ISS Faculty
Prof.Dr. Ben White
Prof.Dr. Ben White
Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies (SG4)
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Emeritus Professor
E: WHITE@ISS.NL
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Emeritus Professor
| University | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| School | International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) |
| Department | Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies (SG4) |
Research
ISS: Individual Research SGIV| Role | Member |
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- White, B.N.F., Borras, S.M., Hall, R., Scoones, I. & Wolford, W. (2012). The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(3-4), 619-647.
- White, B.N.F. (2012). Gendered experiences of dispossession: oil palm expansion in a Dayak Hibun community in West Kalimantan. Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(3-4), 995-1016.
- White, B.N.F. (2012). Agriculture and the generation problem: rural youth, employment and the future of farming. IDS Bulletin, 43(6), 9-19.
- White, B.N.F. & Naafs, S. (2012). Generasi antara: refleksi tentang studi pemuda Indonesia. Jurnal Studi Pemuda, 1(2), 89-106.
- White, B.N.F. (2012). Changing childhoods: Javanese village children in three generations. Journal of Agrarian Change, 12(1), 81-97.
- White, B.N.F., Hall, R. & Wolford, W. (2012). Special Double Issue: The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(3-4), 619-1101.
- White, B.N.F., Borras, S.M., Hall, R., Scoones, I. & Wolford, W. (2012). The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(3-4), 619-647.
- White, B.N.F. & Spyer, P. (2012). Special Issue: Ragam transisi pemuda: pengalaman bertumbuh di Indonesia. Jurnal Studi Pemuda, 1(2), 87-182.
- Borras, S.M., Hall, R., Scoones, I., White, B.N.F. & Wolford, W. (2011). Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction. Journal of Peasant Studies, 38(2), 209-216.
- White, B.N.F. & Dasgupta, A. (2010). Agrofuels capitalism: a view from political economy. Journal of Peasant Studies, 37(4), 593-607.
- White, B.N.F. (2009). Development and Change at Forty. Development and Change, 40(6), 1-13.
- White, B.N.F., Bourdillon, M. & Myers, W.E. (2009). Reassessing minimum-age standards for children’s work. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy , 29(3-4), 106-117.
- White, B.N.F. (2009). Partager les fruits de la moisson: récolte du riz et changement social au sein d’ un village javanais. Le Banian , 7(June), 25-42.
- White, B.N.F. (2009). ‘Dibalik pertarungan sumber daya Indonesia: ekologi politik dan penerapannya pada studi dan perjuangan lingkungan hidup’ (Behind Indonesian resource struggles: political ecology and its application in environmental studies and struggles). Tanah Air (in B. White, M. Arsel & S. Afiff eds. Ekologi Politik), Oct-Dec, 3-9.
- White, B.N.F. (2009). ‘Laba dan Kuasa Dicat Warna Hijau? Catatan mengenai Biofuel, Agribisnis dan Petani’. (Profit and power painted green? Notes on biofuels, agribusiness and peasants). Tanah Air (in B. White, M. Arsel & S. Afiff eds. Ekologi Politik), 234-257.
- White, B.N.F. (2007). Clifford Geertz: Singular Genius of Interpretive Anthropology. Development and Change, 38(6), 1187-1208.
- White, B.N.F. (2004). Changing Indonesian Childhoods: a Three-Generation Study in a Javanese Village. Development ISSues, 6(1), 16-17.
- White, B.N.F. & Aji, G. Bayu (2003). The Changing Character of Local Politics: notes on a Village in Yogyakarta from Independence to Reformasi. Renai. Jurnal politik lokal dan sosial-humaniora, 3(4), 25.
- White, B.N.F. (2001). Children, Work and Education 1900-2000: The Netherlands and Netherlands Indies/Indonesia Compared. Brood & Rozen: Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis van Sociale Bewegingen, 4, 105-119.
- White, B.N.F. (2000). Rice Harvesting and Social Change in Java: An Unfinished Debate. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 1(1), 79-102.
- White, B.N.F. (1999). Defining the Intolerable: Child Work, Global Standards and Cultural Relativism. Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research, 6(1), 133-144.
- White, B.N.F., Saith, A. & Huang, C (1999). Population Mobility and Market Reforms: China and Vietnam (Special Issue in Asia Pacific Migration Journal). Asia and Pacific Migration Journal, 8(3), 281-409.
