Michael Jacobsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 189281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Jacobsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobsen |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Spectacular Death”—Proposing a New Fifth Phase to Philippe Ariès’s Admirable History of Death
This article revisits, reviews and revises the much cited and magisterial description of successive historical death mentalities from the Middle Ages to modern society as proposed several decades ago by French historian Philippe Ariès. The article first outlines Ariès’s position starting out with the medieval “tamed death,” then moves on to point to several inherent limitations in his history-writing, before suggesting a revision and update of it…
Modernitas dan Tragedi: Kritik dalam Sosiologi Humanistis Zygmunt Bauman
There are only two different occurances in modernity: solid modernity and liquid modernity. Solid Modernity operates to create logic of order, categorization and administration. Liquid Modernity works as an illusion of speed and perpetual changes. Mode of categorization in solid modernity has sparked the logic of partiality and nonpartialitity in society. Holocaust -according to Bauman- is an impact of the incapability of the modernity to define …
Toward evaluating the effect of climate change on investments in the water resources sector: Insights from the forecast and analysis of hydrological indicators in developing countries
The World Bank has recently developed a method to evaluate the effects of climate change on six hydrological indicators across 8951 basins of the world. The indicators are designed for decision-makers and stakeholders to consider climate risk when planning water resources and related infrastructure investments. Analysis of these hydrological indicators shows that, on average, mean annual runoff will decline in southern Europe; most of Africa; and…
Glegg, S., Wang, K. and Berrell, M: Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China
Living in the Shadow of Mainland China - On Delineating Social and Political Constrains Among Southeast Asian Chinese Entrepreneurs
Taking a point of departure in the fluid political and economic landscape of East and Southeast Asia, this paper focuses on ethnic Chinese SME entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, who are gradually becoming the focus in a discussion of whether a rising Mainland Chinese economy is a positive or negative force in Asia. Contrary to the coherent nature usually associated with this particular ethnic group, this article argues, that in fact it is divided i…
In the Shadow of Mainland China: Changing Ethnic Chinese Business Practices in Southeast Asia
Navigating between Disaggregating Nation States and Entrenching Processes of Globalisation: Reconceptualising the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia
This paper argues that the fluidity that permeates the contemporary international community is driven by especially political and economic globalisation, which has a huge impact on the relationship between the nation and the state. As the individual nation state is increasingly dependent on the international community for its economic survival this dependency on the global has as a consequence that it rolls back aspects of national sovereignty th…
Re-Conceptualising Notions of Chinese-ness in a Southeast Asian Context. From Diasporic Networking to Grounded Cosmopolitanism
Ethnic Business: Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia . Jomo K. S. , Brian C. Folk
Eva-Lotta E. Hedman, In the Name of Civil Society. From Free Election Movements to People Power in the Philippines
Doing Business the Chinese Way? On Manadonese Chinese, Entrepreneurship in North Sulawesi
This article argues and documents that diasporic networking and guanxi relationships in North Sulawesi Province in East Indonesia are not essential for doing business within the Chinese business community. The main argument forwarded is that guanxi governed business networks are but one strategy among several other business strategies employed, when engaging in inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic business transactions. Furthermore, a discussion of the …
Positioning strategies of Southeast Asian Chinese entrepreneurs
Based on recent fieldwork, this article examines the factor of ethnicity in the positioning strategies of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in relation to the emergence of China as a land of seemingly great economic potential. The focus is on small- and medium-scale entrepreneurs, rather than highly mobile business conglomerates. The article compares such entrepreneurs in Manado (eastern Indonesia), Singapore and Johor Baru (southern Peninsular Malays…
Islam and Processes of Minorisation among Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia: Oscillating between Faith and Political Economic Expediency
The main focus of studies on ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia is generally their business acumen or the extent to which they are assimilated into their respective country of residence. This paper concentrates on a rather different aspect among this ethnic group, namely the influence of Islam amongst the Chinese, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia. This is a topic on which very little research has been done, especially in terms of identity and e…
Factionalism and secession in North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
This article begins with an analysis of the national programme of economic decentralisation and regional autonomy that was introduced in Indonesia in 2001. It discusses the impact of decentralisation in North Sulawesi Province by examining the changes in its ethnic and religious composition during 1998–2001 and the consequences of these changes. Unlike other provinces in Indonesia, North Sulawesi has not experienced any ethnic and religious confl…
Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting national identities and cultural representations in Asia
The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast Asian countries. On the national arenas, Asian values are linked to the struggle between authoritarian and democratic forces, which both tend to convey stereotyped images of the 'west', but with…
On the Question of Contemporary Identity in Minahasa, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
The article analyzes the developments behind the current shift in Indonesian nation building by discussing how the present societal changes in post-Suharto Indonesia have enabled the Minahasa, a Christian ethnic group in North Sulawesi Province, to initiate a reevaluation of their current identity in anticipation of more room for political maneuvers during the implementation of the national programme of economic decentralisation and regional auto…
Between Globalization and Localization: A Case Study of Human Rights Versus State Sovereignty
Stig Toft Madsen: State, Society and Human Rights in South Asia
Anmeldes af Michael Jacobsen
National cultures and local identities: Cultural persistency in the face of Papua New Guinean national encompassment
One of the major issues to be discussed in this paper is how local cultures reproduce themselves in the face of modernity, and how these developments affect the process of identity formation. What does this mean for the overall processes of national encompassment of the local cultures perse? Another and related set of important issues to be discussed is the feasibility of creating a specific national culture in the face of an increasing internati…
Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical Essays 1971-1991
The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless theorizing of structuralism and functionalism, is seen as inevitable when anthropology is forced to think about its own epistemology. Another current concern…
John Davis: Exchange
John Davis: Exchange Anmeldes af Michael Jacobsen
Utilization of Group Projects in Teaching Social Work Research Methods: Benefits to Students and Faculty
In a effort to promote a awareness of the practical aspects of Social Work Research Methods, a new course was developed which utilized group projects facilitated by volunteer Social Work faculty. Benefits to students included an opportunity to participate in actual projects from conceptualization of the problem through the gathering and analysis of data and the presentation of results. Faculty received assistance in conducting research as well as…
Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical Essays 1971-1991
The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless theorizing of structuralism and functionalism, is seen as inevitable when anthropology is forced to think about its own epistemology. Another current concern…
Spectacular Death”—Proposing a New Fifth Phase to Philippe Ariès’s Admirable History of Death
This article revisits, reviews and revises the much cited and magisterial description of successive historical death mentalities from the Middle Ages to modern society as proposed several decades ago by French historian Philippe Ariès. The article first outlines Ariès’s position starting out with the medieval “tamed death,” then moves on to point to several inherent limitations in his history-writing, before suggesting a revision and update of it…
Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting national identities and cultural representations in Asia
The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast Asian countries. On the national arenas, Asian values are linked to the struggle between authoritarian and democratic forces, which both tend to convey stereotyped images of the 'west', but with…
Positioning strategies of Southeast Asian Chinese entrepreneurs
Based on recent fieldwork, this article examines the factor of ethnicity in the positioning strategies of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in relation to the emergence of China as a land of seemingly great economic potential. The focus is on small- and medium-scale entrepreneurs, rather than highly mobile business conglomerates. The article compares such entrepreneurs in Manado (eastern Indonesia), Singapore and Johor Baru (southern Peninsular Malays…
Islam and Processes of Minorisation among Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia: Oscillating between Faith and Political Economic Expediency
The main focus of studies on ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia is generally their business acumen or the extent to which they are assimilated into their respective country of residence. This paper concentrates on a rather different aspect among this ethnic group, namely the influence of Islam amongst the Chinese, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia. This is a topic on which very little research has been done, especially in terms of identity and e…
Utilization of Group Projects in Teaching Social Work Research Methods: Benefits to Students and Faculty
In a effort to promote a awareness of the practical aspects of Social Work Research Methods, a new course was developed which utilized group projects facilitated by volunteer Social Work faculty. Benefits to students included an opportunity to participate in actual projects from conceptualization of the problem through the gathering and analysis of data and the presentation of results. Faculty received assistance in conducting research as well as…
