scholarly journals Beyond the Subject: Anglo-American Slave Narratives in the Netherlands, 1789-2013

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. VC56-VC84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijke Huisman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Dutch History

In recent years life writing scholars have increasingly linked the autobiographical genre to human rights causes, such as abolitionism. This article aims to historicize and contextualize the presupposed connection between human rights and the human subject of autobiographical discourse by focusing on the cultural mobility of Anglo-American slave narratives. Tracing their presence in the Netherlands since the late eighteenth century, it is demonstrated that slave narratives were considered of no value to Dutch abolitionism and Dutch debates on slavery and its legacy until very recently. Publishers and readers did, however make sense of slave narratives as sensational, gothic literature. Furthermore, the narratives were appropriated by Dutch fundamentalist Protestants advocating the nation’s emancipation from its state of spriritual “slavery”. Only when secularization converged with post-colonial migration patterns new interpretations stressing Black experience, agency, and subjectivity came to the fore in the Netherlands. Inspired by African-American rhetoric, Afro-Dutch migrants appropriated slave narratives in order to break the public silence on the Dutch history of slavery. This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing in June 2014 and published in April 2015.

Emanuel van Meteren's History as source for the cartography of the Netherlands

Quaerendo ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
H.A.M. Van Der Heyden ◽  
Translation Anna E. C. Simoni
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Cartography ◽  
The One ◽  
Dutch History

AbstractThe author discusses the publishing history of ten rare maps of the Low Countries - the XVII Provinces -, which occur in the numerous Dutch, German, Latin and French editions of Emanuel van Meteren's 'Dutch History'. [The title of the first Dutch edition is Memorien der Belgische ofte Nederlantsche historie, van onse tijden [...] (Delft, J. C. Vennecool, 1599).] The first of these maps, almost certainly the work of Frans Hogenberg, may have been published as early as 1582; the tenth map, occurring in Jan Jacobsz Schipper's Dutch Van Meteren edition of 1647, is a second state of Willem Jansz Blaeu's map of 1604. This map appears to be a copy of the one J. B. Vrients used in 1608 for an Ortelius edition, the engraving of which - before 1588 - has been attributed to Philips Galle. Although much has been written about Van Meteren's work and the historical plates included in it, the maps have met with little interest. This in itself is proof that historical cartography is to some degree the stepchild of historiography - after all the maps in Van Meteren's 'History' discussed in this article are among the oldest of the Netherlands.

scholarly journals The slippery paths of commemoration and Heritage tourism: the Netherlands, Ghana, and the rediscovery of Atlantic slavery

2008 ◽  
Vol 79 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Oostindie
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Atlantic Slavery ◽  
Dutch History

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 factors mainly influence attention to the slave trade and slavery, noting that in countries with larger Afro-Caribbean minority groups the attention to this past is greater than in other once slave-trading countries. He further deplores the lack of academic accuracy on the slave trade and slavery in slavery commemorations and in the connected search for African roots among descendants of slaves, and illustrates this by focusing on the role of Ghana, and the slave fortress Elmina there, as this fortress also has become a much visited tourist site by Afro-Americans. According to him, this made for some that Ghana represents the whole of Africa, while African slaves in the Caribbean, also in the Dutch colonies, came from various parts of Africa. Author attributes this selectivity in part to the relatively large Ghanaian community in the Netherlands.

Liberalization and Community Ties

2021 ◽  
pp. 225-337
Author(s):  
Dieter Gosewinkel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
European Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

The post-war period (Tony Judt) of citizenship, which was overshadowed by expulsions, decolonization, and the ideological division of Europe, embodied a long history of dealing politically with the consequences of war, violence, and discrimination. In the European dictatorships after 1945, integration into the community of class and the state-prescribed ideology remained decisive for political affiliation. By contrast, in Western European society, which became more open under the influence of post-colonial immigration and the sustained boom, citizenship (T. H. Marshall) evolved into the ultimate emblem of a social-welfare state, a state in which on the principles of constitutionally guaranteed and expanding civil rights political affiliation was based on consensus, participation, and consumerism. These two polar concepts of citizenship were overcome and politically overlaid by a new human rights policy that established the protection of civil rights beyond the state and contributed to the 1989 political transformation of Europe.

