Mario Adrianus Franciscus Rutten
India (Gujarat), Indonesia (Central Java), and Malaysia (Kedah State)
Curriculum vitae
1958 | born in Maastricht (Netherlands) on October 31 |
1983-1984 | affiliated researcher at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, India |
1984 | MA degree in sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
1984-1986 | research associate at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague |
1986-1987 | affiliated researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India |
1986-1989 | PhD scholarship from the Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) |
1988-1989 | additional lecturer, Department of South and Southeast Asia, Anthropology-Sociology Centre, University of Amsterdam |
1989-1991 | researcher, Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam (CASA), University of Amsterdam |
1991 | PhD degree in the social sciences (anthropology/sociology) under the supervision of Jan C. Breman, University of Amsterdam |
1991-1997 | research manager of CASA, University of Amsterdam |
1992-1997 | post-doctoral fellowship from the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands (KNAW), based at CASA, University of Amsterdam |
1997-2000 | research manager, CASA and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam |
1999-2000 | research fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2000 | lecturer (UD) Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam |
2000-2002 | associate professor (UHD) Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
2002-2015 | professor in comparative sociology and anthropology of Asia, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam |
2015 | passed away on December 26 |
Special activities and positions
- Consultant from CASA at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Indonesia Desk, in the period 1990-1992
- Consultant of the Asia Committee of the European Science Foundation, Strassbourg, 1996
- Founder-director of the Amsterdam Branch Office of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), 1997-2001
- Founder-director of the Platform Asian Studies in Amsterdam (ASiA) of the University of Amsterdam, 2000-2008
- Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS), January-April 2007
- Co-chairman of the Joint Academic Committee India-Netherlands of ICSSR (Indian Council for Social Science Research) and NWO (National Dutch Scientific Council), 2007-present
- Member and chairman of the academic committee of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, 2006-present.
- Member of the board of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden.
- Organiser of a large number of conferences and workshops, both in the Netherlands and abroad
- Co-director of the documentary Living like a common man, 2011; 65 min.
- Co-organiser of photo exhibitions and co-author of a photo book on Globalisation in mirror images: Westernisation in India, Easternisation in the Netherlands , 2008-2012.
- Member of the advisory board of the Journal of Entrepreneurship, Delhi: Sage, 2005-
- Member of the editorial board of the International Comparative Studies, Leiden: Brill, 2008-
- External Advisor research programme on middle towns in India, Australian Catholic University (ANU), Melbourne (Australian Research Council Discovery Grant), 2012-2014
- Adjunct Faculty, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India, 2012-
- Co-director of the five-year research programme Provincial Globalisation, 2010-2015
Sources
Publications
1984 “Een Nederlander in India: reisverslag van een stage.” Quod Novum (Weekly Magazine of the Erasmus University Rotterdam) 17,30: 15. – In Dutch.
1986 “Social profile of agricultural entrepreneurs: economic behaviour and life-style of middle-large farmers in Central Gujarat.” EPW 21,13, Review of Agriculture, March 29: A-15-A-23.
– Sociaal profiel van middelgrote en kleine boeren in Centraal-Gujarat, India (in Dutch), Rotterdam (CASP Serie Werkdocumenten 10).
– “Green-card holding daughters-in-law: a study of changing social status of the Gujarati farmers.” Kisan World: The Rural Newsmagazine (Madras), June: 34-36.
– “Charotarna Patidaro ane Hollandna Lokona lagnevishyak rivajo-voshamye ane samaj.” Patidar Darshan 4,4: 76-79. – In Gujarati.
1988 “Madya Gujaratna madyam-mota kedhutoni arthak vartnrak jivan-patrati.” Arthat 7,4: 37-55. – Translation into Gujarati of 1986 publication.
1990 “Access of big farmers to land and agricultural trade in Central Gujarat, India.” In: Ghanshyam Shah (ed.), Capitalist development: critical essays: felicitation volume in honour of prof. A.R. Desai, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, pp. 230-252.
1991 Capitalist entrepreneurs and economic diversification: social profile of large farmers and rural industrialists in Central Gujarat, India, Amsterdam. – PhD thesis University of Amsterdam, 307 pp.
– Socio-economic and political write-up on all South and Southeast Asian countries for the Spectrum Yearbook 1990.
