David Henley
David Henley (1963) is a geographer with a PhD from the Australian National University. He has worked as a researcher at the KITLV since 1993, initially as a member of the EDEN (Ecology, Demography and Economy in Nusantara) project on the environmental history of Indonesia. Currently he is Southeast Asia coordinator for Tracking Development, a multilateral, international research project on the comparative development trajectories of Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa over the last 50 years, and coordinator of the KITLV's CREDIT (Credit, Risk and the Economy of Debt: Indonesian Trajectories) project on credit and debt relations in Indonesian history.
His other research interests include the institutional dynamics of colonial expansion. He is book reviews editor of the Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania) and a member of the editorial boards of two other international scholarly journals.
Project:
Tracking Development
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A full list of KITLV publications and their authors can be obtained from our archive of annual reports.
Selected Publications
'Microfinance in Indonesia; Evolution and revolution, 1900-2000', in Aditya Goenka and David Henley (eds), Southeast Asia's credit revolution; From moneylenders to microfinance (London: Routledge, 2010): 173-89.
'Credit and debt in Indonesian history: an introduction', in David Henley and Peter Boomgaard (eds), Credit and debt in Indonesia, 860-1930; From peonage to pawnshop, from kongsi to cooperative (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009): 1-40.
'Natural resource management: historical lessons from Indonesia', Human Ecology 36 (2008): 273-290.
'The fate of federalism: North Sulawesi from Persatuan Minahasa to Permesta', Moussons; Social Science Research on Southeast Asia 11 (2007):89-105.
'Custom and koperasi; The cooperative ideal in Indonesia', in Jamie S. Davidson and David Henley (eds),The revival of tradition in Indonesian politics; The deployment of adat from colonialism to indigenism (London: Routledge, 2007):87-112.
'From low to high fertility in Sulawesi (Indonesia) during the colonial period; Explaining the 'first fertility transition'', Population Studies 60 (2006):309-327.
Fertility, food and fever; Population, economy and environment in North and Central Sulawesi, 1600-1930. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005.
'Population and the means of subsistence; Explaining the historical demography of island Southeast Asia, with particular reference to Sulawesi', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 36 (2005):337-72.
'Agrarian change and diversity in the light of Brookfield, Boserup, and Malthus: historical illustrations from Sulawesi, Indonesia', Asia Pacific Viewpoint 46 (2005):153-72.
'Conflict, justice, and the stranger-king; Indigenous roots of colonial rule in Indonesia and elsewhere', Modern Asian Studies 38 (2004):85-144.
Jealousy and justice; The indigenous roots of colonial rule in northern Sulawesi. Amsterdam: Free University Press, 2002 (Comparative Asian Studies 22).
'Malaria past and present: the case of North Sulawesi, Indonesia', Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 32 (2001):595-607.
Nationalism and regionalism in a colonial context; Minahasa in the Dutch East Indies. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1996.
'Ethnogeographic integration and exclusion in anticolonial nationalism: Indonesia and Indochina', Comparative Studies in Society and History 37 (1995):286-324.
