This page features all publications and blogs written by our own researchers and fellows, any other forms of research output and the KITLV publications (journal and book series) published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Our researchers and fellows publish about their research and findings in national and international (online) journals, books, edited volums, reports, newspapers and magazines. We keep track of these publications on our website and through the PURE KNAW portal.
The KITLV journals concern the Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia / Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI) and the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG). Both journals are published by Brill Academic Publishers in collaboration with KITLV.
The book series published by Brill Academic Publishers in collaboration with KITLV concern the Verhandelingen (VKI), a series monographs and edited volumes on the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and especially Indonesia.
Our researchers and fellows write blogs for the KITLV website or other websites. An overview can be found here. Sometimes a guest writer is invited to write a guest blog for our website.
Our researchers are regularly invited for podcast interviews, are involved in making exhibitions or produce documentaries or other audiovisual productions. Besides that, KITLV also has its own videochannel.
Textile trade provides a multidisciplinary avenue to examine flows in material culture, performances of power, and ultimately changes in the perception of the self. This article focuses on pre-Islamic contacts between the Malay World, Java, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Subcontinent.
This research examines religious moderation at Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Negeri (MIN) 1 Bintan, focusing on the children of the Sea Tribe from Kampung Panglong, Desa Village, Bintan Regency, Riau Islands Province, who choose to attend this madrasah despite being Catholic and Protestant.
This book brings to light the pluralistic views, diverse forces, and multiple realities (re)shaping formal and informal decision-making structures, processes, and power interplay in environmental governance.
The latest issue of the NWIG (volume 99: issue 3-4) is now available, with articles on the Caribbean in the fields of humanities, social & political science, archaeology, economics, geography and geology.
This article examines a new pattern of land grabbing in Indonesia, where coalitions of state and private actors use colonial-era land deeds to expropriate community land.
Drawing on a study of the lower reaches of the Nam Ou Basin in the Pak Ou and Nam Bak districts of Luang Prabang province in Laos, this paper explores how the social outcomes of a major hydropower project emerge from and are contingent upon long-term changes in livelihoods that can be dated back to the 1970s.
A special issue on social media in Indonesia in the journal Indonesia, co-edited by KITLV researcher David Kloos, Merlyna Lim (Carleton University) and Johan Lindquist (Stockholm University).
A special issue in Southeast Asia Research about village politics in Indonesia, which KITLV researcher Ward Berenschot edited with Linda Savirani, Arie Ruhyani (both UGM), and Edward Aspinall (ANU).