1992 & Leen Boer (eds), Een wereld van verschil in discussie, The Hague: Voorlichtingsdienst Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 87 pp. – In Dutch.
– “Artisan or merchant industrialists? Small scale entrepreneurs in the countryside of West India.” Journal of Entrepreneurship 1,2: 169-214.
1993 & Frans Hüsken and Jan-Paul Dirkse (eds), Economic growth and social welfare: managing development in New Order Indonesia, Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 295 pp. [Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, VKI]
– & Frans Hüsken and Jan-Paul Dirkse, “Poverty in Indonesia: policy and research.” In: Jan-Paul Dirkse, Frans Hüsken and Mario Rutten (eds), Economic growth and social welfare: managing development in New Order Indonesia, Dordrecht: Foris Publications, pp. 3-13.
1994 Asian capitalists in the European mirror, Amsterdam, VU University Press (Comparative Asian Studies 14), 65 pp.
1995 Farms and factories: social profile of large farmers and rural industrialists in Central Gujarat, India. New Delhi, Oxford University Press. 396 pp.
– & Hein Streefkerk, “Asian entrepreneurs in comparative perspective.” IIAS Newsletter 4: 22.
– & Henk Schulte Nordholt, “(In) between Leiden and Amsterdam: Peter Boomgaard appointed.” IIAS Newsletter 4: 36.
– & Miranda Engelshoven, “India: an introduction.” In India, an other world of physics: study tour ‘95. Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Physics, pp. 11-14.
1996 “Business strategy and life-style: owners of combine-harvesters in North Malaysia.” Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies) 14,1/2: 112-150.
1997 & Frans Hüsken and Jan-Paul Dirkse (eds), Indonesia di Bawah Orde Baru: pembangunan dan kesejahteraan sosial, Jakarta: Penerbit PT Gramedia Widiasarana Indonesia dan Perwakilan KITLV, 349 pp. – Translation into Bahasa Indonesia of 1993 publication.
– & Carol Upadhya (eds), Small business entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe: towards a comparative perspective, Delhi: Sage Publications, 334 pp.
– & Carol Upadhya, “In search of a comparative framework: small-scale entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe.” In: Rutten, Mario and Carol Upadhya (eds), Small business entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe: towards a comparative perspective, Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 13-43.
– “Co-operation and differentiation: social history of iron founders in Central Java.” In: Rutten, Mario and Carol Upadhya (eds), Small business entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe: towards a comparative perspective, Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 173-207.
– & Frans Hüsken and Jan-Paul Dirkse, “Kemiskinan di Indonesia: Kebijakan dan Penelitian.” In: Frans Hüsken, Mario Rutten and Jan-Paul Dirkse (eds), Indonesia di Bawah Orde Baru: pembangunan dan kesejahteraan sosial, Jakarta: Penerbit PT Gramedia Widiasarana Indonesia dan Perwakilan KITLV, pp. 3-16. – Translation into Bahasa Indonesia of 1993 publication.
– Review of: Christine Dobbin, Asian entrepreneurial minorities: conjoint communities in the making of the world economy, 1570-1940, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press 1996 (NIAS Monographs 71). The Journal of Entrepreneurship 6,2: 251-253.
– Editor of: IIAS guide to Asian Studies in Amsterdam, Leiden-Amsterdam, IIAS, 56 pp.
– & Leo Douw, “Inauguration of the ASiA Programme, University of Amsterdam.” IIAS Newsletter 12: 4.
– & Miranda Engelshoven, “India: an introduction.” ICR India Bulletin, September: 6-8, Erasmus University Rottterdam and Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, International Contract Research. – Revised article of 1995.
– “The IIAS Branch Office in Amsterdam.” IIAS Newsletter 13: 51.
1998 Review of: Gijsbert Oonk, Ondernemers in ontwikkeling: fabrieken en fabrikanten in de Indiase katoenindustrie, 1850-1930, Hilversum: Verloren 1998. Het NEHA-bulletin voor Economische Geschiedenis van Nederland 12,2: 116-118.
– “Westers optimisme over crisis in Azië misplaatst.” NRC Handelsblad, 24 February.
– “Opening of the IIAS Branch Office Amsterdam.” IIAS Newsletter 15: 51.
– “Tweerichtingsverkeer: onderzoek in India.” In Reizigers: Jaarboek 1998 van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam: Vossiuspers, Amsterdam University Press, pp. 114-115.
