Houben

Biographic Data

ID56350
NAMEHouben
FAMILY NAMEHouben
SIGNATUREHOUBEN
AFFILIATIONSLeiden University
ORCID0000-0002-9340-5490
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Taking stock of New Area Studies: The Present, Past and Future

    Open AccessHoubenARTICLENew Area Studies2025

    Taking stock of New Area Studies: The Present, Past and Future

  • Socioculture and Its Impact on Social Inequality

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent J H HoubenCHAPTERGlobal Handbook of Inequality2024

  • The Concept of Socioculture and Theorising Inequality

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent J H HoubenCHAPTERGlobal Handbook of Inequality2024

  • The Concept of Socioculture and Theorizing Inequality

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent J H HoubenCHAPTERGlobal Handbook of Inequality2024

  • Repertoires of European Panic and Indigenous Recaptures in Late Colonial Indonesia

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent HoubenCHAPTERAnxieties, Fear and Panic in…2016

  • The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region

    Houben, Vincent HoubenARTICLEBulletin of Indonesian Economic…2013

    Amitav Acharya (2012) The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp. xviii + 350. Pape

  • Economic crises in the Asean area: Types and responses

    Houben, Vincent HoubenARTICLEEuropean Review of History Revue…2012References: 2

    Southeast Asia, the world region covering the countries of ASEAN, lies at the crossroads between China and India. Since early times it has been part of the global economy, going through cycles of boom and bust at least from the nineteenth century onwards. This essay compares three successive economic crises during the 1880s, 1930s and late 1990s. It shows how different types of crisis reflected as well as produced changes in the connectivity betw…

  • Boundaries of Race

    Houben, Vincent J H HoubenCHAPTEREmpires and Boundaries2008

    The emergence and maintenance of boundaries of race in Indonesia was an integral part of colonialism, but still has great societal relevance for present-day Dutch national culture. This chapter attempts to show how colonial society was built on ideational boundaries of race and how these as well as their transgressions have been instrumental in the construction of a postcolonial order in Holland, which now is rewriting the history of colonialism.…

  • Southeast Asian Studies: Debates and New Directions

    京都大学東南アジア研究所 京都大学東南アジア研究所, International Convention of Asia Scholars et al.BOOKSoutheast Asian studies2006

    "What is the relevance of the area studies approach to Southeast Asia?" The current state and future directions of area studies, of which Southeast Asian studies are a part, is a central question not only to scientists working in the field but also those engaged in university politics. This collection of nine articles is written by specialists from different disciplinary backgrounds and working in institutions of higher learning all around the wo…

  • Southeast Asia and Islam

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent J H HoubenARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2003Cited by: 14References: 7

    Southeast Asia is the most populous Islamic region in the world yet has gained only limited attention. This survey article tries to explain what are the specific characteristics of Islam in this world region. After a historical overview of the spread of Islam in insular Southeast Asia, its contemporary political contexts in Indonesia, Malaysia, South Thailand, and the Philippines are scrutinized. Finally, a number of contentious issues in Southea…

  • Houben/Lindblad Reply to Jan Breman's Review Article ‘New Thoughts on Colonial Labour in Indonesia’ (JSEAS 33, 2)

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent J H Houben et al.ARTICLEJournal of Southeast Asian Studies2002Cited by: 1

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  • The unmastered past: Decolonization and Dutch collective memory

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent J H HoubenARTICLEEuropean Review2000References: 1

    The decolonization of Indonesia is far from being a peripheral issue for Dutch national identity. Since the 1970s, but especially in 1995, public debate has erupted in an attempt to come to terms with this part of national history. The protestant ethic is still so strong that discussions revolve in particular around morality and a final verdict. Opinion leaders and historians have, however, not been able to solve the issue, so that the way in whi…

  • The Fourth Euroviet Conference: Passau, 16-18 September 1999

    Open AccessMartin Grossheim, Houben et al.ARTICLEMoussons1999

    A sunny Bavarian late summer saw experts convene for three days to discuss current developments in Vietnam. Linder the general title The Economic Crisis and Vietnam’s Integration into Southeast Asia, 23 papers were delivered in six panels - Vietnam and the Financial Crisis: The Economic Impact; Trade and Financial Reforms: Historical Perspectives; Trade and Financial Reforms: Economic Perspectives; The Asian Financial Crisis and its Impact on Vie…

