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7739-0199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On ‘Extreme Violence’ and ‘Impunity’
A key element of the conclusions of the large-scale ODGOI project was the frequent and structural usage by Dutch armed forces of ‘extreme violence’. This extreme violence was enabled by the climate of impunity created by politicians, civil servants, judges, and others in authority positions. The choice not to describe such violence as ‘war crimes’ led to a storm of criticism. This essay rather focuses on the concepts of ‘extreme violence’ and ‘im…
Forum on Decolonisation and Violence in Indonesia: Examining the Odgoi Project (‘Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië’/‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Ind…
This forum discusses the results of the large-scale research project ‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’ (ODGOI). The research was conducted by the Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie (NIMH), the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), and the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies (NIOD) from 2017-2022, resulting in thirteen monographs and edited volu…
Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia
The essays in this volume examine, from a historical perspective, how contested notions of modernity, civilization, and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia, a period when the Dutch colonial regime was implementing a liberal reform program known as the Ethical Policy. The contributors reveal how the camera evoked diverse, often contradictory modes of envisioning an ethically governed colony, one …
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
Indonesian Tourism Workers on Volcanoes and Geotourism's Colonial Origins: Making a Subaltern History Visible
Indonesia's volcanoes are places of recreation, aesthetic production, and scientific knowledge-gathering, as well as sites of pilgrimage, spirituality, and natural disasters for locals as well as international travellers. In this article, I focus on volcanoes as historic sites of labour to demonstrate the entanglement of colonial tourism and science with local forms of work and knowledge, and to reveal the origins of the porting and guiding work …
Revolution, Race and Citizenship in Press Representations of Indonesians of the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) Interned in Australia, 1945–47
Revolution, Race and Citizenship in Press Representations of Indonesians of the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) Interned in Australia, 1945–47
Beyond guilt-ranking, beyond the pale, and the Netherlands’ current reckoning with ‘difficult histories’
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography: Q&A from questions posed by the editors Daniel Foliard and Sean Willcock to authors Pierre Schill, Susie Protschky, Nancy Rush…
1. Pierre Schill: My research on the 1911 visual coverage of the war in Tripolitania stems from a chance encounter. I was working on a different topic and came across some old and damaged positive
The Revolution Will (Not?) Be Colourised: Photographs from the Indonesian National Revolution (1945–49) on Social Media
This article critically reflects on the practice of colourisation in present-day recirculations of photographs originally made during the armed Indonesian struggle for independence from Dutch colonial rule (1945–49). The article focuses on digital colour manipulations of photographs disseminated on social media platforms to address ethical and methodological debates dividing academic and amateur historians on the modification of historic photogra…
Arnout van der Meer, Performing Power: Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia. Southeast Asia Program Publications
first monograph, Performing Power, is a sophisticated, nuanced and beautifully written contribution to the historical scholarship on colonialism in Indonesia, particularly Java, which is often the focus of the book.It builds substantially on a well-known scholarship examining the everyday contestation and negotiation of power between Europeans and Indonesians through language, manners, clothing, posture and material status symbols, from the estab…
Historicising sulfur mining, lime extraction and geotourism in Indonesia and Australia
Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia by Karen Strassler
Reviewed by: Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia by Karen Strassler Susie Protschky (bio) Karen Strassler. Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 369 pp. Demanding Images is the much-anticipated follow-up, and in some ways the sequel, to Karen Strassler’s influential first monograph on photography in modern Indonesia, Refracted Visions, wh…
Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s – 1970s
Burdens of Proof: Photography and Evidence of Atrocity during the Dutch Military Actions in Indonesia (1945-1950)
There is but a limited scholarship on photographic sources from the Dutch military actions during the Revolusi Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian National Revolution) (1945-1949), and what exists almost entirely neglects perhaps the largest component of the archives: Dutch soldiers' amateur photographs. Yet this category of photographs has simultaneously attracted much public and media controversy. This article contends that a narrow range of soldier…
Photographic subjects: Monarchy and visual culture in colonial Indonesia
Photographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reigns of Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia. It is the first monograph in English on the Dutch monarchy and the Netherlands' modern empire in the age of mass and amateur photography.This book reveals how Europeans and Indigenous people used photographs taken at Queen's Day celebrations to indicat…
Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s
