Bloembergen Flashcards
1
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World exhibitions
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Crucial role
- shaping perceptions of colonialism
- display of colonial goods and people (there’s a role and interaction with other cultures)
2
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Netherlands and Duchies Indies
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- 19th and 20th century: NL used these exhibitions to showcase their colonies and promote their Econ. and pol. interests
3
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Opportunities provided by exhibitions
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- Demonstrate economic potential
- beauty of colonies
- exoticism = orientalist and romanticized reality
4
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Contestation of this
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politica involvement and disagreement regarding different ideologies
5
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gender and racial hierarchies
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Colonizer is dominating
- showing the dominated ones = symbol of superiority
6
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Critical engagement with exhebitions
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Criticism of the history of world exhibitions
