F Colombijn
Biographic Data
| ID | 7549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Colombijn |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Colombijn |
| SIGNATURE | COLOMBIJN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4815-8590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Breastfeeding and care trade-offs in Eastern Ethiopia: Social factors shaping maternal decision-making
Introduction The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding as essential for infant feeding for up to two years and beyond. In Ethiopia, the focus is on ‘optimal’ breastfeeding, but little is known about how women themselves make breastfeeding decisions.Theory The feminist political economy of health theory is used to understand why breastfeeding decisions are not a matter of strictly individual choice, but made under structural constrain…
Internet skills, digital engagement, and outcomes among urban youth in Jakarta, Indonesia: Incorporating a Global South context in measuring digital inequality
This article examines internet skills, digital engagement, and digital outcomes among urban youth in Jakarta, Indonesia, thereby addressing the underexplored issue of digital inequality in the Global South. We tested and modified digital inequality scales initially developed in the Global North through cognitive interviews and confirmatory factor analyses. The internet skills scale exhibited a reasonable model fit. The modified digital engagement…
Debilitating Domestic Duties: Precariousness of Female Waste Pickers in Indonesia
Gender differences in the work of female and male waste pickers have often been overlooked. In this article we want to show that for waste pickers in Indonesia there are remarkable similarities between female and male waste pickers. At first sight, there is practically no division of tasks between female and male waste pickers. Nevertheless, the domestic chores of women, gendered differences in stigmatisation, and possible societal expectations a…
Repair cafés in the Netherlands: Capitalist abstinence as a challenge to a linear capitalist economy
Repair cafés have become a common phenomenon in the Netherlands and some other European countries. In repair cafés, owners of broken objects and volunteer-repairers meet to try to salvage broken appliances. While their economic effect is negligible, repair cafés are a small step towards attaining a circular economy because they motivate their visitors to lead more sustainable lives. By extending the life-cycle of objects, by refusing payment and …
Recycling, caring and chatting at the Food Bike: Citizen Participation in a Waste Management Experiment in Hengelo, the Netherlands
The food bike (voedselfiets) project in the city of Hengelo (Netherlands) was designed to stimulate citizens to separate organic from residual waste. The food bikes take standard routes with designated stops to collect food waste from residents in high-rise neighbourhoods, which lack space to separate organic waste in garbage containers. Data were collected by a mix of qualitative research methods, which allowed to develop a holistic and contextu…
In Memoriam Henri J.M. Claessen: Scholar, Teacher, and Organizer (1930–2022)
Colonial heritage as bricolage: Interpreting the colonial built environment in Surabaya, Indonesia
One of the most visible and enduring vestiges of colonialism is its buildings. In this article I address the question of how current approving references to the colonial buildings in Indonesia should be explained, looking at one particular city, Surabaya. The cheerful, innovative adoption of colonial themes defies an analysis in terms of 'imperial debris'. I propose to borrow the term 'bricolage' from Claude Lévi-Strauss to describe this process …
Is Green Islam going to support environmentalism in Indonesia
Various newspaper and scholarly articles have appeared in the past few years which enthusiastically claim that a Green Islam is emerging in Indonesia. This movement is supposedly going to have a major positive impact on pro-environmental behaviour. In contrast to this optimism, on the basis of our observations of daily life in Indonesia, we question the belief that such a powerful Green Islam is emerging. We argue that, in the cases we have studi…
Secrecy at the End of the Recycling Chain: The Recycling of Plastic Waste in Surabaya, Indonesia
The aim of this article is to address the question: Why companies which produce or use pellets made from recycled plastics choose a strategic invisibility for their activities. The recycling of plastics is a process spread over an extended recycling supply chain. The negative stigma associated with recycled plastic in Indonesia is directed away from the factories towards the waste-pickers, junk-dealers and grinders who work the waste manually fro…
Sigilo no fim da cadeia de reciclagem: A reciclagem de resíduos plásticos em Surabaya, Indonésia
A reciclagem de plásticos é um processo distribuído ao longo de uma extensa cadeia ("chain", no jargão em inglês) de abastecimento de reciclagem. O estigma negativo associado ao plástico reciclado, na Indonésia, é dirigido das fábricas para os catadores, negociantes de lixo e trituradores que trabalham manualmente os resíduos a partir dos quais o plástico reciclado é selecionado. O afastamento da fonte não só permite que as fábricas se livrem des…
Organização
The Production of Urban Space by Violence and its Aftermath in Jakarta and Kota Ambon, Indonesia
Violence has an enormous potential impact on the production of urban space. This article presents an analysis of how violence has made an impact on Indonesian cities since 1998. Using case material from communal violence in Kota Ambon, and lynching and vigilantism in Jakarta, the article addresses the question what impact did violence have on the spatial restructuring of some Indonesian cities and, conversely, - assuming that the people who used …
Debate
outcomes described by Li with similar and contrasting cases elsewhere would help reveal to what extent the fate of the Lauje represents a universal story, and to what extent it reflects locally specific factors, such as the markedly individualistic tendencies which Li describes as characteristic of Lauje economic behaviour even before the cacao era
I Am a Singer: A Conversation with Johan Silas, Architect and Urban Planner in Surabaya, Indonesia
Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors demonstrate how modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. A full text Open Access version is also available.
Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors demonstrate how modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. A full text Open Access version is also available
Mobilities and Mobilizations of the Urban Poor
This introduction sets out the aims of the symposium on mobilities and mobilizations of the urban poor. Exploring the physical, social and imagined movements of the poor into, within and out of cities, and addressing how these movements connect to the dynamics of urban social mobilization, it argues for an incorporation of the 'mobility turn' in studies of the urban poor. The introduction proposes a number of relevant themes within this approach,…
Abidin Kusno, The Appearances of Memory. Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia
Public housing in post-colonial Indonesia: The revolution of rising expectations
Public housing can show us important things about Indonesia in the 1950s, because seemingly technical, neutral planning decisions were in reality highly political choices. Public housing was restarted on a massive scale in Indonesia in the early 1950s, but the building volume soon fell off because of financial constraints. This limited success raises the questions of what happened to public housing during the decolonization, which groups were rea…
Under Construction: The Politics of Urban Space and Housing during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930-1960
Freek Colombijn examines the social changes in Indonesian cities during the process of decolonization. That process had major repercussions for urban society. These social changes are studied from the angle of urban space in general, and the provision of housing in particular. This provides fresh insight into how people experienced decolonization. The author challenges the idea that a shift from ethnic to class differences was the overriding soci…
Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City 1
(2009). Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City1. Urban Geography: Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 809-814
Racial Segregation in the (Post) Colonial City: The Case of Indonesia1
Urban society in colonial and early postcolonial Indonesia was stratified along ethnic and class lines. This stratification was given concrete shape in the urban residential landscape. Our article starts from the working hypothesis that under the impact of decolonization the changing social status system was reflected in a changing residential pattern. We offer empirical evidence to weigh the relative validity of the from-race-to-class-segregatio…
Nature and Nation: Forests and Development in Peninsular Malaysia
Toooot! Vroooom! The Urban Soundscape in Indonesia
This article will explore the soundscape of Indonesian cities: What are the main components of the soundscape and how do people experience the urban sounds? The soundscape has changed in the course of history through the interconnected processes of modernization and globalization, and yet, the Indonesian urban soundscape has kept its distinctive character. This article is an attempt to see whether social scientists can study something as intangib…
The Search for an Extinct Volcano in the Dutch Polder. Pilgrimage to Memorial Sites of Pim Fortuyn
Anthropos , Seite 71 - 90
Mobilities and Mobilizations of the Urban Poor
This introduction sets out the aims of the symposium on mobilities and mobilizations of the urban poor. Exploring the physical, social and imagined movements of the poor into, within and out of cities, and addressing how these movements connect to the dynamics of urban social mobilization, it argues for an incorporation of the 'mobility turn' in studies of the urban poor. The introduction proposes a number of relevant themes within this approach,…
The Politics of Indonesian Football
Freek Colombijn Cet article retrace les grands traits de l'histoire du football indonésien pendant ce siècle. Le développement du football indonésien suit à un degré remarquable l'histoire récente de l'Indonésie. Les principaux points en sont : les intérêts financiers concernés, la rivalité entre associations de football nationalistes et hollandaises, les tentatives de modernisation du football par le gouvernement de l'Ordre Nouveau et les batail…
Toooot! Vroooom! The Urban Soundscape in Indonesia
This article will explore the soundscape of Indonesian cities: What are the main components of the soundscape and how do people experience the urban sounds? The soundscape has changed in the course of history through the interconnected processes of modernization and globalization, and yet, the Indonesian urban soundscape has kept its distinctive character. This article is an attempt to see whether social scientists can study something as intangib…
Racial Segregation in the (Post) Colonial City: The Case of Indonesia1
Urban society in colonial and early postcolonial Indonesia was stratified along ethnic and class lines. This stratification was given concrete shape in the urban residential landscape. Our article starts from the working hypothesis that under the impact of decolonization the changing social status system was reflected in a changing residential pattern. We offer empirical evidence to weigh the relative validity of the from-race-to-class-segregatio…
