The status of Dutch in post-colonial Suriname

Diepeveen, Janneke; Hüning, Matthias

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“…In the Dutch colonies, contact between white settlers and enslaved people was kept to a minimum; for example, enslaved people were forbidden to speak the Dutch language. As a result, historically, the appropriation of Dutch as the language of colonizers – a fundamental aspect of their hegemonic representational regime – became associated with upward social mobility (Diepeveen and Hüning, 2016: 135). In addition, enslaved people's writings and testimonies are rare, as in Suriname, besides the ban on the use of the Dutch language, rulers also forbade enslaved people to read and write.…”

Section: Analysis: Mediating Mobilitymentioning

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The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands

Leurs,

Seuferling

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article analyses the communication activities of Filmstichting West Indië, which in the late 1940s and early 1950s produced 12 documentary propaganda films about Dutch colonial Suriname, and the resistance against these reductive representations in zines of the Surinamese migrant organization Vereniging Ons Suriname. We draw on hence unstudied archival material to dissect the role of media operations, as persuasive, strategic media productions, in constructing and challenging differential relations between colonizers and colonial subjects, and symbolically negotiating how different territories and bodies relate to each other. A visual and textual analysis of the cases unpacks historical struggles over the regimes of (post)colonial (im)mobilities, as they are produced and articulated within regimes of representation. We ultimately argue that, in order to understand the historical constitution of mobility regimes (and, in order to be able to critique them), we need to study the co-production of mobility regimes within regimes of mediated representation.

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Section: Analysis: Mediating Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands

Leurs,

Seuferling

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…Moreover, Surinamese authors are not mentioned with regard to the specifications of the Taalunie. Until today, no Surinamese speaker or author has visited our department although Suriname has a literary tradition in Dutch with authors such as Clark Accord, Albert Helman, Cynthia McLeod, Ismene Krishnadath, and several others (Diepeveen & Hüning, 2016). In 2021, the Surinamese Dutch author Astrid H. Roemer received the literary prize Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren.…”

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Pluricentric languages and language education: Pedagogical implications and innovative approaches to language teaching

Huang

2023

The Social Science Journal

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This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages for language education and showcases new approaches that can take account of linguistic diversity.Moving the discussion of contemporary norms, aims, and approaches to pluricentric languages in language education beyond English, this book provides a multilingual, comparative perspective through case study examples of Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Vietnamese. The chapters document, compare, and evaluate existing practices in the teaching of pluricentric languages, and highlight different pedagogical approaches that embrace their variability and diversity.Presenting approaches to overcome barriers to innovation in language education, the book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, doctoral students in the field of language education, as well as socio-and applied linguists. Practitioners interested in linguistic diversity more broadly will also find this book engaging.

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“…The official language of government, business, media, and education is Dutch, reminiscent of the nearly 300 years Suriname was a colony under Dutch rule [117]. The common language is Surinamese or Sranantongo has evolved from an Englishand Portuguese-based lingua franca in the seventeenth century to a language with its own official orthography [117]. Suriname's economy is dominated by the mining industry, with oil and gold accounting for approximately 85% of exports and 27% of government revenues [118].…”

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Traditional Plant-Based Treatments of Fungal Infections in the Republic of Suriname (South America): Phytochemical and Pharmacological Rationales

Mans¹

2022

Traditional Plant-Based Forms of Treatment of Fungal Infections in Suriname - Phytochemical and Pharmacological Rationale

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Fungi are unicellular or multicellular thick-walled eukaryotic organisms that are not capable of photosynthesis and are placed in a biological kingdom of their own. They are ubiquitous in our environment, and include tens of thousands, perhaps even millions of species of yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, and mushrooms. Together with bacteria, fungi are the principal decomposers of plant materials such as cellulose and lignin, fulfilling vital ecological functions in all terrestrial habitats. Some species of fungi are also of major importance in households (for instance, as foods such as edible mushrooms), medicine (for instance, as producers of antibiotics such as penicillin), and industry (for instance, for making bread, wine, and cheese). About 300 fungal species cause infections in humans, varying from relatively harmless skin complaints such as pityriasis versicolor to potentially life-threatening systemic syndromes such as candidiasis. Fortunately, a broad armamentarium of efficacious antifungal drugs has been developed, ranging from topical nystatin to parenteral amphotericin B. In addition, most, if not all traditional medical systems throughout the world have identified a large assortment of plant-based remedies for treating these infections. This also holds true for the multi-ethnic and multicultural Republic of Suriname (South America), where plant-based traditional medicines are abundantly used, either alone or in conjunction with allopathic medications. This monograph extensively addresses nine plants that are traditionally used for treating fungal infections in Suriname, and explains the phytochemical and pharmacological rationales for these applications. These sections are preceded by some general observations about the Fungal Kingdom; a few words about the characteristics of fungi, their taxonomy, and their significance to humans; information about fungal infections as well as the available forms of treatment; and some details about Suriname including health aspects, the health care structure, and the main fungal infections in the country. The monograph is concluded with an evaluation of the status of the Surinamese herbal antifungal substances and the previsions of developing them into mainstream antifungal formulations.

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The status of Dutch in post-colonial Suriname

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands

The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands

Pluricentric languages and language education: Pedagogical implications and innovative approaches to language teaching

Traditional Plant-Based Treatments of Fungal Infections in the Republic of Suriname (South America): Phytochemical and Pharmacological Rationales

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