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SUMMARY:(P16) Colonial Asian history under fire. New perspectives of postcolonialism in the former empires due to BLM protests and discussions on slavery
LOCATION:K10 | 2.40
DESCRIPTION:A critical engagement with colonial history in the Netherlands 
 sometimes came to the fore in the last decades and was transferred from a f
 irst generation of postcolonial thinkers to a second and third generation. 
 Since May 2020, this debate has been accelerated and intensified by two con
 temporary developments. First the growing Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests
  in the US that very soon reached the shores of Europe. In the Netherlands 
 decedents of postcolonial migrants became active in the movement adding the
 ir own demands concerning racism and the colonial to the support for the Am
 erican protest. The second development is the intensifying debate on slaver
 y history of the Netherlands, due to the BLM movement and research on this 
 history in the cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Discussions related to th
 e position of Afro-Americans and the transatlantic slave trade sharpened th
 e debate about post coloniality and the Dutch colonial history in Asia. It 
 sharpens the discussion for example by adding notions of slavery in Asia an
 d structural racism originating in the colonial empire and still existing t
 oday. In this context perpetrators of colonial violence like VOC merchant J
 P Coen (responsible in 1621 for the murder of more then10.000 inhabitants o
 f the island of Banda in an attempt to settle a spice-trade monopoly) were 
 rediscovered and made object of heavy societal debates.\n\nIn other Europea
 n countries we saw the same developments. In the UK for example statues of 
 the slaveholder Edward Colson in Bristol; was taken down and replaced by a 
 statue of a BLM protester, which later was also removed. The recent discuss
 ions are not only held in the closed settings of academia, but held in the 
 public domain with a lot of performative actions.\nMaking it a broad discus
 sion with many stakeholders.\n\nIn this panel we want to bring together sch
 olars, activists, artists or others from European countries with Asian colo
 nial pasts (France, the UK and the Netherlands) working on postcolonialism 
 and the national colonial debates, to compare the recent accelerating discu
 ssions in these countries and try identify and explain differences and simi
 larities.
URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/colonial-asian-history-under-fire-new-perspectives-of-postcolonialism-in-the-former-empires-due-to-blm-protests-and-discussions-
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