Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800

Oostindië, Gert; Roitman, Jessica Vance

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“…95-96). And the Dutch claimed a separate economic function within Europe as middlemen and brokers, re-exporting colonial goods from cities like Bordeaux and London to other markets (Oostindie and Roitman, 2014).…”

Section: The Second Dutch Atlanticmentioning

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The Dutch Atlantic world, 1585–1815: Recent themes and developments in the field

Noorlander

2020

History Compass

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: D. L. Noorlander, "The Dutch Atlantic World, 1585-1815: Recent themes and developments in the field," History Compass 18, no. 8 (August 2020), which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12625. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

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Section: The Second Dutch Atlanticmentioning

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The Dutch Atlantic world, 1585–1815: Recent themes and developments in the field

Noorlander

2020

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“…Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman recently noted that Dutch Atlantic history has been dismissed, even by some of the most important Dutch Atlantic historians, as a "failure" because Dutch possessions provided neither the empire nor the economic gains that they apparently ought to. 72 With a different emphasis, Natalie Zacek has pointed out that the British Caribbean colonies, in particular the English Leeward Islands, have been understood as "social failures," inhabited by men eager for profit, but void of political visions. 73 Against this historiographical backcloth it is perhaps of little surprise that processes of Caribbean state formation, including formulations of sovereignty, have been little explored.…”

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Sovereignty, Mastery, and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1672–1733

Simonsen¹

2019

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In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, officers of the Danish West India and Guinea Company struggled to balance the sovereignty of the company with the mastery of St. Thomas’ and St. John's slave owners. This struggle was central to the making of the laws that controlled enslaved Africans and their descendants. Slave laws described slave crime and punishment, yet they also contained descriptions of the political entities that had the power to represent and execute the law. Succeeding governors of St. Thomas and St. John set out to align claims about state sovereignty with masters’ prerogatives, and this balancing act shaped the substance of slave law in the Danish West Indies. Indeed, the slave laws pronounced by and the legal thinking engaged in by island governors suggest that sovereignty was never a stable state of affairs in the Danish West Indies. It was always open to renegotiation as governors, with varying degrees of loyalty to the company and at times with questionable capability, strove to determine what sovereignty ought to look like in a time of slavery.

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“…While I have briefly skimmed over 200 years of history here, others have written extensively about the Dutch imperialist period and its links to current-day migration and discourses about 'others' (Bosma, 2012;Jones, 2016;Jordan, 2014;Oostindie, 2010;Oostindie & Roitman, 2014;Stoler, 2002;van Amersfoort & van Niekerk, 2006;Wekker, 2014Wekker, , 2016. For my purposes, it is important to highlight the connections between Dutch imperialism and current socio-political treatment of immigrants.…”

Section: History Of Migrationmentioning

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“It is not possible to be Dutch, and Muslim, and Black:” Second-Generation Youths’ Everyday Practices of Resisting Racism and Islamophobia in the Netherlands

Stam¹

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Xenophobia and nationalism are rising in countries across Europe and 'Western,' liberal democracies globally. Alongside anti-immigrant discourses, Islamophobia and anti-Blackness -two forms of racism -work to exclude certain bodies from full social citizenship. Taking the Netherlands as a case study, this research interrogates normative constructions of citizenship and the everyday register of belonging by investigating how second-generation Black and Muslim Dutch youth resist and subvert processes of exclusion and how they imaginatively prefigure different futures and realities.In this research, semi-structured interviews and a 14-week theatre project are both the method and the object of study in and of itself. Approaching this research with an ethics of solidarity, I use theatre to engage participants more fully in the research process and as a tool to further theorize more unconscious or intuitive practices. I specifically focus on the everyday: this micro-level of analysis reveals how marginalized Dutch youth grapple with complex yet mundane dilemmas and enact different visions for the future through seemingly ordinary and commonplace gestures and decisions. First, I look at how normative white Dutch discourses of exclusion, such as the expression doe normaal and the lexicon around 'othering,' work to foster a fragmented sense of belonging among racialized Dutch youth. Second, I examine the importance of affect and emotion as tools both in normative discourses of exclusion of mainstream white Dutch society and in coping mechanisms and visions of alternate realities of marginalized Dutch youth. Third, I analyze how the practices of everyday resistance employed by second-generation Dutch youth are mediated and tempered by pressures to iii assimilate but also how resistance, instead of being against something, prefigures alternate futures. This research calls for racialized Dutch youth, policy makers, and educators to expand the lexicon with which to engage and enhance public dialogue around racism and Islamophobia in the Netherlands. It also invites white Dutch society to sit with and practice discomfort as a way of moving beyond white innocence and other forms of privilege which shut down conversation. Finally, it contributes to understanding resistance as working in the margins of consciousness towards a third space of imagined possibilities. There are many people who have been a part of this journey and cheered me along at different stages. While there is not enough space to name everyone, I would like to recognize certain individuals and organizations that have been integral to the success of my PhD. Though I cannot mention them by name, I would like to extend my biggest thanks to all the youth who participated in this project. You generously gave your time, shared your experiences, and entrusted me with your thoughts. I am in awe of what we collectively created and the energy you brought to this undertaking. I hope you feel this dissertation does justice to what we have experienced together. This project ...

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Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800

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The Dutch Atlantic world, 1585–1815: Recent themes and developments in the field

The Dutch Atlantic world, 1585–1815: Recent themes and developments in the field

Sovereignty, Mastery, and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1672–1733

“It is not possible to be Dutch, and Muslim, and Black:” Second-Generation Youths’ Everyday Practices of Resisting Racism and Islamophobia in the Netherlands

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