'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...
"This issue of our CCC Newsletter is late, for obvious reasons". With these words Gert Oostindie starts the introduction of our 10th Newsletter, in which he reflects on the devastating impact of the hurricanes...
Almost three weeks ago Hurricane Irma raged in full force over many Caribbean islands and Florida. It was the largest category-5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, breaking all known ...