Sanne Rotmeijer

Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies | KITLV

This article addresses practices of constructive journalism in the local, postcolonial context of St. Maarten, an autonomous Dutch Caribbean island. Building on extensive fieldwork at print and online news media outlets on the island and 14 in-depth interviews with reporters, editors, and news bloggers, this article shows that constructive journali...

In today’s globalized world people are increasingly faced with social differences. Patterns of migration lead to vibrant pluralized societies, characterized by peaceful human encounters, but also, and often, by tense confrontations and violent conflicts. How do our social differences, based on culture, religion, and other social affiliations, relat...