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Ellen Klinkers

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Ellen Klinkers is researcher at the KITLV for the project ‘The Dutch Army in Suriname, 1940-1975’ funded by the Ministry of Defense. This research focuses on the presence and development of the Dutch Army in the context of decolonization. The history of the Dutch Army in Suriname during and in the aftermath of the World War II is intertwined with changing colonial relationships beginning with the deployment of Surinamese soldiers to Australia, Indonesia and Korea and ending with the formation of a Surinamese army in 1975.

Ellen Klinkers studied cultural anthropology at Utrecht University and then conducted doctoral research at Leiden University at the history department. Her dissertation was about the abolition of slavery in Suriname, involving research in Dutch, German and Surinamese archives of missionaries, courts, and colonial authorities.

After graduation, Ellen worked as researcher at the Institute of Netherlands History in the Hague at the research program Dutch Development Cooperation 1945-1977. The core of this project consisted of source books that document the development cooperation policies of the Dutch government. She conducted archival research for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2007-2008.

Also at the KITLV (2008-2011) Ellen Klinkers wrote a book on the history of police in Suriname, 1863-1975 (Amsterdam: Boom 2011).

Project:
The Dutch Army in Suriname.
History of the Police in Suriname and the Dutch Antilles (2008-2011)

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A full list of KITLV publications and their authors can be obtained from our archive of annual reports.
 

Selected Publications

De Geschiedenis van de politie in Suriname, 1863-1975; Van koloniale tot nationale ordehandhaving. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Boom, 2011.

‘The Transformation and Downfall of Plantation Culture in Suriname’, in Wim Klooster (ed.), Migration, Trade and Slavery in an Expanding World; Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 289-304, 2008.

‘Moravian Missions in Times of Emanipation; Conversion of Slaves in Surinam during the Nineteenth Century’ in: Robert Beachy and Michelle Gillespie (eds.), Pious Pursuits; German Moravians in the Atlantic World. Berghahn Books, 2007. [European Expansion & Global Interaction Vol. 7.]

‘De strijd gaat door. Creools verzet na de afschaffing van de slavernij’ in: Peter Meel en Hans Ramsoedh, Ik ben een haan met een kroon op mijn hoofd; Pacificatie en verzet in koloniaal en postkoloniaal Suriname, pp.133-151. Bert Bakker/Prometheus, 2007.

Nederlandse ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Bronnenuitgaven deel 1-3, 1945-1973. Bewerkt door M.L.J. Dierikx e.a. Den Haag: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 2002-2005. [Rijks geschiedkundige Publicatiën, kleine serie 97, 99, 103.]

Op hoop van vrijheid: van slavensamenleving naar Creoolse gemeenschap in Suriname, 1830-1880. Utrecht: Bronnen voor de studie van Afro-Surinaamse samenlevingen 18. Proefschrift, 1997.