Navigating between Disaggregating Nation States and Entrenching Processes of Globalisation: Reconceptualising the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia
This paper argues that the fluidity that permeates the contemporary international community is driven by especially political and economic globalisation, which has a huge impact on the relationship between the nation and the state. As the individual nation state is increasingly dependent on the international community for its economic survival this dependency on the global has as a consequence that it rolls back aspects of national sovereignty th…
Factionalism and secession in North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
This article begins with an analysis of the national programme of economic decentralisation and regional autonomy that was introduced in Indonesia in 2001. It discusses the impact of decentralisation in North Sulawesi Province by examining the changes in its ethnic and religious composition during 1998–2001 and the consequences of these changes. Unlike other provinces in Indonesia, North Sulawesi has not experienced any ethnic and religious confl…
Re-Conceptualising Notions of Chinese-ness in a Southeast Asian Context. From Diasporic Networking to Grounded Cosmopolitanism
Doing Business the Chinese Way? On Manadonese Chinese, Entrepreneurship in North Sulawesi
This article argues and documents that diasporic networking and guanxi relationships in North Sulawesi Province in East Indonesia are not essential for doing business within the Chinese business community. The main argument forwarded is that guanxi governed business networks are but one strategy among several other business strategies employed, when engaging in inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic business transactions. Furthermore, a discussion of the …
On the Question of Contemporary Identity in Minahasa, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
The article analyzes the developments behind the current shift in Indonesian nation building by discussing how the present societal changes in post-Suharto Indonesia have enabled the Minahasa, a Christian ethnic group in North Sulawesi Province, to initiate a reevaluation of their current identity in anticipation of more room for political maneuvers during the implementation of the national programme of economic decentralisation and regional auto…
Between Globalization and Localization: A Case Study of Human Rights Versus State Sovereignty
National cultures and local identities: Cultural persistency in the face of Papua New Guinean national encompassment
One of the major issues to be discussed in this paper is how local cultures reproduce themselves in the face of modernity, and how these developments affect the process of identity formation. What does this mean for the overall processes of national encompassment of the local cultures perse? Another and related set of important issues to be discussed is the feasibility of creating a specific national culture in the face of an increasing internati…
Utilization of Group Projects in Teaching Social Work Research Methods: Benefits to Students and Faculty
In a effort to promote a awareness of the practical aspects of Social Work Research Methods, a new course was developed which utilized group projects facilitated by volunteer Social Work faculty. Benefits to students included an opportunity to participate in actual projects from conceptualization of the problem through the gathering and analysis of data and the presentation of results. Faculty received assistance in conducting research as well as…
John Davis: Exchange
John Davis: Exchange Anmeldes af Michael Jacobsen
Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical Essays 1971-1991
The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless theorizing of structuralism and functionalism, is seen as inevitable when anthropology is forced to think about its own epistemology. Another current concern…
National cultures and local identities: Cultural persistency in the face of Papua New Guinean national encompassment
One of the major issues to be discussed in this paper is how local cultures reproduce themselves in the face of modernity, and how these developments affect the process of identity formation. What does this mean for the overall processes of national encompassment of the local cultures perse? Another and related set of important issues to be discussed is the feasibility of creating a specific national culture in the face of an increasing internati…
Stig Toft Madsen: State, Society and Human Rights in South Asia
Anmeldes af Michael Jacobsen
Between Globalization and Localization: A Case Study of Human Rights Versus State Sovereignty
On the Question of Contemporary Identity in Minahasa, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
The article analyzes the developments behind the current shift in Indonesian nation building by discussing how the present societal changes in post-Suharto Indonesia have enabled the Minahasa, a Christian ethnic group in North Sulawesi Province, to initiate a reevaluation of their current identity in anticipation of more room for political maneuvers during the implementation of the national programme of economic decentralisation and regional auto…
Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting national identities and cultural representations in Asia
The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast Asian countries. On the national arenas, Asian values are linked to the struggle between authoritarian and democratic forces, which both tend to convey stereotyped images of the 'west', but with…
Factionalism and secession in North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
