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ItemNo Preview Available‘They Call Me Babu’: The Politics of Visibility and Gendered Memories of Dutch Colonialism in IndonesiaMcGregor, K ; Dragojlovic, A (Routledge, 2022)The 2019 documentary film They Call Me Babu utilises historical film footage including the home movies of one Dutch family with a voiceover in Bahasa Indonesia to narrate the fictionalised experiences of a former female domestic worker in the colony of the Netherlands East Indies in the closing decades of Dutch colonial rule from 1939 to 1949. By centring the experiences of ‘babu’, women who worked as nannies and nursemaids for families holding European status, and giving the main character of the film agency, the Dutch-Indonesian director Sarah Beerends endeavours to make these women visible and to narrate their viewpoints. In this paper we argue, however, that the director’s aspiration to centre the women’s stories is haunted by the spectres of the colonial matrix of power. This leads to the unintended replication of nostalgic images of, and tropes about, the colony that has characterised earlier Dutch memory work. The film does not offer a critical engagement with colonial violence and the colonial structures of power are instead positioned as contributing to the nanny’s gendered emancipation. Furthermore, we reflect on why, in the context of recent vociferous debates about colonial violence, a film which serves to soften images of Dutch colonialism, was generally well received.
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ItemInside the Minds of Executioners: Reimagining the Loss of Life in the 1965 Indonesian Killings.MCGREGOR, KE (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014)
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ItemTranscultural Memory and the Troostmeisjes/Comfort Women Photographic ProjectMcGregor, K ; Mackie, V (Indiana University Press, 2018-03-01)In 2008 and 2009, a Dutch photographer, Jan Banning, and an anthropologist, Hilde Janssen, traveled around Indonesia to document, with photographs and testimonies, survivors of militarized sexual abuse by the Japanese military during the three-year occupation (1942–1945) of the former Dutch colony, the Netherlands East Indies. We argue that the resultant photographic project can best be understood within the framework of the “politics of pity” and the associated genres of representation. The project creators anticipated a cosmopolitan audience that might be moved to action to support the survivors. Yet, as the project was exhibited in different sites, the women's memories were interpreted through local knowledge systems and mnemonic practices. We analyze the reception of these photographs in diverse local contexts.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableExposing Impunity: Memory and Human Rights Activism in Indonesia and ArgentinaMcGregor, K (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017)
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ItemCold War scripts: Comparing remembrance of the Malayan Emergency and the 1965 Violence in IndonesiaMCGREGOR, K (SAGE Publications (UK and US), 2016)
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ItemTransnational and Japanese Activism on Behalf of Indonesian and Dutch Victims of Enforced Military Prostitution During World War IIMCGREGOR, K (Asia-Pacific Journal, 2016)
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ItemEmotions and activism for former so-called "comfort women" of the Japanese Occupation of the Netherlands East IndiesMcGregor, K (Peragamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2016-01-01)
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ItemConfronting the Past in Contemporary Indonesia: The Anticommunist Killings of 1965-66 and the Role of the Nahdlatul UlamaMCGREGOR, K (Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2009)
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ItemNahdlatul Ulama and the Killings of 1965-66: Religion, Politics and RemembranceFealy, ; MCGREGOR, K (Cornell University Press, 2010)
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ItemRepresenting the Indonesian Past: The National Monument History Museum from Guided Democracy to the New OrderMCGREGOR, KE (Cornell University Press, 2003)