#dutch east indies

[icefords]

colonialism ended they might live and happy ever after at keboen djati

[theshatterednotes]

Dutch author Hellas S. Haasse

[yearningforunity]

Studio portrait of a Klingalese woman.

Stafhell & Kleingrothe (Fotostudio), 1890-1905.

[carbone14]

Le Major-Général Michio Uno de la 37e Armée japonaise dépose son sabre aux pieds du Lieutenant-Colonel Ewan Murray Robson de l'Armée australienne – Campagne de Bornéo – Banjarmasin – Bornéo – 17 septembre 1945

Photographe : Caporal Robert Eric Donaldson

©Australian War Memorial – AWM 118033

[dirjoh-blog]

They did not want to bow.

In the West when we think about World War 2, we predominantly think about the war against the Nazis. However, there were quite a big number of Europeans who were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. We also often forget that the Japanese Imperial army , navy and air force were just as brutal, and sometimes even more cruel then the Nazis. Indonesia used to be one of the colonies, this meant…

[tenth-sentence]

Cox was an Englishman with capital whose dream – shared by many Top End squatters – was to sell beef and horses to India and the Dutch East Indies.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

[debrink]

Royal Packet Navigation Company

To Dutch East Indies

~ Monogram IAI

[captain-price-unofficially]

A Douglas A-20 Havoc of the U.S. Army 5th Air Force flies away from the havoc it has just wrought on an oil storage tank at Boela on the Island of Ceram, Dutch East Indies.

[shoujoegg]

field school has been killing me but have a blank-eyed manic pixie dream merch cosplay kaz sketch from a bajillion yrs ago <3

[bruhstation]

currently thinking about this ttte/casa tidmouth self-insert I'm creating. I'm making him rival james and I'm going to make them both have the funniest and most long-winded mean girls beef

[eruverse]

Most people in Indonesian Hetalia fandom: Indonesia is a sweet sweet uke who loves sweet food, a pure virginal boy who’s routinely fucked into the sheets by his husband the chad Netherlands who’s older than him and is probably his sugardaddy

Me and my small group of frens (love y’all): this fucking fucker. He’s chaotic and horny. Deep inside is as violent as the many volcanoes throughout Indonesia who’s part of ring of fire. The word amok was taken from Malays and Indonesians for a reason. Bullied the younger Netherlands when he first came to Nusantara. Definitely has fucked most personifications or attempted to

[polaroidblog]

“Memoria polaroid” – un blog alla radio S23E21

“We’re either too old, too bold or stupid to move, I guess”, cantano i giovani Friko nella canzone che apre la scaletta di questa sera. Se anche voi vi riconoscete in tutte e tre le categorie, ecco qui – per darsi una mossa? – un’ora di novità indiepop e indie rock, senza trascurare i necessari brindisi, nella nuova puntata del podcast di “Memoria polaroid – un blog alla radio”, la trasmissione…

[diobrando]

I gave so many A's today 🤕

[dirjoh-blog]

Mies Walbeehm-Forgotten Hero

The above picture is a of a plaque that hangs over a house in The Hague. It was the residence of Mies Wahlbeehm, where she hid a great number of Jews. The one thing that really captured my attention, were the words at the top of the plaque “De herrinering aan de doden is voor hen een tweede leven” which translated in ‘The remembrance of the dead, is for them a second life’ it is so true. Mies…

[memecucker]

What left wing criticisms of “New Atheism” should be:

*Thinking of religion purely in intellectual terms and viewing the matter of class as a product of that rather than the other way around.

*Not talking enough about the role of religion in imperialism and colonialism not simply as justification but in terms of how organized religion was an inherent part of colonial states both in theocratic hegemonic forms (Iberian colonialism) as well as recruiting native religious elites to serve as agents of the colonial state (Dutch East Indies)

*Eurocentric understanding of the history of atheism and criticism of religion that views opposition to (organized) religion as a modern product of the European Enlightenment and not something with an intellectual history going back far deeper and longer in places such as India and the Near East

*etc

What is not a left wing critique New Atheism:

*Getting upset people are criticizing religion at all

*Getting upset atheists articulate their reasons for being atheists in any form other than “It’s for purely personal reasons”

*Doubling down on Eurocentrism by aggressively asserting that criticism of religion is only done by white people and non-whites are all super religious fae creatures or whatever