Rosemarijn Hoefte
Biographic Data
| ID | 703250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemarijn Hoefte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemarijn |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoefte |
| SIGNATURE | HOEFTE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4103-8577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation, by Jonathan Connolly
Jacob Selwood, At Kingdom’s Edge: The Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject
Where is home? Changing conceptions of the homeland in the Surinamese-Javanese diaspora
In 1890 the first Javanese indentured labourers arrived in Suriname to work on the colony’s plantations. In total almost 30,000 indentured and free immigrants arrived in this small Caribbean colony. Fifty years later, at the end of the migration period, they formed more than one fifth of the population. Consequently, they constituted a substantial community which had to adapt to a different socio-cultural environment but, at the same time, manage…
Suriname: Van wingewest tot natiestaat, by Jan Pronk
The Challenges of Nation-Building and Nation Branding in Multi-Ethnic Suriname
This analysis of nation-building and nation branding in post-colonial, multi-ethnic Suriname builds on the notion that such policies are promising but also difficult to achieve in culturally divided societies. We zoom in on three episodes of nation-building and nation branding in the country and explain why and in what respects they succeeded or failed. We posit that in Suriname’s case, nation-building and nation branding are intertwined, because…
The NWIG@100
Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863–1873, by Lomarsh Roopnarine
In 1863, after two years of negotiations between the British and Danish governments, a ship carrying 321 indentured Indian immigrants arrived in St. Croix.This first one turned out to be also the last one as the venture fell short of expectations.It's not surprising, then, that indentured labor in the Danish Virgin Islands has received less scholarly attention than in, for example, Trinidad, British Guiana, or Suriname.What makes the St. Croix ca…
Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia: The ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony
Regional and hemispheric reconfigurations in Latin America and the Caribbean are increasingly mediated by Brazilian power, and the engagement of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana with this emerging context is intriguing. They are tentatively moving away from a Caribbean region with which they are culturally contiguous, towards a South American continent in which they are geographically located. This is partly a reflection of the gradual opening …
Finding Myself: Essays on Race, Politics & Culture, written by Clem Seecharan
Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean: The Three Guianas
This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called ‘Three Guianas’ (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a unique opportunity to look for similarities and differences in their contemporary patterns of development, particularly as they grapple with new and complex…
The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network, written by Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers
Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico, written by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán
Discontent, Protest, and Repression in the 1930s
The economic developments and the growing role of the state as sketched in the previous chapters came together in the 1930s when economic decline and austerity measures caused social upheaval, in the form of mass meetings and riots in 1931 and 1933. These challenges to colonial authority led to open and more hidden forms of state repression. New laws limiting various freedoms intensified the control of the authoritarian state. Intelligence servic…
Resetting the Scene: Developments 1940–1975
The governorship of Kielstra turned out to be the ultimate expression of authoritarian colonial rule. World War II reshuffled the cards in Suriname and internationally. 1 In a twist of irony, in 1944 Kielstra was removed from his post because his administration fostered social unrest, thus undermining the war effort. This chapter reviews socioeconomic, political, cultural, and demographic developments in the decades between the beginning of the w…
Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century: Domination, Contestation, Globalization
Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender
Cleansing the world of the germ of laziness: Hygiene, sanitation, and the Javanese population in Suriname
In 1915 the Rockefeller Foundation took its hookworm eradication campaign to Suriname, but was soon disappointed because of opposition from its main target group: the Javanese. Moreover, authorities and planters objected to the construction of latrines because of the costs and their belief that the Javanese were "unhygienic". In describing the labor migration from Java to Suriname, I show that this "lack of hygiene" was closely related to the sys…
Plantations and Labour in the Caribbean in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World: Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer
Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World: Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer, edited by Wim Klooster, Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2009, xi + 335 pp., €103.00/US$ 147.00 (hb.), ISBN 978 90 04 17
Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist, and Mrs. Marcus Garvey Wife No. 1, or, A Tale of Two Amies
Amy Ashwood was an activist in the pan-African movement, a feminist, and the first wife of Marcus Garvey. Their marriage ended after two months, when Garvey left her for Ashwood’s chief bridesmaid and best friend Amy Jacques. This short-lived marriage and the divorce, which she never acknowledged, loomed large in Ashwood’s life. Tony Martin’s biography of Ashwood, the most recent volume in what the author calls the New Marcus Garvey Library, cent…
Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
