Selected Publications (Some publications are available online at the Social Science Research Network, http://ssrn.com/author=890930) "Why Was There No Javanese Galileo?" In Empire and Science in the Making - Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830, edited by Peter Boomgaard, 109-34. Basingstoke [etc]: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. The Making of Middle Indonesia: Middle Classes in Kupang Town, 1930s-1980s, Power and Place in Southeast Asia. Leiden: Brill. 2014. (Open Access, http://www.kitlv.nl/book/show/1348) "Religion, Politics and Class Divisions in Indonesia." In Dealing with Diversity, edited by Bernard Adeney-Risakotta. Geneva: Globethics. 2014. (Open Access, http://www.globethics.net/documents/4289936/13403252/focus_17_web.pdf/995de42c-a534-4a4f-93e6-57ddd25f2942). (With Ward Berenschot), eds. In Search of Middle Indonesia: Middle Classes in Provincial Towns. Leiden: Brill. 2014. (Open Access, http://www.kitlv.nl/book/show/1347). "Introduction: Democracy, Markets and the Assertive Middle." In In Search of Middle Indonesia: Middle Classes in Provincial Towns, edited by Gerry van Klinken and Ward Berenschot, 1-32. Leiden: Brill. 2014. (Open Access, http://www.kitlv.nl/book/show/1347). Murder in Maumere: Postcolonial Citizenship. Oratie. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 2013. (http://www.oratiereeks.nl/upload/pdf/pdf-6104weboratie_van_klinken_-_def.pdf). Brokerage and the making of Middle Indonesia, City and Society, vol. 25 (no.1), pp 135-155 (2013). Globalization and its discontents, pp 199-209 in Norman G. Owen (ed), Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History, London: Routledge. 2013. Don t write this : Researching provincial biographies in Indonesia, pp 169-192 in Maureen Perkins (ed), Locating Life Stories: Beyond East West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2012. Debate (on Dan Slater, Ordering power: contentious politics and authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI), vol.167, no.4 (2011), pp.515-519. (with Edward Aspinall) (eds), The state and illegality in Indonesia, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2011 (available for download through open access: http://oapen.org/xtf/search?brand=oapen&identifier=368290).
(with Edward Aspinall), 'Introduction: The State and Illegality in Indonesia', in: Edward Aspinall and Gerry van Klinken (eds), The state and illegality in Indonesia, pp1-28. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2011 (Open Access: http://oapen.org/xtf/search?brand=oapen&identifier=368290). (with Edward Aspinall), 'Building relations: corruption, competition and cooperation in the construction industry', in: Edward Aspinall and Gerry van Klinken (eds), The state and illegality in Indonesia, pp139-163. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2011 (Open Access: http://oapen.org/xtf/search?brand=oapen&identifier=368290). 'Patronage democracy in provincial Indonesia', in: John Harriss, Kristian Stokke and Olle Törnquist (eds), Rethinking popular representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. (with Joshua Barker, eds), State of authority: state in society in Indonesia, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University SEAP, 2009. (with Joshua Barker), 'Introduction: state in society in Indonesia', in: Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker (eds), State of authority: state in society in Indonesia, Ithaca, pp.1-16. NY: Cornell University SEAP, 2009. (with Joshua Barker), 'Reflections on the state in Indonesia', in: Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker (eds), State of authority: state in society in Indonesia, pp17-45. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University SEAP, 2009. Etnisch geweld in Ambon, Indonesië: tussen Marx en Eisenstadt', in: Ward Berenschot and Hubert Schijf (ed.), Etnisch geweld: groepsconflict in de schaduw van de staat, Mens en Maatschappij vol.84. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2009. (with Syarif Hidayat), 'Provincial business and politics', in: Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker (eds), State of authority: state in society in Indonesia, pp.149-161. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University SEAP, 2009. Decolonization and the making of Middle Indonesia, Urban Geography [special edition on decolonizing the Indonesian town], 30-8 (2009): 879 897. PDF-document: URBAN_30n08_879-897-vanKlinken.pdf Nationale helden in Indonesië, pp.216-235 in Rosemarijn Hoefte, Peter Meel and Hans Renders (eds.), Tropenlevens: de (post)koloniale biografie, Amsterdam [etc]: Boom [etc], 2008. The limits of ethnic clientelism in Indonesia, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs (RIMA), 42-2 (December 2008): 35-65. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1321803 Indonesian politics in 2008: the ambiguities of democratic change, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 44-3 (December 2008): 365-381.
