Three personalities: Louis Charles Damais, Claire Holt, Étiennette Bénichou
Abstrak: Solidaritas transnasional di Indonesia pasca-kemerdekaan kaya akan berbagai macam inisiatif dan tokoh. Presentasi ini akan berfokus untuk mengangkat tiga potret transnasional, satu laki-laki dan dua perempuan yang telah menjadi pengamat obyektif sekaligus partisipan diam-diam dalam semangat revolusi pada tahap-tahap awal pembangunan bangsa ini. Dalam proses aksi solidaritas dan humanisme serta kecintaan yang tulus terhadap Indonesia, mereka telah melalui berbagai cara, berkontribusi untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan, dan kompetensi. Meskipun, sampai batas tertentu, mereka dibentuk oleh wacana dominan orientalisme dan kolonialisme, mereka semua telah berhasil menemukan ruang negosiasi, area untuk agensi, dan mengungkapkan wacana perlawanan.
Abstract: Transnational solidarity in Indonesia post-Independence is rich of all kind of initiatives and personalities. This presentation will focus on bringing forward three portraits of transnationals, one man and two women, who have been objective observers as well as discreet participant in the spirit of revolusi at the early stages of the construction of this nation. In the process of acts of solidarity and humanism as well as genuine love for this country , they have through different means, contributed to increase knowledge, and competences. While, to some extent, they were shaped by dominant discourses of orientalism and colonialism, they all have managed to find spaces for negotiation, areas for agency and expressed discourses of resistance.
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