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Blog: Is the lack of ontological diversity killing social research, or was it already dead from the beginning?

As an ethnographer working with island communities in Eastern Indonesia, Elena Burgos Martinez grapples with the ‘privilege ceiling’...

19 June, 2018 / 0 Comments
Blog: Placing Dutch Caribbean heritage on a global platform: Wiki Goes Caribbean

What is seen as Dutch national heritage is very much shaped by academically trained heritage professionals and the audiences they speak to and reach. As a curator at the Rijksmuseum, I see ...

08 June, 2018 / 0 Comments
Blog: Papa D. and the Privacy Law: New dilemmas for researchers*

Last April, I visited the mountain village of Bittuang in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia for the fourth time. This is one of the eight locations in which we record daily life for our audiovisual project Recording the Future. On each of our...

29 May, 2018 / 0 Comments
Blog: Dealing with prejudices in scholarship and the academic world

As a researcher focusing on people often labelled as ‘child brides’, Hoko Horii explores the crippling effects of prejudice, along with its intimate connection to power structures in ...

07 May, 2018 / 1 Comment
Guest blog by Nico Kaptein: Jawi books in Cairo

Last March, I had the opportunity to spend two days in Cairo and, with the help of a local bookseller, I was able to buy some 25 Malay books in Arabic script that had been produced in Cairo....

02 May, 2018 / 0 Comments
Blog: Can informal politics be studied quantitatively?

That may sound like a boring question, but it is an important one. Am I exaggerating if I say that the future of democracy depends on it? Informal politics is usually studied through in-depth fieldwork and interviews. ...

27 March, 2018 / 0 Comments
Blog: Why Dutch socialists failed to facilitate a peaceful decolonization of Indonesia

Clement Atlee, who had replaced Winston Churchill as prime minister of the United Kingdom in 1945, helped to effectuate the rapid decolonization of Burma and India. ...

05 March, 2018 / 2 Comments
Blog: A Sunday night in Moengo: Romeo Bravo meets Mony Hond Bordo

When the sun sets in Moengo’s Ronnie Brunswijk stadium, the man after whom the sports arena is named makes his entrance. Brunswijk is here to celebrate the 28th anniversary of the founding of...

22 February, 2018 / 0 Comments
Blog: “Dance, sister! Dance!” New ways of doing ethnography in the city

“Dance, sister! Dance!” Dina is prodding my side, encouraging me to stand up and dance. “My friend is asking you to dance!” She points at her smartphone, which is videotaping us. A red sign with...

03 February, 2018 / 0 Comments
Leiden Islam Blog: ‘Ethnic cleansing brought on by democracy: The appalling case of the Rohingya’

The state-sanctioned persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar has caused worldwide outrage. But why is this happening just when Myanmar has become...

18 December, 2017 / 0 Comments
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Our blogs

This page features all the blogs of the researchers of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

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Short comments on the blogs are welcome as long as they are polite and deal with the content of the blog. Because comments are moderated, posting may take some time.

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Fridus Steijlen: editor-in-chief
Tom Hoogervorst: editor
Yayah Siegers-Samaniri: web editor

Our Mission

KITLV aims to be a world-class research institute for the study of Southeast Asia and the Caribbean in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

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KITLV’s staff is comprised of some 31 FTEs, plus a changing number of externally funded researchers from all over the world.

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