Burdens of Proof
Photography and Evidence of Atrocity during the Dutch Military Actions in Indonesia (1945-1950)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2875293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susie Protschky (0000-0001-7739-0199, 1 Monash University Australia Clayton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 176 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 240-278 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-11 |
| 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-bja10015 |
| OpenAlex | W3034747964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
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 soldiers' amateur photographs have thus far borne an anomalously weighty burden of proof to substantiate the nature and limits of extreme violence during the National Revolution, one that is brittle and difficult to sustain unless historians begin to broaden the focus of investigations into photographic archives. This article also investigates what it may mean for present-day Indonesians to see their ancestors as perpetrators as well as victims of violence and, importantly, as occupants of the ambiguous categories between both ends of this spectrum. What are the ethics of looking at and reproducing these photographs, and to whom do they belong
Aesthetics · Amateur · Art · Focus (optics · Indonesian · Media studies · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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Vision, Race, and Modernity
Introduction
Introduction
War and Photography
War and Photography
Tea Cups, Cameras and Family Life
The Flash of Recognition
Raw Histories
Memory Studies and Human Rights in Indonesia
Generating distrust through intelligence work
Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire
The Civil Contract of Photography
Colonial memory and forgetting in the Netherlands and Indonesia
Anti-Chinese violence in Java during the Indonesian Revolution, 1945–49
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Emerging Memory
Time, memory and historical justice
The Civil Contract of Photography
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |