Seven years after South Sudan’s attainment of independence, the world may this week once again witness the birth of a new sovereign state. Next Sunday (4 November), citizens of the South...
Door Charlotte Huisman. In Utrecht kun je een historische wandeling maken langs de Jan Pieterszoon Coenstraat...
This internship is part of a PhD project entitled “Complexities of Remembering: Memory of 1965 Violence in Rural East Java”. The result of this internship will be used for developing a chapter on the...
'Suriname: Nation building and nation branding in a postcolonial state, 1945-2015', in Nation branding in modern history, a chapter by Rosemarijn Hoefte. This ...
Laments about “transactional politics” (politik transaktional) are a regular feature of discussions about Indonesian politics. Voters, as well as a few politicians, can be frequently heard complaining about how ...
In this full open access article KITLV-researcher Ward Berenschot develops an explanation for why democratisation processes sometimes fail to...
New publication by Tom van den Berge and Susie Protschky: Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s. This book reveals how everyday experiences of being ‘modern’ (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and ...
Henk Schulte Nordholt was donderdagochtend rond 7.00 uur te horen in het Radio 1 journaal. Schulte Nordholt vertelde in de uitzending meer over Palu (Sulawesi, Indonesië) na de tsunami en gaf daarbij meer ...