This page features all publications and blogs written by our own researchers and fellows, any other forms of research output and the KITLV publications (journal and book series) published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Our researchers and fellows publish about their research and findings in national and international (online) journals, books, edited volums, reports, newspapers and magazines. We keep track of these publications on our website and through the PURE KNAW portal.
The KITLV journals concern the Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia / Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI) and the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG). Both journals are published by Brill Academic Publishers in collaboration with KITLV.
The book series published by Brill Academic Publishers in collaboration with KITLV concern the Verhandelingen (VKI), a series monographs and edited volumes on the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and especially Indonesia.
Our researchers and fellows write blogs for the KITLV website or other websites. An overview can be found here. Sometimes a guest writer is invited to write a guest blog for our website.
Our researchers are regularly invited for podcast interviews, are involved in making exhibitions or produce documentaries or other audiovisual productions. Besides that, KITLV also has its own videochannel.
Mainland Southeast Asia’s great river systems sustain the world’s largest inland fishery and provide food security for over 60 million people. Yet these extraordinary systems are being fundamentally transformed by hydropower development, with consequences that will reverberate for generations.
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.
