Water and hydropower
Diana Suhardiman
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.
Our work
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 publications
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.
KITLV journals
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.
KITLV book series
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.
Blogs
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.
Other forms of research output
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.
Unsettling ground: Rethinking land tenure security in Indonesia’s legally plural setting
Widya Naseva Tuslian
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.
Custom, combat, and ceremony: Java and the Indo-Persian textile trade
Tom Hoogervorst et al.
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.
Cross-religious enrollment of suku laut students in Bintan Madrasahs
Wengki Ariando et al.
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.
Rethinking environmental governance
Diana Suhardiman et al.
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.
New West Indian Guide (NWIG)
KITLV / BRILL
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.
Dispossession by archive: Contemporary land grabbing through colonial land deeds in Indonesia
Ward Berenschot et al.
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.
The temporally cumulative effects of hydropower development in northern Laos
Diana Suhardiman et al.
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.
