Van Naerssen Research Articles

Bordering, ordering and othering through tourism: the tourism geographies of borders

The interplay between borders and tourism has fascinated tourism geographers for decades. However, only recently has tourism geographies research on borders mirrored border studies by interweaving tourism with its spatial, cultural, political and economic embedding in order to understand tourism’s socio-spatial place-making and bordering effects. We utilize the highly influential framework for border studies of van Houtum and van Naerssen to reflect on the state of the art of the tourism geographies of borders and make sense of recent developments in the field. The framework focused on the bordering, ordering and othering of society and space, referring, in turn, to creating a sense of boundedness, a process of meaning-making and a process of socio-spatial distinction through the symbolic and material construction of borders. We show that after decades of often descriptive research underpinned by state-centered understandings of how territorial borders have influenced tourism’s growth and development, recent developments in tourism geographies started linking up process-based understandings of borders with reflections on tourism’s place-making role. Our review highlights two important points. First, while massive strides have been made in recent years regarding the process-based understanding of tourism’s constitutive role in bordering processes (and vice versa), the cross-pollination between border studies and tourism geographies research on borders is still incomplete. Second, there is a need to move beyond insular tourism research to see how tourism’s place-making role related to borders and territory manifests in practice. We conclude that tourism is deeply embedded in bordering, ordering and othering society and space, both as an expression and as a driver of, or agent in, these processes, leading to tourism-specific impacts on the spatial environment and to broader socio-spatial (and inherently political) place-making outcomes.

Introduction to the Forum: Bordering, Ordering and Othering

ABSTRACT‘Bordering, Ordering and Othering’ (2002) by Henk van Houtum and Ton van Naerssen is one of the most cited and read papers published in TESG in the last two decades. This Introduction to the third TESG Forum briefly summarises the key points of the paper, followed by contributions of four border scholars who reflect upon the paper’s contribution and continued relevance to the field, but also discuss some of its shortcomings. Van Houtum closes this Forum with a reflection on these commentaries. Jointly, these five scholars also present a future border research agenda.

Bordering, Ordering and Everyday Cognitive Geographies

AbstractWith the publication of Henk van Houtum’s and Ton van Naerssen’s (2002) essay on Bordering, Othering and Ordering, border studies received innovative and liberating inspiration. Partly as a result of the essay contemporary border studies recognise the fluid and changing nature of borders, their increasing sophistication, and the complexity of border‐making processes by different agents. In this brief intervention I suggest that perspectives on bordering, ordering and othering can be advanced through exploration of cognitive and psychological processes. By linking borders to cognition we can widen understandings of space‐society relations, gleaning insights from a number of seemingly eclectic sources, such as architecture and cultural and political psychology. Moreover, I will argue that the cognitive nature of bordering is manifested in framings of urban spaces, places and neighbourhoods that create categories of distinction and relationality. Examples that link borders and place to cognition are provided from various sources.

Categories, Practices and the Self – Reflections on Bordering, Ordering and Othering

AbstractSince the publication of the paper ‘Bordering, Ordering and Othering’ by Henk van Houtum and Ton van Naerssen (2002), there has been an increase of complexity and diversification of borders and border‐making practices while at the same time one can observe an unprecedented development of research on these phenomena from a multitude of disciplinary perspectives. By revisiting the text, I will discuss three main comments referring to bordering categories, bordering practices and bordering self in the wider field of migration. The growing ambiguity of borders is once more underlined, but more importantly, these comments flesh out some of the far‐reaching profundities as well as political powers and new relevance which borders and practices of bordering have gained.

Problematizing ‘Bordering, Ordering, and Othering’ as Manifestations of Socio‐Spatial Fetishism

AbstractThis paper will re‐examine and reflect critically Henk van Houtum and Ton van Naerssen’s paper ‘Bordering, Ordering and Othering’ that came out in a related theme issue in TESG in 2002. My first goal is to contextualise their paper into the debates on borders/bordering that began to flourish at the turn of the millennium and have emerged since then. I will then evaluate the enduring significance of this text and discuss the geohistory of othering. My final intention is to push their ideas further and to problematise the processes of bordering, ordering and othering as ideological and material manifestations of socio‐spatial fetishism that often conceal power relations and the alternatives for challenging and transcending these processes.

