Work in Progress
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2024. ‘Beyond the Point of No Return: the Re-emergence of Indonesian Debates and Concept of the Return of Colonial Objects’ in Boonstra, Sadiah, Kate McGregor, Ken Setiawan and Abdul Wahid (Eds.). 2023. Rethinking
Histories of Colonialism: Indonesia.
Boonstra, Sadiah, Kate McGregor, Ken Setiawan and Abdul Wahid (Eds.). 2024. Rethinking Histories of Colonialism: Indonesia.
2024
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2024. “Beyond decolonisation?” in Inside Indonesia 155, Jan-Mar.
2023
Boonstra, Sadiah. “Networks of Gesture: Producing New Inter-Indonesian Dance for the International Stage” in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies special issue edited by Emily Wilcox, Soo Ryon Yoon.
Boonstra, Sadiah and Caroline Drieënhuizen (Eds.). 2023. “Writing Decolonial and Intersectional Histories of Indonesia”. A special issue for Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia 2023 Vol. 24, No. 2.
Gareth Knapman and Sadiah Boonstra. 2023. Art Antiquity and Law Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, October 2023. “Plunder and Prize in 1812 Java: The Legality and Consequences for Research and Restitution of the Raffles Collection.”
2022
Boonstra, Sadiah and Paul Rae. 2022. “The aesthetics of intercultural method: from process to procession in new Indonesian and Indo-Australian dance” in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 23, Issue 4 Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2022.2131103.
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2022. “On the Nature of Botanical Gardens. Decolonial Perspectives from Indonesia” in Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia edited by Dick van der Meij, Melani Budianta and Susi Moeimam.
2021
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2021. Review of Jan Mràzek, Wayang and its Doubles. Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and Internet. In Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-, en volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of of Southeast Asia.
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2021. “The Construction of Race in Museums in Indonesia and Contemporary Artistic Responses.” In Inside Indonesia special issue edited by Antje Missbach, Jemma Purdey and Tamara Soukotta.
2020
Boonstra, Sadiah. Review of Vanessa Hearman, Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia. In Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-, en volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, Vol.
2019
Boonstra, Sadiah, Susi Moeiman. 2019. Indonesian Heritage and Collections. Special Issue of Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 1-2.
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2019. “Putting on a Show. Collecting, Exhibiting and Performing Wayang at the Tropenmuseum from Colonial Times to the Present” in Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 20, No. 1, 118-134.
Boonstra, Sadiah. Review of Adèle Esposito Urban Development in the Margins of a World Heritage Site in the Shadows of Angkor. In Asian Studies Review Vol. 43, No.3 (2019), 576-577.
2018
Boonstra, Sadiah. Review of Jennifer Goodlander, Women in the Shadows. Gender, Puppet, and the Power of Tradition in Bali, In Anthropos 113 (2018), 306-307.
2017
Boonstra, Sadiah. Review of Matthew Cohen, Inventing the Performing Arts: Modernity and Tradition in Colonial Indonesia. In Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-, en volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences Southeast Asia Vol. 173, No. 4 (2017),
2016
Boonstra, Sadiah. Review of Indonesia-Malaysia Relations, Cultural heritage, politics and labour migration. Edited by Marshall Clarke and Juliet Pietsch. In Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-, en volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences Southeast Asia Vol. 172, No. 2-3 (2016), 394-396.
2015
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2015. “Defining wayang as heritage: standardization, codification and institutationlization,” in Sites Bodies and Stories. Local Heritage, colonial legacies, and historical narrative between the Indonesian state and society. Edited by S.
Boonstra, Sadiah, Nikki Edwards, Gerry van Klinken. 2015. 1965, Today. Living with the Indonesian massacres. Special Issue for Inside Indonesia 122, Oct.
2014
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2014. “The Paradox of UNESCO’s Masterpieces: the case of Wayang Indonesia” in IIAS Newsletter No.69, 28-29.
Boonstra, Sadiah. Review of Baskara T. Wardaya (Ed.), Truth Will Out: Indonesian accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence. In Tijdschrift voor Geschiendenis Vol. 120 (2014), 741-743.
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2014. Changing Wayang Scenes. Dynamics of Heritage Formation in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia. Unpublished Dissertation VU University Amsterdam.
2013
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2013. “Building social cohesion through culture in conflict and post-conflict contexts” in IIAS Newsletter No. 65, 46-47.
2012
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2012. “Critical Heritage Studies. IIAS Summer School Revisited” in IIAS Newsletter No. 61, 44-45.
Boonstra, Sadiah. Review of Felicia Katz-Harris, Inside the Puppet Box. A Performance Collection at The Museum of International Folk Art. In Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-, en volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of of Southeast Asia V
2011
Boonstra, Sadiah, Janneke van Dijk. 2011 “Early photography in the Dutch East Indies:the power of the image” in ABHINANDANAMALA Nandana Chutiwongs Felicitation Volume. Edited by Prematilleke, Leelananda. Bangkok/Colombo.
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2011. “Negotiating Heritage: the wayang puppet theater and dynamics of heritage formation” in The Heritage Theater: Globalisation and Cultural Heritage. Edited by Marlite Halbertsma, Alex van Stipriaan and Patricia van Ulzen. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2011. “Performing Islam, experiencing wayang” in Inside Indonesia 106, Oct-Dec.
2009
Boonstra, Sadiah. 2009. “Conceptualising intangible heritage in the Tropenmuseum: the Layla and Majnun story as a case study”, in International Journal of Intangible Heritage Vol.4, 27-39.