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oapen-20.500.12657-768792023-10-30T00:00:00Z Universiteit Utrecht en koloniale kennis van Rinsum, Henk University, Colonialism, Development, Science, Superiority bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Continental Europe::1DDN Netherlands bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTQ Colonialism & imperialism This book tells the story of Utrecht University’s colonial past. Ever since the university was founded in 1636, its scholars and students have been involved in various activities in the Dutch colonies of the West and East Indies. There was a great interest in the world of the 'other' far away: the natural world as well as their cultures, languages and religious systems. The basic assumption always was: we are 'developed', they are 'not yet developed'. Superiority served as guiding principle. By the end of the nineteenth century, Utrecht’s research activities in the colonies were dominated by biology, medicine, geology, and physical anthropology/anatomy. It was understood to be 'pure research' in the colonies. But it was pure colonial research. The University benefited enormously from those research activities. The latest phase of 'university development cooperation' (since the 1980s), was to some extent a continuation of that approach. 2023-10-19T12:31:30Z 2023-10-19T12:31:30Z 2023 book 9789464562002 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76879 dut application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048562893.pdf Amsterdam University Press Walburg Pers 10.5117/9789048562893 10.5117/9789048562893 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 626e72f0-c3c3-4cc5-8541-f623da772c05 9789464562002 Walburg Pers 354 Amsterdam Universiteit Utrecht Utrecht University open access
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This book tells the story of Utrecht University’s colonial past. Ever since the university was founded in 1636, its scholars and students have been involved in various activities in the Dutch colonies of the West and East Indies. There was a great interest in the world of the 'other' far away: the natural world as well as their cultures, languages and religious systems. The basic assumption always was: we are 'developed', they are 'not yet developed'. Superiority served as guiding principle. By the end of the nineteenth century, Utrecht’s research activities in the colonies were dominated by biology, medicine, geology, and physical anthropology/anatomy. It was understood to be 'pure research' in the colonies. But it was pure colonial research. The University benefited enormously from those research activities. The latest phase of 'university development cooperation' (since the 1980s), was to some extent a continuation of that approach.
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