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Hägerdal, H. (2024). Diplomacy in the Villages: VOC Agreements and Disagreements with Stateless Societies in Southeastern Maluku in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 180(4), 319-350
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Diplomacy in the Villages: VOC Agreements and Disagreements with Stateless Societies in Southeastern Maluku in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
2024 (English)In: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, ISSN 0006-2294, E-ISSN 2213-4379, Vol. 180, no 4, p. 319-350Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of the article is to analyse how colonial diplomacy worked on a local level in a supposedly ‘marginal’ area, in an early modern setting. The VOC created a comprehensive diplomatic network which also involved the people of the Aru Islands in Southeastern Maluku, who were approached by the VOC after 1623 and who exported a range of valuable sea and forest products, such as birds of paradise, lorises, turtle-shell, pearl shells, trepang, and sagu. The efforts to create stable alliances with the villages were complicated by several factors, including the dualism between the Ulisiwa-Ulilima moieties; the rivalry between the VOC-influenced western and the fiercely autonomous eastern villages; the existence of pela alliances with other Malukan groups; and practical difficulties in maintaining VOC commercial monopolies. The article discusses the inception of diplomatic relations; the violent conflict that arose in the early phase of VOC domination; and the efforts to maintain stability using local negotiatory practices, which finally broke down in the 1780s.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Brill, 2024
Keywords
Maluku, Aru Islands, diplomacy, colonialism, VOC
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-133520 (URN)10.1163/22134379-bja10062 (DOI)001385914700001 ()2-s2.0-85210763758 (Scopus ID)
Projects
Historical Treaties of Southeast AsiaConcurrences
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2020-03796_VR
Available from: 2024-11-24 Created: 2024-11-24 Last updated: 2025-01-14Bibliographically approved
Hägerdal, H. (2024). Enlightenment and Genocide: Johannes Andreas Paravicini’s Mission on Timor in 1756. Diplomatica, 6(2), 258-283
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Enlightenment and Genocide: Johannes Andreas Paravicini’s Mission on Timor in 1756
2024 (English)In: Diplomatica, ISSN 2589-1766, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 258-283Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The Dutch United East India Company (voc) had a Janus-faced position in early-modern maritime Asia as merchant and politician. The present study highlights this through the case of the Spanish-born diplomat Johannes Andreas Paravicini (1710–71). During his mission to Timor in 1756, he concluded a major contract with numerous indigenous states that ostensibly brought a major part of Timor under the voc, in defiance of the rival Portuguese. The contract itself merits attention as literature due to its Enlightenment rhetoric and stress on general welfare, despite being accompanied by excessive physical violence, genocide, and slaving. The article furthermore scrutinizes the ceremonies and symbols that aimed to subjugate the native states. It is argued that Paravicini, while relying on local informants, misrepresented the Timorese hierarchical power structures and concepts of authority. For the Dutch, this led to a series of disappointments and setbacks in the region during the following decades.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Keywords
Timor, VOC, treaty-making, colonialism, Enlightenment, genocide
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-132782 (URN)10.1163/25891774-bja10128 (DOI)001325393800001 ()2-s2.0-85205593337 (Scopus ID)
Projects
ConcurrencesHistorical Treaties of Southeast Asia
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2020-03796_VR
Note

Online Publication Date: 20 Sep 2024

Available from: 2024-09-26 Created: 2024-09-26 Last updated: 2025-01-07Bibliographically approved
Hägerdal, H. (2024). History of the Banda Sea. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History: (pp. 1-28). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>History of the Banda Sea
2024 (English)In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, p. 1-28Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The essay studies the historical trajectory of the Banda Sea, a maritime region in eastern Indonesia, from prehistory to the present. The islands of the region, in particular the Banda and Ambon Islands, enjoyed a commercial prominence since the Middle Ages due to the trade in nutmeg and cloves. Islam made inroads in the second half of the 15th century, and European colonialism took hold during the 16th century. The Portuguese (1512-1605) were followed by the Dutch East India Company or VOC (1602-1799) and the Dutch colonial state (1816-1942, 1945-1949).  The VOC enforced monopoly on spices and various other products, which had very serious consequences for local societies. Indonesian independence in 1949 was followed by decades of slow economic growth in the Banda Sea region, while the fall of the Soeharto regime in 1998 caused increasing tensions that erupted in a civil war in 1999-2002. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024
Keywords
Maluku; Banda, Ambon; Indonesia; spice trade; colonialism
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-127290 (URN)10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.814 (DOI)9780190277727 (ISBN)
Projects
ConcurrencesHistorical Treaties of Southeast Asia
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2020-03796_VR
Note