  • Economic crisis and the culture of reform in Southeast Asia

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent HoubenARTICLEEuropean Review1999Cited by: 1References: 2

    The economic crisis in Southeast Asia has provoked a debate on the economic and political culture of the region. Is Asian capitalism really suffering from structural deficiencies or does it only signify the imposition of western ethnocentric values? Inside Southeast Asia, public discussion on the issue of corruption has erupted, involving culturally specific notions of what is acceptable or not. Likewise, unbridled exercise of power increasingly …

  • A Torn Soul: The Dutch Public Discussion on the Colonial Past in 1995

    Houben, Vincent J H HoubenARTICLEIndonesia1997Cited by: 3References: 1

    The Dutch cherish a comforting self-image that presents the nation as a wellmannered, civilized, and tolerant community of burghers. Dutch history, as it is taught at school, reinforces this assumption. The Eighty Years War against Spain (1568-1648) is described as a struggle for political independence and as the defining conflict that served to establish the Protestant religion as the basis for public life. The rebellion against Spain was accomp…

  • Labour Conditions on Western Firnis in Colonial Indonesia: Outline of an Approach

    Open AccessHouben, V J H HoubenARTICLEJahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte…1995

  • Historical Foundations of a National Economy in Indonesia, 1890s–1990s, Amsterdam, 20–22 September 1994

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent Houben et al.ARTICLEItinerario1995

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  • Colonial History’ Revisited. A Response to Breman

    Open AccessHouben, Vincent HoubenARTICLEItinerario1993Cited by: 1

    In the last issue of Itinerario (vol. XVI, 1992/2), Jan Breman of the University of Amsterdam, has published an English translation of his introduction to the third edition of his book Koelies, Planters en Koloniale Politiek . In this article, titled ‘Controversial Views on Writing Colonial History’, Breman tries to deal with some of the ‘more sceptical and sometimes even hostile’ reactions to his book on plantation labour in East Coast Sumatra d…

  • Number-crunchers and Historians: The Economic History of Indonesia. A Review of Some Recent Literature

    Open AccessHouben, V J H HoubenARTICLEItinerario1991

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  • Surakarta: Cité héroïque et florissante

    Houben, V J H HoubenARTICLEArchipel1989References: 1

    Houben V.J.H. Surakarta : cité héroïque et florissante. In: Archipel, volume 37, 1989. Villes d'Insulinde (II) pp. 199-218

  • History and Morality: East Sumatran incidents as described by Jan Breman

    Open AccessHouben, V J H HoubenARTICLEItinerario1988

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  • IX. Between Empire Building and State Formation. Official Elites in Java and Mughal India

    Open AccessHouben, V J H Houben et al.ARTICLEItinerario1988References: 3

    The reason to compare the recent histories of India and Indonesia was that they were the scenes of the two most extensive and populous colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The decision to push back the comparison to the pre-colonial era meant loosing track of the vital focus of the enterprise. Moreover, pre-colonial India presents a unity in only some respects whereas Indonesia as a territorial concept did not even exist th…

  • Sixth European Colloquium on Indonesian and Malay Studies (Ecims), Passau, June 22–27, 1987

    Open AccessHouben, V J H HoubenARTICLEItinerario1987

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  • Report on the Second Cambridge-Delhi-Leiden-Yogyakarta Conference: ‘The Heyday of Colonial Rule: India and Indonesia from the 1830s to 1914’, Leiden, 24-27 September 1985

    Open AccessHouben, V J H HoubenARTICLEItinerario1987

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  • VII. Native States in India and Indonesia: The Nineteenth Century

    Open AccessHouben, V J H HoubenARTICLEItinerario1987References: 1

    Beneath the surface of apparent unity of the colonial empires of Britain and Holland in India and Indonesia, there existed a wide variety of relations between the Western power on the one hand and indigenous political structures on the other. A colonial power could control its territorial possessions in several ways, usually classified in terms of either direct or indirect rule. Furnivall, in his famous comparative study of British Burma and the …