Prof. Marieke Bloembergen is senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), and professor in Heritage and Postcolonial Studies in Indonesian History at Leiden University. Her research interests concern the political dynamics of cultural knowledge production in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, as understood in their local, inter-Asian and global dimensions, in relation to material culture, heritage practices, religion, violence, and, lately, environmental care. She has also published on policing and modernity, surveillance and perceptions of (in)security in colonial Indonesia. Her most recent monograph, co-authored with Martijn Eickhoff, is The politics of heritage in Indonesia. A cultural history (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2020) . Currently she is working on a book manuscript, entitled ‘Indonesia along the hippie trail. Scholars, pilgrims and objects of heritage in the mindset of Greater India’
