Visions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution

Harvey, Barbara Sillars; Frederick, William H.

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“…For workers in the Ngagel industrial estate, such words justified their taking of factory tools and products, which they did openly when the Dutch surrendered and quietly after the Japanese took over (Frederick, 1989; Rukun, pers. com., 21 February 2014).…”

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“…As one of them noted, a factory job gave us ‘the chance to steal anything that was produced in the factory’ (Alwi, 2008: 137). When Japan surrendered at the end of the second world war, the surreptitious taking of things changed to the outright seizure of things that marked the onset of the Indonesian national revolution in Surabaya ( Siaran Kilat , 5 October 1945; 3 November 1945; Moeslimin, 1975; Frederick, 1989; Abdulgani, 1994; Rukun, pers. com., 8 February 2010).…”

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“…A mode of transport that thrived at the limits of infrastructure was the bicycle‐taxi, or becak. It first appeared in 1942, when the wartime rationing of petrol and electricity and the requisitioning of motorized vehicles combined with a dilapidated bus and tram fleet to make pedal‐powered vehicles the main mode of passenger transport (Frederick, 1989: 111; Rimmer and Dick, 2009: 236). By 1952, the becak was the most common vehicle in Surabaya, which one commentator called ‘becak city’ (McCutcheon, 1977: 122).…”

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“…com., 19 January 2010). The words reverberated from the city's many public loudspeakers and from the press, along with other speeches about the importance of requisitioning things (cloth, rice, fuel, tools, labour) to fund the wartime struggle against the Dutch (Frederick, 1989; see also the fortnightly wartime newspaper Kan Po News 7 ).…”

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THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post‐colonial City

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2023

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Since the 1940s, the people of the neighbourhoods (kampungs) around Surabaya's derelict Ngagel industrial estate have made a living by repurposing the remains of what was once one of Asia's most modern road, rail and industry networks. The remains--in the form of leftover fuel, labour and factory parts--are used to rebuild and repair improvised transport vehicles like bicycle-taxis (becak), minibuses (bemo) and motorbike-taxis (ojek). The repurposing happens at the limits of a capital-intensive heavy infrastructure of factories, trams and buses. The limits are those points where such infrastructure fails and a household-funded mosquito-fleet of light vehicles succeeds. Repurposing gives those who do it a right to infrastructure by providing the city with much-needed public transport. In Surabaya, public transport begins at its limits through the improvisations of people who live in the productive remains of capital-intensive heavy infrastructure. These people live in Surabaya's deindustrialized urban core, where life is made in the ruins of infrastructure through the breaking-down of it, the reworking of it, the right to it, and the leakage of it--the means through which rank-and-file people rather than states and corporations forge infrastructure. FIGURE 1 Scrap picker searching the gutted Iglas factory for parts (photo by the

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2011

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This book explores how the experiences of World War II shaped and transformed Dutch perceptions of their centuries-old empire. Focusing on the work of leading anti-Nazi resisters, Jennifer L. Foray examines how the war forced a rethinking of colonial practices and relationships. As Dutch resisters planned for a postwar world bearing little resemblance to that of 1940, they envisioned a wide range of possibilities for their empire and its territories, anticipating a newly harmonious relationship between the Netherlands and its most prized colony in the East Indies. Though most of the underground writers and thinkers discussed in this book ultimately supported the idea of a Dutch commonwealth, this structure wouldn't come to pass in the postwar period. The Netherlands instead embarked on a violent decolonization process brought about by wartime conditions in the Netherlands and the East Indies.

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The discovery of Indonesia; Western (non-Dutch) historiography on the decolonization of Indonesia

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Visions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution

Cited by 14 publications

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THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post‐colonial City

THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post‐colonial City

Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands

The discovery of Indonesia; Western (non-Dutch) historiography on the decolonization of Indonesia

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