Voices From Peripheries: Voices of Resistance

Episode 7: Interview with Gerlov van Engelenhoven on Postcolonial Memories and Silence as resistance


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Gerlov van Engelenhoven is a cultural theorist and assistant professor at Leiden University, Centre for the Arts in Society in the Netherlands. His research is about voice and silence in postcolonial memory practices, focusing on the Moluccan Community in the Netherlands. In this episode, Gerlov, through the history and present of the Indonesian Mollucan community in the Netherlands, discusses different cases where both silences and voices shape resistance and open possibilities for liberation and reparation for the postcolonial subjects. Check his book πŸ‘‰πŸ½Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences" was published in Open Access with Amsterdam University Press in 2022.

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Voices From Peripheries: Voices of ResistanceBy amira benali