- White, B.N.F. (1997). Agroindustry and Contract Farmers in Upland West Java. Journal of Peasant Studies, 24, 100-136.
- White, B.N.F. (1996). Globalization and the Child Labour Problem. Journal of International Development, 8, 829-839.
- Breman, J.C. & White, B.N.F. (1996). Coercion and Quality in Indonesian Family Planning. Bijdragen tot de Taal, Land en Volkenkunde, 152, 144-147.
- White, B.N.F. (1995). 'Ontsla ons Alsjeblieft Niet': Genderaspecten van de Problematiek rond Kinderarbeid ['Please don't fire us': gender aspects of the child labour problem. Wanawake, 5-7.
- White, B.N.F. (1994). Kinderen Willen Betaald Werk. Inzet, 3, 14-16.
- White, B.N.F. (1994). Children, Work and "Child Labour": Changing Responses to the Employment of Children. Development and Change, 25, 849-878.
- White, B.N.F. (1994). Child Labour: Dilemmas for Governments and Activists. ISS Alumni Magazine, 7-8.
- White, B.N.F. (1992). Differentation and Dependence: Notes on the Social History of Small-Scale Industries in Java. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 52.
- White, B.N.F. & Tjandraningsih, I. (1992). Anak-Anak Desa Dalam Kerja Upahan. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 81-85.
- White, B.N.F. (1989). Java's Green Revolution in Long-term Perspective. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 48, 66-81.
- H?sken, F. & White, B.N.F. (1989). Ekonomi Politik Pembangunan Pedesaan dan Struktur Agraria di Jawa. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 15-37.
- White, B.N.F. (1987). Involusi Pertanian: Sebuah Obsesi Dalam Studi Masyarakat Pdesaan Jawa's Agricultural Involution: an Obsession in the Study of Rural Javanese Society). Tanah Air, 1, 107-121.
- White, B.N.F. (1986). Rural Development: Rhetoric and Reality. Journal f¿r Entwicklungspolitik, 1, 54-72.
- White, B.N.F. & Spyer, P. (2012). Special Issue: Growing up in Indonesia: experience and diversity in youth transitions. Canberra: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology.
- Bourdillon, M., Levison, D., Myers, W.E. & White, B.N.F. (2010). Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work (Childhood Studies Series). New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
- White, B.N.F., Wiradi, G., Collier, W.L., Soentoro, --, Manning, C. & Makali, --- (2009). Ranah Studi Agraria: Penguasaan Tanah dan Hubungan Agraris (Agrarian Studies: Land Tenure and Agrarian Relations). Bogor: Sekolah Tinggi Pertanahan Nasional (National Academy of Agrarian Affairs).
- White, B.N.F. & Wiradi, G. (2009). Reforma Agraria dalam Tinjauan Komparatif (Agrarian reform in Comparative Perspective). Bogor: Brighten Press.
- Lieten, G.K. & White, B.N.F. (2002). Trabajo Infantil: Politicas y Opciones. La Paz: IDIS.
- Lieten, G.K. & White, B.N.F. (2001). Child Labour: Policy Options. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers.
- Doornbos, M., Saith, A. & White, B.N.F. (2000). Forests: Nature, People, Power. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
- White, B.N.F. & Williams, P. Miljeteig & C. (1999). Understanding Child Labour al issue, Childhood, Vol. 6 No 1). London: Sage.
- White, B.N.F. & Tjandraningsih, I. (1998). Child Workers in Indonesia. Bandung: Akatiga.
- White, B.N.F., Alexander, P. & Boomgaard, P. (1991). In the Shadow of Agriculture: Non-farm Activities in the Javanese Economy, Past and Present. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute.
- Hart. G., A. Turton & White, B.N.F. (1989). Agrarian Transformations: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia..
- White, B.N.F. (2010). ‘Pekerja anak dan kemiskinan dalam perspektif ilmu sosial’ (Child workers and poverty in social science perspective). In P.M. Kutanegara & A.J.P. Tukiran (Eds.), Akses Penduduk Miskin Terhadap Kebutuhan Dasar (Access of the poor to basic needs) (pp. 153-182). Yogyakarta: Centre for Population and Policy Studies, Gadjah Mada University.
