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.
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Mobility and Belonging; State, Violence and Citizenship
De verwevenheid tussen de stad Alkmaar, de omliggende dorpen en het koloniale slavernijverleden bleef lang verborgen. Dit boek onthult, in opdracht van de gemeente Alkmaar en ondersteund door het Regionaal Archief Alkmaar, deze nog onbekende kant van de geschiedenis.
This article examines how the idea of “finding potential” has structured colonial and postcolonial interventions in Papua’s wetlands. Tracing its genealogy from Dutch colonial science to Indonesian state-led development, it argues that potentiality operates as both an epistemic framework and a political tool that renders wetlands as idle and exploitable.
The latest issue of the NWIG (volume 100: issue 1-2) is now available, with articles on the Caribbean in the fields of humanities, social & political science, archaeology, economics, geography and geology.
This book review discusses State of Fear by Joshua Barker (2024), which examines how policing and state power in postcolonial Indonesia operate through a mix of formal institutions, informal actors, and community practices in Bandung.
In this review of Hearsay is not excluded by Michael Dove (2024) in the Journal of Political Ecology, Hatib Kadir explores the uneasy boundary between science and people’s everyday knowledge.
This chapter in the edited volume Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Laos unpacks the institutional disjuncture in the hydropower decision-making landscape and processes in the Mekong region.
When does the law create a sense of security, and when does it produce the opposite? This article takes that question as a starting point to examine land tenure security in Indonesia’s legally plural context.
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.
