Are citizenship, democracy, and human rights really purely Western conceptions, as many have concluded since Aristotle? Have such ideas about state-citizen interaction...
As an ethnographer working with island communities in Eastern Indonesia, Elena Burgos Martinez grapples with the ‘privilege ceiling’...
Last April, I visited the mountain village of Bittuang in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia for the fourth time. This is one of the eight locations in which we record daily life for our audiovisual project Recording the Future. On each of our...
By Henk Schulte Nordholt on the history of Southeast Asia: Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte. Band 12: Südostasien (German Edition). Von Bali bis Singapur, von Myanmar bis Vietnam ...
Report of the second workshop at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, by Henk Schulte Nordholt. On 1 and 2 May 2018, researchers of the ‘Regional Studies’ and ‘Violence, Bersiap, Berdaulat’ subprojects held a workshop in Yogyakarta...
By Henk Schulte Nordholt. By exclusively focusing on the agency of the Dutch, colonial historiography ignored the pivotal role of indigenous middle classes in sustaining the colonial regime. ...
As a researcher focusing on people often labelled as ‘child brides’, Hoko Horii explores the crippling effects of prejudice, along with its intimate connection to power structures in ...
Last March, I had the opportunity to spend two days in Cairo and, with the help of a local bookseller, I was able to buy some 25 Malay books in Arabic script that had been produced in Cairo....
Edited by Ding Choo Ming and Willem van der Molen. Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have...
Over the last four years KITLV and Universitas Gadjah Mada, together with Leiden University and the UvA, have been working on a research project on citizenship ...