MA/MS in Colonial and Global History: Heritage and Postcolonial Studies

This specialisation looks at colonial and postcolonial Indonesia from transnational and comparative perspectives, examining critically how archives have been organised and used across colonial and postcolonial history and engaging with debates about their decolonisation. It extends into critical heritage studies and into the politics and practices behind archives more broadly, not limited to official national and regional collections. Drawing on postcolonial critical debates, the programme looks for ways to open archives up to voices and uses beyond those that originally shaped how they were assembled, and gives broad attention to the political dynamics behind heritage formation, particularly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indonesia.