School Teachers and Soft Decolonisation in Dutch–Indonesian Relations, 1945–1949
The emergence of two states in Indonesia in the aftermath of the Second World War, namely the Republic of Indonesia and the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration, instigated a war that imposed citizenship, which schoolteachers had to choose carefully. By examining the quest for professional t...
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id-ugm-repo.2840032023-11-27T04:02:40Z https://repository.ugm.ac.id/284003/ School Teachers and Soft Decolonisation in Dutch–Indonesian Relations, 1945–1949 Suwignyo, Agus Indonesia History The emergence of two states in Indonesia in the aftermath of the Second World War, namely the Republic of Indonesia and the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration, instigated a war that imposed citizenship, which schoolteachers had to choose carefully. By examining the quest for professional trajectories of Dutch and Indonesian schoolteachers during the 1945–1949 period, this paper argues that expanding citizenship fostered decolonisation through the teachers’ detachment from a shared dream of social mobility. The post–World War II reconstruction project, which is largely depicted as narratives of state building in many of the existing bibliographies, reflected a growing discontent in teachers’ expectations for economic reestablishment at the personal levels. The teachers’ detachment from a shared dream of social mobility reflected the dissolution of an imagined community where transnational cultural identities had met and melded in the early twentieth century. In contrast to the emerging historiography that emphasises atrocities and violence, this paper offers a perspective on the soft process of decolonisation Cambridge University Press 2021-11-29 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repository.ugm.ac.id/284003/1/Agus%20Suwignyo.pdf Suwignyo, Agus (2021) School Teachers and Soft Decolonisation in Dutch–Indonesian Relations, 1945–1949. Itinerario, 46. pp. 150-171. ISSN 0165-1153 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/itinerario/article/school-teachers-and-soft-decolonisation-in-dutchindonesian-relations-19451949/DD40603299AEE6943FEA4831E8FFFD15 |
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The emergence of two states in Indonesia in the aftermath of the Second World War,
namely the Republic of Indonesia and the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration,
instigated a war that imposed citizenship, which schoolteachers had to choose carefully.
By examining the quest for professional trajectories of Dutch and Indonesian schoolteachers
during the 1945–1949 period, this paper argues that expanding citizenship fostered
decolonisation through the teachers’ detachment from a shared dream of social mobility.
The post–World War II reconstruction project, which is largely depicted as narratives of
state building in many of the existing bibliographies, reflected a growing discontent in
teachers’ expectations for economic reestablishment at the personal levels. The teachers’
detachment from a shared dream of social mobility reflected the dissolution of an imagined community where transnational cultural identities had met and melded in the early twentieth century. In contrast to the emerging historiography that emphasises atrocities and violence, this paper offers a perspective on the soft process of decolonisation |
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School Teachers and Soft Decolonisation in Dutch–Indonesian Relations, 1945–1949 |
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School Teachers and Soft Decolonisation in Dutch–Indonesian Relations, 1945–1949 |
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