TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - A crazy state: Violence, psychiatry, and colonialism in aceh, indonesia, ca. 1910-1942
JO  - Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
A1  - Kloos, D.
SP  - 25
EP  - 65
VL  - 170
IS  - 1
N2  - This article investigates the ways in which the Dutch colonial state dealt with a phenomenon known as the Atjeh-moorden ('Aceh murders'), the persistent suicide-attacks directed at the lives of Dutch residents, committed by Acehnese hoping to become syahid (martyrs to the Islamic faith). Concentrating on the development of colonial psychiatry, and its influence on colonial discourses and practices, I show how Dutch dealings with the Atjeh-moorden were, simultaneously, part and parcel of the construction of an Acehnese subject, and indicative of the administrative ambivalence found in the approach of the colonial state toward violence and criminality. © David Kloos 2014.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0006-2294
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17001003
ID  - ref1
ER  -