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,...
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...
'Een blijvende morele verantwoordelijkheid stelt vragen over de koloniale tijd: De historische werkelijkheid is ingewikkelder dan de tweedeling held of schurk, goed of ...
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 ...
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 ...
By KITLV researcher David Kloos. How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms set by institutions of the ...
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...
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...
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...
In times of disaster, we are confronted with and shocked by the disrupting impact on our daily lives. Disasters, however, also reveal and enlarge structural inequalities, and power politics that already...