Willem van Schendel
Profiel
PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1980. Taught at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1980-1996 (from 1990 as Professor of Comparative History).
Since 1996 Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social History.
Selected publications since 2000
Books and edited books
2013 The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press) (ed. with Meghna Guhathakurta).
2012 Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge) (ed. with Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons).
2009 A History of Bangladesh (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Chinese translation: 孟加拉国史 - Mèng Jiā Lā Guó Shĭ (Beijing/Shanghai: Cambridge University Press and Orient Publishing Centre, 2012).
2008 Memory and Amnesia in the South: Conflict, Violence, Trauma (Kolkata: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta/Sephis) (with Meghna Guhathakurta).
2006 Global Blue: Indigo and Espionage in Colonial Bengal (Dhaka: University Press Ltd.) (with Pierre-Paul Darrac).
2005 The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia (London: Anthem Press).
2005 Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization (Bloomington: Indiana University Press) (ed., with Itty Abraham).
2005 Niler Biswayon: Nil O Ouponibeshik Goendagiri (Dhaka: International Centre for Bengal Studies) (with Pierre-Paul Darrac).
2001 Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Labour in the Twentieth Century (London and New York: I.B Tauris) (ed., with Erik-Jan Zürcher). Turkish edition: Orta Asya ve Islâm Dünyasinda Kimlik Politikalari: 20. Yüzyilda Milliyetçilik, Etnisite ve Emek (Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari).
2001 Time Matters: Global and Local Time in Asian Societies (Amsterdam: VU University Press) (ed., with H. Schulte Nordholt)
2000 The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland (Bangkok: White Lotus) (with Wolfgang Mey and Aditya Kumar Dewan). Edition for Bangladesh published in Dhaka by University Press Limited, 2000.
Articles and Chapters in Books
2012 'Southeast Asia – An Idea Whose Time Is Past?' Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania, 168:2 & 3 (2012), 497-510 (with debate).
2012 'Mobile Practices and Regimes of Permissiveness,' in: Barak Kalir and Malini Sur (eds.), Transnational Flows and Permissive Policies: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012), 11-25 (with B. Kalir and M. Sur).
2012 'Green Plants into Blue Cakes: Working for Wages in Colonial Bengal’s Indigo Industry,' in Marcel van der Linden and Leo Lucassen (ed.), Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012), 47-73.
2012 'Espandere la storiografia del lavoro: Spunti dall’Asia meridionale,' in: Christian G. De Vito (ed.), Global Labour History: La storia del lavoro al tempo della “globalizzazione” (Verona: Ombre Corte, 2012), 70-84.
2011 'The Dangers of Belonging: Tribes, Indigenous Peoples and Homelands in South Asia,' in: Daniel J. Rycroft and Sangeeta Dasgupta (eds.), The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi (London: Routledge), 19-43.
2011 'Bangladeschs Kampf um Unabhängigkeit: Ein historischer Abriss,' NETZ-Bangladesh Zeitschrift, 1/2011, 9-13.
2011 'Bewaffneter Konflikt: Bangladeschs schmerzvoller Weg zur Unabhängigkeit,' Südasien, 30/31:4/1 (2011), 13-16.
2008 'The Asianization of Indigo: Rapid Change in a Global Trade Around 1800,' in: Peter Boomgaard, Dick Kooiman and Henk Schulte Nordholt (eds.), Linking Destinies: Trade, Towns and Kin in Asian History (Leiden: KITLV Press, 2008), 29-49.
2007 'Neue Aspekte der Arbeitsgeschichtsschreibung: Anregungen aus Südasien,' Sozial.Geschichte: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, 22:1, 40-70.
2007 'Interview - Willem van Schendel,' in: Shahaduzzaman, Kotha Porompora: Grihito Ebong Bhashantorito Shakkhatkar (Dhaka: Pathok Shomabesh, 2007), 112-125.
2007 'The Wagah Syndrome: Territorial Roots of Contemporary Violence in South Asia,' in: Amrita Basu and Srirupa Roy (eds.) Violence and Democracy in India (London: Berg Publishers/Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2007), 36-82.
2006 'Quit India! Explaining Mass Deportations of Bangladeshi Immigrants,' in: At the Crossroads: South Asian Research, Policy and Development in a Globalized World, (Karachi: Sama Editorial and Publishing Services, 2006)
2006 'Stretching Labour Historiography: Pointers from South Asia,' International Review of Social History, 51 (2006), 229-261.
2006 'Guns and Gas in Southeast Asia: Transnational Flows in the Burma-Bangladesh Borderland,' in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (August 2006), 19pp.