This article begins with an analysis of the national programme of economic decentralisation and regional autonomy that was introduced in Indonesia in 2001. It discusses the impact of decentralisation in North Sulawesi Province by examining the changes in its ethnic and religious composition during 1998–2001 and the consequences of these changes. Unlike other provinces in Indonesia, North Sulawesi has not experienced any ethnic and religious confl…
Islam and Processes of Minorisation among Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia: Oscillating between Faith and Political Economic Expediency
The main focus of studies on ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia is generally their business acumen or the extent to which they are assimilated into their respective country of residence. This paper concentrates on a rather different aspect among this ethnic group, namely the influence of Islam amongst the Chinese, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia. This is a topic on which very little research has been done, especially in terms of identity and e…
Eva-Lotta E. Hedman, In the Name of Civil Society. From Free Election Movements to People Power in the Philippines
Doing Business the Chinese Way? On Manadonese Chinese, Entrepreneurship in North Sulawesi
This article argues and documents that diasporic networking and guanxi relationships in North Sulawesi Province in East Indonesia are not essential for doing business within the Chinese business community. The main argument forwarded is that guanxi governed business networks are but one strategy among several other business strategies employed, when engaging in inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic business transactions. Furthermore, a discussion of the …
Positioning strategies of Southeast Asian Chinese entrepreneurs
Based on recent fieldwork, this article examines the factor of ethnicity in the positioning strategies of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in relation to the emergence of China as a land of seemingly great economic potential. The focus is on small- and medium-scale entrepreneurs, rather than highly mobile business conglomerates. The article compares such entrepreneurs in Manado (eastern Indonesia), Singapore and Johor Baru (southern Peninsular Malays…
Re-Conceptualising Notions of Chinese-ness in a Southeast Asian Context. From Diasporic Networking to Grounded Cosmopolitanism
Ethnic Business: Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia . Jomo K. S. , Brian C. Folk
Glegg, S., Wang, K. and Berrell, M: Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China
Living in the Shadow of Mainland China - On Delineating Social and Political Constrains Among Southeast Asian Chinese Entrepreneurs
Taking a point of departure in the fluid political and economic landscape of East and Southeast Asia, this paper focuses on ethnic Chinese SME entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, who are gradually becoming the focus in a discussion of whether a rising Mainland Chinese economy is a positive or negative force in Asia. Contrary to the coherent nature usually associated with this particular ethnic group, this article argues, that in fact it is divided i…
In the Shadow of Mainland China: Changing Ethnic Chinese Business Practices in Southeast Asia
Navigating between Disaggregating Nation States and Entrenching Processes of Globalisation: Reconceptualising the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia
This paper argues that the fluidity that permeates the contemporary international community is driven by especially political and economic globalisation, which has a huge impact on the relationship between the nation and the state. As the individual nation state is increasingly dependent on the international community for its economic survival this dependency on the global has as a consequence that it rolls back aspects of national sovereignty th…
Toward evaluating the effect of climate change on investments in the water resources sector: Insights from the forecast and analysis of hydrological indicators in developing countries
The World Bank has recently developed a method to evaluate the effects of climate change on six hydrological indicators across 8951 basins of the world. The indicators are designed for decision-makers and stakeholders to consider climate risk when planning water resources and related infrastructure investments. Analysis of these hydrological indicators shows that, on average, mean annual runoff will decline in southern Europe; most of Africa; and…
Modernitas dan Tragedi: Kritik dalam Sosiologi Humanistis Zygmunt Bauman
There are only two different occurances in modernity: solid modernity and liquid modernity. Solid Modernity operates to create logic of order, categorization and administration. Liquid Modernity works as an illusion of speed and perpetual changes. Mode of categorization in solid modernity has sparked the logic of partiality and nonpartialitity in society. Holocaust -according to Bauman- is an impact of the incapability of the modernity to define …
Spectacular Death”—Proposing a New Fifth Phase to Philippe Ariès’s Admirable History of Death
This article revisits, reviews and revises the much cited and magisterial description of successive historical death mentalities from the Middle Ages to modern society as proposed several decades ago by French historian Philippe Ariès. The article first outlines Ariès’s position starting out with the medieval “tamed death,” then moves on to point to several inherent limitations in his history-writing, before suggesting a revision and update of it…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Ethnic group (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · China (8 works) · Asian Studies and History (7 works) · Economics (7 works)