- White, B.N.F. (2010). Work and survival in rural Java: Javanese peasant budgets from the 1980s. In H. de Jonge & T van Meijl (Eds.), On the Subject of Labour: Essays in Memory of Frans Hüsken (pp. 79-85). Nijmegen: In de Walvis.
- White, B.N.F. (2009). Children and work in Indonesia: historical overview. In H. Hindman (Ed.), The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey (pp. 906-909). Armonk NY & London: M.E. Sharpe.
- White, B.N.F. (2009). Social science views on working children. In H. Hindman (Ed.), The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey (pp. 10-17). Armonk NY & London: M.E. Sharpe.
- White, B.N.F. (2009). What is good research? In G. Wiradi (Ed.), Metodologi Penelitian: Karya Terpilih (Research Methodology: Selected Works) (pp. vii-xvii). Bogor: Sajogyo Institute.
- White, B.N.F. & Wiradi, G. (2009). Pola-pola penguasaan tanah di DAS Cimanuk: beberapa catatan sementara¿ (Patterns of Land Tenure in the Cimanuk River Basin). In G. Wiradi, B.N.F. White, W.L. Collier, - Soentoro, C. Manning & - Makali (Eds.), Ranah Studi Agraria: Penguasaan Tanah dan Hubungan Agraris (Agrarian Studies: Land Tenure and Agrarian Relations) (pp. 71-101). Bogor: Sekolah Tinggi Pertanahan Nasional (National Academy of Agrarian Affairs).
- White, B.N.F. & Wiradi, G. (2009). Agrarian and non-agrarian bases of inequality in nine Javanese villages. In G. Wiradi, B.N.F. White, W.L. Collier, --- Soentoro, C. Manning & --- Makali (Eds.), Ranah Studi Agraria: Penguasaan Tanah dan Hubungan Agraris (Agrarian Studies: Land Tenure and Agrarian Relations) (pp. 296-344). Bogor: Sekolah Tinggi Pertanahan Nasional (National Academy of Agrarian Affairs).
- White, B.N.F. (2009). Gunawan Wiradi, the Agro-Economic Survey and Indonesia¿s green revolution. In G. Wiradi, B. White, W.L. Collier, --- Soentoro, C. Manning & --- Makali (Eds.), Ranah Studi Agraria: Penguasaan Tanah dan Hubungan Agraris (Agrarian Studies: Land Tenure and Agrarian Relations) (pp. xi-xxxvi). Bogor: Sekolah Tinggi Pertanahan Nasional (National Academy of Agrarian Affairs).
- Indiyanto, A., Jong, E. de, Nooteboom, G. & White, B.N.F. (2006). Close Encounters and Distant Violence: Local Experiences of Indonesia's 'total crisis'. In (pp. 23-73) Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar.
- Abdullah, I. & White, B.N.F. (2006). Decline and Persistence of Reciprocal Labour: Harvesting and Housebuilding in a Javanese village, 1973-2000. In (pp. 55-78) Leiden: Brill.
- White, B.N.F. (2005). Shifting Positions on Child Labor: the Views and Practice of Intergovernmental Organizations. In B. Weston (Ed.), Child labor and human rights : making children matter (pp. 319-342). Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner.
- White, B.N.F. (2005). De Paradox van School en Arbeid (The paradox of school and work). In (pp. 174-178) Nijmegen: Roelants.
- White, B.N.F. (2005). Java and Social Theory: Agrarian Debates, Past and Present. In The Java that never was : academic theories and political practices (pp. 157-185). M¿nster: Lit Verlag.
- White, B.N.F. (2005). Land and resource tenure. In (pp. 25-31) Jakarta: Yayasan Kemala / The Ford Foundation.
- White, B.N.F. (2005). Between apologia and Critical Discourse: Agrarian Transitions and Scholarly Engagement in Indonesia. In Social science and power in Indonesia (pp. 119-141). Jakarta: Equinox.
- White, B.N.F. (2004). Towards a Social History of Economic Crises: Yogyakarta in the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s. In (pp. 195-220) Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar.
- White, B.N.F. (2004). Constructing Child Labour: Attitudes to Juvenile work in Indonesia, 1900-2000. In (pp. 77-105) London: Routledge Books.
