Under the slogan ‘Merdeka!’ the Republic of Indonesia rushed into a battle for independence – a struggle of which no one could predict the outcome. Harry Poeze and Henk Schulte Nordholt provide a new narrative about the revolution, one that focuses not only on the fight against the Dutch but also on the precarious rise of the Republic

Lennie Geerlings' (KITLV/Leiden University) dissertation, titled Becoming a 'domestic worker' or a 'trailing spouse': Migrant women, space, body and belonging in Singapore comprises an ethnography of the ways in which female migrants attempt to belong in the 'global' city Singapore.