Published simultaneously in English, Japanese, Filipino and Thai. See http://www.kyotoreviewsea.org/Van_schendel_eng.htm
2006 'Underworlds & Borderlands*'; IIAS Newsletter (Special Issue, September 2006), 1-21; Guest Editor and Introduction 'The Boundaries of Legality.'
2006 'Introduction: The Making of Illicitness,' in: Willem van Schendel and Itty Abraham (eds.), Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), (with Itty Abraham), 1-37.
2006 'Spaces of Engagement: How Borderlands, Illegal Flows, and Territorial States Interlock,' in: Willem van Schendel and Itty Abraham (eds.), Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 38-68.
2005 'Illegal but Licit: Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities in Asia,' IIAS Newsletter, 38 (September 2005), 32.
2004 'Spook,' in: Rosanne Rutten & Loes Schenk-Sandbergen (red.), Andere verhalen over Azië en onderzoek (Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 2004), 184-186.
2003 '"I Am Not A Refugee": Rethinking Partition Migration,' Modern Asian Studies, 37:3 (July 2003), 551-584. (with Md. Mahbubar Rahman)
2003 'Lives in Exile: Displaced People in South Asia,' IDPAD Newsletter, 1:1, 22-25 (with Abhijit Dasgupta).
2002 'Stateless in South Asia: The Making of the India-Bangladesh Enclaves,' The Journal of Asian Studies, 61:1 (February 2002), 115-147.
Also in: Eiki Berg and Henk van Houtum (eds.), Routing Borders Between Territories, Discourses and Practices (London: Ashgate, 2003), 237-274.
Bengali translation: 'Bharot-Bangladesher Chhitmohol,' Prothom Alo (Eid Issue 2004), 265-276.
2002 'Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia,' Development and Planning D: Society and Space, 20 (2002), 647-668.
Also in: Paul Kratoska, Remco Raben and Henk Schulte Nordholt (eds.), Locating Southeast Asia: Post-colonial Paradigms and Predicaments (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2005), 275-307.
2002 'Beyond the "Tribal" Mind-Set: Studying Non-Bengali Peoples in Bangladesh and West Bengal,' in: Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera (eds.), Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies V: Concept of Tribal Society (New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 2002). (with Ellen Bal), 121-138.
2002 'A Politics of Nudity: Photographs of the "Naked Mru" of Bangladesh,' Modern Asian Studies, 36:2 (April 2002), 341-374.
2001 'Working Through Partition: Making a Living in the Bengal Borderlands,' International Review of Social History; 46 (December 2001), 393-421;
Also in: Arvind N. Das and Marcel van der Linden (eds.), Work and Social Change in Asia: Essays in Honour of Jan Breman (Delhi: Manohar, 2003), 55-89.
2001 'Time Matters: An Introduction,' in: Willem van Schendel and Henk Schulte Nordholt (eds.), Time Matters: Global and Local Time in Asian Societies (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2001), 7-17 (with H. Schulte Nordholt).
2001 'Modern Times in Bangladesh,' in: Willem van Schendel and Henk Schulte Nordholt (eds.), Time Matters: Global and Local Time in Asian Societies (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2001), 37-55.
2001 'Introduction: Opting Out, Opting In, Exclusion and Assimilation: States and Nations in the Twentieth Century,' in: Willem van Schendel and Erik-Jan Zürcher (eds.), Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Labour in the Twentieth Century (London and New York: I.B Tauris, 2001) (with Erik-Jan Zürcher), 1-12.
Turkish edition: 'Önsöz: Kopma, Baglanma, Dislama ve Asimilasyon: 20. Yüzyilda Devletler ve Uluslar,' in: Willem van Schendel & Erik-Jan Zürcher (der.), Orta Asya ve Islâm Dünyasinda Kimlik Politikalari: 20. Yüzyilda Milliyetçilik, Etnisite ve Emek (Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 2004), 7-21.
2001 'Who Speaks for the Nation? Nationalist Rhetoric and the Challenge of Cultural Pluralism in Bangladesh,' in: Willem van Schendel and Erik-Jan Zürcher (eds.), Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Labour in the Twentieth Century (London and New York: I.B Tauris, 2001), 107-147.
Turkish edition: 'Kim Ulustan Yana? Banglades'te Milliyetçi Söylem ve Kültürel Çogulculuk Talepleri,' in: Willem van Schendel & Erik-Jan Zürcher (der.), Orta Asya ve Islâm Dünyasinda Kimlik Politikalari: 20. Yüzyilda Milliyetçilik, Etnisite ve Emek (Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 2004), 141-190.
2000 'Bengalis, Bangladeshis and Others: Chakma Visions of a Pluralist Bangladesh,' in: Rounaq Jahan (ed.), Bangladesh: Promise and Performance (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2000), 65-105.