John Kleinen, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, J. Kleinen
Universiteit van Amsterdam


Name: John Kleinen
Work address: O.Z.Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK, Amsterdam
Telephone: 020-5252742
Email: Kleinen at uva.nl

Website: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.g.g.m.kleinen/


 

Education

John Kleinen graduated with honors in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.  In 1988 he defended at the same University his Ph.D. study about anti-colonial peasant movements in Central-Vietnam.

 

Research interests

John Kleinen is an anthropologist and historian with a PhD from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He works as an associate professor at the UvA. He is a staff member of the Amsterdam Schoolfor SocialScience Research (ASSR) and the Maritime Research Centre Amsterdam (MARE). His research interests include the (environmental) history of Southeast-Asia and Vietnam in particular, the institutional dynamics of French colonial expansion, religious practice, visual anthropology and fiction and cinema of the Vietnam War. His present research interests are the meaning of civil society for a transitional society like Vietnam, religion and society in Southeast Asia and the environmental effects of global and regional changes in climate, water levels and the use of land and natural resources.

Internationally, Kleinen served asa dean of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sponsored training course for social scientists at the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (2001-2003). Kleinen was also member of the Administrative Board of the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient (EFEO). He is still memberof the Scientific Council of French researchinstitutionsin Asia managed bythe Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Steering Committee of the European Consortium for Asian Field Study (ECAF, on behalf of the University of Amsterdam).

 

Current research/projects

Integrated Coastal Zone Management.

Environmental and maritime history of Vietnam.

History and sociology of piracy in Southeast Asia

 

 

Current teaching

Undergraduate courses in research methodology and visual anthropology
Graduate courses (MA training) on anthropology and history of Southeast Asia;


Selected publications (books and articles)

2009 Pirates, Ports and Coasts in Asia Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (with Manon Ossewijer). Singapore: ISEAS and IIAS.

2007 - 2008 Lion and Dragon. 400 Years relationships between the Netherlands and Vietnam, (in Dutch; English and Vietnamese). Amsterdam: Boom Publishers and Hanoi:The Gioi).(editor and author)

2007 Doi dien tuong lai, hoi sinh qua khu: nghien cuu bien doi xa hoi o mot lang bac Viet Nam [Facing the Future, Reviving the Past: a Study of Social Change in Northern Vietnam] Hanoi and Danang: Tap Chi Xua va Nay/Nha Xuat Ban Da Nang. [Vietnamese translation from 1999 book].

2007 Het Meerjarige Multidisciplinaire Onderzoeksprogramma - 'Vietnam - Netherlands Research Programme'

1992 – 2004 IOB Evaluatie van de vernieuwing van het Nederlandse onderzoeksbeleid 1992-2005. Ervaringen in zes landen: Bolivia, Ghana, Mali, Tanzania, Vietnam en Zuid-Afrika. Den Haag : Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking.

2006 J.G. Mulder. Zijstraten van de geschiedenis : de wereld rond 1900 in stereofoto's.Amsterdam : De Verbeelding..

2005 Tropicality and Topicality: Pierre Gourou and the genealogy of French colonial scholarship Vietnam. In Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.

2004 Cambodja. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, (in Dutch), 90 p. Revised
reprint in 2004 (with Tara Mar, MA).

2003 Report Dutch Embassy Hanoi, UNDP (National Disaster Management Unit) and SNV, Report of verification mission to Central Vietnam.

2001 Vietnamese Society in Transition. The daily politics of reform and change
. Amsterdam: Spinhuis / IIAS (editorship and introduction), (300 p.).

1999a Liber Amicorum. Mélanges offerts au professeur Phan Huy Le. Hanoi: NXB
Thanh Nien , CASA, IIAS, EFEO (edited together with Philippe Papin) (in English and French), 320 pp.

1999b Facing the future, reviving the past. A study of social change in a Northern
Vietnamese village. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 256 pp.

 

Articles and contributions to edited volumes

2007 "Stealing from the Gods. Fisheries and Local use of natural resources in
Vietnam 1800-2000". In Greg Bankoff and Peter Boomgaard (Eds.) The Wealth of Nature: How Natural Resources Have Shaped Asian History, 1600-2000. London: Palgrave/McMillan.

2006 Access to Natural Resources for Some: a Tale of Aquaculture in Nam Dinh,
Vietnam, in Louis Lebel Louis Lebel, Xu Jianchu, Antonio Contreras et al. (ed.), Institutional Dynamics and Stasis: How crises alter the way common pool resources are perceived, used and governed , Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Monograph Series, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University. Pp.256-279

2005 Pagodegeld en andere vormen van corruptie in Vietnam. In Frans Hüsken en
Huub de Jonge (red.), Schemerzones & Schaduwzijden. Opstellen over ambiguïteit in samenlevingen. Nijmegen: Roelants, 2005, pp.162-168.

2003a Vietnamese dorpen tussen traditie en moderniteit: een veelkleurig palet.
Contribution to Book catalogue of Vienna Museum of Ethnology and Brussels Royal Museum of Art and History for combined exhibition on Vietnam in 2003-2004 [alsoin French and in German].

2003b Framing “the Other”. A critical review of Vietnam War movies and their
representation of Asians and Vietnamese”. ISEAS-IIAS publication “Europe In Asia, Asia in Europe" edited by a.o. Ravi Srilati and Mario Rutten.Iseas and IIAS.

2003c Framing the Other. A critical review of Vietnam War movies and their
Representation of Asians and Vietnamese”. Europe-Asia Journal.

2001 Mimique de l’Etat-parti. Le Viêt Nam depuis la réunification. In Raisons Politiques. Etudes de pensée politique. Numéro spécial sur “Ce qui reste du Communisme”. No 3, August 2001, p. 37-64.

1999 Village-State Relations in 19th Century Vietnam. The Case of Lang To, A
Small Village in the Red River Delta. In Nguyen The Anh and Alain Forest (eds.), Guerre et paix en Asie du Sud-est. Paris: l’Harmattan, pp. 175-211.

 

Major professional activities

2007 – present: Member of the board of SpaarnestadPhoto. .[SpaarnestadPhoto search "Kleinen" under Imagebank]

2005 – present: Member of Administrative Board of the French School of Oriental Studies (EFEO).

2005- present: Member of the Scientific Council for Asian Institutions of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.

2002-2003 Professor, Social Science Research Council (New York) Academic coordinator and full professor at faculty National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities (Hanoi).
2003 Member of International Advisory Board of Exhibition: Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind and Spirit. New York.
2001-2003 Consultant Vienna Museum of Ethnology and Brussels Royal Museum of Art and History.
2001 Convener Colloquium Decolonizations, Nations and Loyalties. November 30-December 1, 2001.In Maison Descartes Amsterdam (with IIAS, ASIA, NIOD and UvA).
1999-2000 Managing-Director of the International Institute for Asian Studies Branch Office in Amsterdam.
1996-2000 Visiting Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain.
1997 Convener. Third Euroviet Conference in Amsterdam, July 2-4.
1997 Visiting IIAS Research Fellow at the Australian National University and RSPAS, Canberra, Australia.
1989-1991 Research Co-coordinator (NUFFIC/DGIS/Ministry of Foreign Affairs). University of the Philippines College of Social Sciences and Philosophy

 

Languages

Dutch (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (fluent), Vietnamese (fair) and Italian (working knowledge)

 

Links

http://www.assr.nl/scholars/staff/kleinen.html

http://www.ecafconsortium.com/

 


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