Position in ISS:	Professor of Rural Sociology
Department(s):	ISS Faculty Staff Group 4: Rural Development, Environment and Population
Committee(s):	Academic Council Staff Group Board IV
Other positions:	At ISS: Convenor, Rural Livelihoods & Global Change Specialisation Chair, Academic Council Chair, Staff Group 4 Rural Development, Environment & Population Studies Elsewhere: Professor in Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam Coordinating Team, Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) Editorial Board, Critical Development Studies International Advisory Committee, Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS)

My main teaching and research interests focus on processes of change in rural societies and the anthropology and history of childhood and youth, particularly in the area of child work and education. I have been engaged in research on these topics...

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Selected Recent Publications

2010

M. Bourdillon, W.E. Myers, D. Levison and B. White. Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work. Childhood Studies Series, Rutgers University Press (November)

2009

Development and Change at 40. In Development and Change Forum 2009. 40 (6) 997-1010.

Partager les fruits de la moisson: récolte du riz et changement social au sein d’un village javanais. Le Banian No. 7 (June): 25-42.

What is good research? in Moh. Shohibuddin (ed.) Metodologi Studi Agraria. Bogor: Sajogyo Institute/Bogor Agricultural University, pp. vii – xvii.

M. Bourdillon, B. White & W.E. Myers. Reassessing minimum-age standards for children’s work. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 29 [3-4]: 106-117

Social science views on working children. in H. Hindman ed., The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey. Armonk NY & London: M.E. Sharpe: 10-17

Children and work in Indonesia: historical overview. in H. Hindman ed., The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey. Armonk NY & London: M.E. Sharpe: 906-9

B. White & Gunawan Wiradi eds. Reforma Agraria dalam Tinjauan Komparatif (Agrarian reform in Comparative Perspective). Bogor: Brighten Press. Pp. xx + 122

2007

'Clifford Geertz: singular genius of interpretive anthropology' Development and Change 38 (6): 1187-1208.

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