Circles of Kings: Political Dynamics in Early Continental Southeast Asia

Renee Hagesteijn is a political anthropologist and associated researcher at KITLV. She is interested in political dynamics, centralization processes, state formation; informal politics in formal political
systems; conditions for political legitimacy and stability; consequences and limitations of scaling up political influence.

Renee conducted MA fieldwork in West Java, Indonesia and wrote her PhD thesis on political dynamics in early continental South East Asia. While pursuing a career in science management at the
national research council she remained interested in theoretical developments on the verge of anthropology, political science and history. Recently she caught up with the advances in digital
scholarship.