Are the questions we have been asking the past to answer still questions worth having answers to? Are the stories we have been telling about the past's relation to the present still relevant? David Scott does not think so. In this book he strongly argues that it is not the answers but the questions that demand scrutiny: he stresses the need to identify the difference between the postcolonial questions that informed former presents and those that …
The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History
The Difficulty of Getting it Right: Dutch Policy in the Caribbeans
Dutch colonialism has traditionally focused on the East Indies, rather than the West Indies. Thus when Queen Wilhelmina, while in exile in London, declared in 1942 that the colonies should become autonomous with the words ‘relying on one's own strength, with the will to support each other,’ she was thinking of the East and not so much about Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Yet as it turned out, all constitutional plans, culminating into the…
A Passage to Suriname? The Migration of Modes of Resistance by Asian Contract Laborers
When, on June 5, 1873, the Lalla Rookh docked in Fort Nieuw Amsterdam, Suriname, 399 indentured British Indian immigrants had almost reached their destination: the colonial plantations. The timing was no coincidence. On July 1, 1863, the Dutch government had abolished slavery in its Caribean colonies. During a ten-year transition period the former slave were to work for employers of their own choice under the supervision of the state.Three weeks …
Free blacks and coloureds in plantation Suriname
(1996). Free blacks and coloureds in plantation Suriname. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 17, Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas, pp. 102-129
Connecting Cultures: The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic Exchange
Journal Article Connecting Cultures: The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic Exchange. Ed. by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Johanna C. Kardux. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1994. xiv, 309 pp. Paper, ISBN 90-5383-344-7.) Get access Anita Tien Anita Tien Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1549–15…
The Dutch in the Caribbean and in the Guianas, 1680-1791
The Challenges of Nation-Building and Nation Branding in Multi-Ethnic Suriname
This analysis of nation-building and nation branding in post-colonial, multi-ethnic Suriname builds on the notion that such policies are promising but also difficult to achieve in culturally divided societies. We zoom in on three episodes of nation-building and nation branding in the country and explain why and in what respects they succeeded or failed. We posit that in Suriname’s case, nation-building and nation branding are intertwined, because…
A Passage to Suriname? The Migration of Modes of Resistance by Asian Contract Laborers
When, on June 5, 1873, the Lalla Rookh docked in Fort Nieuw Amsterdam, Suriname, 399 indentured British Indian immigrants had almost reached their destination: the colonial plantations. The timing was no coincidence. On July 1, 1863, the Dutch government had abolished slavery in its Caribean colonies. During a ten-year transition period the former slave were to work for employers of their own choice under the supervision of the state.Three weeks …
Connecting Cultures: The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic Exchange
Journal Article Connecting Cultures: The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic Exchange. Ed. by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Johanna C. Kardux. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1994. xiv, 309 pp. Paper, ISBN 90-5383-344-7.) Get access Anita Tien Anita Tien Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1549–15…
Cleansing the world of the germ of laziness: Hygiene, sanitation, and the Javanese population in Suriname
In 1915 the Rockefeller Foundation took its hookworm eradication campaign to Suriname, but was soon disappointed because of opposition from its main target group: the Javanese. Moreover, authorities and planters objected to the construction of latrines because of the costs and their belief that the Javanese were "unhygienic". In describing the labor migration from Java to Suriname, I show that this "lack of hygiene" was closely related to the sys…
Plantations and Labour in the Caribbean in the Long Nineteenth Century
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Thrust Together: The Netherlands Relationship with Its Caribbean Partners
In December 1942, the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina announced, in a radio address, that the Netherlands was revising its relationship with its colonies, employing the famous words: "Relying on one's own strength, with the will to support each other" [Steunend op eigen kracht, metde wil elkander bij te staan] (Schenk and spaan, 1945: 56). Some 52 years later, her granddaughter, Queen Beatrix, returned to this theme in a televised speech delivered to mark…
Control and resistance: Indentured labor in Suriname
The Dutch in the Caribbean and in the Guianas, 1680-1791
The Dutch in the Caribbean and in Suriname 1791/5-1942
Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles: An Annotated English-Language Bibliography
Free blacks and coloureds in plantation Suriname
(1996). Free blacks and coloureds in plantation Suriname. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 17, Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas, pp. 102-129
Connecting Cultures: The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic Exchange
Journal Article Connecting Cultures: The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic Exchange. Ed. by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Johanna C. Kardux. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1994. xiv, 309 pp. Paper, ISBN 90-5383-344-7.) Get access Anita Tien Anita Tien Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1549–15…
Commercial Eldorado
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Thrust Together: The Netherlands Relationship with Its Caribbean Partners
In December 1942, the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina announced, in a radio address, that the Netherlands was revising its relationship with its colonies, employing the famous words: "Relying on one's own strength, with the will to support each other" [Steunend op eigen kracht, metde wil elkander bij te staan] (Schenk and spaan, 1945: 56). Some 52 years later, her granddaughter, Queen Beatrix, returned to this theme in a televised speech delivered to mark…
