Susie Protschky
@susieprotschky.bsky.social
Professor of Global Political History
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏
Photography | Visual Culture
War | Gender | Environment
www.susieprotschky.com
https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏
Photography | Visual Culture
War | Gender | Environment
www.susieprotschky.com
https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
Coming to the VU Amsterdam! Anthony Bogues on Fanon at 100, and a public lecture on ‘Illiberalism, violence and the politics of a new conjuncture’!
October 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Coming to the VU Amsterdam! Anthony Bogues on Fanon at 100, and a public lecture on ‘Illiberalism, violence and the politics of a new conjuncture’!
Reading this classic for the first time. Reminded *once again* that I cannot be convinced #perpetratortrauma has any conceptual value aside from clinical, therapeutic purposes
August 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reading this classic for the first time. Reminded *once again* that I cannot be convinced #perpetratortrauma has any conceptual value aside from clinical, therapeutic purposes
‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...
#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography
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#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography
August 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...
#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...
#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography
💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫
Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY
press.anu.edu.au/publications...
Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY
press.anu.edu.au/publications...
Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
August 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫
Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY
press.anu.edu.au/publications...
Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY
press.anu.edu.au/publications...
Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
New article! Susie Protschky and Pepijn Brandon, ‘ON “EXTREME VIOLENCE” AND “IMPUNITY’ in #Indonesia 1945-9 🇮🇩
Open access 👇
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Open access 👇
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July 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
New article! Susie Protschky and Pepijn Brandon, ‘ON “EXTREME VIOLENCE” AND “IMPUNITY’ in #Indonesia 1945-9 🇮🇩
Open access 👇
bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
Open access 👇
bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
Pairing Rothberg with Sremac & Van Liere for my short course on political history - ‘trauma and nostalgia’ plus ‘multidirectional memory’ - and it is a *great* match #historyandtheory #politicalhistory @mrothberg.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Pairing Rothberg with Sremac & Van Liere for my short course on political history - ‘trauma and nostalgia’ plus ‘multidirectional memory’ - and it is a *great* match #historyandtheory #politicalhistory @mrothberg.bsky.social
#globalhistory at the VU Amsterdam presents - Prof. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, ‘Exception or empire as usual? German Samoa and liberal imperialism’
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social #germanhistory #imperialism #samoa #pacifichistory #liberalism
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social #germanhistory #imperialism #samoa #pacifichistory #liberalism
May 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#globalhistory at the VU Amsterdam presents - Prof. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, ‘Exception or empire as usual? German Samoa and liberal imperialism’
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social #germanhistory #imperialism #samoa #pacifichistory #liberalism
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social #germanhistory #imperialism #samoa #pacifichistory #liberalism
Al Jazeera achieves the opposite meaning from their intention with some shitty copyediting on the 50th anniversary of the end of the American War in Vietnam
April 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Al Jazeera achieves the opposite meaning from their intention with some shitty copyediting on the 50th anniversary of the end of the American War in Vietnam
April 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Strike at the VU Amsterdam. Part of the relay strikes in universities across the country to protest the government’s proposed cuts to education - the far right’s attempt to crack down on criticism and internationalism - and its agenda to finance military spending by bleeding a public good.
April 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Strike at the VU Amsterdam. Part of the relay strikes in universities across the country to protest the government’s proposed cuts to education - the far right’s attempt to crack down on criticism and internationalism - and its agenda to finance military spending by bleeding a public good.
March 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
‘The border is no longer secure’.
Somebody should have done this a couple of years ago with Yeşilgöz and Wilders. 🇳🇱
Somebody should have done this a couple of years ago with Yeşilgöz and Wilders. 🇳🇱
March 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
‘The border is no longer secure’.
Somebody should have done this a couple of years ago with Yeşilgöz and Wilders. 🇳🇱
Somebody should have done this a couple of years ago with Yeşilgöz and Wilders. 🇳🇱
Tomorrow at UvA!👇
Previewing my new research on ‘The global politics of “trauma” and the limits of decolonisation’. With some sharp thoughts on how an uncritical application of ‘perpetrator trauma’ dominates veterans’ politics in the Netherlands in commemorations of war in Indonesia in the 1940s.
Previewing my new research on ‘The global politics of “trauma” and the limits of decolonisation’. With some sharp thoughts on how an uncritical application of ‘perpetrator trauma’ dominates veterans’ politics in the Netherlands in commemorations of war in Indonesia in the 1940s.
February 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tomorrow at UvA!👇
Previewing my new research on ‘The global politics of “trauma” and the limits of decolonisation’. With some sharp thoughts on how an uncritical application of ‘perpetrator trauma’ dominates veterans’ politics in the Netherlands in commemorations of war in Indonesia in the 1940s.
Previewing my new research on ‘The global politics of “trauma” and the limits of decolonisation’. With some sharp thoughts on how an uncritical application of ‘perpetrator trauma’ dominates veterans’ politics in the Netherlands in commemorations of war in Indonesia in the 1940s.
The postwar ‘denazification’ of the DDR/ easy germany went well 🙄
February 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The postwar ‘denazification’ of the DDR/ easy germany went well 🙄
Says stupid things like ‘H*tler was a leftist.’ Is a woman leading the party. Doesn’t wear the uniform. Still a Nazi. #nomercy #fightfascism
February 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Says stupid things like ‘H*tler was a leftist.’ Is a woman leading the party. Doesn’t wear the uniform. Still a Nazi. #nomercy #fightfascism
Pere Catalá Pic, ‘Crush fascism!’, 1936.
February 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Pere Catalá Pic, ‘Crush fascism!’, 1936.
Finally reading this 👇
Recommend!
Recommend!
February 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Finally reading this 👇
Recommend!
Recommend!
Vandaag in Trouw - ik over diversiteit, inclusie en positionaliteit in musea met koloniale collecties
#decolonisatie #kolonialisme #musea
#decolonisatie #kolonialisme #musea
January 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Vandaag in Trouw - ik over diversiteit, inclusie en positionaliteit in musea met koloniale collecties
#decolonisatie #kolonialisme #musea
#decolonisatie #kolonialisme #musea
Opening The Guardian today feels like US’s allies better choose the hill they’re going to die on and start pushing back yesterday.
January 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Opening The Guardian today feels like US’s allies better choose the hill they’re going to die on and start pushing back yesterday.
Very happy with how my seminar reading list for the course ‘International Organisations’ is shaping up @asobocinska.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Very happy with how my seminar reading list for the course ‘International Organisations’ is shaping up @asobocinska.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social
Sulfur miners are the other workers on Indonesia’s volcanoes, sometimes alternating with tour guiding. This also has a longer history that I’ve researched: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#indonesia #labourhistory #mining #volcanoes 🇮🇩🌋
#indonesia #labourhistory #mining #volcanoes 🇮🇩🌋
January 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Sulfur miners are the other workers on Indonesia’s volcanoes, sometimes alternating with tour guiding. This also has a longer history that I’ve researched: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#indonesia #labourhistory #mining #volcanoes 🇮🇩🌋
#indonesia #labourhistory #mining #volcanoes 🇮🇩🌋
New article! Open access - ‘Indonesian Tourism Workers on Volcanoes and Geotourism's Colonial Origins: Making a Subaltern History Visible’
#indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New article! Open access - ‘Indonesian Tourism Workers on Volcanoes and Geotourism's Colonial Origins: Making a Subaltern History Visible’
#indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
And along the equator seasons are rainy or dry. Another reason why talking in universal seasons makes no sense.
December 27, 2024 at 12:01 AM
And along the equator seasons are rainy or dry. Another reason why talking in universal seasons makes no sense.