Revisiting ‘Bordering, Ordering and Othering’: An Invitation to ‘Migrate’ Towards A Politics of Hope

Abstract‘Bordering, Ordering and Othering’ is a landmark in the scholarship of the ‘processual turn’ in border studies. This commentary provides some reflections on van Houtum and van Naerssen’s paper that seek to foster not only an appreciation of the research avenues it has opened but also a critical interrogation of its shortcomings. Rethinking borders as processes has significantly contributed to the conceptual evolution of borders. And yet, I am concerned with how the b/ordering‐othering perspective can be questioned and broadened. In so doing, I conclude by taking up van Houtum and van Naerssen’s invitation to problematise the border, questioning certainty and securities provided by the exclusive modern state‐centric way of thinking borders based on fixed and everlasting binary framing, which blind us to the constant state of becoming of political and social order. It’s an invitation to ‘migrate’ towards an alternative politics of hope.

South Asia: Boundaries, Borders and Beyond

South Asia as a post-colonial as well as a post-partition region has a lot to offer to those interested in the geopolitical triad of bordering, ordering and othering (van Houtum and van Naerssen 20...

EDUCATION IN ANCIENT INDONESIA CULTURE (700-1700)

Within 1359-1364, Hayam Wuruk did a quest monitoring Majapahit, either to the east side, or the west side. From the many objects he visited, in addition to visiting authorities and local villagers, he also visited religious sacred places. Prapanca, who worked as Dharmadyaksa ring Kasogatan was one of the higher authorities in the kingdom who followed him (Pigeaude, 1963, IV, 150-153). The king’s quest was also followed by many authorities, and they were certainly intellectual prominent figures in their era. The position of saptopapati, for instance, was occupied by those who were entitled to as pangei or sanget. The term was derived from the root words of (V pgat) meaning: putus (Jw) mastery (Van Naerssen, 1933: 239-258). Furthermore, the terms of pgat is also defined by Van Nseassen as notable (Naerssen, 1933: 239-258). Within various epigraphs, authority titled with pamget or samget was under the third position of kingdom higher authority: rakryan katrini, namely rakrayan kartini (three higher authority), rakrayan mamantri I Hino, Rakryan I halu, Rakryan I Siikan. Within Nagarakratagama, pupuh 68, the second syair noted :” … wanten bodda Mahayana pgat/rin tantra yogiswara … was an expert (Jw. Mumpuni) of Buddha mahyana’s lesson on Tantra and Yoga …” (Pigeadu, 1963: 52). The terms refer to educated people who have comprehensive and mastery knowledge, so that they can take a decision based on their expertise independently, either in the field of science or governmental problems. Accordingly, if they master their knowledge (Jw. Putusing ngilmu), they will have the authority to make decision towards a problem whenever they are needed. The question is: what kind of knowledge, how can they attain it, and where they learn it? In many sources it was known that one kind of education spread within the age was mandala. During his quest, Hayam Wuruk, for example visited mandala segara. The term mandaleng (mandala – ing) was also found in Serat Pararaton. This article focuses on studying education in ancient Indonesia.

The meaning of “significance” for different types of research [translated and annotated by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Denny Borsboom, Josine Verhagen, Rogier Kievit, Marjan Bakker, Angelique Cramer, Dora Matzke, Don Mellenbergh, and Han L. J. van der Maas

Adrianus Dingeman de Groot (1914–2006) was one of the most influential Dutch psychologists. He became famous for his work “Thought and Choice in Chess”, but his main contribution was methodological — De Groot co-founded the Department of Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam (together with R. F. van Naerssen), founded one of the leading testing and assessment companies (CITO), and wrote the monograph “Methodology” that centers on the empirical-scientific cycle: observation–induction–deduction–testing–evaluation. Here we translate one of De Groot's early articles, published in 1956 in the Dutch journal Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Psychologie en Haar Grensgebieden. This article is more topical now than it was almost 60years ago. De Groot stresses the difference between exploratory and confirmatory (“hypothesis testing”) research and argues that statistical inference is only sensible for the latter: “One ‘is allowed’ to apply statistical tests in exploratory research, just as long as one realizes that they do not have evidential impact”. De Groot may have also been one of the first psychologists to argue explicitly for preregistration of experiments and the associated plan of statistical analysis. The appendix provides annotations that connect De Groot's arguments to the current-day debate on transparency and reproducibility in psychological science.

LANGUAGE AND SCIENCE

In looking back at the last review of research on the language-science connection to appear in ARAL (van Naerssen and Kaplan 1987), one is struck by the great changes in this relationship that have taken place over the past dozen or so years. On a general level, such changes are perhaps inevitable given the youthfulness of this area as a research domain, but more specifically, they can be traced in large part to two related trends: 1) a shift away from research with direct pedagogical aims and motivations, and 2) the powerful influence of the interdisciplinary field known as social studies of science. Both trends will be recurrent themes of this review.

How unique was Srivijaya?