A Moving History of Middle Sumatra, 1600-1870
The history of the early modern Malay world has been told largely in terms of processes of Islamization, the rise and demise of states, European voyages of discovery, trade with China, India and Europe, and colonial conquest. With a few important exceptions, these studies underestimate, if not ignore, the role of transportation in the historical transformations of Southeast Asia. Just as Clive Ponting's (1992) well-known A green history of the wo…
The Production of Urban Space by Violence and its Aftermath in Jakarta and Kota Ambon, Indonesia
Violence has an enormous potential impact on the production of urban space. This article presents an analysis of how violence has made an impact on Indonesian cities since 1998. Using case material from communal violence in Kota Ambon, and lynching and vigilantism in Jakarta, the article addresses the question what impact did violence have on the spatial restructuring of some Indonesian cities and, conversely, - assuming that the people who used …
Public housing in post-colonial Indonesia: The revolution of rising expectations
Public housing can show us important things about Indonesia in the 1950s, because seemingly technical, neutral planning decisions were in reality highly political choices. Public housing was restarted on a massive scale in Indonesia in the early 1950s, but the building volume soon fell off because of financial constraints. This limited success raises the questions of what happened to public housing during the decolonization, which groups were rea…
The Volatile State in Southeast Asia: Evidence from Sumatra, 1600-1800
Thecommunis opinioof historians is that early modern, or precolonial, states in Southeast Asia tended to lead precarious existences. The states were volatile in the sense that the size of individual states changed quickly, a ruler forced by circumstances moved his state capital, the death of a ruler was followed by a dynastic struggle, or a local subordinate head either ignored or took over the central state power; in short, states went through s…
Introduction; On the road
This special issue's set of articles is opened by Jonathan Rigg. Rigg poses the basic question of why Southeast Asian governments build roads to connect outlying areas to the centre of the state. A political motive, which he men tions without further analysis, is to integrate marginal people into the politi cal mainstream and to enhance the mobility of security forces. An economic motive is market integration, aimed at bringing development to peo…
Canberra: A sheep in wolf’s clothing
Canberra, the capital of the Commonwealth of Australia, was built as a symbol of a new nation. The city’s symbolism is dominated by an optic axis, provided by the masterplan of Walter Burley Griffin. The dominant message of the objects at the poles of this axis, the Parliament House and the War Memorial, is nationalism. The Parliament House brings the nation together at one point and the War Memorial specifies that the Australian national is toug…
Global and local perspectives on Indonesia's environmental problems and the role of NGO's
Globalization of societal processes is most easily observed in the relation between people and their environment.1 Damage to the ozone layer, mostly caused by emissions in the North, has local consequences in Indonesia. Global warming may result in the flooding of Indonesian coastal cities and the rice-producing regions of northern Java. Supertankers transporting oil from the Gulf to Japan are a potential threat for Indonesia's marine and coastal…
Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City 1
(2009). Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City1. Urban Geography: Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 809-814
The Search for an Extinct Volcano in the Dutch Polder. Pilgrimage to Memorial Sites of Pim Fortuyn
Anthropos , Seite 71 - 90
A wild west frontier on Sumatra's east coast; The Pekanbaru-Dumai Road
James Gomez, Self-censorship: Singapore's Shame
In this essay James Gomez argues that since the mid-1960s, political culture in Singapore has been characterized by selfcensorship, which is a main obstruction to political development.I shall summarize his thesis extensively, although in a different order than he presents his argument himself.The present state leaders call for more innovative thinking in technology, business and science, but according to Gomez creativity in these fields cannot c…
Dynamics and dynamite: Minangkabau urban landownership in the 1990s
Q See De Stuers, Nota over het regt op het land 2 1-5-1829, Arsip Nasional Jakarta, Sumatra's Westkust 147125.' 5 The Dutch colonial and Indonesian terms for 'court of the first instance' are Landraad and Pengadilan Negeri respectively; for 'court of appeal' Raad van Justitie and Pengadilan Tinggi; and for 'supreme court' Mahkamah Agung.The settling of land disputes was the main task of the Raad van Justitie in Padang (Ter Haar 1932).l 8 It is co…
Debilitating Domestic Duties: Precariousness of Female Waste Pickers in Indonesia
