The Indisch Tijdschrift van het Recht, 1915-1947
A Critical Reassessment of Dutch Colonial Legal Sources
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2849839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moritz Koenig (0000-0002-4822-7517, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) The Hague The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 180 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-94 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-17 |
| 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-bja10059 |
| OpenAlex | W4394961070 |
| Language | NL |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article discusses the structure and argumentative style of the Indisch Tijdschrift van het Recht (hereafter ITR or Tijdschrift) (1915-1947), one of the primary sources for scholarly investigations of late colonial law in the Dutch East Indies. I argue that a 'reading along the grain' and problematization of its peculiar types of knowledge-making can help give texture to academic analyses of colonial law. This article zooms in on the structure of the Tijdschrift's case-reporting and legal commentaries to contextualize it within historical debates of law and investigate the role it played in reorganizing the colonial economy. I argue that the Tijdschrift allowed colonial scholars, judges, and administrators to portray law as an objective, neutral framework for the containment of everyday life and local adat. However, detailed analysis also highlights the epistemic anxieties of Dutch colonial legalists about the efficiency of legal methods. Both these issues should be considered when referencing the Tijdschrift as a scholarly source
Archaeology · Argumentative · Colonialism · Ethnography · Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
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The Indisch Tijdschrift van het Recht, 1915-1947
Along the Archival Grain
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1930 - 2026 (97) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |