In Podcast #DeDag (NPO Radio 1) op 16 mei jl. werd de vraag gesteld waarom het zo slecht is gesteld met het vertrouwen in de overheid. KITLV onderzoeker Wouter...
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....
This article addresses practices of constructive journalism in the local, postcolonial context of St. Maarten, an autonomous Dutch Caribbean...
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...
Het einde van de dynastie van de gebroeders Castro’s is in zicht. Na bijna zes decennia onder de heerschappij van eerst Fidel en daarna Raúl krijgt Cuba komende donderdag een nieuw staatshoofd....
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 ...
Afgelopen 13 en 14 maart was het precies veertig jaar geleden dat de gijzelingsactie in het provinciehuis van Assen plaatsvond. Groot verschil tussen deze actie in 1978 en de acties daarvoor ...