This book reveals how everyday experiences of being ‘modern’ (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recover modern times at the intersection of public and private domains, encompassing sex, religion, art, film, literature and urban…
Fenneke Sysling. Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia
Fenneke Sysling’s new monograph examines the practices of Dutch physical anthropology in colonial Indonesia (the Netherlands East Indies) between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Histories of physical anthropology have been dominated by studies of the German, French, and British empires, making Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia a fresh contribution to the histories of science, medicine, and colonialism. Sysl…
Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia
The essays in this volume examine, from a historical perspective, how contested notions of modernity, civilization, and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia, a period when the Dutch colonial regime was implementing a liberal reform program known as the Ethical Policy. The contributors reveal how the camera evoked diverse, often contradictory modes of envisioning an ethically governed colony, one …
Eating together: Food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore
Eating together: food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore." Asian Studies Review, 40(1), pp. 152–153
Negotiating Princely Status Through the Photographic Gift: Pakualam VII's family album for Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, 1937
In 1937 Prince Pakualam VII of Yogyakarta sent a family album to Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands as a wedding gift. It contained drawings and photographs of all the dynasty's leading members since the early 19th century. This article examines the album, firstly, as a diplomatic gift given by a Javanese aristocrat living under Dutch colonial rule to a future queen of the Netherlands, and secondly, as a mode of self-representation that Ja…
Tea Cups, Cameras and Family Life: Picturing Domesticity in Elite European and Javanese Family Photographs from the Netherlands Indies, ca. 1900–42
This article examines the representation of tea drinking in photographs and the commemoration of this pastime in European and Javanese family photograph albums, in the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia) during the early twentieth century. As ego documents (autobiographical sources), family photographs of tea-time reveal how the expression of social categories like race, class and gender were choreographed in the home by colonial family membe…
The Empire Illuminated: Electricity, "ethical" colonialism and enlightened monarchy in photographs of Dutch royal celebrations, 1898-1948
This article examines photographs of royal festivals in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia) during the reign of Queen Wilhelmina (1898-1948). The association of electricity with the royal House of Orange in vernacular visual culture expressed the idealised connections made, in colonial as well as in Dutch politics, between the queen and the Ethical Policy in the Indies. Electric lights and nocturnal illuminations featu…
Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia
Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims in the region, and understood their place both in imperial Europe and in colonized Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book t…
Dutch Still Lifes and Colonial Visual Culture in the Netherlands Indies, 1800-1949
Race, class, and gender: Debates over the character of social hierarchies in the Netherlands Indies, circa 1600–1942
Review of: Ulbe Bosma, Indiëgangers: Verhalen van Nederlanders die naar Indië trokken. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2010, 333 pp. ISBN 9789035135017. Price: EUR 26.50 (paperback). Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben, Being ‘Dutch’ in the Indies: A history of creolisation and empire, 1500–1920. Translated from the Dutch by Wendie Shaffer. Athens and Singapore: Ohio University Press, NUS Press, 2008, xx + 439 pp. [Ohio University Research in International Studie…
Race, class, and gender: Debates over the character of social hierarchies in the Netherlands Indies, circa 1600–1942
Review of: Ulbe Bosma, Indiëgangers: Verhalen van Nederlanders die naar Indië trokken. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2010, 333 pp. ISBN 9789035135017. Price: EUR 26.50 (paperback). Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben, Being ‘Dutch’ in the Indies: A history of creolisation and empire, 1500–1920. Translated from the Dutch by Wendie Shaffer. Athens and Singapore: Ohio University Press, NUS Press, 2008, xx + 439 pp. [Ohio University Research in International Studie…
Nature, landscape and identity in the Netherlands Indies: Literary constructions of being Dutch in the tropics
Recent trends in Indonesian history suggest a fruitful point at which two major fields of research might begin to converge: one is the growing body of literature on environmental history, the other is the abundant scholarship on social history and identity in colonial contexts. Studies of indigenous and colonial land-use patterns, conservation policies and practices, and Asian attitudes toward landscape and nature are some of the recent scholarly…
Seductive Landscapes: Gender, Race and European Representations of Nature in the Dutch East Indies during the Late Colonial Period
A common assumption in current scholarship on imperialism is that representations of colonised landscapes were gendered female and that European expansion was a male‐gendered enterprise. In the Dutch East Indies (colonial Indonesia), a Dutch possession in south‐east Asia, this association was by no means consistent in artistic and literary representations of nature and landscape. The gendering of Indies landscapes as feminine and their associatio…
