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dhr. dr. G. (Gerben) Nooteboom MSc


  • Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen
    Programmagroep: Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht  166
    1018 WV  Amsterdam
    Kamernummer: B05 04
  • G.Nooteboom@uva.nl
    T:  0205252796

Gerben NOOTEBOOM is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He teaches courses on State and Society, Social Theory and Anthropology of Development. He is educational director of the Master Contemporary Asian Studies.

As a researcher, he has worked on issues of social security, poverty, inequality, rural transformation, social change, ethnic violence, livelihood, migration, child labour, illegality and human adaptation to environmental change. Most of his fieldwork has been done in East Java and East Kalimantan, but recently two research project on rural change in Central Java have been started.

Some publications include: Styles of Social Security in Upland East Java (in Koning and Hüsken, eds. [2006]), Vulnerability and Resilience of Madurese Migrants in East Kalimantan (in Titus and Burgers, eds. [2008]), Out of Wedlock, Migrant-Police Partnerships in East Kalimantan (in Aspinal and Van Klinken, eds. [2011]), Against Green Development Fantasies: Resource Degradation and the Lack of Community Resistance in the Middle Mahakam Wetlands, East Kalimantan, Indonesia (with De Jong [2011]), Magic Bullets and Development (with Mario Rutten [2011]), and Beyond the Landgrab Hype (with Laurens Bakker [2014)).

Currently, most of his research deals with anthropological perspectives on and critiques of development, risk, rural transformation, and social science in Southeast Asia.

Keywords: risk, reciprocity, illegality, inequality, poverty, environmental change, rural transformation, ethnic conflict, rural development.

Research projects:

2011 - 2015 NWO/Wotro Integrated Programme: GULF-STATE CONCESSIONS IN INDONESIA AND THE PHILIPPINES : CONTESTED CONTROL OF AGRICULTURAL LAND AND FOODCROPS (with Rosanne Rutten).

2005 -2009 'CHANGING WATER: AQUATIC-ECOLOGICAL CHANGE AND ADAPTION [...] IN THE MIDDLE MAHAKAM WETLANDS, EAST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA, financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). (With Edwin de Jong).

Publications (selection)

Nooteboom, G. and L. Bakker (2014). Beyond the Gulf State Investment Hype: The Case of Indonesia and the Philippines. In Mayke Kaag & Annelies Zoomers (Eds.), The Global Land Grab: Beyond the Hype (pp. 170-184). London: Zed Books.

G. Nooteboom & M. Rutten (2012). Magic bullets in development: assumptions, teleology and the popularity of three solutions to end poverty. In L. Botes, R. Jongeneel & S. Strijbos (Eds.), Re-integrating technology and economy in human life and society: proceedings of the 17th annual working conference of the IIDE, Maarssen, May 2011. Vol. I (pp. 103-120). Maarssen: IIDE.

Nooteboom, G. (2011). 'Out of Wedlock: Migrant - police partnerships in East Kalimantan'. In: State and Illegality in Indonesia . Aspinal, E & Gerry van Klinken (Eds.). Kitlv Press/Iseas Press. Leiden , Singapore .

Bakker, L., G. Nooteboom, and Rosanne Rutten (eds. special issue) (2010). Localities of Value: Ambiguous Access to Land and Water Resources in Southeast Asia . Asian Journal of Social Science, 38 (2).

Nooteboom, G. and E. de Jong (2010). Green Development Fantasies: Resource Degradation and the Lack of Community Resistance in the Middle Mahakam Wetlands, East Kalimantan, Indonesia . Asian Journal of Social Science, 38 (2).

Nooteboom, G. (2008). 'Through Turbulent Times: Diversity, vulnerability, and resilience of Madurese livelihoods in East Kalimantan '. In: Rural Livelihoods, Resources and Coping with Crisis in Indonesia . A Comparative Study. Titus, M. J. and Paul P.M. Burgers (Eds.). Amsterdam University Press. Pp. 43-70.

De Jonge, H. & G. Nooteboom (2006). Why the Madurese? Ethnic Conflicts in West and East Kalimantan compared. Asian Journal of Social Science, 34(2), 354-376.

Nooteboom, G. (2005). Demystifying State Provocation and Violence in Indonesia . Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania , 163(1) (Review essay).

Nooteboom, G. (2006). 'Styles of Social Security in Upland East Java '. In J. Koning & F. Husken (Eds.), Ropewalking and Safety Nets: Local Ways of Managing Insecurities in Indonesia . Leiden , Singapore : Brill.

Nooteboom, G. (2003). A Matter of Style: Social security and livelihood in Upland East Java. PhD Dissertation online (see link below).

2015

2014

  • G. Nooteboom & L. Bakker (2014). Beyond the Gulf State investment hype: the case of Indonesia and the Philippines. In M. Kaag & A. Zoomers (Eds.), The global land grab: beyond the hype (pp. 170-184). London: Zed Books.

2012

2011

  • H. de Jonge & G. Nooteboom (2011). Mengapa orang Madura? Perbandingan konflik etnis di Kalimantan Barat dan Kalimantan Timur. In H. de Jonge (Ed.), Garam, kekerasan, dan aduan sapi: esai-esai tentang orang Madura dan kebudayaan Madura (pp. 193-220). Yogyakarta: LKiS.
  • G. Nooteboom (2011). Out of wedlock: migrant-police partnerships in East Kalimantan. In E. Aspinall & G. van Klinken (Eds.), The state and illegality in Indonesia (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land, - en Volkenkunde, 269) (pp. 217-237). Leiden: KITLV Press.[go to publisher's site]

2010

2008

Prijs

  • R. Rutten & G. Nooteboom (2011). NWO-WOTRO research grant for the research programme Gulf-Sate Concessions in Indonesia and the Philippines: Contested Control of Agricultural Land and Food Crops. Recognition.

Wetenschappelijke positie

  • G. Nooteboom & L. Bakker (period: 2008 till 2008). Conference Organizer Position at : Southeast Asia Update, Euroseas. Naples, Italy, October 16-18.
  • G. Nooteboom & K. Lieten (period: 2008 till 2008). Organizer workshop Position at : Child labour research in Indonesia. Bogor, Indonesia, August 18-27.

Wetenschappelijke positie

  • G. Nooteboom & L.G.H. Bakker (2014). 6th Southeast Asia Update.
  • R.A. Rutten, G. Nooteboom & S. Evers (2012). Co-organizer Workshop "Analytical Tools to Research Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions".
  • R.A. Rutten, G. Nooteboom & S. Evers (2011). Co-organizer Launch Workshop Research Programmes UvA/VU: "Transnational Land Acquisitions in Africa and Southeast Asia". Launch of the NWO-WOTRO research programmes which we are (co-)directing.: (2011, September 16).

Spreker

Tijdschriftredactie

  • L.G.H. Bakker, G. Nooteboom & R.A. Rutten (Eds.). (2010) Asian Journal of Social Science, 38(2).
  • L. Bakker, G. Nooteboom & R.A. Rutten (Eds.). (2010) Asian Journal of Social Science, 38(2).
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