New article by Vignesh Rajahmani et al. in the London School of Economics South Asia Blog, 'India goes to the polls'. The authors examine the electoral strategies via a resource-discourse-personnel matrix of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The authors present ...
16 April, 2024
An interview with KITLV director Diana Suhardiman on the Leiden University website. Diana will give her inaugural lecture 'Grassroots alliances in natural ...
15 April, 2024
KITLV is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher Political Ecology for a project that puts the role of grassroots institutions, local communities, and local actors central in climate governance. ...
09 April, 2024The KITLV is a research institute about the past and present in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. KITLV aims to be a world-class research institute for the study of Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, with a focus on Indonesia and the ‘Dutch’ Caribbean, in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Our researchers explore (dis)continuities between the (pre)colonial and postcolonial period, and articulate their research agendas empirically and theoretically in order to advance wider debates on the meandering paths of globalization. KITLV engages with the academic community across the world, as well as with (inter)national governmental organizations, NGOs, the media, and the interested general public. KITLV is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Read more.
KITLV invests in three long-term research themes: Governance of climate change adaptation state, Mobility and belonging and Violence and citizenship.