- Lont, H. & White, B.N.F. (2003). Critical Review of Crisis Studies, 1998-2002: Debates on Poverty, Employment and Solidarity in Indonesia. In (pp. 125-159) Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar.
- White, B.N.F., Titus, M. & Boomgaard, P. (2002). The Experience of Crisis in Indonesia: Comparative, Local and Historical Dimensions. In (pp. 149-176) Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar.
- White, B.N.F. (2002). Defining the Intolerable: Child Work, Global Standards and Cultural Relativism. In (pp. 127-135) Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt.
- White, B.N.F. (2002). Inti dan Plasma: Pertanian Kontrak dan Pelaksanaan Kekuasaan di Dataran Tinggi Jawa Barat. In (pp. 293-329) Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia.
- White, B.N.F. (2002). Agrarian Debates and Agrarian Research in Java, Past and Present. In (pp. 41-82) Bandung: Akatiga.
- Lieten, G.K. & White, B.N.F. (2002). Ninos y Ninas, Trabajo y Educacion. In (pp. 14) La Paz: IDIS.
- Lieten, G.K. & White, B.N.F. (2001). Children, Work and Education: Perspectives on Policy. In (pp. 11) Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers.
- Doornbos, M., Saith, A. & White, B.N.F. (2000). Forest Lives and Struggles: An Introduction. In (pp. 10) Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
- White, B.N.F. (1999). Nucleus and Plasma:Contract Farming and the Exercise of Power in Upland West Java. In (pp. 231-256) Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
- White, B.N.F. (1997). Child Labour in the International Context. In (pp. 11-28) One World Centre for Northern Ireland.
- White, B.N.F. (1996). Netherlands Development Cooperation and the Child Labour Problem. In (pp. 24-28) The Hague: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- White, B.N.F., Hutagulung, N. & Grijns, M. (1994). Women as Wage Workers. In (pp. 147-172) Avebury: Aldershot.
- White, B.N.F. (1993). Indonesia's Population Problems and Policies: a Non-Malthusian View. In (pp. 105-113) Leiden: KITLV Press.
- White, B.N.F. (1993). Industrial Workers on West Java's Urban Fringe. In (pp. 127-138) Canberra: Australian National University.
- White, B.N.F. (1993). Organisations of Peasants and Rural Poor in Indonesia, Past and Present. In (pp. 90-106) Amsterdam: Free University Press.
- White, B.N.F., Hutagalung, N. & Grijns, M. (1992). Wanita Sebagai Buruh. In (pp. 151-174) Bandung: ISS-IPB-ITB West Java Rural Non-farm Sector Resear.
- White, B.N.F., Hutagalung, N. & Grijns, M. (1992). Women as Wage Workers. In Bandung: ISS-IPB-ITB West Java Rural Non-farm Sector Resear.
- White, B.N.F. (1992). Penelitian Wanita Dalam Perkembangan Pedessaan Sektor Non Pertanian di Jawa Barat. In (pp. 67-95).
- White, B.N.F. (1992). Studying Women and Rural Non-farm Sector Development in West Java. In (pp. 65-92).
- White, B.N.F. (1991). Economic Diversification and Agrarian Change in Rural Java, 1900 - 1990. In (pp. 41-69) Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute.
- White, B.N.F. (1990). Agro-industri, Industrialisasi Pedesaan dan Transformasi Pedesaan' (Agro- industry, Rural Industrialization and Agrarian Transformation). In (pp. 199-250).
- White, B.N.F. & Wiradi, G. (1989). Agrarian and Nonagrarian Bases of Inequality in Nine Javanese Villages. In (pp. 266-302) Berkeley: University of California Press.
- H?sken, F. & White, B.N.F. (1989). Java: Social Differentiation, Food Production and Agrarian Control. In (pp. 235-65) Berkeley: University of California Press.
- White, B.N.F. (1989). Problems in the Empirical Analysis of Agrarian Differentiation. In (pp. 15-30) Berkeley: University of California Press.
- White, B.N.F. (1989). International Experiences with NGOs Active in Developing Countries. In (pp. 13-27) The Hague: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- White, B.N.F. (1985). Women and the Modernization of Rice Agriculture: Some General Issues and a Javanese Case Study. In Avebury: Gower.
