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3 Postdoc positions on Dutch Colonial Social and Economic History (Utrecht University) – deadline 29 August 2025
For the NWO-funded Vici-project ‘Care and Coercion. Patriarchy, (Forced) Labour and Caregiving in the Household in the Dutch Empire, c. 1750-Present’, the research group of Economic and Social Historyis hiring three postdoctoral researchers, who will study the intricate relations between care and coercion in households in the Dutch Empire.
The positions are divided in three different sub-projects: one on colonial Suriname, one on colonial Indonesia, and one on colonial South Africa. Within each sub-project will be studied how in the period c. 1750-1950 violence and other forms of coercion played a role in household relations in relation to care and other work activities. The research team will investigate how work within households was divided along gender and racial lines, and look at overt and more subtle forms of coercion in this analysis.
The postdoc researchers will do intensive archival and literature study on either of the three cases, in Dutch and preferably also former colonial archives. Therefore, the knowledge of Sranantongo, Bahasa Indonesia, Zulu, and/or Xhosa will be of high relevance for the project.
Applications should be submitted ultimately 29 August 2025.
