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Francisca Fanggidaej: A Decolonial Perspective on Colonial Elites and the Indonesian Revolution (McGregor, 2025)
McGregor's 2025 chapter reading Francisca Fanggidaej's 2006 memoir (narrated to Hersri Setiawan) and IISH papers as a decolonial text: her Rotinese colonial-official father, racism in Penang, and critique of colonial hierarchies. Biography of a WIDF-linked Indonesian woman.
Bab McGregor 2025 yang membaca memoar Francisca Fanggidaej 2006 (dituturkan kepada Hersri Setiawan) dan arsip IISH sebagai teks dekolonial: ayahnya pejabat kolonial Rote, rasisme di Penang dan kritik hierarki kolonial. Biografi perempuan Indonesia yang terkait WIDF.
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- Date
- 2025
- Creator
- McGregor
- Document type
- book chapter (book chapter (edited volume, chapter 7; open access))
- Language
- English; Indonesian; Dutch
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Australia
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- ANU Press · source link
- Access
- Chapter 7 of Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality, ANU Press, Canberra, 2025, https://doi.org/10.22459/RHI.2025.07. Open access (ANU Press). Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- McGregor, K. (2025). Francisca Fanggidaej: A decolonial perspective on colonial elites and the Indonesian revolution. In S. Boonstra, B. A. Beech Jones, K. McGregor, K. M. P. Setiawan, & A. Wahid (Eds.), Rethinking histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, resisting and renegotiating coloniality (pp. 179–204). ANU Press. https://doi.org/10.22459/RHI.2025.07
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism/McGregor (2025) - Francisca Fanggidaej, A Decolonial Perspective on Colonial Elites and the Indonesian Revolution.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.935) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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