Contesting Colonialism: Transnational Anti-Colonial Activism in The Hague, 1932

Abstract

In 1932 anti-colonial activists from Surinam, Indonesia and the Netherlands founded a committee to oppose the Indonesian Exhibition staged in The Hague, the Netherlands. The committee confronted the Dutch audience with a radical critique of colonialism. The committee’s anti-colonial voice also reached Surinam and Indonesia. This thesis traces the local contexts and the transnational connections that influenced the committee’s activism.