National Liberation Movements and the UN: Favour Won and Lost?

Herr, Stefanie

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“…Students from the Netherlands East Indies chose the name Indonesia (a name derived from anthropology that copied the linguistic form of Melanesia and its Pacific island counterparts), a flag, and other emblems of the nation they sought to build and bring to independence (Hatta, 1972; Mrazek, 1994). This was the model chosen by subsequent national liberation movements, many of which gained formal recognition at the United Nations (El‐Ayouty, 1974; Herr, 2017).…”

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Pan‐Africanism in the Pacific: Race and the international construction of West Papuan identity

Webster

2022

Studies Ethnicity & National

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This paper examines the discourse of racial difference in the arena of global decolonization, examining the case of the Indonesian territory which is today known as Papua and until 1962 was a Dutch colony. Papuans formed a 'nation-of-intent' around the idea of 'race' and racial difference, initially the invention of colonial anthropologists and explorers. Papuan nationalists seized on the colonial power's declaration of racial difference, declaring themselves 'the negroids of the Pacific' and locating themselves within the wave of African decolonization. The paper discusses the way Papuan non-state diplomats deployed ideas of race to claim a new Pan-African identity, far from Africa. I draw on Papuan nationalist publications, United Nations and government documents, and oral testimonies to discuss how diplomatic imperatives led to the formation of a Papuan nationalist identity partly within the territory and partly in exile. Finally, I consider how the Papuan diaspora has continued to foster this nation-of-intent from exile since Indonesia's annexation of West Papua in the 1960s.

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Section: The International Construction Of National Identitymentioning

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Pan‐Africanism in the Pacific: Race and the international construction of West Papuan identity

Webster

2022

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National Liberation Movements and the UN: Favour Won and Lost?

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Pan‐Africanism in the Pacific: Race and the international construction of West Papuan identity

Pan‐Africanism in the Pacific: Race and the international construction of West Papuan identity

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