Category: History Sejarah
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Corat-Coret Sedikit Tentang Sejarah Pemikiran
Di postingan ini, saya ingin berbagi satu bagian dari makalah riset saya tahun lalu yang mencoba melihat bagaimana para intelektual Minahasa, Jawa, dan Tionghoa di dekade 1920-30an secara serentak berpikir tentang “pembangunan” dan “kemajuan.” Historiografi sejarah pemikiran Indonesia abad duapuluh seringkali berkutat dengan kategori dan analisis mengenai “tradisi” dan “modernitas”: apakah transisi dari yang tradisional…
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Keruwetan
Beberapa hari terakhir, saya sedang membuka kembali proposal disertasi untuk mengingatkan diri sendiri tentang pertanyaan riset dan hal-hal yang perlu diperhatikan. Saya selalu merasa tiap kali membaca sumber, kepala saya mengeluarkan berbagai macam skenario yang akhirnya membuat saya hilang arah dan tidak tahu mau berbuat apa. Sebenernya sangatlah menyebalkan karena hal ini membuat saya tidak…
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Ceritanya Lagi Bosan
Menyelesaikan tahun ketiga dengan hasil yang tidak buruk ternyata cukup melegakan. Tidak buruk di sini terdengar ambigu ya? Hehehe. Maksud saya, di tahun ketiga kemarin saya berhasil menyelesaikan ujian, sidang proposal, dan mendapatkan dana riset tambahan tetapi di saat yang sama juga mendapat berbagai penolakan dan hambatan fisik yang cukup mengganggu (halo covid, migrain, dan…
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Motion Sickness
I suffered from vertigo in the middle of answering an exam question about the history and historiography of translation in Southeast Asia. The world spun. My guts hurled up. I threw acid fluid from my mouth. I closed my eyes. The light hurt. “Sayang, I need Dramamine” so my head could stop saying to itself…
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Vicente Rafael, “Contracting Colonialism”
Conversion is translation is conversion. Contracting Colonialism by Vicente Rafael is about the uneasy relationship between translation and conversion in the Spanish colonization of the Tagalog speakers of the Philippines from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. By reading curated Spanish and Tagalog sources during the period, Rafael examines “the impact of evangelization…
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Slice-of-Life
10 February 1934. It was a Saturday afternoon, a twelve-year old girl walking on the street of Kepatihan-School, Djember. At the same time a man asked his assistant to put a car on his garage. The assistant did not have a driving license and inexperienced in driving. What he didn’t know: the break apparently wasn’t…
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Feeling Time
When Brigitta Isabella wrote her piece in May 2016, I was in the middle of preparing for my travel to Manchester, UK, to study international development. I, back then, had no serious interest in history as a question because I was still convinced I would do work on policy analysis and such and such. “1955,…
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Merve Emre, “Paraliterary”
“Bad readers were not born; they were made,” wrote Merve Emre in her first book Paraliterary. She starts the discussion by citing Vladimir Nabokov’s “Good Readers and Good Writers” who, as a teacher, was frustrated with American readers’ aesthetic. But as Emre shows, the emergence of “bad readers” in the US was not so far…
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Nancy Florida, “Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future”
To read with care and diligence, to study with utmost loving care, to feel the meaning and intent. Writing The Past, Inscribing The Future by Nancy Florida is one such book. Engaging with one text reserved in Kraton Surakarta, Babad Jaka Tingkir, Florida presents an illuminating work about the text and the history of Javanese…
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Meghan K. Roberts, “Sentimental Savants”
What family and married life could do for Enlightenment thinkers? The persisting myth says the family had little to do with philosophy. The story of Jean-Jacques Rousseau abandoning his children has allowed this myth to persist. But an extensive feminist and gender literature on domestic works and social reproduction have given us so many insights…
Nik Setiadarma 