Gender differences in the work of female and male waste pickers have often been overlooked. In this article we want to show that for waste pickers in Indonesia there are remarkable similarities between female and male waste pickers. At first sight, there is practically no division of tasks between female and male waste pickers. Nevertheless, the domestic chores of women, gendered differences in stigmatisation, and possible societal expectations a…
Repair cafés in the Netherlands: Capitalist abstinence as a challenge to a linear capitalist economy
Repair cafés have become a common phenomenon in the Netherlands and some other European countries. In repair cafés, owners of broken objects and volunteer-repairers meet to try to salvage broken appliances. While their economic effect is negligible, repair cafés are a small step towards attaining a circular economy because they motivate their visitors to lead more sustainable lives. By extending the life-cycle of objects, by refusing payment and …
Secrecy at the End of the Recycling Chain: The Recycling of Plastic Waste in Surabaya, Indonesia
The aim of this article is to address the question: Why companies which produce or use pellets made from recycled plastics choose a strategic invisibility for their activities. The recycling of plastics is a process spread over an extended recycling supply chain. The negative stigma associated with recycled plastic in Indonesia is directed away from the factories towards the waste-pickers, junk-dealers and grinders who work the waste manually fro…
Padang
The Colonial Municipal Council in Padang (Sumatra) as Political Arena
The experiment with administrative decentralization in Indonesia started with a new law that was enacted in 1903. The European civil servants believed that this law would protect their position, and they did not foresee two processes that were to gradually undercut this very position. First, the citizens in the municipal councils seized the opportunity to acquire a real degree of autonomy. Secondly, the council became a platform where the Indones…
Minangkabau and Its Colonial Conditioning
Foreign influence on the state of Banten, 1596–1682
(1989). Foreign influence on the state of Banten, 1596–1682. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 18, No. 50, pp. 19-30
Dynamics and dynamite: Minangkabau urban landownership in the 1990s
Q See De Stuers, Nota over het regt op het land 2 1-5-1829, Arsip Nasional Jakarta, Sumatra's Westkust 147125.' 5 The Dutch colonial and Indonesian terms for 'court of the first instance' are Landraad and Pengadilan Negeri respectively; for 'court of appeal' Raad van Justitie and Pengadilan Tinggi; and for 'supreme court' Mahkamah Agung.The settling of land disputes was the main task of the Raad van Justitie in Padang (Ter Haar 1932).l 8 It is co…
The Colonial Municipal Council in Padang (Sumatra) as Political Arena
The experiment with administrative decentralization in Indonesia started with a new law that was enacted in 1903. The European civil servants believed that this law would protect their position, and they did not foresee two processes that were to gradually undercut this very position. First, the citizens in the municipal councils seized the opportunity to acquire a real degree of autonomy. Secondly, the council became a platform where the Indones…
Minangkabau and Its Colonial Conditioning
Padang
Canberra: A sheep in wolf’s clothing
Canberra, the capital of the Commonwealth of Australia, was built as a symbol of a new nation. The city’s symbolism is dominated by an optic axis, provided by the masterplan of Walter Burley Griffin. The dominant message of the objects at the poles of this axis, the Parliament House and the War Memorial, is nationalism. The Parliament House brings the nation together at one point and the War Memorial specifies that the Australian national is toug…
Global and local perspectives on Indonesia's environmental problems and the role of NGO's
Globalization of societal processes is most easily observed in the relation between people and their environment.1 Damage to the ozone layer, mostly caused by emissions in the North, has local consequences in Indonesia. Global warming may result in the flooding of Indonesian coastal cities and the rice-producing regions of northern Java. Supertankers transporting oil from the Gulf to Japan are a potential threat for Indonesia's marine and coastal…
James Gomez, Self-censorship: Singapore's Shame
In this essay James Gomez argues that since the mid-1960s, political culture in Singapore has been characterized by selfcensorship, which is a main obstruction to political development.I shall summarize his thesis extensively, although in a different order than he presents his argument himself.The present state leaders call for more innovative thinking in technology, business and science, but according to Gomez creativity in these fields cannot c…
The Politics of Indonesian Football
Freek Colombijn Cet article retrace les grands traits de l'histoire du football indonésien pendant ce siècle. Le développement du football indonésien suit à un degré remarquable l'histoire récente de l'Indonésie. Les principaux points en sont : les intérêts financiers concernés, la rivalité entre associations de football nationalistes et hollandaises, les tentatives de modernisation du football par le gouvernement de l'Ordre Nouveau et les batail…
Maling, Maling: The Lynching of Petty Criminals
A wild west frontier on Sumatra's east coast; The Pekanbaru-Dumai Road