- White, B.N.F. (1998). Book Review of "Class, Power and Agrarian Change: Land and Labour in Rural West Java" [J.R. Pincus, ed.] [Bespreking van het boek Book Review of "Class, Power and Agrarian Change: Land and Labour in Rural West Java" [J.R. Pincus, ed.]]. J Peasant Stud, 25, 159-162.
- White, B.N.F., Arsel, M. & Afiff, S. (Eds.). (2009). Jurnal Tanah Air, Oct-Dec.
- White, B.N.F. (2007). Laudatio on the occasion of the award of the Honorary Doctorate of the Institute of Social Studies to Professor Bina Agarwal (Booklet 55th Dies Natalis ISS, 18 October 2007). The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F., Margiyatin, U., Peilouw, L. & Sano, A. (2007). Teenagers Accounts of Insecurity and Violence in Three Indonesian Regions (A study conducted as part of the ICCYS Plan NL research project New and emerging needs of children and youth, ICCYS,ISS, The Hague). The Hague: ISS.
- Sunarijati, A., White, B.N.F., Athreya, B., Wangkay, C. & Panozzo, J. (2005). Social Audit of PT Bata Indonesia (Final Report. Jakarta, April 2005 on behalf of No Sweat). : .
- White, B.N.F. (2003). A World Fit for Children? Children and Youth in Development Studies and Policy (Dies Natalis address, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 9 October 2003). The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. (1998). Rice Harvesting and Welfare in Java. Passau: University of Passau.
- White, B.N.F. (1998). Children and Youth on the Move: Asia's Young Workers and Labour Migration. Beijing: Institute of Asian and Pacific Studies.
- Breman, J.C., Muijzenberg, O. van den & White, B.N.F. (1998). Labour Migration in Asia. (Working Papers in Asian Labour1 ). Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History.
- White, B.N.F. (1998). Children and Work in Southeast Asia. Hamburg: University of Hamburg.
- White, B.N.F. (1997). Rice Harvesting and Welfare in Java. The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. (1996). Agroindustry and Contract Farmers in Upland West Java. (ISS Working Papers, General Series234 ). The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. (1996). Java and Social Theory: Recent Contributions to the Agrarian Debate. G¿teborg: Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies.
- White, B.N.F. (1996). Globalization and the Child Labour Problem. (ISS Working Papers, General Series221 ). The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. (1995). Agro-industry and Contract Farmers in Upland West Java. : .
- White, B.N.F. (1995). Agribusiness and Smallholders: Coercion and Predation in West Javanese Contract-farming Schemes. : .
- White, B.N.F. (1995). Globalisation and the Child Labour Problem. : .
- White, B.N.F., Tjandraningsih, I. & Haryadi, D. (1995). Child Workers in Indonesia [A Draft Supplementary Country Report prepared for the International Working Group on Child Labour]. : .
- White, B.N.F. (1994). Attitudes and Responses to Child Labor in Holland and Java in the 19th and 20th Century. : .
- White, B.N.F. (1994). Respons Terhadap Masalah Anak-Anak Yang Bekerja, Dahulu Dan Sekarang: Belanda dan Indonesia, 1850-1994. : .
- White, B.N.F. (1992). Pola-pola transformasi pertanian rakyat dalam perspektif analisis sosial (Patterns of Transformation of Small Holder Agriculture in the Perspective of Social Analysis). Jayapura: YPMD-Irja.
- White, B.N.F. (1992). Agro-industry and Contract Farmers in West Java. The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. (1992). Workshops and Factories: Production Organisation and Employment in West Java's Rural Footwear Industries. The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. & Tjandraningsih, I. (1992). Rural Children in the Industrialization Process: Child and Youth Workers in "Traditional"and "Modern" Industries in West Java, Indonesia. The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. & Tjandraningsih, I. (1991). Pekerja anak dan remaja di pedesaan Jawa Barat (Child and Youth Workers in Rural West Java), a four-part report presented to the Workshop on Child and Youth Labour. Antwerp: Centre for Development Studies.
