Rightless resistance investigates why resistance to land grabbing so often fails. The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations has triggered widespread conflict across rural Indonesia as communities lose their land with little compensation. Based on an unprecedented study of 150 such conflicts, this book uncovers how villagers fight back against palm oil companies, and what their struggles reveal about power, law, and citizenship in postcolonial Indonesia.

New advanced article in the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) titled 'Memory, identity, and insurgency: Lessons from the genesis of the National United Freedom Fighters (NUFF) in Trinidad and Tobago'.

This chapter is part of the book Human rights and the environment: A Southeast Asian perspective and studies the problems faced by the Orang Suku Laut community that had to change their way of life.

De verwevenheid tussen de stad Alkmaar, de omliggende dorpen en het koloniale slavernijverleden bleef lang verborgen. Dit boek onthult, in opdracht van de gemeente Alkmaar en ondersteund door het Regionaal Archief Alkmaar, deze nog onbekende kant van de geschiedenis.

This article examines how the idea of “finding potential” has structured colonial and postcolonial interventions in Papua’s wetlands. Tracing its genealogy from Dutch colonial science to Indonesian state-led development, it argues that potentiality operates as both an epistemic framework and a political tool that renders wetlands as idle and exploitable. 

The latest issue of the NWIG (volume 100: issue 1-2) is now available, with articles on the Caribbean in the fields of humanities, social & political science, archaeology, economics, geography and geology.

This book review discusses State of Fear by Joshua Barker (2024), which examines how policing and state power in postcolonial Indonesia operate through a mix of formal institutions, informal actors, and community practices in Bandung.

In this review of Hearsay is not excluded by Michael Dove (2024) in the Journal of Political Ecology, Hatib Kadir explores the uneasy boundary between science and people’s everyday knowledge.