Burdens of Proof: Photography and Evidence of Atrocity during the Dutch Military Actions in Indonesia (1945-1950)
There is but a limited scholarship on photographic sources from the Dutch military actions during the Revolusi Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian National Revolution) (1945-1949), and what exists almost entirely neglects perhaps the largest component of the archives: Dutch soldiers' amateur photographs. Yet this category of photographs has simultaneously attracted much public and media controversy. This article contends that a narrow range of soldier…
Eating together: Food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore
Eating together: food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore." Asian Studies Review, 40(1), pp. 152–153
Dutch Still Lifes and Colonial Visual Culture in the Netherlands Indies, 1800-1949
The flavour of history: Food, family and subjectivity in two Indo-European women's memoirs
This article examines two autobiographies written by women with family connections to the former Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia): Marguerite Schenkhuizen's Memoirs of an Indo Woman (1993 Schenkhuizen, M. (1993). Memoirs of an Indo Woman: Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad. Edited and translated by Lizelot Stout van Balgooy. Athens, OH: Ohio Centre for International Studies: Monographs in International Studies. Southeast …
The Colonial Table: Food, Culture and Dutch Identity in Colonial Indonesia
This article examines some of the ways in which colonial identities were constructed and maintained with reference to food and eating in the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that food was an important focus for the cultural performance of Europeanness among colonists with aspirations to European status. Specific notions of class and race informed these social performances,…
Seductive Landscapes: Gender, Race and European Representations of Nature in the Dutch East Indies during the Late Colonial Period
A common assumption in current scholarship on imperialism is that representations of colonised landscapes were gendered female and that European expansion was a male‐gendered enterprise. In the Dutch East Indies (colonial Indonesia), a Dutch possession in south‐east Asia, this association was by no means consistent in artistic and literary representations of nature and landscape. The gendering of Indies landscapes as feminine and their associatio…
Nature, landscape and identity in the Netherlands Indies: Literary constructions of being Dutch in the tropics
Recent trends in Indonesian history suggest a fruitful point at which two major fields of research might begin to converge: one is the growing body of literature on environmental history, the other is the abundant scholarship on social history and identity in colonial contexts. Studies of indigenous and colonial land-use patterns, conservation policies and practices, and Asian attitudes toward landscape and nature are some of the recent scholarly…
The flavour of history: Food, family and subjectivity in two Indo-European women's memoirs
This article examines two autobiographies written by women with family connections to the former Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia): Marguerite Schenkhuizen's Memoirs of an Indo Woman (1993 Schenkhuizen, M. (1993). Memoirs of an Indo Woman: Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad. Edited and translated by Lizelot Stout van Balgooy. Athens, OH: Ohio Centre for International Studies: Monographs in International Studies. Southeast …
Families, frontiers and the new imperial history
One of the more recent developments in historiography has been the emergence of 'new imperial history'. The articles within this special edition of the History of the Family offer examples of how some historians have dealt with the histories of both empires and families. Keywords: ImperialismFamilyHistory
Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia
Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims in the region, and understood their place both in imperial Europe and in colonized Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book t…
Dutch Still Lifes and Colonial Visual Culture in the Netherlands Indies, 1800-1949
Race, class, and gender: Debates over the character of social hierarchies in the Netherlands Indies, circa 1600–1942
Review of: Ulbe Bosma, Indiëgangers: Verhalen van Nederlanders die naar Indië trokken. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2010, 333 pp. ISBN 9789035135017. Price: EUR 26.50 (paperback). Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben, Being ‘Dutch’ in the Indies: A history of creolisation and empire, 1500–1920. Translated from the Dutch by Wendie Shaffer. Athens and Singapore: Ohio University Press, NUS Press, 2008, xx + 439 pp. [Ohio University Research in International Studie…
Negotiating Princely Status Through the Photographic Gift: Pakualam VII's family album for Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, 1937
In 1937 Prince Pakualam VII of Yogyakarta sent a family album to Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands as a wedding gift. It contained drawings and photographs of all the dynasty's leading members since the early 19th century. This article examines the album, firstly, as a diplomatic gift given by a Javanese aristocrat living under Dutch colonial rule to a future queen of the Netherlands, and secondly, as a mode of self-representation that Ja…
Tea Cups, Cameras and Family Life: Picturing Domesticity in Elite European and Javanese Family Photographs from the Netherlands Indies, ca. 1900–42
This article examines the representation of tea drinking in photographs and the commemoration of this pastime in European and Javanese family photograph albums, in the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia) during the early twentieth century. As ego documents (autobiographical sources), family photographs of tea-time reveal how the expression of social categories like race, class and gender were choreographed in the home by colonial family membe…
