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'This is Not a Trivialization of the Past': Youthful Re-Mediations of Colonial Memory in Jakarta

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 2014-01, Vol.170 (4), p.443-472 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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'This is Not a Trivialization of the Past': Youthful Re-Mediations of Colonial Memory in Jakarta
Author: Sastramidjaja, Yatun
Subjects: Cities ; Colonial history ; Colonialism ; Cultural history ; Cultural preservation ; Government ; Heritage tourism ; History ; Indonesia ; Java ; Mediation ; New order ; Nostalgia ; Practice ; South Asian studies ; Southeast Asian culture ; Tourism
Is Part Of: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 2014-01, Vol.170 (4), p.443-472
Description: This article examines the revitalization of Jakarta's colonial district, Kota Tua, as tourist site and lieux de mémoire. After long neglect due to postcolonial silencing of colonial history, Kota Tua's metamorphosis into a place of leisure represents a burgeoning tempo doeloe trend in post-New Order Indonesia. Yet Kota Tua is also a locus of clashing modalities of memory. While government tourism promotions produce a consumable spectacle of colonial aesthetics, a new generation of history enthusiasts intervenes with alternative, playful memory practices, in which the suppressed memories of the colonial past become a resource for critical awareness.
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0006-2294
EISSN: 2213-4379
DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17004002
Source: Brill Open Access Journals
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