Published in an online research encyclopedia, https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/

Available from: 2024-01-30 Created: 2024-01-30 Last updated: 2024-02-01Bibliographically approved
Franklin, N. & Hägerdal, H. (2024). Indonesian Heroes and Villains: National Identity, Politics, Law, and Security. Politics and Governance, 12, Article ID 8383.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Indonesian Heroes and Villains: National Identity, Politics, Law, and Security
2024 (English)In: Politics and Governance, E-ISSN 2183-2463, Vol. 12, article id 8383Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

This thematic issue of Politics and Governance offers a collection of unique articles that debate Indonesian “heroes” and “villains,” providing an understanding of the country’s past and present. The importance of Indonesia in the world is ever-increasing geopolitically and economically, offering rich material for academic studies. It is one of the few Muslim-majority democracies, with a long and complex history of people and institutions that have shaped its national identity, politics, government, law, and security, which we examine under the central theme of agents of change and integration. The articles cover local histories prior to independence in 1945 to the present day, the legacy of President Abdurrahman Wahid (1999–2001), a biography of a prominent Muslim activist turned terrorist, women’s agency in terrorism, as well efforts to reform terrorists. Discussions on the problematic aspects of the Indonesian state ideology Pancasila and the downgrading of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission are also examined. Realpolitik is covered in the article concerning Indonesia’s maritime security and in the article discussing activists who died fighting for democratic freedoms, such as Indonesian poet-activist Wiji Thukul, who eventually saw the reform movement (reformasi) topple the Soeharto “New Order” regime (1966–1998), and usher in the democracy that Indonesia enjoys today.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cogitatio Press, 2024
Keywords
agency, heroes, history, Indonesia, law, national identity, politics, security, villains
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-129664 (URN)10.17645/pag.8383 (DOI)001238798800003 ()2-s2.0-85194288602 (Scopus ID)
Projects
Concurrences
Note

This editorial is part of the issue “Indonesian Heroes and Villains: National Identity, Politics, Law, and Security” edited by Nathan Franklin (Charles Darwin University) and Hans Hägerdal (Linnaeus University), fully open access at https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.i380

