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.
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).
Esther Captain en Urwin Vyent verzamelden in deze bundel belangrijke toespraken van o.a. Jet Bussemaker en Femke Halsema uitgesproken op de jaarlijkse herdenking van de afschaffing van de slavernij.
This article looks at the literary representations of the flights of Holocaust refugees to the Caribbean. Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe feature prominently in Caribbean novels.
This book shows how the modern Dutch state and its predecessors were complicit in colonial slavery. It describes the roles of various actors in the Netherlands and the colonized societies.
This paper looks at one of the sea nomads groups, namely Orang Suku Laut (OSL), focusing on their knowledge systems, cultural values, and agency, manifested in the Bakelam nomadic tradition.