Special issue: the state and illegality in Indonesia - Introduction, South East Asia Research, 16-2 (July 2008): 157-63. "Blood, timber, and the state in West Kalimantan, Indonesia", Asia-Pacific Viewpoint 49-1 (April 2008): 35-47 Download draft as pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1127113 Communal violence and democratization in Indonesia; small town wars, London: Routledge, 2007; translated as Perang kota kecil: kekerasan komunal dan demokratisasi di Indonesia, Jakarta: Obor/ KITLV, 2007. (with Henk Schulte Nordholt,eds), Renegotiating boundaries; local politics in post-suharto Indonesia, Leiden: KITLV, 2007; translated as Politik Lokal di Indonesia, Jakarta: Obor/ KITLV, 2007. 'The combative "I"; state domination and Indonesian self-writing', Life Writing 4-2 (2007):197-214. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1309410 'Communal conflict and decentralisation in Indonesia', Occasional Papers 7, Brisbane: Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS), July 2007, download as pdf; alternative: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1025846 'Return of the sultans: the communitarian turn in local politics', pp. 149-69 in James Davidson and David Henley (eds), The revival of tradition in Indonesian politics: the deployment of adat from colonialism to indigenism, London: Routledge, 2007. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1309406 (with David Bourchier), The key suspects, in: Richard Tanter, Desmond Ball, Gerry van Klinken (eds), Masters of terror: Indonesia's military and violence in East Timor, New York [etc]: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, pp. 113-223. 'Colonizing Borneo: State-building and ethnicity in Central Kalimantan', Indonesia 81 (April 2006): 23-50. 'The Maluku wars: 'Communal contenders' in a failing state', in Charles A. Coppel (ed), Violent conflicts in Indonesia: Analysis, representation, resolution, pp. 129-143. London: Routledge, 2006. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1309404 'Indonesian casualties in East Timor, 1975-1999: Analysis of an official list', Indonesia 80 (October 2005): 109-22. 'New actors, new identities: Post-Suharto ethnic violence in Indonesia', in Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Helene Bouvier, Glenn Smith and Roger Tol (eds), Violent internal conflicts in Asia Pacific: Histories, political economies and policies, pp. 79-100. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia/ LIPI/ Lasema-CNRS/ KITLV-Jakarta, 2005; translated in Konflik Kekerasan Internal: Tinjauan Sejarah, Ekonomi-Politik, dan Kebijakan, Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia/ LIPI/ Lasema-
CNRS/ KITLV-Jakarta, 2005. Download as pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1134267 'Dayak ethnogenesis and conservative politics in Indonesia's outer islands', in Henk Schulte Nordholt and Hanneman Samuel (eds), Indonesia in Transition: Rethinking 'Civil Society', 'Region' and 'Crisis', pp. 107-28. Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2004, download as pdf; alternative: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1030241 Minorities, modernity and the emerging nation; Christians in Indonesia, a biographical approach. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2003. Translated as Lima penggerak bangsa yang terlupa, Jakarta [etc]: Obor [etc], in press [2009]. 'Decentralisation, violence, and democracy; The colonial roots of ethnic conflict in Indonesia', in: Stanley Adi Prasetyo, A.E. Priyono, and Olle Tornquist (eds), Indonesia's post-soeharto democracy movement, pp. 81-96. Jakarta: Demos, 2003. Download as pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1134268 'Ethnicity in Indonesia', in: Colin Mackerras (ed.), Ethnicity in Asia, pp. 64-87. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Download as pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1127126 'Indonesia's new ethnic elites', in: Henk Schulte Nordholt and Irwan Abdullah (eds), Indonesia; In search of transition, pp. 67-105. Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2002, download as pdf; alternative: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1127117 'Beyond the crisis; Religion and politics in post-suharto Indonesia', Interface 4-1 (2001): 33-54. 'The coming crisis in Indonesian area studies', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 32-2 (2001): 263-68. 'Big states and little independence movements', in: Mark Shelden, Richard Tanter, and Stephen R. Shalom (eds), Bitter flowers, sweet flowers; East Timor, Indonesia and the world community, pp. 209-25. New York [etc]: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 'The battle for history after Suharto', Critical Asian Studies 33-3 (2001): 323-50; shorter version in Mary S. Zurbuchen (ed), Beginning to remember: The past in the Indonesian present, pp.233-258. Singapore: Singapore University Press and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 'The Maluku wars; bringing society back', Indonesia 71 (2001): 1-26. Download as pdf 'Richard Wagner and Minahasa's past'', in: Harry A. Poeze and Antoinette Liem (eds), Lasting fascinations; essays on Indonesia and the Southwest Pacific to honour Bob Hering, pp. 187-93. Stein: Kabar Seberang, 1998. [Yayasan Soekarno Monograph Series.]
'Power, symbol and the Catholic mission in Java; the biography of Frans van Lith', Documentatieblad voor de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse zending en overzeese kerken 4-1 (1997): 43-59.