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Marieke Bloembergen

Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian & Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Netherlands

Marieke Bloembergen is senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), and professor in Archival and Postcolonial Studies at Leiden University’s History Department. Her research interests concern the political dynamics of cultural knowledge production in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, as understood in their local, inter-Asian and global dimensions, and in relation to material culture, heritage practices, religion and violence. She also published on policing and modernity, surveillance and perceptions of (in)security in colonial Indonesia. Her most recent monograph, co-authored with Martijn Eickhoff, is The politics of heritage in Indonesia. A cultural history (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2020) . Currently she is working on a book manuscript, entitled ‘The relics of true history.’ Indonesia and the Greater India mindset, 1880s-1990s.

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