A Passage to Suriname? The Migration of Modes of Resistance by Asian Contract Laborers
When, on June 5, 1873, the Lalla Rookh docked in Fort Nieuw Amsterdam, Suriname, 399 indentured British Indian immigrants had almost reached their destination: the colonial plantations. The timing was no coincidence. On July 1, 1863, the Dutch government had abolished slavery in its Caribean colonies. During a ten-year transition period the former slave were to work for employers of their own choice under the supervision of the state.Three weeks …
The Difficulty of Getting it Right: Dutch Policy in the Caribbeans
Dutch colonialism has traditionally focused on the East Indies, rather than the West Indies. Thus when Queen Wilhelmina, while in exile in London, declared in 1942 that the colonies should become autonomous with the words ‘relying on one's own strength, with the will to support each other,’ she was thinking of the East and not so much about Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Yet as it turned out, all constitutional plans, culminating into the…
The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History
Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
Are the questions we have been asking the past to answer still questions worth having answers to? Are the stories we have been telling about the past's relation to the present still relevant? David Scott does not think so. In this book he strongly argues that it is not the answers but the questions that demand scrutiny: he stresses the need to identify the difference between the postcolonial questions that informed former presents and those that …
Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist, and Mrs. Marcus Garvey Wife No. 1, or, A Tale of Two Amies
Amy Ashwood was an activist in the pan-African movement, a feminist, and the first wife of Marcus Garvey. Their marriage ended after two months, when Garvey left her for Ashwood’s chief bridesmaid and best friend Amy Jacques. This short-lived marriage and the divorce, which she never acknowledged, loomed large in Ashwood’s life. Tony Martin’s biography of Ashwood, the most recent volume in what the author calls the New Marcus Garvey Library, cent…
Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World: Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer
Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World: Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer, edited by Wim Klooster, Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2009, xi + 335 pp., €103.00/US$ 147.00 (hb.), ISBN 978 90 04 17
Plantations and Labour in the Caribbean in the Long Nineteenth Century
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Discontent, Protest, and Repression in the 1930s
The economic developments and the growing role of the state as sketched in the previous chapters came together in the 1930s when economic decline and austerity measures caused social upheaval, in the form of mass meetings and riots in 1931 and 1933. These challenges to colonial authority led to open and more hidden forms of state repression. New laws limiting various freedoms intensified the control of the authoritarian state. Intelligence servic…
Resetting the Scene: Developments 1940–1975
The governorship of Kielstra turned out to be the ultimate expression of authoritarian colonial rule. World War II reshuffled the cards in Suriname and internationally. 1 In a twist of irony, in 1944 Kielstra was removed from his post because his administration fostered social unrest, thus undermining the war effort. This chapter reviews socioeconomic, political, cultural, and demographic developments in the decades between the beginning of the w…
Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century: Domination, Contestation, Globalization
Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender
Cleansing the world of the germ of laziness: Hygiene, sanitation, and the Javanese population in Suriname
In 1915 the Rockefeller Foundation took its hookworm eradication campaign to Suriname, but was soon disappointed because of opposition from its main target group: the Javanese. Moreover, authorities and planters objected to the construction of latrines because of the costs and their belief that the Javanese were "unhygienic". In describing the labor migration from Java to Suriname, I show that this "lack of hygiene" was closely related to the sys…
Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico, written by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán
Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean: The Three Guianas
This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called ‘Three Guianas’ (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a unique opportunity to look for similarities and differences in their contemporary patterns of development, particularly as they grapple with new and complex…
The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network, written by Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers
Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia: The ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony
Regional and hemispheric reconfigurations in Latin America and the Caribbean are increasingly mediated by Brazilian power, and the engagement of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana with this emerging context is intriguing. They are tentatively moving away from a Caribbean region with which they are culturally contiguous, towards a South American continent in which they are geographically located. This is partly a reflection of the gradual opening …
Finding Myself: Essays on Race, Politics & Culture, written by Clem Seecharan
Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863–1873, by Lomarsh Roopnarine
In 1863, after two years of negotiations between the British and Danish governments, a ship carrying 321 indentured Indian immigrants arrived in St. Croix.This first one turned out to be also the last one as the venture fell short of expectations.It's not surprising, then, that indentured labor in the Danish Virgin Islands has received less scholarly attention than in, for example, Trinidad, British Guiana, or Suriname.What makes the St. Croix ca…
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