Colonial Relations and Structures

The multidisciplinary group - consisting of researchers in Art & Culture Studies, Art History, American Studies, History and Literary Studies - aims to increase societal knowledge about colonial relations and structures in past and present societies. Our research focuses on continuities and discontinuities of colonial relations, structures, interactions, and imaginaries. We aim to include the agency and knowledge of (formerly) colonized peoples in our research and narratives.

Research Projects

Map "Slavenquartier", Sri Lanka (present-day Colombo), 1785.

Towards a Virtual Slave Island

Downtown Colombo has been one of the fastest-growing cities in South Asia. This project moves beyond the changes in the built environment, by foregrounding the untold life stories of past and present inhabitants of the suburb.

Football team of NEC in 1958, with Antillean crowd favourites Pedro Koolman and Moises Bicentini on the right

Belonging, Representation, Creolization

Focussing on the social and cultural history of baseball in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this research project analyzes how the sport has played a role in processes of belonging, discrimination and exclusion.

Protesters holding signs in Civil Rights March

Black America and Europe

This project analyses the ways notions and images of ‘Black America’ play a role in which Europeans understand racism and Black European activism.

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