- White, B.N.F. (1991). Dinamika Industri Perspatuan Jawa Barat: Ringkasan Hasil Tiga Studi Kasus (Cibaduyut, Ciomas, dan Industri besar Tangerang/Bogor) (Dynamics of West Java's Footwear Industries: Summary of three Case Studies from Cibaduyut, Ciomas and the Large-scale Industries of Tangerand and Bogor). Bandung: Kopsi Cibaduyut and PPLH-ITB.
- White, B.N.F. (1991). Notes on Population Trends and Policies in Indonesia. The Hague: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- White, B.N.F. (1991). Summary Report of the Sectoral Study: Production Organisation and Employment in West Java's Rural Footwear Industries, Report prepared for the visit of the Netherlands Parliamentarians, West Java Rural Non-farm Sector Research Project. : .
- White, B.N.F. (1991). In the Shadow of Agriculture: Economic Diversification and Agrarian Change in Java, 1900 - 1990. : .
- White, B.N.F. (1991). Pembangunan, pemiskinan dan penelitian: beberapa catatan (Development, Impoverishment and Research: A Note). Bogor: PSP-IPB and Akatiga Foundation.
- White, B.N.F. (1990). Rural Children and Youth in Nonfarm Activities in West Java. The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. (1990). Studying Women and Rural Nonfarm Sector Development in West Java. Bandung: Institute of Technology.
- White, B.N.F. (1990). Child and Youth Labour in Non-farm Activities, West Java. The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. (1989). Agribusiness and Small Farmers in West Java, Indonesia. The Hague: ISS.
- White, B.N.F. (1989). Non-farm Employment and Incomes in the Cidurian Project Area. The Hague: ISSAS.
- White, B.N.F. (1986). Rural Non-Farm Employment in Java: Recent Development Policy Issues and Research Needs, Report prepared for ILO. : .
- White, B.N.F. & Schultz, R. (1985). The Agricultural Development Centre/Livestock Development Centre, Evaluation Report, Kuro Tidur, Bengkulu, Indonesia. Wageningen: International Agricultural Centre.
- White, B.N.F. (1985). The Use and Abuse of Child and Juvenile Labour in Developing Countries: an Introductory Note with a Focus on Agriculture. Windsor: Royal Anthropological Institute and the Minority R.
- Huijsmans, R.B.C., Savirani, A., Amin, B., White, B.N.F., Naafs, S. & Minza, W.M. (2011). Youth and Generation: A Southeast Asian Perspective. Presentation at the 3rd Southeast Asia Update: Leiden (2011, juni 24).
- White, B.N.F. (2010). Betting on the middle? From Middletown to Mojokuto and “Middle Indonesia". “In Search of Middle Indonesia” final research conference (9 pages): Leiden (2010, september 27 - 2010, september 29).
- White, B.N.F. (2010). Intermediate Generations: Reflections on (Middle) Indonesian Youth Studies. ‘In search of Middle Indonesia’ Final Research Conference (19 pages): Leiden (2010, september 27 - 2010, september 29).
- White, B.N.F. (2010). 'Who will own the countryside? Corporate land deals and the future of farming’: A keynote speech. International Conference on 'Africa for Sale: Analysing and Theorizing Foreign Land Claims and Acquisitions’: University of Groningen (2010, oktober 28 - 2010, oktober 29).
- White, B.N.F. (2010). ‘Frans Hüsken: a life of intellectual generosity’. Academische convocation in memory of Prof. Dr. Frans Hüsken: Nijmegen (2010, oktober 01).
- White, B.N.F. (2010). ‘Who will own the countryside? Land grabbing and the future of farming in Southeast Asia’. 36th Session of the World Committee on Food Security Presentation to the side-event ‘Competing Views and Strategies on Global Landgrabbing’: Rome (2010, oktober 12).
- White, B.N.F. (2010). 'The Right to be Properly Researched: Dilemmas of Ethics and Responsibility in Social-Science Research’. Keynote speech, Symposium NVTG (Netherlands Society for Tropical Medicine).
- White, B.N.F. (2010). Convergence and diversity in tension: reflections on the PhD in International Development Studies and questions of critical mass. CASID Conference, Panel 59: Doctoral Studies in IDS. (17 pages): Montréal (2010, mei 31 - 2010, juni 02).