Introduction; On the road
This special issue's set of articles is opened by Jonathan Rigg. Rigg poses the basic question of why Southeast Asian governments build roads to connect outlying areas to the centre of the state. A political motive, which he men tions without further analysis, is to integrate marginal people into the politi cal mainstream and to enhance the mobility of security forces. An economic motive is market integration, aimed at bringing development to peo…
Urban Ethnic Encounters: The Spatial Consequences
Throughout this volume, the two leading questions had been: How does urban space structure the life of ethnic groups?How does ethnic diversity contribute to creating an urban shape or give shape to a particular space?In spite of the fact that we do not claim to have provided completely satisfying answers to these questions, we feel that we can still pull together the threads that have come out.Hence, this chapter consists of empirical generalizat…
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The Volatile State in Southeast Asia: Evidence from Sumatra, 1600-1800
Thecommunis opinioof historians is that early modern, or precolonial, states in Southeast Asia tended to lead precarious existences. The states were volatile in the sense that the size of individual states changed quickly, a ruler forced by circumstances moved his state capital, the death of a ruler was followed by a dynastic struggle, or a local subordinate head either ignored or took over the central state power; in short, states went through s…
Islamic influences on urban form in Sumatra in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries ce
This article focuses on the evolution of three urban centres: Palembang, Padang and Tanjung Pinang. Where appropriate, brief information about other towns is added which shows that the three towns are typical for towns on the east coast, the west coast and the islands in the Straits of Malacca respectively. Unfortunately, there is no place in the Minangkabau highlands for which historical sources exist that can help to reconstruct the townscape i…
A Moving History of Middle Sumatra, 1600-1870
The history of the early modern Malay world has been told largely in terms of processes of Islamization, the rise and demise of states, European voyages of discovery, trade with China, India and Europe, and colonial conquest. With a few important exceptions, these studies underestimate, if not ignore, the role of transportation in the historical transformations of Southeast Asia. Just as Clive Ponting's (1992) well-known A green history of the wo…
Toooot! Vroooom! The Urban Soundscape in Indonesia
This article will explore the soundscape of Indonesian cities: What are the main components of the soundscape and how do people experience the urban sounds? The soundscape has changed in the course of history through the interconnected processes of modernization and globalization, and yet, the Indonesian urban soundscape has kept its distinctive character. This article is an attempt to see whether social scientists can study something as intangib…
The Search for an Extinct Volcano in the Dutch Polder. Pilgrimage to Memorial Sites of Pim Fortuyn
Anthropos , Seite 71 - 90
Nature and Nation: Forests and Development in Peninsular Malaysia
Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City 1
(2009). Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City1. Urban Geography: Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 809-814
Racial Segregation in the (Post) Colonial City: The Case of Indonesia1
Urban society in colonial and early postcolonial Indonesia was stratified along ethnic and class lines. This stratification was given concrete shape in the urban residential landscape. Our article starts from the working hypothesis that under the impact of decolonization the changing social status system was reflected in a changing residential pattern. We offer empirical evidence to weigh the relative validity of the from-race-to-class-segregatio…
Under Construction: The Politics of Urban Space and Housing during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930-1960
Freek Colombijn examines the social changes in Indonesian cities during the process of decolonization. That process had major repercussions for urban society. These social changes are studied from the angle of urban space in general, and the provision of housing in particular. This provides fresh insight into how people experienced decolonization. The author challenges the idea that a shift from ethnic to class differences was the overriding soci…
Abidin Kusno, The Appearances of Memory. Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia
Public housing in post-colonial Indonesia: The revolution of rising expectations
Public housing can show us important things about Indonesia in the 1950s, because seemingly technical, neutral planning decisions were in reality highly political choices. Public housing was restarted on a massive scale in Indonesia in the early 1950s, but the building volume soon fell off because of financial constraints. This limited success raises the questions of what happened to public housing during the decolonization, which groups were rea…
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