Journal: Global Connections: Routes and Roots

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  • Swiss mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies
    Item type: Monograph
    Krauer, Philipp (2024)
    Global Connections: Routes and Roots
    Between 1848 and 1914 around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) to fight in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). Following the traces of these mercenaries beyond the confines of the Dutch Empire, this book elucidates the complexities of the nineteenth-century military labour markets and provides an intricate examination of the mercenaries’ socio-cultural backgrounds, their motives, and their engagement with local communities and authorities. In doing so, it reveals the profound effects of colonialism not only on the colonies themselves, but also on the social, economic and cultural landscape of the European hinterland. (Quelle: Website des Verlags)
  • Bodies beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia
    Item type: Edited Volume
    (2024)
    Global Connections: Routes and Roots
  • The Many Lives of the "European Vagrant" in Colonial Singapore, c. 1890-1940
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Lim, Zhi Qing Denise (2024)
    Global Connections: Routes and Roots ~ Bodies Beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia
    Amidst mounting anxieties surrounding European vagrancy across Asian port cities, a murder in Hong Kong constituted a tipping point in the push for vagrancy legislation in colonial Singapore, resulting in the enactment of the 1906 Vagrancy Ordinance. This chapter examines the ways in which the “European vagrant” in Singapore was constructed in relation to notions of work, clean-liness, and space, by law and in the English-language press. The imagined European vagrant body thus given corporeality, was contested by alleged vagrants and used, in times of economic down-turn, by commentators and impoverished Europeans alike to make claims to respectability. Using newspapers, colonial records, letters, memoirs, and fiction, this chapter shows how discourses on the European vagrant body exemplified the relational character of seemingly dichotomous categories, not least that of respectable-disreputable, that were simultaneously ascribed to and juxtaposed against it.
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