- White, B.N.F. (2007). Peasants, Biofuel and Agribusiness : An Explosive Mixture? Conference on 'Agriculture beyond Food': Amsterdam (2007, februari 02).
- White, B.N.F. (2006). Labour in Childhoods Global Past: Child Work and Colonial Policies in Indonesia, 1800-1949 (Paper presented at a Conference in the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, November 2006).
- Lont, H., Melia, F., Nooteboom, G., Putranti, B. Diah & White, B.N.F. (2005). Indonesian crisis studies 1997-2004:A systematic bibliographic database (KNAW Scientific Programme Indonesia-Netherlands, 'Indonesia In Transition' Research Programme 2001-2004, Project 'Coping With Crisis In Indonesia: Comparative, Local And Historical Dimensions'. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague / Centre for Population & Policy Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, January 2005 (also available on CD-Rom)).
- White, B.N.F. (2004). Land and Resource Tenure: brief notes (Keynote speech). International Conference on Land and Resource Tenure in Changing Indonesia: Jakarta (2004, oktober 11 - 2004, oktober 13).
- White, B.N.F. & Abdullah, I. (2004). Living with Crisis in Indonesia: Reflections on a Multi-dimensional Study. Conference on 'Indonesia in Transition: Reform, Crises, Conflicts, Continuities': Amsterdam (2004, augustus 25 - 2004, augustus 27).
- White, B.N.F. & Abdullah, I. (2004). Living with Crisis in Indonesia: Reflections on a Multi-dimensional study. 'EUROSEAS Conference, Panel 36: Living with crisis in Southeast Asia': Paris (2004, september 01 - 2004, september 04).
- White, B.N.F. (2003). Towards a Social History of Economic Crises: Yogyakarta in the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s. workshop on ' Indonesia in Transition': Jakarta (2003, augustus 25 - 2003, augustus 27).
- White, B.N.F. (2003). Shifting Concerns on Child Labour: Reflections on the Role of Inter-governmental Organizations. Conference on 'Using the Human Rights Framework to Combat Abusive Child Labour': Iowa City (2003, juli 08 - 2003, juli 10).
- White, B.N.F. (2003). The Experience of Crisis during three Economic Recessions: Yogyakarta in the 1930s, 1960s and late 1990s. Workshop on 'Comparative Social History of Economic Crises in Indonesia, 1929-2003',: Leiden (2003, december 17 - 2003, december 18).
- White, B.N.F. & Lont, H. (2002). Krismon's Elusive Impacts: Critical Reflections on Indonesian 'Crisis Studies', 1998-2002 (Paper presented at the 'Indonesia in Transition Conference', Andalas University, Padang, 21-23 August 2002).
- White, B.N.F. (2001). Development Studies Journals and the Digital Future: Questions on Quality, Relevance and Availability (Paper presented at the Workshop organized by EADI Working Group InfoManagement, Bordeaux, 12-15 September 2001).
- White, B.N.F., Boomgaard, P. & Titus, M. (2001). The Experience of Crisis in Indonesia: Comparative, Local and Historical Dimensions (Paper presented at the Conference 'Indonesia in Transition' organized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and the Centre for Population and Policy Studies, Yogyakarta , 12-15 September 2001).
- White, B.N.F. & Aji, G. Bayu (2000). The Changing Character of Local Politics: Notes on a Village in Yogyakarta from Independence to Reformasi (Paper presented at the Conference on 'Dynamics of Local Politics in Indonesia' organized by PERICK, Yogyakarta, 3-7 July 2000).
- White, B.N.F. (2000). Development and Crises in Rural Java: Preliminary Notes from a Javanese Village (Paper presented at the Workshop on Regional Economy and Policies in Indonesia organized by Leiden University, May 2000).
- White, B.N.F. (2000). The Prolongation of Childhood: Three Generations of Change in Child Work and Education in a Javanese Village (Paper presented at the Conference on 'Rethinking Childhood: Working Childeren's Challenge to the Social Sciences, Bondy [Paris], 15-17 November) 2000).
- White, B.N.F. (1994). Children, Work and "Child Labour": Changing Responses to the Employment of Children.
- White, B.N.F. (periode: 2003 t/m 2010). Chair of the Editorial Board, Development and Change (Wiley-Blackwell) Position at: Institute of Social Studies / Wiley-Blackwell.