The ability to provide constructive feedback to and formulate criticism of the work of others and the ability to evaluate the value of such criticism and feedback on one’s own work and incorporate it.The ability to participate in current debates in the specialisation.The ability to give a clear and well-founded oral and written report on research results in correct English, when required, or Dutch, meeting the criteria of the discipline.The ability to independently set up and carry out an original research project that can make a contribution to existing scholarly debates.The ability to independently formulate a clear and well-argued research question, taking into account the theory and method of the field and to reduce this question to accessible and manageable sub-questions.The ability to analyse and evaluate literature with a view to addressing a particular historical problem.The ability to analyse and evaluate a corpus of sources with a view to addressing a particular historical problem.The ability to independently identify and select sources, using traditional and modern techniques.The ability to independently identify and select literature, using traditional and modern techniques.Course objectives General learning objectives To analyze and understand the record creating mechanisms of the colonial state. To analyze and understand the bureaucratic culture and bureaucratic procedures of the colonial state ī). The purpose of the research seminar is twofold:Ī). In this seminar we give special attention to the records these bureaucrats used and produced, how these records can be identified and how these writing influenced the picture of the colonial state. We will investigate who these bureaucrats were and how they created their houses of glass. We want to get a clearer picture of the bureaucrats and bureaucracy in the colonial state of the late 19th and early 20th century. This metaphore of the house of glass is the subject of research in this seminar. That is my assignment – to watch every movement that takes place in that house of glass’. All natives (…) who so disturbed the peace and serenity of the government – yes, I have and will continue to put all of them into a house of glass which I will place on my desk.
Pangemanann’s work was to monitor the people ‘for the sake of security and perpetuity of the government. He had the task of spying and reporting on those who started to struggle for independence and threatened Dutch colonial stability.
In 1988 the Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer published his novel Rumah Kaca, translated in English with the title House of Glass, in which former policeofficer Pangemanann started to work for the Governor General at the Algemeene Secretarie. This course is part of the (Res)MA History Programme.
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