In BKI 151 (pp. 235-88) Jan Wisseman Christie published a substantial, admirable State-of-the-Art Review on 'State Formation in Early Maritime Southeast Asia'. In it she surveys the large volume of data on the region and the period produced by historians, archaeologists and anthropologists. Thanks to this article it has finally become possible, also for the non specialist, to form a general idea of this complex area. The author is to be complimented on this excellent publication. If I venture to make some comments here nevertheless, this is not with the intention of detracting from the merits of the article; these comments are meant rather to stimulate further discussion of some of the interesting issues raised in Dr. Wisseman's review. The section of the essay that interested me most is of course the one on State Formation and Social Science Models (pp. 237-43), as this is the field in which I have been working for quite some time. In this section Dr. Wisseman critically reviews a number of theories and models developed to distinguish the state from other forms of socio-political organization, such as chiefdoms and headmanships. She states that these more general models do not, however, provide 'a compelling description of any particular early state in maritime Southeast Asia' (1995:238). Such a description is said to be found rather in the works of regional specialists. The review of the works of scholars specializing in Southeast Asian history and anthropo logy that then follows shows, however, that they do not provide very con vincing models, either. Neither Wittfogel's 'hydraulic society', nor Geertz's 'theatre state' or Van Naerssen's 'simple hydraulic society model' appears to be suitable for accounting for early maritime states. This is a result of the rather special structure of these states. As they were not typically territorial, or dependent on the subjection of agriculturists, it is not surprising that hydraulic or territorially oriented models fall short. These states were not characterized by urbanization, either. Their most important characteristic seems to have been trade: the maritime states of the region dominated trade over large distances. As the most important of these early maritime states, Dr. Wisseman points to Sumatra-based Srivijaya (1995:264 72). Like the good historian she is, she emphasizes the unique nature of this state, saying:

Book Reviews

Development and ChangeVolume 22, Issue 4 p. 807-827 Book Reviews First published: October 1991 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1991.tb00435.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Book reviewed in this article: James H. Cassing and Steven L. Husted (eds). Capital, Technology, and Labor in the New Global Economy. G.T. Kenshaw (ed.), Market Liberalisation, Equity and Development. Joan M. Nelson el al., Fragile Coalitions: The Politics of Economic Adjustment. Hamza Alavi and John Harriss (eds), South Asia — Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’. Frans Schuurman and Ton van Naerssen (eds), Urban Social Movements in the Third World. Susan Eckstein (ed.), Power and Popular Protest. Latin American Social Movements. Jonathan Hartlyn, The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia. Bernard Eccleston, State and Society in Post-war Japan. Melanie Beresford, National Unification and Economic Development in Vietnam. June I. Parpart (ed.), Homen and Development in Africa: Comparative Perspectives. Anil Bhatt, Development and Social Justice. Micro Action by Weaker Sections. Volume22, Issue4October 1991Pages 807-827 RelatedInformation

Book reviews : Schuurman, F. and Van Naerssen, T. 1989: Urban social movements in the third world. London: Routledge. viii + 223 pp. £30.00 cloth

Book reviews : Schuurman, F. and Van Naerssen, T. 1989: Urban social movements in the third world. London: Routledge. viii + 223 pp. £30.00 cloth

Language and the Law

The application of linguistics to other areas of life has occurred in a somewhat natural, if haphazard, fashion. The first and most obvious applications were to education (first and second language learning, teaching, and testing), lexicography, translation, and speech therapy (Crystal 1981). There has been rather long standing interest in other fields, such as medical interaction (Mishler 1984; cf., van Naerssen and Kaplan elsewhere in this volume) and religious language (Samarin 1976), but it has been only within the past few years that increasing amounts of linguistic knowledge have been applied to the field of law.

Catalogue of Indonesian Manuscripts. Part 2: Old Javanese Charters, Javanese, Malay, and Lampung Manuscripts, Mads Lange's Balinese Letters, and Official Letters in Indonesian Languages. By F. H. Van Naerssen, Th. G. Th. Pigeaud, and P. Voorhoeve. (Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs, etc. in Danish Collections, Vol. 4, Part 2.) pp. 179, 23 pl. Copenhagen, The Royal Library, 1977.

Catalogue of Indonesian Manuscripts. Part 2: Old Javanese Charters, Javanese, Malay, and Lampung Manuscripts, Mads Lange's Balinese Letters, and Official Letters in Indonesian Languages. By F. H. Van Naerssen, Th. G. Th. Pigeaud, and P. Voorhoeve. (Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs, etc. in Danish Collections, Vol. 4, Part 2.) pp. 179, 23 pl. Copenhagen, The Royal Library, 1977. - Volume 111 Issue 1