1,878 search results for “postcolonial studies” in the Public website
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MA Specialisation Heritage and Postcolonial Studies
Objects and framings of heritage, archives, and academic knowledge production generate worldwide, fierce societal debates on the legacies of colonial violence, past injustice and present-day institutional racism. Whether bronzes from Benin, daggers from Bali, fossils from Java, photo-albums from…
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Platform for Postcolonial Readings
The Platform for Postcolonial Readings brings together researchers, especially junior researchers, in Belgium and the Netherlands interested in issues of globalization, inter/transculturality, diversity and inclusivity, intersectionality, and postcoloniality. We are an open group (do join us!) and meet…
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Ghosts Here and There: Spectral Resistance and Dialogue in Postcolonial Literature
The ethics of ghosts, spectres, and mediums in postcolonial literature
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Postcolonial Displacements: Migration, Narratives and Place-making
Postcolonial Displacements explores the multiple ways in which migration in South Asia contributes to the imagining, questioning, subverting and reframing of territories, nations and communities. The project focuses on the contested fringes of the politically divided South Asian subcontinent, across…
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Migrants, welfare and social citizenship in postcolonial Europe
This paper explores how citizenship is enacted and experienced in welfare encounters for Egyptian migrant parents in Paris, Amsterdam, and Milan, highlighting the importance of social citizenship and personal interactions in shaping belonging.
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Ingrid Samset
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Shifting the compass
Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
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De postkoloniale spiegel. De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen
The Dutch colonial past in Indonesia has had a major influence on literature.
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About
The Platform for Postcolonial Readings organizes seminars for MA- and PhD-students and researchers in the field of postcolonial and globalisation studies in Belgium and the Netherlands. As an open network, discussion platform, and reading group, our meetings are open to all.
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Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914)
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Afric…
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Isabel Hoving
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Finding one’s own voice as an indigenous filmmaker
In this dissertation Itandehui Jansen examines the ‘Voice’ of the filmmaker from a political and aesthetic perspective.
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Colonial and Global History (MA)
The master’s programme in Colonial and Global History at Leiden University offers the most in-depth and comprehensive programme on the history of colonialism and globalisation currently available in Europe.
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Christopher Green
Faculty of Humanities
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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dutch Centre for Travel Writing Studies
The Dutch Center for Travel Writing Studies s a scientific center that develops and coordinates initiatives to promote research into travel writing. It actively seeks contact with external (scientific and social) partners to collaborate on issues surrounding cultural / national identity, cultural contact…
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Events
You can find an overview of events organized by the Platform for Post-Colonial Readings below.
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Merenungkan Gema, Pemjumpaan Musikal Indonesia-Belanda
Indonesian translation of the book Recollecting Resonances from authors Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts.
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Channa Li
Faculty of Humanities
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In-Forest: A multi-method study of inequality and its epistemic effects in forest research
The project seeks to explore the interplay of valuation and inequalities in science, using the interdisciplinary and planet-critical field of forest research as empirical case. It examines which/whose knowledge is recognised on what grounds, and how social dimensions like gender and geographical location…
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Memory Contested, Locality Transformed
Representing Japanese Colonial 'Heritage' in Taiwan
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Liesbeth Minnaard
Faculty of Humanities
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Xiao Luo
Faculty of Humanities
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Philomeen Dol
Faculty of Humanities
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Shirley Alexander
Faculty of Humanities
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Amirardalan Emami
Faculty of Humanities
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Maaike Beemsterboer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Yujing Tan
Faculty of Humanities
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Nico Kaptein
Faculty of Humanities
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Steven Hagers
Faculty of Humanities
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Haneen Omari
Faculty of Humanities
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Xiong Xiong
Faculty of Humanities
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Boudewijn Walraven
Faculty of Humanities
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Geoffrey Cain
Faculty of Humanities
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Jurre Knoest
Faculty of Humanities
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Aihua Li
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Verhagen
Faculty of Humanities
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Calypso Music, Identity and Social Influence: The Trinidadian Experience
This study, Calypso, The Trinidadian Experience, has sought to establish links between calypso music and the construction and maintenance of identities, and to locate the genre as a mechanism (or as part of a broader mechanism) that has exerted on-going social influence within Trinidadian society…
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Education
Close cooperation in education between Leiden University and Indonesian partners occurs in many fields and range from student exchanges to science research projects.
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Maghiel van Crevel
Faculty of Humanities
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Ab de Jong
Faculty of Humanities
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Hyo Jin Pak
Faculty of Humanities
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Beyond Dissemination: Hindustani Identifications at the Nexus of Tradition and Modernity
An interdisciplinary cultural analysis of how the Hindustani double migration informs contemporary processes of identification and problematises the juxtaposition of tradition and modernity.
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Henk Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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Writing the Earth, Darkly: Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire
References to nature and the environment in the Caribbean literary and the contemporary age of globalization.
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Back to the Present
A post-colonial approach to the concept of time in the past and present Maya culture
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Pao-Yi Yang
Faculty of Humanities
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Cosmopolis Advanced
This programma, an initiative of the Institute for History in partnership with Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta. Aims to study more than 20 kilometers of Dutch archival materials in The Netherlands, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa.