Pieter du Plessis (he/him) is a PhD candidate based at Maastricht University. His research interests include the critical study of whiteness, cultural heritage, belonging and global coloniality in the context of historical and contemporary Dutch-South African relations. His PhD-research focuses on the construction of Dutch whiteness in relation to other forms of whiteness through the case study of Het Zuid-Afrikahuis, a cultural and knowledge center about South Africa, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Pieter has a background in social and cultural anthropology, gender studies and sociology, and was born and raised in South Africa. 

Photographer: Miguel Belon