1999 “Rural capitalists in India, Indonesia, and Malaysia: three cases, two debates, one analysis?” Sojourn (Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia) 14,1: 57-97.
– & Pravin J. Patel, “Patels of Central Gujarat in Greater London.” EPW 34,16/17: 952-954.
– & Sikko Visscher, “Second Workshop on Small and Medium Entrepreneurship in Asia and Europe Compared: organisations, business behaviour and the state, Kuala Lumpur, 9-11 December 1998.” Asien: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur 72, July 1999.
– & Pravin J. Patel, Long-distance familism: social linkages between Patidars in India and Britain: a view from Central Gujarat, The Hague (IDPAD Working Paper 1999/2), 35 pp.
– “Focus on fieldwork, two-way traffic: research in India.” IDPAD Newsletter 4.
– “Open and progressive community.” Discover India, London: Asian Voice, April: pp. 115-17.
– & Pravin J. Patel, “Five introductory statements (in English and in Gujarati).” Gujarat Samachar: a Gujarati Weekly, January, May and June.
– & Sikko Visscher, “Small and medium entrepreneurship.” IIAS Newsletter 20: 6.
2000 “Commercialism and productive forms of business behavior: rural entrepreneurs in India, Malaysia, and Indonesia.” Journal of Asian Business 16,1: 1-27.
– “Social science research on contemporary South and Southeast Asia: Nordic-European Workshop.” IIAS Newsletter 22: 41.
– & Kristoffel Lieten, “Globalisation and agriculture.” IIAS Newsletter 24: 20.
– “Intellectual obituary: NIAS in mourning [interview conducted by Nicola Piper and Per Ronnås with Mario Rutten on his one-year stay at NIAS as the Nordic Netherlands Research Fellow].” NIASnytt 1: 14-15, 18.
– “Nordic-European workshop: social science research on contemporary South and Southeast Asia.” NIASnytt 3: 30-31.
2001 “Family enterprises and business partnerships: rural entrepreneurs in India, Malaysia and Indonesia.” Journal of Entrepreneurship 10,2: 165-189.
– “Involvement and indifference: the Gujarat earthquake in wider perspective.” EPW 36,35: 3358-3361.
– “Betrokkenheid en onverschilligheid in Azië.” Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 28,3: 281-291.
– Review of: Ruud Stokvis, Concurrentie en beschaving: ondernemingen en het commercieel beschavingsproces, Amsterdam: Boom 1999. Economic Sociology 2,2.
– Review of: Pushpa Sundra, Beyond business: from merchant charity to corporate citizenship: Indian business philanthropy through the ages, New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company 2000. The Journal of Entrepreneurship 10,1.
– & Leo Douw, “Researchers on Chinese Overseas meet.” IIAS Newsletter 25: 38.
– & Miranda Engelshoven, “Desinteresse voor Gujarat is tragisch (Lack of interest in Gujarat’s earthquake).” Parool 9 February 2001.
– “Voor het eerst komt Indiase volk met hulp (For the first time, the Indian population gives aid on a large scale).” Trouw 14 March 2001.
– & Miranda Engelshoven, “Weak state, strong middle class?: Earthquake in India.” IIAS Newsletter 25: 24-25.
– “Eigen kaste eerst (Own caste comes first).” Onze Wereld No. 4 (april): 26-28.
– & Talja Blokland, “Jan Breman: armoede is onlosmakelijk verbonden met mondialisering.” Facta 9,7: 16-19.
2002 & Ghanshyam Shah and Hein Streefkerk (eds), Development and deprivation in Gujarat, Delhi: Sage, 350 pp.
– “A historical and comparative view on Indian entrepreneurship studies.” Economic Sociology 3,2.
– “Bibliography Jan Breman.” In: Ghanshyam Shah, Mario Rutten and Hein Streefkerk (eds), Development and deprivation in Gujarat, Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 329-341.
– & Ghanshyam Shah, “Capitalist development and Jan Breman’s study of the labouring class in Gujarat.” In: Ghanshyam Shah, Mario Rutten and Hein Streefkerk (eds), Development and deprivation in Gujarat, Delhi: Sage, pp. 17-36.
– & Pravin J. Patel. “Twice migrants and linkages with Central Gujarat: Patidars in East Africa and Britain.” In: Ghanshyam Shah, Mario Rutten and Hein Streefkerk (eds), Development and deprivation in Gujarat, Delhi: Sage, pp. 314-328.
