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Mussels and Megaprojects

Landscape Structure and Structural Inequality at Jakarta's Coast

Kirsten Keller

inequality. I address some ways Dutch colonial water infrastructures were used to generate racial categories and hierarchies in Batavia (colonial Jakarta), shaping the landscape toward the emergence of subsidence. This expands subsidence, taking it from a

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Scientist Warning on Why you Should Consume Less; Even if Wider Society Doesn’t

Peter M. Haswell

al. 2020 ; Hayward et al. 2019 ; Wallach et al. 2020 ). Ethical dilemmas are common and can leave moral residue in the form of grief ( Batavia et al. 2020 ). While difficult, flexibility in moral attention and case-specific consideration of

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Worldly Tastes

Mobility and the Geographical Imaginaries of Interwar Australian Magazines

Victoria Kuttainen and Susann Liebich

and Gladstone, Macassar, Bali, Surabaya, Java, Batavia, and Singapore, as well as Bangkok, the Malay Peninsula, Siam, Ream, Phnom Penh and Angkor, Saigon, Hong Kong, Macau, and Davao, an extensive trip through Southeast and East Asia. 28 The settings

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Earth Stalked by Man

Anna Tsing

World of Batavia ( Taylor 2009 ). Here is a vivid illustration of what I mean by the eruption of Man. In those days, the tropics were seen as unhealthy for white women, and colonial officials arrived as single men. They got involved with local women

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Are “the Natives” Educable?

Dutch Schoolchildren Learn Ethical Colonial Policy (1890–1910)

Elisabeth Wesseling and Jacques Dane

the Dutch family Schippers (which literally means “captains”) on their way to the Indies, where father Schippers has received a new job as director of a company in Batavia. 33 Upon their arrival in the Indies, the two Schippers boys learn everything

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Steamships to Suffragettes

A Case Study of Interpretative Museology, Public Engagement, and Digital Development

Nicolas Bigourdan, Kevin Edwards, and Michael McCarthy

) giving tours in what became a less formal counterpoint to the iconic Batavia exhibit, explaining its comparable importance from a historical and technical level as the first mass-produced, high-revolution, high-pressure marine engines for which the

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China in Astley’s New General Collection of Voyages as it Appeared in a Spanish Newspaper

Nicholas F. Russell

(2002: 544–545). Moreover, the mission appears to have been viewed as a success, since de Keyser was afterward promoted to the Council of Justice in Batavia and enjoyed prestigious assignments commanding VOC fleets ( Rahusen-de Bruyn Kops 2002: 544n31

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Places of Otherness

Comparing Eastleigh, Nairobi, and Xiaobei, Guangzhou, as Sites of South-South Migration

Neil Carrier and Gordon Mathews

/07. http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdrp_2009_07.pdf . Blussé , Leonard . 2008 . Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bodomo , Adams . 2010 . “ The

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Making Friends of the Nations

Australian Interwar Magazines and Middlebrow Orientalism in the Pacific

Victoria Kuttainen and Sarah Galletly

Seas and the strangely different sights and customs of Bali, Sourabaya, Samarang, Batavia and Singapore” (1936: 79). Although the average reader of MAN was unlikely to afford an actual cruise, this interest in sailing remains prominent in MAN in our

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Dutch Economic Textbooks in the 1970s

Raising the Status of a New Secondary School Type by Means of Mathematical Abstraction

Gerrit F. Gorter, Hilda T. A. Amsing, and Jeroen J. H. Dekker

. See for a modern textbook: Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus, Economics (New York: McGraw Hill, 2010), 65–73. 28 The market leader before World War II was Isaac Cohen, Hoofdlijnen der Staathuishoudkunde (Groningen-Batavia: Noordhoff, 1903). 29