As our mission statement indicates, KITLV invests in three long-term research themes: State, Violence and Citizenship, Mobility and Belonging and Governance of Climate Change Adaptation. While most research projects fit into either of these themes, a few address both. Below, the research projects within the three themes are presented, with a differentiation between larger, mainly externally funded programs and individual, either internally or externally funded projects.
Collaborative projects
Confronting Caribbean challenges: Hybrid identities and governance in small-scale island jurisdictions
Independence, decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950
From clients to citizens? Emerging citizenship in democratising Indonesia
Indonesia in transition. A history from revolution to nation building, 1943-1958
Palm oil conflicts and access to justice in Indonesia
Individual projects
Biography Grace Schneiders-Howard
Child marriage in Indonesia
Diversifying the collections: Inclusive citizenship and public histories of exclusion
Narrative and trauma: Indonesia 1965-1966
Post-New Order memories in Indonesia
Shades of clientelism: A comparative study of Indonesia’s patronage democracy
Sultan Hamid II of Pontianak (1913-1978) and the independence of Indonesia
Understanding insurgencies
When things get personal: Explaining political stability in small state
Collaborative projects
Confronting Caribbean challenges: Hybrid identities and governance in small-scale island jurisdictions
Recording the future: An audiovisual archive of everyday life in Indonesia in the 21st century
Traveling Caribbean heritage
The colonial and slavery past of Rotterdam
CaribTRAILS – Caribbean Transdisciplinary Research. Archaeology of Indigenous Legacies Spinoza
Individual projects
Embodied borders: an ethnography of female migrants in Singapore
Family matters
Indonesia and Greater India
The language of popular culture: Digitizing Sino-Malay literary heritage
‘Hai tanahku Papua…’ O my country Papua… Isaak Samuel Kijne, 1899-1970: A protestant missionary and teacher in New Guinea
Seeing is believing: Female Islamic leadership and visual rhetoric in Southeast Asia
KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies initiates and coordinates innovative research projects on Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. It engages in research that is theoretically informed, compara- tive, and empirically strong. Research on both regions focuses on contemporary developments as well as on historical themes. This page lists the research projects ongoing at KITLV and in collaboration with other departments and institutions.
Click here to review the research projects that have been completed since 2014, the year KITLV was established as a new research institute.