Marieke Bloembergen
Marieke Bloembergen (1967) is attached to the KITLV as a post-doc, working on the project Sleeping Beauties Hidden Forces. Archaeological and historical sites and the dynamics of heritage formation in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia.
This project – which she conducts together with Martijn Eickhoff (NIOD) – focuses on the dynamics of archaeological knowledge production and heritage formation in colonial, postcolonial and contemporary Indonesia. The main question is: what was the impact of archaeological research and knowledge on colonial and national identity formation and perceptions of (trans)national citizenship? Which notions of time and space, of history and political geographical borders, of self and other have been connected to archaeological and historical heritage and what is their meaning today in academic/museological and state-based discourses? This project is part of the NWO Cultural Dynamics-program Sites, Bodies and Stories - The dynamics of heritage formation in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia and the Netherlands. Duration of the project 2008-2012.
Marieke Bloembergen studied history at the University of Amsterdam and obtained her PhD degree in the Social Sciences in 2001 from that same University, with a thesis on the Dutch colonial spectacles at the world exhibitions and their impact on Dutch identity formation (1883-1931). In 2008 she finished a Postdoc-research project at Utrecht University with a monograph on the social-cultural history of the colonial police in the Netherlands Indies, which will be published in 2009. Apart from these topics she has published on colonial memory and identity politics. Besides her present research project she also teaches part-time at the History Department of the University of Amsterdam.
Research interests: the social and cultural dynamics of imperialism, colonial policing, colonial memory, (post)colonial knowledge production and identity politics.
Project:
Sites, Bodies and Stories - The dynamics of heritage formation in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia and the Netherlands.
Contact:
A full list of KITLV publications and their authors can be obtained from our archive of annual reports.
Selected Publications
De geschiedenis van de politie in Nederlands-Indië. Uit zorg en angst. Amsterdam: Boom, Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, forthcoming 2009.
‘Koloniale staat, politiestaat. Politieke politie en het rode fantoom in Nederlands-Indië’, Leidschrift, 21: 2, 2006, 69-90.
Colonial Spectacles.The Netherlands and the Netherlands-Indies at the world exhibitions, 1880-1931. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2006
‘The Dirty work of empire. Modern policing and public order in Surabaya’, Indonesia, April 2007, 119-150.
‘Amsterdam. Het Van Heutszmonument. Het Nederlandse koloniale geheugen’, in: H.W. van den Doel, (ed.) Lieux des Mémoires. Deel 4: Nederland sedert de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Amsterdam: Prometheus/Bert Bakker, 2005: 72-87.
Koloniale Inspiratie. Nederland, Indië en Frankrijk en de wereldtentoonstellingen. Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 2004.
‘Balinese dansen in Nederland: sprookje of pure kunst’, in: R. Buikema and M. Meijer (ed.), Kunsten in beweging. Cultuur en migratie in Nederland, Den Haag: SDU Uitgevers, 2003:127-142.
De koloniale vertoning. Nederland en Indië op de wereldtentoonstellingen. Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek, 2002.
‘Parfum Paris in Bali. Het geheim van een succes’, Feit & Fictie, 5:1, 2000, 48-66.
'Exotisme en populaire antropologie. Een Javaans dorp op de wereldtentoonstelling in Parijs’, in: J. de Jong, B. Ramakers and H. Roodenburg (ed.) Het exotische verbeeld 1550-1950. Boeren en verre volken in de Nederlandse kunst. Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek vol. 53, Zwolle, Waanders Uitgevers, 2003, 251-280
