Social media and society in Indonesia
David Kloos et al.
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).
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.
Village politics in Indonesia: Across time and space
Ward Berenschot et al.
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).
Dit monument is het teken dat wij het hebben overleefd
Esther Captain et al.
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.
Narrating Jewish refugee transit to the Caribbean in Felicia Rosshandler’s Passing through Havana
Rosa de Jong et al.
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.
Slavery & the Dutch state: Dutch colonial slavery and its afterlives
Esther Captain et al.
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.
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change
D. Suhardiman, W. Ariando
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.
Studenten en antikoloniaal verzet, 1925-1975
Sander van der Horst et al.
Sander van der Horst schreef samen met Henna Goudzand over antikoloniaal studentenverzet in Leiden.
Multi-ethnic nation building and branding in Suriname
Rosemarijn Hoefte
This chapter in Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies discusses Suriname's contested political and socio-cultural evolution in the last 150 years.