The Advisory Committee on Human Rights and Foreign Policy in the Netherlands

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Flinterman ◽  
Y.S. Klerk
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institutional Aspects

In this article an overview is given of the functioning of the Dutch Advisory Committee on Human Rights and Foreign Policy. First, the history of the Advisory Committee and its institutional aspects is described. Subsequently, a survey of the advisory reports which the Advisory Committee has published so far and of their effects is given. Finally, the authors say a few words about the usefulness of a commission like the Advisory Committee and look into its future.

Erfgoed

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-214
Author(s):  
Hanneke Ronnes
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Dutch History

Erfgoed: de geschiedenis van een begrip Amsterdam University Press, the Netherlands, 2007. Frans Grijzenhout (ed.). Volume 5 in the series Dutch History of Concepts, Amsterdam University Press

scholarly journals The slippery paths of commemoration and Heritage tourism: the Netherlands, Ghana, and the rediscovery of Atlantic slavery

2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-77
Author(s):  
Gert Oostindie
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Atlantic Slavery ◽  
Dutch History

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 factors mainly influence attention to the slave trade and slavery, noting that in countries with larger Afro-Caribbean minority groups the attention to this past is greater than in other once slave-trading countries. He further deplores the lack of academic accuracy on the slave trade and slavery in slavery commemorations and in the connected search for African roots among descendants of slaves, and illustrates this by focusing on the role of Ghana, and the slave fortress Elmina there, as this fortress also has become a much visited tourist site by Afro-Americans. According to him, this made for some that Ghana represents the whole of Africa, while African slaves in the Caribbean, also in the Dutch colonies, came from various parts of Africa. Author attributes this selectivity in part to the relatively large Ghanaian community in the Netherlands.

Towards the Centre: Early Neoliberals in the Netherlands and the Rise of the Welfare State, 1945–1958

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bram Mellink
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Welfare State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Wide Dissemination ◽  
The Welfare State

Although scholars have recently taken an increased interest in the history of neoliberalism, the ‘breakthrough’ of neoliberalism under Thatcher and Reagan still captures most of their attention. Consequently, the neoliberal project is primarily taken as Anglo-American, while its early history is mostly studied to explain the political shift of the 1980s. This article focuses on the early neoliberal movement in the Netherlands (1945–58) to highlight the continental European roots of neoliberal thought, trace the remarkably wide dissemination of neoliberal ideas in Dutch socio-economic debates and highlight the key role of these ideas in the conceptualisation of the Western European welfare state.

THE ““POSTCOLONIAL”” IN TRANSLATION: READING SAID IN HEBREW

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Shohat
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The U.S

The essay focuses on the ““travel”” of various debates——orientalism, postcolonialism, postzionism——between the U.S. and Israel, between one institutional zone and political semantics and another. Through a comparative history of these critical intellectual debates, the author considers some key moments and issues in the ““translation”” of Said's ideas into Hebrew. The reception of Said's work is engaged in its contradictory dimensions, especially in liberal-leftist circles, where the desire to go-beyond-Said offers some ironic twists. The issues examined include: the nature of the ““post”” in the concepts of the ““post-colonial”” and ““post-Zionism””; the problem of ““hybridity”” and ““resistance”” in the land of partitions and walls; and the mediation in Israel, via the Anglo-American academy, of the ““subaltern”” intellectual.

scholarly journals From Turks and Renegades to Citizens and Radicals : The Historical Trajectories of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Muslims in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26
Author(s):  
Martijn de Koning
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
World War ◽  
Transnational Movements ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dutch History

Abstract In contemporary debates on religion and multiculturalism in the Netherlands, Islam is hypervisible as a ‘problem' originating from outside Europe ‐ the discussion of which draws a clear distinction between the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Muslims. Yet, at the same time, almost no reference is made to the Dutch history of Islam and Muslims prior to World War II. Based on a study of the literature on the history of Islam and the Netherlands during the 16th and 17th centuries and covering the colonial rule of Indonesia and the rise of Indonesian communities in the Netherlands during the interwar period, I trace how the distinction between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Muslims resonates throughout Dutch history. I show how the trope of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Muslims can be found in different, and sometimes contradictory ways and was determined by the local and global interests of the ruling elites and their desire to maintain peace and order to prevent politically dissenting Islamic ideas and transnational movements from influencing local Muslims.

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