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We explore the movement of, and interactions between, humans and non-humans, across time and space. Where and how to belong is a multi-layered existential question, which requires scrutinizing why, how, and where people, other species, and objects move or stay.
Mobility impacts cultures and religions, states, governments and institutions, but also climates and the collective health of societies. And it may create spaces that are neither bound by borders nor by subjugation. We examine what aspirations drive mobility and immobility, and how both phenomena contribute to processes of identification and exclusion, within and beyond the nation-state, throughout colonial and postcolonial periods.
What did enslaved people do to gain citizenship rights and what determined their success? By analyzing and linking different archival collections, this project investigates how people in Dutch colonies emancipated over several generations and developed an informal form of citizenship.
The aim of this project is to establish an audiovisual archive of everyday life in Indonesia during the 21st century, and to conduct research on daily life through this archive. Every four years recordings are made at the same locations in order to trace changes and continuities.
This project is a collaboration between several universities and societal and grassroot organizations in the Netherlands, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. The goal of the project is to come to a more inclusive understanding of Europe.
A project on the coloniality of Asian library and manuscript-formations. With KITLV Special Collections as point of departure, we study the social biographies of manuscripts, and the colonial histories of collecting, to gain insight into the role of violence therein, and to recognize local agency in the makings of so-called Asian Libraries.