The Empire Illuminated: Electricity, "ethical" colonialism and enlightened monarchy in photographs of Dutch royal celebrations, 1898-1948
This article examines photographs of royal festivals in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia) during the reign of Queen Wilhelmina (1898-1948). The association of electricity with the royal House of Orange in vernacular visual culture expressed the idealised connections made, in colonial as well as in Dutch politics, between the queen and the Ethical Policy in the Indies. Electric lights and nocturnal illuminations featu…
Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia
The essays in this volume examine, from a historical perspective, how contested notions of modernity, civilization, and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia, a period when the Dutch colonial regime was implementing a liberal reform program known as the Ethical Policy. The contributors reveal how the camera evoked diverse, often contradictory modes of envisioning an ethically governed colony, one …
Eating together: Food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore
Eating together: food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore." Asian Studies Review, 40(1), pp. 152–153
Fenneke Sysling. Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia
Fenneke Sysling’s new monograph examines the practices of Dutch physical anthropology in colonial Indonesia (the Netherlands East Indies) between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Histories of physical anthropology have been dominated by studies of the German, French, and British empires, making Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia a fresh contribution to the histories of science, medicine, and colonialism. Sysl…
Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s
This book reveals how everyday experiences of being ‘modern’ (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recover modern times at the intersection of public and private domains, encompassing sex, religion, art, film, literature and urban…
Photographic subjects: Monarchy and visual culture in colonial Indonesia
Photographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reigns of Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia. It is the first monograph in English on the Dutch monarchy and the Netherlands' modern empire in the age of mass and amateur photography.This book reveals how Europeans and Indigenous people used photographs taken at Queen's Day celebrations to indicat…
Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia by Karen Strassler
Reviewed by: Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia by Karen Strassler Susie Protschky (bio) Karen Strassler. Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 369 pp. Demanding Images is the much-anticipated follow-up, and in some ways the sequel, to Karen Strassler’s influential first monograph on photography in modern Indonesia, Refracted Visions, wh…
Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s – 1970s
Burdens of Proof: Photography and Evidence of Atrocity during the Dutch Military Actions in Indonesia (1945-1950)
There is but a limited scholarship on photographic sources from the Dutch military actions during the Revolusi Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian National Revolution) (1945-1949), and what exists almost entirely neglects perhaps the largest component of the archives: Dutch soldiers' amateur photographs. Yet this category of photographs has simultaneously attracted much public and media controversy. This article contends that a narrow range of soldier…
Historicising sulfur mining, lime extraction and geotourism in Indonesia and Australia
Arnout van der Meer, Performing Power: Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia. Southeast Asia Program Publications
first monograph, Performing Power, is a sophisticated, nuanced and beautifully written contribution to the historical scholarship on colonialism in Indonesia, particularly Java, which is often the focus of the book.It builds substantially on a well-known scholarship examining the everyday contestation and negotiation of power between Europeans and Indonesians through language, manners, clothing, posture and material status symbols, from the estab…
Revolution, Race and Citizenship in Press Representations of Indonesians of the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) Interned in Australia, 1945–47
Revolution, Race and Citizenship in Press Representations of Indonesians of the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) Interned in Australia, 1945–47
Beyond guilt-ranking, beyond the pale, and the Netherlands’ current reckoning with ‘difficult histories’
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography: Q&A from questions posed by the editors Daniel Foliard and Sean Willcock to authors Pierre Schill, Susie Protschky, Nancy Rush…
1. Pierre Schill: My research on the 1911 visual coverage of the war in Tripolitania stems from a chance encounter. I was working on a different topic and came across some old and damaged positive
The Revolution Will (Not?) Be Colourised: Photographs from the Indonesian National Revolution (1945–49) on Social Media
This article critically reflects on the practice of colourisation in present-day recirculations of photographs originally made during the armed Indonesian struggle for independence from Dutch colonial rule (1945–49). The article focuses on digital colour manipulations of photographs disseminated on social media platforms to address ethical and methodological debates dividing academic and amateur historians on the modification of historic photogra…
History (23 works) · Colonialism (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Asian Studies and History (17 works) · Art (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Ethnology (10 works)