The Search for Sensuous Geographies of Absence
Indisch Mediation of Loss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2842209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Dragojlovic (0000-0002-1140-759X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 170 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 473-503 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-17004015 |
| OpenAlex | W1572640832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article explores how the descendants of migrants expelled from their originary homeland engage with geographies of loss, and how travel serves as an active process of mediation. My focus is on Indies (Indonesian-Dutch) migrants and their descendants living in the Netherlands, Australia, Canada, and the United States. Drawing on rich ethnographic material I explore how migrants' descendants associate colonial times and ancestral homelands with narrative strategies of exclusion and containment and tempo doeloe discourses (a nostalgic longing for the 'good old days') as generative of a collective victimhood. I seek to unravel how descendants explore agentic modalities of travel in order to reactivate, re-embody, and thus intervene in their families' and collective histories. The article analyses how affective experiences of places of and far beyond the geographical locations of the Dutch East Indies have a potential to invigorate embodied Indies sensibilities. Thus, I write towards a theory of intergenerational transmission and felt dispositions in relation to old, multiracial diasporas such as the Indies. I argue that searches for sensuous geographies of absence are a specific modality of genealogy work that serves as a vehicle through which to move across and among different times in order to destabilize postcolonial temporalities
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Policies and Practices for an Antiracist Geography at the Millennium
Critical Events
Ghostly Matters
Women and the Colonial State
Bringing History Home. Postcolonial Immigrants and the Dutch Cultural Arena
Of Irish Descent
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power
Highland Homecomings
Intensities of feeling
Haptic geographies
Globalisation and Body Politics
Home Cooking
Citizenship in the Netherlands
Transnational Families
Trauma and Origins
Embodiment, Collective Memory and Time
Migration and the Sensuous Geographies of Re-emplacement in the Philippines
Constitutive Knowledge
Java in a Time of Revolution. Occupation and Resistance 1944-1946
Dutch Culture Overseas
Cartographies of Diaspora
Engaging Colonial Nostalgia
Meaning and Feeling in the Anthropology of Emotions
Placing and tracing absence
Feminism and Cultural Memory
Castings for the Colonial
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |