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.

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This chapter in Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies discusses Suriname's contested political and socio-cultural evolution in the last 150 years.
This article 'Nasib nomad laut: Gamang di laut, tumbang di darat' (in Indonesian) examines the escalating marginalization of Indonesia's sea nomadic communities, the Sama-Bajau and Orang Laut.
Published continuously since 1919, the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG) is the oldest scholarly journal on the Caribbean.
Ramona Negrón schreef een blog over de presentatie van het boek The Dutch transatlantic slave trade. New methods, perspectives, and sources bij Het Scheepvaartmuseum.
Het koloniale verleden van Nederland: Een hoorcollege over de geschiedenis en rekenschap van het Nederlandse koloniale en slavernijverleden.
New advanced article in the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) titled ‘The Afobaka Dam: A crime against humanity’.
In this book The Dutch Transatlantic slave trade: New methods, perspectives, and sources, a new generation of scholars offers fresh perspectives on the history of the Dutch slave trade.
Legacies of colonialism in museum collections: The (un)making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands tells the untold story of Indonesian Islam in museums.