The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands

This article analyses the communication activities of Filmstichting West Indië, which in late 1940s and early 1950s produced 12 documentary propaganda films about Dutch colonial Suriname, resistance against these reductive representations zines Surinamese migrant organization Vereniging Ons Suriname. We draw on hence unstudied archival material to dissect role media operations, as persuasive, strategic productions, constructing challenging differential relations between colonizers subjects, symbolically negotiating how different territories bodies relate each other. A visual textual analysis cases unpacks historical struggles over regimes (post)colonial (im)mobilities, they are articulated within representation. ultimately argue that, order understand constitution mobility (and, be able critique them), we need study co-production mediated