Cultural diplomacy and the heritage of empire : negotiating post-colonial returns /

"Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire analyses the history of the negotiations that led to the atypical return of colonial-era cultural property from the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 1970s. By doing so, the book shows that competing visions of post-colonial redress were contested th...

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Main Author: Scott, Cynthia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Routledge studies in culture and development.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Netherlands and Indonesia : a rare success in the history of post-colonial returns
  • Colonial redress or post-colonial cooperation? : competing visions of cultural diplomacy in 1949
  • Cultural diplomacy at a crossroads : the Dutch struggle with Sukarno's Indonesia, 1950-65
  • Cultural relations as development aid : reconciliation with Suharto's Indonesia, 1966-70
  • Returning cultural property : continuity and change in the cultural diplomacy of the Dutch center-left, 1970-79
  • Post-colonial cultural property return debates since the 1970s : the Dutch-Indonesian case as historical lens.