A sugar factory and its swimming pool: incorporation and differentiation in Dutch colonial society in Java

dc.contributor.authorKnight, G.
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractThe construction of a swimming pool for the European personnel of one of the fifty or so colonial sugar factories still operating in Java in the mid-1930s was a symptom of the growing 'enclavement' of the Dutch colonial communities on the island during the final decades of the Netherlands India. An earlier phase of Dutch colonialism in the Indies had been characterized by hybrid, inclusivist social practices and cultural assumptions generally labelled indisch or Indo-European. By the inter-war decades of the twentieth century, totok – meaning expatriate – norms and values began to assert their hegemony at virtually all levels of colonial society. Yet ambiguity continues to surround this progress from incorporation to differentiation, as instanced by the inter-war history of the Europeans who lived in the residential compound which the pool was designed to service.
dc.identifier.citationEthnic and Racial Studies, 2001; 24(3):451-471
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01419870020036747
dc.identifier.issn0141-9870
dc.identifier.issn1466-4356
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/15670
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge Taylor & Francis
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/01419870020036747
dc.subjectColonialisms
dc.subjectethnicity
dc.subjecthybridity
dc.subjectexclusivity
dc.subjectJava
dc.subjectsugar
dc.titleA sugar factory and its swimming pool: incorporation and differentiation in Dutch colonial society in Java
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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