Pratika Dewi MA
PhD candidate
E-mail: p.r.dewi@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Area(s) of interest: Asian History, Colonialism & Postcolonialism, Global History, Nationalism, Political History
Cohort/Start PhD: 2024-2025
Indonesian Women in the Global Peace Movements, 1930s-1966
Leiden University
Overarching project: Peace Movements and Decolonization
Supervisors: Dr Carolien Stolte, Prof Marieke Bloembergen
Start date: December 2024
For my PhD project, I will focus on how Indonesian women used maternal thinking as a framework to contribute to peace movements from the 1930s to 1966. Through this research, I am providing new insights into the dynamics of gender, nationalism, decolonization, and international collaboration by tracing Indonesian women’s networking, organizations they have joined, conferences and congresses they have attended, their intellectual way of thinking, ideologies, and how they approach global peace while embracing Indonesia’s social, cultural, and political contexts.