Aart Broek
Aart G. Broek (Netherlands, 1954) specialised in communication studies, sociology and, more recently, in criminology, with special reference to the Caribbean. He obtained a PhD at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, with a thesis on the Papiamentu (literary) propaganda of the roman catholic mission in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in the first half of the 20th century. He lived in Curaçao from 1981 – 2001. On the island and since his return in the Netherlands he has worked as an independent scholar, interim manager and consultant.
He has published extensively on ( Dutch) Caribbean social, educational, cultural and political matters. He is the author of a substantial number of essays, scholarly articles, policy reports, curricula and books.
Selected Publications
Met liefde behandelen; Hommage aan Boeli (ed.). Haarlem: In de Knipscheer, 2008. For Broek’s tribute to the late dr. W.C.J. (Boeli) van Leeuwen, published in the book, click
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De terreur van schaamte; brandstof voor agressie. Haarlem: In de Knipscheer, 2007.
‘Ideology and Writing in Papiamentu; a bird’s eye view’, Journal of Caribbean Literatures 5-1: 1-20. 2007.
De kleur van mijn eiland: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao. Ideologie en schrijven in het Papiamentu sinds 1863. Deel 1: geschiedschrijving. Leiden: KITLV, 2006.
(with Lucille Berry-Haseth en Sidney M. Joubert [ed.]) De kleur van mijn eiland: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao. Ideologie en schrijven in het Papiamentu sinds 1863. Deel 2: anthologie. Leiden: KITLV, 2006.
(with Jan J. Wijenberg), ‘Het roer moet om. Naar ongedeeld Nederlanderschap voor Antillianen en Arubanen’, Civis Mundi 44-4:178-186 , 2005.
‘Antillen/Aruba: uit de gunst’ (ed.), Christen Democratische Verkenningen, winter 2005.
‘Caraïbische literatuur: grenzeloze enclave’, in: Theo d’Haen (ed.), Europa Buitengaats; Koloniale en postkoloniale literaturen in Europese talen, pp. 185–210. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2002.
‘From an oral tradition to an oral literature; Vicissitudes of texts in Papiamentu (Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao), in: Thomas Bermer en Ulrich Fleischmann (eds.), History and histories in the Caribbean, pp. 177-96. Frankfurt aM/Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2001.
Het zilt van de passaten; Caribische cultuur in de twintigste eeuw. Haarlem: In de Kinpscheer, 2000 (2nd, revised edition, 1st edition 1998).
