Gert Oostindie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 211172 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gert Oostindie |
| PRENOMES | Gert |
| SOBRENOME | Oostindie |
| ASSINATURA | OOSTINDIE G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4499-9878 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Kanttekeningen bij het BMGN-forum over het Indonesië-onderzoek (Odgoi)
In deze repliek op het BMGN-forum over het onderzoeksprogramma over Nederlands geweld tijdens de Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog (ODGOI) willen wij ingaan op vier punten waarop de kritiek van de auteurs zich voornamelijk richt, namelijk: de vraagstelling en de opzet van het programma; de samenwerking met Indonesië en ruimte voor Indonesische perspectieven; de dynamiek binnen de Nederlandse onderzoeksgroep; en ten slotte de gebruikte termino…
Cultural Exchange, Proximity and Distance
Textbook introductions and, to a larger extent, tourist brochures tend to divide the Caribbean linguistically; the Spanish, British, French and Dutch Caribbean being the four linguistic divisions. 1 Of course, the linguistic criterion, with its neo-colonial overtones, is just as helpful in categorising the Caribbean as it is misleading in respect of politics or history. After all, inherent in this is the vague suggestion of continuing subordinati…
Decolonising the Caribbean
Much has been written on the post-war decolonisation in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly comparative perspective, and seldom with serious attention to the former Dutch colonies of Surinam, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. This study bridges both gaps. In their analysis of Dutch decolonisation policies since the 1940s, the authors discuss not only political processes, but also development aid, the Dutch Caribbean exodus to the metropolis …
Mutiny on the Rising Sun
Federalisme in de Indonesische onafhankelijkheidsstrijd
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Postcolonial Realms of Memory
Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society
Reviewed by: Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic world, 1651–1825 by Aviva Ben-Ur Gert Oostindie Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic world, 1651–1825 By Aviva Ben-Ur. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. In 1954, Israel Goldstein, an American rabbi and Zionist, visited Suriname, at the time still a Dutch colony. This visit was part of a tour in South America and the Caribbean to i…
Ethnic 'Ferociousness' in Colonial Wars
This article explores the myths and evidence surrounding extreme violence and the framing of 'ethnic soldiers' as loyal and indispensable Moluccan soldiers in the Dutch army in the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949. In this article, we first interrogate the origins of this framing in the Dutch-Indonesian case and the type of sources underlying this perspective. Next, we present the results of our research, which combines a study of Dutch …
A global comparison of non-sovereign island territories
For a great majority of former colonies, the outcome of decolonization was independence. Yet scattered across the globe, remnants of former colonial empires are still non-sovereign as part of larger metropolitan states. There is little drive for independence in these territories, virtually all of which are small island nations, also known as sub-national island jurisdictions (SNIJs). Why do so many former colonial territories choose to remain non…
Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century
J ohan H einsen . Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World
Realm between Empires
Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680–1815), the authors argue, marked a distinct and significant era in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart a more autonomous path. The loss of Brazil and New Netherland were twin blows to Dutch imperial pretensions. Yet the Dutch Atlantic hardly faded into…
The decolonization war in Indonesia, 1945–1949
Between August 1945 and December 1949, the Netherlands deployed some 220,000 military in the Indonesian decolonization war. Both during and long after this war, the Dutch government has denied that its armed forces engaged in war crimes, apart from a limited number of identified transgressions characterized as ‘exceptional’. This position has increasingly been criticized by scholars and in public debates, but it remains a daunting task to present…
Realm Between Empires
Head versus heart
Whereas political scientists tend to make binary distinctions between sovereign states and subnational units, in recent decades the number of a third, hybrid category of federacies or non-sovereign jurisdictions has strongly increased. In this paper, we explore the benefits and downsides of non-sovereignty from the perspective of these territories’ inhabitants. We zoom in on the six islands of the Dutch Caribbean, which in 2010 experienced a prof…
The Post-Columbus Syndrome
Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800
Dutch Atlantic Connections focuses on the Dutch dimension of the integrated Atlantic World between 1680 and 1800. In recent years, it has increasingly become clear that Dutch activities in this Atlantic world were of far greater significance than historians hitherto assumed. This volume illustrates how Dutch networks functioned in the Atlantic and highlights the pivotal and, indeed, exceptional role of the Dutch in the Atlantic. The chapters pres…
