Marrigje Paijmans Editor

Marrigje Paijmans works as Assistant Professor in Dutch Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She studies early modern literature from a critical analysis perspective to recover marginalised voices, thus balancing our understanding of the past. Her current project ‘Literary Unsettlements’ analyses voices of dissent in seventeenth-century colonial discourse. She has published on early modern theatre in Cultural Studies, on Spinozism and slavery in the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, and on the ethics of affect in Foucault Studies. Karwan Fatah-Black is lecturer in social and economic history at Leiden University. He is a prominent voice in the academic and societal debates on colonial history and its legacies. Karwan Fatah-Black is senior researcher at the Royal Dutch Institute for Caribbean and Southeast Asia Studies (KITLV-KNAW) and university lecturer at Leiden University. Since completing his PhD (2013) he has studied the history of the Atlantic world, enslavement, and emancipation strategies. With museums and heritage institutions he works on creating new narratives about the colonial past and post-colonial futures.