“What is their gaze focused upon, are they looking at the future or do they see the enemy there?”
The speaker is writer Chris Keulemans. He authored the book Verzet (Resistance), an ode to everyday forms of resistance. In Closer to Our Colonial Legacy, Chris explores what his own resistance and solidarity mean in today’s world.
Chris Keulemans (Tunis, b. 1960) is a travelling writer. His homebase is north Amsterdam. The child of development workers, he grew up in Tunis, Bobo Dioulasso, Baghdad and Bogor. Over recent years, Keulemans has traced resistance in cities such as Jakarta and Sarajevo, Dnipro and Ramallah. In Amsterdam, he was the director of several cultural centres: Perdu, de Balie and the Tolhuistuin. He writes reports and essays for De Groene Amsterdammer, OneWorld and Byline Times. His book Verzet was published in March 2024 by Uitgeverij Jurgen Maas.
