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Caribbean Cultural Heritage and the Nation; Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao in a Regional Context

Rotterdam and Trans Atlantic Slavery

Summary Report on National Dutch Slavery Museum, 2021

Suriname Maroons; A history of intrusions into their territories. Ali M.Iye, Nelly Schmidt, Paul E. Lovejoy (eds.), Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions. A Pluralist Perspective. Trenton, NJ (2020), 215-226.

Dutch Tolerance in Black and White: From Religious Pragmatism to Racialized Ideology. In: M.Balkenhol et al (eds.), The Secular Sacred; Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion. London (2020), 173-191.

Dutch dealings with the slavery past; contexts of an exhibition. In: van Boxtel, Grever and Klein, (2016), 92-108.

Marcel Pinas more than an artist

Maroons and the communications revolution in Suriname’s interior. In: E. Carlin et al (eds.), In and Out of Suriname - Language, Mobility and Identity. Leiden/Boston (2015), 139-163.

Lecture: Problematics of slave legacies and their representation as a global history (Leiden, RCMC, 2015)

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Rob Perrée (ed.), Tirzo Martha. I wonder if they’ll laugh when I’m dead. Heijningen: Jap Sam Books, 2017, 261-275.

Tirzo Martha’s confused home. Rob Perrée (ed.), Tirzo Martha. I wonder if they’ll laugh when I’m dead. Heijningen: Jap Sam Books, 2017, 235-243.

The Ever-changing Face of Watramama in Suriname: A Water Goddess in Creolization Since the Seventeenth Century. In: Drewal ed. (2008), 525-548.

Global names, Creolized identities. In: Sansone, Soumoni & Barry, eds. (2008), 147-148.

July 1: Emancipation Day in Suriname, a contested lieu de mémoire, 1863-2003. In: New West Indian Guide 78: 3&4 (2004), 269-304.

1 Between diaspora, (trans)nationalism and American globalisation: A history of Afro-Surinamese Emancipation Day. In: Gowricharn,ed. (2006), 155-178.

Slavery in the Dutch Caribbean: The books no one has read. In: De Baros, Diptee, Trotman, eds. (2006), 69-92.

Watramama's Translatlantic voyage: legacy of the slave trade with Suriname. In: Anquandah; Opoku-Agyemang, Doortmont, eds. (2007) 277-294.

The case of slavery: disrupting the canon. In: Stuurman & Grever, eds. (2007), 205-219.

Testing roots; A heritage project of body and soul. In: M. Halbertsma, A. van Stipriaan and P.van Ulzen (eds.), The Heritage Theatre. Globalization and Cultural Heritage. Cambridge 2011, 165-187.

Creolization and the lessons of a watergoddess in the Black Atlantic. In: Gonçalves ed. (2002) 83-103.

The long road to a monument. In: Oostindie, ed. (2002), 118-123.

An unusual paralell, Jews and Africans in Suriname in the 18th and 19th centuries’ In: Studia Rosenthaliana 31:1/2, (1997), 74-93.

Suriname and the abolition of slavery. In: oostindie, ed. (1995), 117-141.

Slavery and slave cultures in a hydraulic society: Suriname’. Met Gert Oostindie. In: Palmié, ed. (1995), 78-99.

Between state and society: Education in Suriname 1850-1950’. In: N.Randeraad (ed.), Mediators between state and society. Hilversum (1998), 57-86.
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