Discovering the Dutch
From Colonial Past to Postcolonial Present
Slave Resistance, Colour Lines, and the Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions in Curaçao
This introductory chapter of the book Curacao in the Age of Revolutions, 1795-1800 reviews some salient characteristics of society and politics, slavery and slave resistance in Curacao, as well as the place of the island in a wider regional and Atlantic framework. The smouldering divisions came after the French Revolution and particularly the French occupation of the Netherlands and the establishment of the Batavian Republic in 1795, making the t…
De Jong, Nanette
Anthropos , Seite 678 - 678
Intellectual Wastelands? Scholarship in and for the Dutch West Indies up to ca. 1800
E arly modern science had been crucial to European expansion. A constant series of new accomplishments in cartography, maritime technology, the art of warfare, and the like preceded and accompanied Western colonialism. While much of this technological progress may have been one-directional, European exploration and settlement in faraway continents also stimulated the further development of metropolitan science. As will become evident from this ch…
Creolization and Contraband
Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World." Slavery & Abolition, 34(3), pp. 524–525
Postcolonial Netherlands
The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in former Dutch colonies, such as Indonesia, Suriname, and the Antilles. Due to this influx of non-Western immigrants, a nationwide debate over multiculturalism has been waged over the past decade. Postcolonial Netherlands addresses themes of multicultural integration, such as state-sponsored financial gestures towards first-generation immigrants, and their subsequent results. Taking on a…
History brought home
The Dutch in the Caribbean and in the Guianas, 1680-1791
Ethnicity in the Caribbean
Het'Amsterdam Academic Archive is een initiatief van Amsterdam University Press. In de serie verschijnen (populair-)wetenschappelijke publicaties die niet meer leverbaar zijn, maar waarnaar nog wel vraag is in binnen- en buitenland. Relevante delen van deze publicaties zijn ook in te zien in het repository van Amsterdam University Press: www.aup.nl/repository
Dependence and autonomy in sub-national island jurisdictions
I thank Godfrey Baldacchino and David Milne for their stimulating criticism on earlier drafts of this chapter, as well as the anonymous reviewers for The Round Table for additional useful suggestions. Much of the empirical matter presented in this chapter is based on Oostindie and Klinkers (2001, 2003). More elaborate analyses, references and background materials to this brief sketch of Dutch Caribbean decolonization may be found in these texts
A global comparison of non-sovereign island territories
For a great majority of former colonies, the outcome of decolonization was independence. Yet scattered across the globe, remnants of former colonial empires are still non-sovereign as part of larger metropolitan states. There is little drive for independence in these territories, virtually all of which are small island nations, also known as sub-national island jurisdictions (SNIJs). Why do so many former colonial territories choose to remain non…
Public Memories of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in Contemporary Europe
For centuries, major European states were involved in the Atlantic slave trade and in slavery in their colonies in the Americas. In the last decade, this subject has attracted serious but uneven attention in Europe beyond the realms of descendants and academia. The British, French and Dutch governments have engaged with the subject, expressing remorse and stimulating public commemorations. Portugal and Spain on the other hand have hardly addresse…
Head versus heart
Whereas political scientists tend to make binary distinctions between sovereign states and subnational units, in recent decades the number of a third, hybrid category of federacies or non-sovereign jurisdictions has strongly increased. In this paper, we explore the benefits and downsides of non-sovereignty from the perspective of these territories’ inhabitants. We zoom in on the six islands of the Dutch Caribbean, which in 2010 experienced a prof…
Squaring the circle; Commemorating the VOC after 400 years
Squaring the circle Commemorating the VOC after 400 yearsIn 2002, the Netherlands 'celebrated' the establishment, exactly four centuries before, of the Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC, East Indies Company).By pure coincidence, that same year a national monument in commemoration of the Atlantic slave trade and Dutch Caribbean slavery -in which the Dutch West Indische Compagnie (WIC, West Indies Company) was a key player -was inaugura…
The slippery paths of commemoration and Heritage tourism
Reflects upon the commemoration of the Atlantic slave trade and American slavery. Author describes how the slave trade and slavery was recently "rediscovered", as a part of Dutch history, and he compares this to the attention to this history in other European countries once engaging in slavery. He argues that despite the fact that the history of the slave trade and slavery is worthy of attention in itself, contemporary political and social factor…
Dutch Attitudes Towards Colonial Empires, Indigenous Cultures, and Slaves
Dutch Attitudes Towards Colonial Empires, Indigenous Cultures, and Slaves Gert Oostindie (bio) and Bert Paasman (bio) I. Introduction 1 Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. The scope of the Dutch Maritime Empire. (Map by G-O graphics, Wijk bij Duurstede). From its very beginnings, Dutch colonial ventures gravitated towards Asia. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was established in 1602, nineteen years before its West Indian count…
Voltaire, Stedman and suriname slavery
(1993). Voltaire, Stedman and suriname slavery. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-34
British Capital, Industry and Perseverance’ versus Dutch ‘Old School’
Recent historiography has reconsidered the idea that the Dutch role in the early modern Atlantic was of little significance, particularly in comparison to the accomplishments of the Dutch East India Company (voc) in Asia. Revisionist studies have emphasised that in spite of the limited and fragmented nature of the Dutch Atlantic ‘empire’, the Atlantic contribution to the Dutch economy was significant and possibly even greater than the voc’s share…
Fifty Years Later
Preface Introduction: Explaining Dutch Abolition , Gert Oostindie The Long Goodbye: Dutch Capitalism and Antislavery in Comparative Perspective, Seymour Drescher The Dutch Case of Antislavery: Late Abolitions and Elitist Abolitionism, Maarten Kuitenbrouwer Dutch Antislavery Attitudes in a Decline-Ridden Society, 1750-1815, Angelie Sens An Economic Explanation of the Late Abolition of Slavery in Suriname, Edwin Horlings Suriname and the Abolition …
Changing sugar technology and the labour nexus
Discusses a number of arguments concerning the connection between technological development and changing labour relations in the Caribbean. The authors dissect 'the arguments as used in the literature, and found them wanting in many respects
The decolonization war in Indonesia, 1945–1949
Between August 1945 and December 1949, the Netherlands deployed some 220,000 military in the Indonesian decolonization war. Both during and long after this war, the Dutch government has denied that its armed forces engaged in war crimes, apart from a limited number of identified transgressions characterized as ‘exceptional’. This position has increasingly been criticized by scholars and in public debates, but it remains a daunting task to present…
The Study of Ethnicity in the Dutch Caribbean
This paper traces the origins of ethnic studies on the former Caribbean Dutch colonies to pioneering work done in the Dutch East Indies, notably J. S. Furnivall's concept of the plural society. The review of the rise, fall, and recent partial rediscovery of that analysis is followed by brief discussions of studies on ethnicity available in English regarding Suriname and the six Antillean islands. The subsequent analysis focuses on the exodus from…
Ki sorto di Reino/What kind of Kingdom
Article, based on the research report Ki sorto di Reino / What kind of Kingdom (1998), presents the outcome of an opinion poll carried out on the 6 Dutch Caribbean islands in 1997-98. The survey covers the views and expectations of the Antilleans and Arubans with regard to the Kingdom, and in particular the Netherlands. Themes covered include the constitutional structure; residence and passport; protection of national territory, democracy, and co…
On Stedman's narrative, Suriname slavery, and editing
John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. Transcribed for the first time from the ori ginal 1790 manuscript, edited, and with an introduction and notes, by Richard Price and Sally Price. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xcvii + 708 pp. ISBN 0.8018.3416.3 John Gabriel Stedman, Reize naar Surinamen [...] naar het Engelsch. [Red. Jos Fontaine.] Zutphen: Walburg, 1…
Archives and Research Centres
It is a well known fact that informational exchange between Cuba and the Western world is poor and, to the extent that it exists, highly polemic. This characterization of non-communication unfortunately, also applies to the field of historical research. In Western Europe, at least, there is not much scholarly interest in pre-Revolutionary Cuban history. There is no framework for historical contact either. I would say that this neglect of Cuban hi…
In het land van de overheerser
Kondreman in Bakrakondre
The Dutch in the Caribbean and in the Guianas, 1680-1791
Changing sugar technology and the labour nexus
Discusses a number of arguments concerning the connection between technological development and changing labour relations in the Caribbean. The authors dissect 'the arguments as used in the literature, and found them wanting in many respects
On Stedman's narrative, Suriname slavery, and editing
John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. Transcribed for the first time from the ori ginal 1790 manuscript, edited, and with an introduction and notes, by Richard Price and Sally Price. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xcvii + 708 pp. ISBN 0.8018.3416.3 John Gabriel Stedman, Reize naar Surinamen [...] naar het Engelsch. [Red. Jos Fontaine.] Zutphen: Walburg, 1…
Korte Signaleringen II
herinneringen van twee
Voltaire, Stedman and suriname slavery
(1993). Voltaire, Stedman and suriname slavery. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-34
El Caribe holandés en la época de la esclavitud
