CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Zonneveldt, Dasja |
|---|---|
| Title | Call Me Kartini: Towards an Intersectional Approach in Academic History Podcasting |
| Summary | Recent critical memory work in the Netherlands has focused on re-evaluating the romanticised perception of the Dutch colonial past that persists in contemporary society. While valuable knowledge about this historical period and its legacies is offered through various projects, there is a noticeable absence of podcasts that examine the individual lives of colonised people to provide an intersectional understanding of colonial society from their perspective. Simultaneously, there is no practice-based research that explores the potential of podcasting for public historians. Given these gaps in public knowledge and academic research, my project 1) developed a podcast based on an intersectional analysis of Kartini’s life and letters and 2) critically reflects on the podcast-making process and how it impacts the translation of intersectional historical research, using the podcast Call Me Kartini as a case study. The findings indicated that the podcast format impacted the presentation of sources, necessitating more descriptive language and storytelling techniques to engage the audience while maintaining a rigorous analysis of Kartini's letters. Podcasts may simplify historical narratives to some degree, but they also provide opportunities for nuanced storytelling and engagement with historical research, which has the potential to challenge conventional narratives. The research has also shown how important ethical considerations are in making history projects about the colonial past, especially when they are made by researchers from former colonising countries. The thesis opens up questions for further research in the hope that future podcasts will increasingly be able to bring rigorous, detailed engagements with the past to the public. Keywords: intersectionality, narrative podcasts, Dutch-Indonesian colonial history, race, class, gender |
| Supervisor | Pinto, Paulo Jorge de Sousa; Naoki, Soda |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/zonneveldt_dasja.pdf |
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