– “Individualism and collective forms of business organisation: rural capitalists in India, Malaysia and Indonesia.” In: Thomas Menkhoff and Solvay Gerke (eds), Chinese entrepreneurship and Asian business networks, Richmond: Curzon Press, Centre for Advanced Studies, National University of Singapore, pp. 295-317.
– “Elite attitudes towards the poor: Patidar entrepreneurs in rural Central Gujarat.” In: Takashi Shinoda (ed.), The other Gujarat: socio-economic transformation among the weaker sections, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, pp. 260-283.
2003 Rural capitalists in Asia: a comparative analysis on India, Indonesia, and Malaysia, London: RoutledgeCurzon. 288 pp.
– & Pravin J. Patel, “Caste-based differences and contested family relations: social linkages between India and Britain.” Etnofoor 16,1: 75-96.
– Azie van binnen en van buiten, Amsterdam: Vossiuspress UvA. 31 pp.
– & Pravin J. Patel, “Indian migrants in Britain: mirror image of social linkages between Gujarat and London.” Asia Europe Journal 1,3: 403-417.
– “The study of entrepreneurship in India: in need of a comparative perspective.” In: Veena Das (ed.), The encyclopedia of sociology and social anthropology, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1319-1341.
– “Bibliography of Jan Breman’s writings.” In: Arvind Das and Marcel van der Linden (eds), Work and social change in Asia, Delhi: Manohar, pp. 263-274.
– & K.P. Kannan, “Labour and capital in Asia’s transformation: on dichotomies, continuities, and linkages.” In: Arvind Das and Marcel van der Linden (eds), Work and social change in Asia, Delhi, Manohar, pp. 111-130.
– & K.P. Kannan, “Labour and capitalist transformation in Asia.” IDPAD Newsletter 1,1: 26-32.
– & Pravin J. Patel, “Patel: Hindi diasporanu rupakdu gharenu.” Opinion, 8:12, continuous issue no. 96, UK, 26 March: 7-9. – In Gujarati.
– & Pravin J. Patel, “UK maan vasela Madhya Gujaratna Patelo.” Akhand Aanad, India, continuous issue no. 650, July: 76-71. – In Gujarati.
2004 & K.P. Kannan (eds), Labour and capitalist transformation in Asia: Special issue of The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 47,3: 435-599.
– & Srilata Ravi and Beng-Lan Goh (eds), Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia, Singapore: ISEAS-Leiden: IIAS, 325 pp.
– “Coping with crisis: strategies of Indonesian workers and businessmen.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 47,3: 583-599.
– & K.P. Kannan, “Editor’s introduction” to Labour and capitalist transformation in Asia. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 47,3: 435-439.
– & K.P. Kannan, “The plurality of labour, capital and state in Asia: some reflections.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 47,3: 463-476.
– & Srilata Ravi and Beng-Lan Goh, “Introduction.” In: Srilata Ravi, Mario Rutten and Beng-Lan Goh (eds), Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia, Singapore/Leiden, pp. 1-12.
– “Rethinking assumptions on Asia and Europe: the study of entrepreneurship.” In: Srilata Ravi, Mario Rutten and Beng-Lan Goh (eds), Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia. Singapore/Leiden, pp. 102-130.
– & Pravin J. Patel, “Family linkages between India and Britain: views from Gujarat and London.” In: Srilata Ravi, Mario Rutten and Beng-Lan Goh (eds), Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia. Singapore/Leiden, pp. 242-266.
– “Azië en Europa vergelijkenderwijs: verwestersing en veroostersing in mondiaal perspectief.” Mens en Maatschappij 79,1: 24-42.
– “Over mobiele respondenten en een honkvaste onderzoeker.” In: Rosanne Rutten en Loes Schenk-Sandbergen (eds), Andere verhalen over Azië en onderzoek, Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, pp. 109-113.
2005 “Individualism and collective forms of business organisation: rural capitalists in India, Malaysia and Indonesia” (translation in Chinese by Fan Hongwei of 2002 publication). Southeast Asian Studies: a Quarterly Journal of Translations 1: 14-30.
– & Sanderien Verstappen, “IIFA ignores Dutch Hindustanis.” Midday (Daily Newspaper in India, Bombay), 26 juni 2005.
