Politically correct consensus is not for me: An interview with Gert Oostindie

Gert Oostindie (GO), Professor of Colonial and Post-Colonial History at Leiden University and long-time Director of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) retired at the end of 2021. Jessica Vance Roitman (JVR) and Wouter Veenendaal (WV) have worked and published with Oostindie. They sat down with him at his home in Leiden over a bottle of red wine and a fair amount of cheese to ask him questions and to converse about his reflections on his career. What followed was a sprawling discussion of changes in the historical profession, (post) colonial debates... Mehr ...