Nancy Jouwe

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Nancy Jouwe (b. 1967) is a cultural historian, lecturer, researcher, public speaker and one of the co-founders of Framer Framed. She has also been active in the NGO sector as a manager, director and cultural producer, with a focus on intersectionality, colonial history, arts, heritage and intercultural dialogue since 1993. Jouwe was part of the establishment of the research project Mapping Slavery, a transnational research project that maps the Dutch colonial history of slavery. So, in 2017 she contributed to the publication Dutch New York Histories: Connecting African, Native American and Slavery Heritage (with Dienke Hondius, Dineke Stam and Jennifer Tosch, LM Publishers/Washington University Press). In 2024 a new chapter in the series was published Gids Slavernijverleden van De Kaap/Slavery Heritage Guide of The Cape. As an activist Nancy Jouwe has been involved in with local squatters and transnational queer, indigenous, and women’s movements, incl. in SE Asia and the South Pacific since the 80s and 90s.