Do(n’t) mention the war: references to World War II in Dutch parliamentary debates on the Indonesian war of independence (1945-1949)

Description

In May 1945 World War II ended for the Netherlands with the liberation from the German occupier. In August that year the Japanese occupier of the former Dutch East Indies capitulated. A power vacuum rose in Indonesia. While the direct consequences of the German occupation were still omnipresent back in the Netherlands, members of the Dutch parliament immediately had to deal with a new pressing issue. On August 17, 1945 Indonesian nationalists led by Sukarno and Mohammed Hatta proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia. A period of chaos, uncertainty, and violence followed. The Dutch-Indonesian conflict belongs to the most-discussed topics in Dutch parliament of the first post-war years. In this paper I focus on explicit references to the German occupation of the Netherlands and on emotions in parliamentary debates dealing with the war of independence in Indonesia. Computer-assisted methods are used to select a relevant sub-corpus and to identify and compare emotions in the debates.

Period	26 Aug 2019
Event title	9th Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) : The Holocaust Meets the Post-colonial in the Global Memory Space
Event type	Other
Location	Seoul, Korea, Republic ofShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International