News Making, Contested Publics and Stories of Belonging in the Dutch Caribbean

News Making examines how people in Curacao and Sint Maarten turn events into stories that shape public life. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2019, the book develops an analytical distinction between 'news' as an everyday social practice and 'the news' as institutional media. Moving from the late nineteenth century to the present, it traces how colonial govern...