NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence

In deze speciale reeks van de NIOD Rewind podcast gaan  onderzoekers van het NIOD in op de coronacrisis en de onzekere tijden  die dit met zich mee brengt. Hoe ervaren zij de crisis zelf? En hoe  analyseren zij, vanuit het perspectief van hun onderzoek, de  gebeurtenissen in de samenleving? In de eerste aflevering spreekt Anne  van Mourik met Ismee Tames.

Een podcast door: Anne van Mourik, Thijs Bouwknegt en Anne-Lise Bobeldijk.

Foto logo: Joris van den Tol

Anne talks with Farabi Fakih about the Indonesian national identity during the revolutionary period in Indonesia (1946-1948). Farabi is a lecturer at the History Department, Universitas Gadjah Mada. His main research interests are on urban history, the history of the Indonesian state and the intellectual history of Indonesia. In the background you hear the noise of life at UGM, where the interview was taken.

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In this special edition of NIOD REWIND, Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines on the topic of Displacement.

In December 2019,  the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies organised a conference in collaboration with IMIS University of Osnabrück: ‘Negotiating Displacement: New Perspectives and Connections in War, Migration and Refugee Studies’.

The conference aimed at connecting research on war, mass violence and genocide with migration studies in order to deepen the dialogue between two disciplines that often look at similar phenomena but from different viewpoints. The conference’s guiding question was how displacement has been negotiated with regard to trajectories and status by individuals and groups from the First World War to the present in a global perspective.

Scholars, journalists and migrants discussed displaced person’s agency, room for maneuver and possibilities for creating their own social and cultural spaces within the limited and often harsh social, economic and political parameters. How can we understand the dynamics surrounding these processes?

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Anne van Mourik spoke with historian Natalya Vince of the University of  Portsmouth. Natalya has carried out extensive field research in both  Algeria and France since 2005 including interviewing Algerian women who participated in the War of Independence (1954-1962) about their  experiences in post-colonial Algeria and their memories of the conflict.  Her monograph Our fighting sisters: nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 was published by Manchester University Press in May  2015 and was winner of the Women's History Network Annual Book Prize in 2016.

Here are some links for further reading:

Stef Scagliola, Liefde in tijden van oorlog: onze jongens en hun verzwegen kinderen in de Oost (Amsterdam 2013)

Frances Gouda and Julia Clancy Smith's Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism

Ann Laura Stoler Carnal Knowledge and Imperial power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule

Frantz Fanon Algeria unveiled - free here: http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-A-Dying-Colonialism.pdf or

On rape and sexual violence:

In English, readers could check out her chapter 'Sexual Violence in the Algerian War'(pp. 247-260) in Dagmar Herzog (ed) Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2009; second ed 2011)

On the Djamila Boupacha case: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42843654?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (not open access)

This is a great recent article (in French - keep googling it for the online version): Khedidja Adel, La prison des femmes de Tifelfel. Enfermement et corps en souffrances.Année du Maghreb, dossier de recherche 20/2019-I: Prisons en guerre, guerres en prison au Maghreb. Co-edited by Marc André and Susan Slyomovics

Shepard's The invention of decolonisation really highlights the ways in which the war was gendered and sexualised, http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100361490, he does this even more in his edited collection with Catherine Brun, http://www.thalim.cnrs.fr/publications/article/guerre-d-algerie-le-sexe-outrage?lang=fr

Indonesia, Jonathan Verwey's text.‘Hoeveel wreekt de bruidegom de bruid’ Seksueel geweld en de Nederlandse krijgsmacht in Indonesië, 1945-1950 Jonathan Verwey TVGESCH 129 (4): 569–592 DOI: 10.5117/TVGESCH2016.4.VERW

The NIOD REWIND Podcast presents interviews with scholars on the history  and study of mass violence, war and genocide. In the second episode  Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt speak with Wim Manuhutu.

The NIOD REWIND podcast presents interviews with scholars on the history and study of mass violence, war and genocide. In the first episode Anne  van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt talk to Professor Kees Ribbens about his research on World War Two and the representation of the Holocaust in  comic books and popular culture.