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23 Nov Trouw: ‘Het slavernijverleden gaat ons allemaal aan’

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In de rubriek 'Ik heb een droom' vraagt Trouw mensen naar hun dromen, overdag en 's nachts. Deze keer werd Valika Smeulders, o.a. onderzoeker bij het KITLV, gespecialiseerd in cultureel erfgoed...

17 Nov Latest issue NWIG available online

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Now available online: the latest New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, volume 91, issue 3-4. The NWIG is a scholarly fully open access journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art,...

17 Nov Latest issue BKI available online

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Now available online: the latest Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, volume 173, issue 4, special issue: New Urban Middle Classes in Colonial Java. BKI is an interdisciplinary fully open...

13 Nov In de Volkskrant: ‘Een blijvende morele verantwoordelijkheid stelt vragen over de koloniale tijd’

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'Een blijvende morele verantwoordelijkheid stelt vragen over de koloniale tijd: De historische werkelijkheid is ingewikkelder dan de tweedeling held of schurk, goed of ...

06 Nov Nieuwe publicatie: Sporen van de slavernij in Leiden

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Door Gert Oostindie en Karwan Fatah-Black (red.). Eeuwenlang was Nederland betrokken bij slavenhandel en slavernij, een geschiedenis van uitbuiting en onverholen racisme. Dat verleden speelde zich niet alleen ver ...

27 Oct VK: ‘Nederland chanteert Sint Maarten, in een bepaalde zin’

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In de Volkskrant van 26 oktober jl: Deskundigen Gert Oostindie en Suzanne Koelega over de oplopende spanning tussen Nederland en Sint Maarten. De spanning tussen Nederland en Sint Maarten over de voorwaarden ...

26 Oct New publication: ‘Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia’

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By KITLV researcher David Kloos. How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms set by institutions of the ...

19 Oct Blog: Fieldwork heroes

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My work usually focuses on the semi-villains who animate local politics. Here is a celebration of one of its heroes. As a researcher working on murky topics like corruption and violence, I usually write only about the shady types. My explorations of...

12 Oct New Open Access article: ‘Law-Making as a Strategy for Change: Indonesia’s New Village Law’

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An article in the Asian Journal of Law and Society, by Jacqueline Vel (KITLV/VVI), Yando Zakaria & Adriaan Bedner (KITLV/VVI). In 2014, the Indonesian president...

12 Oct New Open Access publication: ‘Popular Music in Southeast Asia’

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New publication by Bart Barendregt (Leiden University), Peter Keppy (NIOD) and Henk Schulte Nordholt (KITLV/Leiden University): Popular Music in Southeast Asia: Banal Beats, Muted Histories. Also Open Access...