Available from: 2024-05-29 Created: 2024-05-29 Last updated: 2025-01-07Bibliographically approved
Hägerdal, H. (2024). Negotiating With the Bogey Man: Perceptions of European-Southeast Asian Relations in Lore and Tradition. HumaNetten, 52, 195-217
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Negotiating With the Bogey Man: Perceptions of European-Southeast Asian Relations in Lore and Tradition
2024 (English)In: HumaNetten, E-ISSN 1403-2279, Vol. 52, p. 195-217Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The article discusses Southeast Asian Occidentalism, stylized images of the West, by analysing legends and traditions about the inception of European colonial presence in the region. These accounts are set in a vague past and reveal a variety of views of the European Other, portraying the foregners as a predominantly dangerous and unreliable force, but also sometimes as protectors. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Växjö: , 2024
Keywords
Southeast Asia, Occidentalism, colonialism, diplomacy, legends, historiography
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-130394 (URN)10.15626/hn.20245214 (DOI)
Projects
Historical Treaties of Southeast AsiaConcurrences
Available from: 2024-06-13 Created: 2024-06-13 Last updated: 2024-06-19Bibliographically approved
Hägerdal, H. (2024). Shaping a Dutch East Indies: François Valentyn’s VOC empire: by Siegfried Huigen [Review]. South East Asia Research, 32(3), 332-334
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Shaping a Dutch East Indies: François Valentyn’s VOC empire: by Siegfried Huigen
2024 (English)In: South East Asia Research, ISSN 0967-828X, E-ISSN 2043-6874, Vol. 32, no 3, p. 332-334Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-133134 (URN)10.1080/0967828X.2024.2413734 (DOI)001332858400001 ()
Available from: 2024-10-28 Created: 2024-10-28 Last updated: 2025-01-29Bibliographically approved
Hägerdal, H. (2024). Slaveri och socialt minne: En globalhistorisk betraktelse. In: Lennart Johansson;Roddy Nilsson;Håkan Nordmark (Ed.), Minnen, makt och människor: Vänbok till professor Peter Aronsson (pp. 64-75). Alvesta: Kulturspridaren
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Slaveri och socialt minne: En globalhistorisk betraktelse
2024 (Swedish)In: Minnen, makt och människor: Vänbok till professor Peter Aronsson / [ed] Lennart Johansson;Roddy Nilsson;Håkan Nordmark, Alvesta: Kulturspridaren , 2024, p. 64-75Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Alvesta: Kulturspridaren, 2024
Keywords
slaveri, socialt minne, skuld, globalhistoria, återbetalningar
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-129092 (URN)978-91-87674-46-4 (ISBN)
Projects
Concurrences
Available from: 2024-04-30 Created: 2024-04-30 Last updated: 2024-05-15Bibliographically approved
Hägerdal, H. (2024). Slaving, Colonial Diplomacy, and Resource Extraction in Seventeenth-Century Maritime Asia. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 8(1), 26-49
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Slaving, Colonial Diplomacy, and Resource Extraction in Seventeenth-Century Maritime Asia
2024 (English)In: Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, ISSN 2561-3111, Vol. 8, no 1, p. 26-49Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The study combines analysis of social change and resource exploitation by looking at the diplomatic network that the Dutch East India Company (VOC) developed in the Indian Ocean World in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the innumerable contracts and agreements that the VOC concluded with indigenous polities, slavery looms large. The management of slave trade and maintenance of slaves was an important part of the European establishment in Asian waters, which is clearly visible in the treaty texts. The article studies treaties from 1600-1700 and draws conclusions about the frequency of certain activities connected to slavery, and their relation to other forms of resource extraction.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Project MUSE, 2024
Keywords
Indian Ocean World, East Indies, slavery, diplomacy, treaties, VOC
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-131556 (URN)
Projects
Historical Treaties of Southeast AsiaConcurrences
Available from: 2024-07-29 Created: 2024-07-29 Last updated: 2024-08-13Bibliographically approved
Hägerdal, H. (2024). The weirdness of white strangers: Imaginations of Westerners in Southeast Asian lore and tradition. In: John L. Hennessey (Ed.), History and Speculative Fiction: (pp. 83-99). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The weirdness of white strangers: Imaginations of Westerners in Southeast Asian lore and tradition
2024 (English)In: History and Speculative Fiction / [ed] John L. Hennessey, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, p. 83-99Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

As is well known, Western writers since the Middle Ages have frequently created mythologizing and exotic imaginations of Asian cultural elements. However, the opposite is true as well. The present study discusses how Europeans could be inserted into Southeast Asian mythologizing and fantastic accounts where elements of the supernatural and essential strangeness are dominant tropes. Examples are taken from a range of legendary and literary texts from pre-colonial and early-colonial Southeast Asia which use the foreignness of the Europeans to emphasize proper values among the creators’ own ethnic group—in other words, employing the Other as a negative mirror, thus enhancing certain narrative and moralistic tropes. All this provides new insights into premodern Southeast Asian perceptions of ethnic and cultural borders.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Keywords
Southeast Asia, lore, colonialism, collective memory
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-126961 (URN)10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_5 (DOI)2-s2.0-85195017966 (Scopus ID)9783031422348 (ISBN)9783031422355 (ISBN)
Projects
ConcurrencesHistorical Treaties of Southeast Asia
Funder
Swedish Research Council
Available from: 2024-01-20 Created: 2024-01-20 Last updated: 2024-12-10Bibliographically approved
Hägerdal, H. (2023). Antikens greker och kineser - vad visste de om varandra?. In: Cecilia Davidsson (Ed.), Visst blev väl dikten ändå vår.: Vänskrift till Vasilis Papageorgiou (pp. 49-54). Växjö: Linnaeus University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Antikens greker och kineser - vad visste de om varandra?
2023 (Swedish)In: Visst blev väl dikten ändå vår.: Vänskrift till Vasilis Papageorgiou / [ed] Cecilia Davidsson, Växjö: Linnaeus University Press, 2023, p. 49-54Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [sv]

Essän diskuterar de antika förbindelserna mellan Kina och den grekiska och romerska världen. Ekonomiska relationer, teknologiska paralleller, geografisk kunskap om den andre, samt dokomenterade resor över den eurasiska kontinenten behandlas. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Växjö: Linnaeus University Press, 2023
Keywords
Kina, Grekland, antiken, resor, geografi
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-120884 (URN)9789180820349 (ISBN)
Projects
Concurrences
Available from: 2023-05-23 Created: 2023-05-23 Last updated: 2024-01-23Bibliographically approved
Organisations
Identifiers
ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-4758-191X

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