Descripción de las líneas claves de la historia del Caribe holandés hasta la abolición de la esclavitud (1863). Se organiza con un doble criterio cronológico y geográfico (Antillas Sotaventas y Barloventas), desarrollando los temas desde una perspectiva caribeña y latinoamericana más amplia. Incluye bibliografía y fuentes documentales al final de cada sección, destacando la relevancia de las existentes en Holanda y sus antiguas colonias
El Caribe holandés en la época de la esclavitud
Fifty Years Later
Fifty Years Later
Preface Introduction: Explaining Dutch Abolition , Gert Oostindie The Long Goodbye: Dutch Capitalism and Antislavery in Comparative Perspective, Seymour Drescher The Dutch Case of Antislavery: Late Abolitions and Elitist Abolitionism, Maarten Kuitenbrouwer Dutch Antislavery Attitudes in a Decline-Ridden Society, 1750-1815, Angelie Sens An Economic Explanation of the Late Abolition of Slavery in Suriname, Edwin Horlings Suriname and the Abolition …
Dutch Attitudes Towards Colonial Empires, Indigenous Cultures, and Slaves
Dutch Attitudes Towards Colonial Empires, Indigenous Cultures, and Slaves Gert Oostindie (bio) and Bert Paasman (bio) I. Introduction 1 Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. The scope of the Dutch Maritime Empire. (Map by G-O graphics, Wijk bij Duurstede). From its very beginnings, Dutch colonial ventures gravitated towards Asia. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was established in 1602, nineteen years before its West Indian count…
Ki sorto di Reino/What kind of Kingdom
Article, based on the research report Ki sorto di Reino / What kind of Kingdom (1998), presents the outcome of an opinion poll carried out on the 6 Dutch Caribbean islands in 1997-98. The survey covers the views and expectations of the Antilleans and Arubans with regard to the Kingdom, and in particular the Netherlands. Themes covered include the constitutional structure; residence and passport; protection of national territory, democracy, and co…
Ethnicity in the Caribean
Curacao, 30 mei 1969
Squaring the circle; Commemorating the VOC after 400 years
Squaring the circle Commemorating the VOC after 400 yearsIn 2002, the Netherlands 'celebrated' the establishment, exactly four centuries before, of the Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC, East Indies Company).By pure coincidence, that same year a national monument in commemoration of the Atlantic slave trade and Dutch Caribbean slavery -in which the Dutch West Indische Compagnie (WIC, West Indies Company) was a key player -was inaugura…
Ethnicity in the Caribbean
The slippery paths of commemoration and Heritage tourism
Reflects upon the commemoration of the Atlantic slave trade and American slavery. Author describes how the slave trade and slavery was recently "rediscovered", as a part of Dutch history, and he compares this to the attention to this history in other European countries once engaging in slavery. He argues that despite the fact that the history of the slave trade and slavery is worthy of attention in itself, contemporary political and social factor…
Ethnicity in the Caribbean
Het'Amsterdam Academic Archive is een initiatief van Amsterdam University Press. In de serie verschijnen (populair-)wetenschappelijke publicaties die niet meer leverbaar zijn, maar waarnaar nog wel vraag is in binnen- en buitenland. Relevante delen van deze publicaties zijn ook in te zien in het repository van Amsterdam University Press: www.aup.nl/repository
Dependence and autonomy in sub-national island jurisdictions
I thank Godfrey Baldacchino and David Milne for their stimulating criticism on earlier drafts of this chapter, as well as the anonymous reviewers for The Round Table for additional useful suggestions. Much of the empirical matter presented in this chapter is based on Oostindie and Klinkers (2001, 2003). More elaborate analyses, references and background materials to this brief sketch of Dutch Caribbean decolonization may be found in these texts
The Study of Ethnicity in the Dutch Caribbean
This paper traces the origins of ethnic studies on the former Caribbean Dutch colonies to pioneering work done in the Dutch East Indies, notably J. S. Furnivall's concept of the plural society. The review of the rise, fall, and recent partial rediscovery of that analysis is followed by brief discussions of studies on ethnicity available in English regarding Suriname and the six Antillean islands. The subsequent analysis focuses on the exodus from…
Migration and its legacies in the Dutch colonial world
In Memory of Harmannus Hoetink 1931-2005
In MeMory of HarMannus HoetInk 1931-2005 one and the same person may be considered white in the Dominican republic or Puerto rico, and "coloured" in Jamaica, Martinique, or Curaçao; this difference must be explained in terms of socially determined somatic norms.the same person may be called a "negro" in Georgia; this must be explained by the historical evolution of social structure in the southern united states wrote Harmannus -better known as Ha…
Chapter Twelve. History Brought Home
Slavery and slave resistance have been core issues in the post-war historiography of the Caribbean. This chapter addresses the recent Dutch rediscovery of the Netherlands' long history of slave trading and slavery in relation to the impact of the post-war migration from the Dutch Caribbean. A first issue is the overall impact of postcolonial migration-from Indonesia and the Caribbean-on the way Dutch history is canonized. The chapter provides a s…
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