TY - JOUR
KW - Indonesia
KW - Netherlands
KW - heritage theory
KW - international relations and museums
KW - post-colonial history
AU - Cynthia Scott
AB - While recognised for advancing historical scholarship on collecting in the colonial Netherlands East Indies, the Netherlands-Indonesia Shared Cultural Heritage Project of 2003-2006 merits analysis in its own right as a heritage process. From the perspective of heritage studies theory, this article demonstrates how the project both illustrates and contradicts several influential conceptions of heritage. It also reveals that such heritage negotiations can benefit states dealing with the legacy of the colonial past in European museums, when they forgo competition in the interest of a workable consensus. However, the project also offers counterpoints and paradoxes connected to remembering and forgetting, between its orientation to the present and to the past, and in its relationship to the tangible and intangible heritage of Dutch colonialism.
BT - International Journal of Heritage Studies
DO - 10.1080/13527258.2012.738239
LA - English
M1 - 2
N2 - While recognised for advancing historical scholarship on collecting in the colonial Netherlands East Indies, the Netherlands-Indonesia Shared Cultural Heritage Project of 2003-2006 merits analysis in its own right as a heritage process. From the perspective of heritage studies theory, this article demonstrates how the project both illustrates and contradicts several influential conceptions of heritage. It also reveals that such heritage negotiations can benefit states dealing with the legacy of the colonial past in European museums, when they forgo competition in the interest of a workable consensus. However, the project also offers counterpoints and paradoxes connected to remembering and forgetting, between its orientation to the present and to the past, and in its relationship to the tangible and intangible heritage of Dutch colonialism.
PY - 2014
SP - 181
EP - 195
T2 - International Journal of Heritage Studies
TI - Sharing the divisions of the colonial past: an assessment of the Netherlands-Indonesia shared cultural heritage project, 2003-2006
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894209688&doi=10.1080%2f13527258.2012.738239&partnerID=40&md5=a84eb16645622987067f9423643c2679
VL - 20
SN - 13527258 (ISSN)
ER -