– & Sanderien Verstappen, “Callous Bollywood.” EPW 2 Juli 2005.
– & Sanderien Verstappen, “The Dutch perspective: a white Dutch perspective of IIFA’s selection of Amsterdam.” Inox (Filmtijdschrift in India) 1 (4).
2006 “Middle class interests and labour relations in India and Indonesis with some notes on East-West parallels.” In: Nordin Hussin (ed.), The easternization of the West: Europe meets Asia. Bangi, Universiti of Malaya Press, pp. 85-126.
2007 “Leuke vakantie gehad?” Verhalen over antropologisch veldwerk (“You had a nice holiday?” Stories about anthropological fieldwork), Amsterdam: Aksant Publishers, 135 pp.
– & Sanderien Verstappen, “Bollywood and the Indian diaspora: reception of Indian cinema among Hindustani youth in the Netherlands.” In: Gijsbert Oonk (ed.), Global Indian diasporas: exploring trajectories of migratinon and theory, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 211-233.
– & Pravin J. Patel, “Contested family relations and government policy: linkages between Patel migrants in Britain and India.” In: Gijsbert Oonk (ed.), Global Indian diasporas: exploring trajectories of migratinon and theory, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 167-193.
– “Samenwerken met een Indiase collega.” KWALON, Tijdschrift voor Kwalitatief Onderzoek 12,2: 19-24.
2008 & Pravin J. Patel, “Patidar as metaphor of Indian diaspora.” In: B.S. Baviskar and Tulsi Patel (eds), Understanding Indian society – past and present: essays in honour of A.M. Shah, Delhi: Orient Longman.
– “Caste and religion in a transnational context: the Patidars of Central Gujarat.” In: S. Mahendra Dev and K.S. Babu (eds), India’s development: social and economic disparaties, Delhi: Manohar, pp. 347-364.
2009 & Pravin J. Patel, “Patidar as methaphor of Indian diaspora.” Arthat: Social Science Journal, pp. 11-37. – Translation into Gujarati of 2008 article.
– [in Gujarati] & Pravin J. Patel, “Transnational linkages between India and Britain: an exploration of socio-economic linkages between Patels of Central Gujarat and Greater London.” Arthat: Social Science Journal, pp. 114-144.
2010 “Seeing like a state.” EspacesTemps.net, Actuel, 12.07.2010 online
2011 & Sanderien Verstappen, review of: Vinay Gidwani, Capital, interrupted: agrarian development and the politics of work in India, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis). International Review of Social History 56,2: 344-346.
– “Mirror image of family relations: social links between Patel migrants in Britain and India.” In: Christopher H. Johnson et al. (eds), Transregional and transnational families in Europe and beyond: experiences since the Middle Ages, New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 295-312.
– & Gerben Nooteboom, “Magic bullets in development: assumptions, teleology and popularity of three dominant ‘economistic’ solutions to end poverty.” In: L. Botes, R. Jongeneel & S. Strijbos (eds), Re-integrating technology and economy in human life and society, Maarssen: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Working Conference of the IIDE Volume I.
– Living like a common man: stories about Indian youngsters in London, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam. 47 pp. [Dutch and English version]
– & Sanderien Verstappen and Isabelle Makay, “Upward and downward mobility through migration: responses to an anthropological documentary on Indian youngsters in London.” IIAS Newsletter 58: 32-33.
2012 & Carol Upadhya, “Migration, transnational flows, and development in India: a regional perspective.” EPW 47,19: 54-62.
2014 & Sanderien Verstappen, “Middling migration: contradictory mobility experiences of Indian youth in London.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 40,8: 1217-1235. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.830884.
2015 & Sanderien Verstappen, “A global town in Central Gujarat, India: rural–urban connections and international migration.” South Asia 38,2: 230-245. online
– & Sanderien Verstappen, “Reflections on migration through film: screening of an anthropological documentary on Indian youth in London.” Visual Anthropology 28,5: 398-421. doi: 10.1080/08949468.2015.1085795.
– Et al.,” Beyond the metropolis—Regional globalisation and town development in India: an introduction.” South Asia: journal of South Asian studies 38:2: 216-229. doi: 10.1080/00856401.2015.1031459 pdf
– Anthropological encounters, Diemen: AMB.
– Antropologische ontmoetingen, Diemen: AMB.