Rethinking Histories of Indonesia

Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality

Sadiah Boonstra, Bronwyn Anne Beech Jones, Katharine McGregor, Ken M.P. Setiawan, Abdul Wahid

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781760466985
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality provides a critical evaluation of histories of Indonesia from the formal period of colonisation to the present day. The volume approaches Indonesian history through the lens of coloniality, or the structures of power and control that underpin colonisation and which persist into the present. Bringing together seventeen authors from across the world, the volume offers an alternative conceptualisation of Indonesian history and lays bare the enduring legacies of and processes that reproduce coloniality.

'This is a significant and exciting volume in terms of its scale, the range of disciplines, approaches and topics included and, ultimately, for its contribution to the field of Indonesian history and historiography, and Indonesian studies and decolonial studies more broadly … The contributors to this book do [a great service to] students of Indonesian history, its cultures, society and politics, offering new sources, voices, approaches and perspectives. Overall, they provide a fresh and vital critique of not only Indonesia's colonial history but its continuing lived influences on present day Indonesia and beyond.'
—Jemma Purdey, Australia-Indonesia Centre, Monash University

Table of contents

• List of illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Glossary of terms
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Part 1. Colonial categories across and beyond the colony
• Part 2. Colonial legacies: The persistence of and attempts to dismantle coloniality
• Index