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Changing Perspectives on the Hidden Giant: An Interview with Robert Cribb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2020

Maarten Manse ,
Sander Tetteroo  and
Remco Raben
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Robert Cribb is in Leiden for the International Convention of Asia Scholars, held in July 2019. Despite having just arrived from Canberra, where he is professor at the Australian National University, he gladly made time for an interview over lunch. During his long career as a historian and Indonesia scholar, Cribb has traversed many different research themes, including the history of mass violence and crime, national identity, environmental politics, and historical geography of Indonesia, providing sufficient ingredients for a two-hour long conversation on the identity of scholars, students, and orangutans, bridging Europe, Australia, and Indonesia.

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Itinerario , Volume 44 , Special Issue 1: Violence, Migration, and Gender in the Portuguese and Spanish-Speaking World. Local Impacts, Global Processes, and the Echoes of Empire, 1945–2019 , April 2020 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Research Institute for History, Leiden University

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1 Cribb, R. B., “Archives, Interviews and Indonesian History,” Itinerario 7:2 (1983): 50–58CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 The research programme Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië (Independence, decolonisation, violence, and war in Indonesia) is carried out by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, KITLV) in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH) and the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD).

3 van Diessen, J. R. and van den Brink, Paul, Grote atlas van Nederlands Oost-Indië, 6. Zierikzee: Asia Maior/Utrecht: KNAG, 2004Google Scholar.

4 Cribb, R. B., “Introduction: The Late Colonial State in Indonesia,” in The Late Colonial State in Indonesia: Political and Economic Foundations of the Netherlands Indies, 1880–1942, edited by Cribb, R. B., 1–9. Leiden: KITLV, 1994Google Scholar.

5 Slater, D. and Kim, D., “Standoffish States: Nonliterate Leviathans in Southeast Asia. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 3:1 (2015): 25–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Scott, James, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998Google Scholar; Scott, , The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009Google ScholarPubMed.

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7 Tiffany Tsao, “Why Are Indonesians Being Erased from Indonesian Literature?” Electric Literature (website), 11 April 2019. https://electricliterature.com/indonesian-translation-colonialism/.

8 John McGlynn is a translator of Indonesian-language literature.