Fw: H-ASIA: Talk "Colonial Policing In The Dutch East Indies" 9/9/2011

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> H-ASIA
> September 8, 2011
>
> Talk "Colonial Policing In The Dutch East Indies" - Sept. 9, 2011
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> From: "Thrasher, Allen" <athr@loc.gov>
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> Presentation Announcement:
> "Colonial Policing In The Dutch East Indies: The Case Of The Ambonese
> Gewapende Politie (1893-1946)"
> by Martin Thiry, 2011 Library of Congress Florence Tan Moeson Fellow
> Date: Friday, September 9, 2011
> Time: 1:00-2:00pm
> Location: Asian Reading Room Foyer, LJ-150, 1st Floor, Jefferson Building,
> Library of Congress
> [Metro stop: Capitol South on the Blue/Orange Line.]
>
> Summary:
> The role of ethnic minorities in colonial policing is integral to the rise
> of the nation-state and an expression of agency on the part of minority
> groups in the development of the nation-state. During the late colonial
> period an amalgamation of ethnic minorities, referred to collectively as
> the Ambonese, were employed as policing agents. In this capacity the
> Ambonese have been understood as subject forces and less as actors,
> obscuring a fuller history of the Ambonese as colonial police. The ways
> in which they served in the years 1873-1945 helped lay foundations for the
> Indonesian nation-state. The Dutch were trying to form and keep together
> the colonial state; with the help of the Ambonese they served to cohere
> Indonesia.
> The introduction of armed police units, fortified in ever greater numbers
> by the Ambonese (personnel from Ambon, greater Maluku, Manado, and Timor),
> allowed the start of the pacification of the archipelago, particularly in
> the Outer Islands where the Dutch had so far exercised no more than
> nominal control. Ambonese would serve prominently in the Marechausse and
> later in the much more robust gewapende politie, critically in their own
> home areas.
> About the presenter:
> Martin Thiry graduated from Harvard in 2000 and joined the New Orleans
> Police Department where he was a patrolman and a robbery detective. He
> will complete his PhD in History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and
> the East-West Center in Spring 2012.
>
> Contact:
> Anchi Hoh, Ph.D., Tel: 202-707-5673, E-mail:
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