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Dr. G. (Gerben) Nooteboom MSc

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas
Photographer: Bram Belloni

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Room number: B5.04
Postal address
  • Postbus 15509
    1001 NA Amsterdam
  • Profile

    Gerben NOOTEBOOM is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He teaches courses on State and Society, Asian Studies, 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).

  • Publications

    2023

    • Hulsbergen, F., & Nooteboom, G. (2023). Child Sex Tourism: Ambiguous spaces in Bali. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 114(1), 28-42. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12539 [details]
    • McCarthy, J., Nooteboom, G., Hadi, S., Kutanegara, P. M., & Muliati, N. (2023). The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers: The Constitutive Effects of An Anti-Poverty Regime In Indonesia. Journal of Contemporary Asia. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2217820
    • Mizuno, K., Semedi, P., & Nooteboom, G. (2023). Two Centuries Of Agrarian Economic and Ecological Shifts in the North Coast Of Java (1812-2012). (1 ed.) Gadjah Mada University Press.
    • de Graaf, L., Nooteboom, G., & Kutanegara, P. M. (2023). Rural Transformation and Afforestation in Java: Understanding Farm Tree Planting in Central Java . In K. Mizuno, P. Semedi, & G. Nooteboom (Eds.), Two Centuries of Agrarian, Economic, and Ecological Shifts in the North Coast of Java 1812–2012 (1 ed., pp. 87-116). Gadjah Mada University Press.
    • van Andel, M., & Nooteboom, G. (2023). Historical Trajectories of Rural Change: Land, Labor, Gender and Education in Comal (1904–2012). In K. Mizuno, P. Semedi, & G. Nooteboom (Eds.), Two Centuries of Agrarian, Economic, and Ecological Shifts in the North Coast of Java 1812–2012 (1 ed., pp. 202-230). Gadjah Mada University Press.

    2019

    • Nooteboom, G. (2019). Understanding the Nature of Rural Change: The Benefits of Migration and the (Re)creation of Precarity for Men and Women in Rural Central Java, Indonesia. TRaNS : Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 7(1), 113–133. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2019.3 [details]

    2018

    2017

    2015

    • Nooteboom, G. (2015). Forgotten people: poverty, risk and social security in Indonesia: the case of the Madurese. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde; No. 296). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004282988 [details]
    • Nooteboom, G. (2015). Living dangerously: Oplosan, gambling and competition as everyday risk-taking in Java and East Kalimantan Indonesia. Disaster Prevention and Management, 24(4), 523-538. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2014-0067 [details]
    • Shohibuddin, M., Alano, M. L., & Nooteboom, G. (2015). Sweet and bitter: trajectories of sugar cane investments in Northern Luzon, the Philippines, and Aceh, Indonesia, 2006-13. In C. Gironde, C. Golay, & P. Messerli (Eds.), Large-scale land acquisitions: focus on South-East Asia (pp. 108-135). (International development policy; No. 6). Brill Nijhoff. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004304758_006 [details]
    • de Jong, E. B. P., Ragas, A. M. J., Nooteboom, G., & Mursidi, M. (2015). Changing Water Quality in the Middle Mahakam Lakes: Water Quality Trends in a Context of Rapid Deforestation, Mining and Palm Oil Plantation Development in Indonesia’s Middle Mahakam Wetlands. Wetlands, 35(4), 733-744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-015-0665-z [details]
    • van Voorst, R. S., Nooteboom, G., Hellman, J., & Wisner, B. (2015). Introduction to the ‘risky everyday’. Disaster Prevention and Management, 24(4). https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2015-0077

    2014

    • Nooteboom, G., & Bakker, L. (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). Zed Books. [details]

    2012

    • Nooteboom, G., & Rutten, M. (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). IIDE. [details]

    2011

    • Nooteboom, G. (2011). Out of wedlock: migrant-police partnerships in East Kalimantan. In E. Aspinall, & G. van Klinken (Eds.), The state and illegality in Indonesia (pp. 217-237). (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land, - en Volkenkunde; No. 269). KITLV Press. http://www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=368290 [details]
    • de Jonge, H., & Nooteboom, G. (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). LKiS. [details]

    2010

    2008

    • Nooteboom, G. (2008). Through turbulent times: Diversity, vulnerability, and resilience of Madurese livelihoods in East Kalimantan. In M. J. Titus, & P. P. M. Burgers (Eds.), Rural livelihoods, resources and coping with crisis in Indonesia: A comparative study (pp. 43-69). (ICAS publication series, Edited volumes; No. 3). Amsterdam University Press. [details]

    2015

    • van Voorst, R. (Guest ed.), Wisner, B. (Guest ed.), Hellman, J. (Guest ed.), & Nooteboom, G. (Guest ed.) (2015). Risky everyday: Southeast Asian perspectives. Disaster Prevention and Management, 24(4), 430-538. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/dpm/24/4 [details]

    2010

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

    Prize / grant

    • Rutten, R. & Nooteboom, G. (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.

    Membership / relevant position

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

    Talk / presentation

    Others

    • Nooteboom, G. (organiser) & Bakker, L. G. H. (organiser) (20-6-2014). 6th Southeast Asia Update, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Rutten, R. A. (participant), Nooteboom, G. (participant) & Evers, S. (participant) (21-2-2012). Co-organizer Workshop "Analytical Tools to Research Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Rutten, R. A. (participant), Nooteboom, G. (participant) & Evers, S. (participant) (16-9-2011). Launch of the NWO-WOTRO research programmes which we are (co-)directing.. Co-organizer Launch Workshop Research Programmes UvA/VU: "Transnational Land Acquisitions in Africa and Southeast Asia" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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