Dr.ir. Jacqueline Vel
- Post doc researcher
- Indonesia
- Agrarian law
- Biofuel politics
- Socio-legal studies
- Sumba
- Rural development
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 8834 |
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| E-Mail: | j.a.c.vel@law.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid, Instituut voor Metajuridica, Recht en bestuur ontwikkelingslanden/VVI |
| Office Address: |
Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw Steenschuur 25 2311 ES Leiden Room number B320 |
Post-doctoral researcher
Jacqueline Vel is researcher and coordinator of the KNAW and NWO funded program “Jarak: the commoditization of an alternative biofuel crop (jatropha curcas) in Indonesia”. It is an interdisciplinary program combining the fields of law, history, anthropology, political ecology and plant science (agronomy). It consists of 6 PhD or post-doc projects, with Dutch and Indonesian researchers. Apart from coordinating the program Jacqueline works on developing a common analytical framework for JARAK, and developing a socio-legal niche in global value chain research. JARAK is part of the program ‘Agriculture beyond Food’.
Since 2008 Jacqueline was also researcher in the program 'Access to Justice in Indonesia', working on further developing a conceptual framework for studying access to justice for the poor and conducting a case study on access to justice for the poor in land disputes with fieldwork in Sumba. She was guest editor of the special issue of the Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal.
Sumba has been Jacqueline’s continuous field work site, from 1984 when she first worked there, until the most recent visit in November 2010. In 2008 she published about 20 years observations on Sumbanese type of network politics and the political transformations in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands: “Uma Politics: an ethnography of democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 1986-2006”.
Jacqueline joined the VVI in 2006 as post-doctoral fellow in the INDIRA program that focused on the changes in the legal system in Indonesia since the demise of Soeharto's authoritarian regime in 1998, and in particular on the question whether and why land tenure security for common people in rural and urban areas in Indonesia has changed in this period.
In 2006 Jacqueline was research fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean studies (KITLV) in the program "The state of authority in post-1998 Indonesia".
Previously she was assistant professor in Development Sociology and Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam. Her masters degree (ir.) was in agricultural economics at Wageningen University, where she also earned her PhD in 1994 at the department of agricultural law with the dissertation "The Uma-economy: indigenous economics and development work in Lawonda, Sumba (eastern Indonesia)" under supervision of prof. F. von Benda-Beckmann. This book has recently been translated in Bahasa Indonesia and the translation “Ekonomi-Uma” was launched in April 2010 in Jakarta and in November 2010 in Sumba.
Apartfrom this academic work, Jacqueline obtained professional experience as development worker and researcher on Sumba (Indonesia) from 1984-1990, and as policy advisor for the Dutch donor agency ICCO, South Asia desk.
Key words: Indonesia, agrarian law, biofuel politics, socio-legal studies, Sumba, rural development.
Publications 2012
Peer Reviewed Article
McCarthy, J.F. & Vel, J.A.C. & Afiff, S., Trajectories of land acquisition and enclosure: development schemes, virtual land grabs, and green acquisitions in Indonesia’s Outer Islands. Journal of Peasant Studies (The), 39 (2), pp. 521-549.
Publications 2011
Book chapter
Vel, J.A.C. & Makambombu, S. (2011) Akses terhadap keadilan dalam sengketa tanah: Bagaimana ketidaksetaraan sosial membentuk resolusi konflik di Sumba [Access to Justice in Land conflicts: how social inequalities shape conflict resolution in Sumba]. In: Berenschot, W.J., Bedner, A.W., Riyadi Laggut-Terre, E., Novirianti, D. (Eds.), Akses terhadap keadilan: Perjuangan masyarakat miskin dan kurang beruntung untuk menuntut hak di Indonesia [Access to Justice: the Struggle of Indonesia's Poor to Claim their Rights] (Seri Socio-Legal Indonesia), pp. 53-71. Jakarta: HuMa Jakarta; Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University; KITLV; Epistema Institute.
Article in Newspaper
Vel, J.A.C. (2011) Eiland Sumba is helemaal geen spiegel voor het Westen. Trouw
Working Paper
A Framework for studying developments in the jatrohpa sector - paper for JARAK workshop in Leiden 29-30 March 2011. JARAK Working paper 1
Blog
Suraya Afiff, Jacqueline Vel, Huub Löffler and Cora Govers (2011) "Agriculture beyond Food", The Broker Blogs 6 December 2011, http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/Blogs/A-new-agriculture-for-food-security/Agriculture-Beyond-Food
Publications 2010
Peer reviewed articles
Vel, Jacqueline A.C and Stepanus Makambombu, Access to Agrarian Justice in Sumba, Eastern Indonesia,
Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal
(LGD) 15 (2010).
Vel, Jacqueline A.C. Policy Research on Access to Justice in Indonesia: A review of World Bank and UNDP reports,
Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal
(LGD) 15 (2010).
Bedner, Adriaan W. and Jacqueline A.C. Vel, An analytical framework for empirical research on Access to Justice, Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal (LGD) 15 (2010).
Book chapter
Vel, J.A.C. and Stepanus Makambombu, ‘Penggunaan hukum adat terkait tanah pada masa kini di Sumba, Nusa Tenggara Timur’, in Myrna Safitri and Tristam Noeiliono (eds) Hukum Agraria dan Masyarakat di Indonesia, Jakarta: HuMa/KITLV Jakarta/ Van Vollenhoven Institute (Seri Sosio-Legal Indonesia). Pp 213-47.
Books
Vel, J.A.C., Ekonomi Uma: Penerapan adat dalam dinamika ekonomi berbasis kekerabatan. Jakarta: HuMa/KITLV Jakarta/Van Vollenhoven Institute (Seri Sosio-Legal Indonesia). (translation of dissertation+ new introduction)
Reports and working papers
Vel, Jacqueline A.C., ‘Researching Access to Justice in Indonesia: A review of World Bank and UNDP reports. Access to Justice in Indonesia Working Papers, Van Vollenhoven Institute Leiden University. http://media.leidenuniv.nl/legacy/review-of-reports-jacqueline-vel.pdf
Vel, Jacqueline A.C and Stepanus Makambombu, ‘Access in Land Disputes Arising in the Context of Commercialization of Agriculture in Sumba (Nusa Tenggara Timur). Access to Justice in Indonesia Working Papers, Van Vollenhoven Institute Leiden University. http://media.leidenuniv.nl/legacy/a2jworkingpaper-jacqueline-en-stephanus.pdf
Ancillary Positions
Member Coordinating Committee Agriculture beyond Food
2012
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McCarthy, J.F. & Vel, J.A.C. & Afiff, S. (2012)
Trajectories of land acquisition and enclosure: development schemes, virtual land grabs, and green acquisitions in Indonesia’s Outer Islands. Journal of Peasant Studies (The), 39 (2), pp. 521-549.
(Article)
2011
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Vel, J.A.C. & Makambombu, S. (2011)
Akses terhadap keadilan dalam sengketa tanah: Bagaimana ketidaksetaraan sosial membentuk resolusi konflik di Sumba [Access to Justice in Land conflicts: how social inequalities shape conflict resolution in Sumba]. In: Berenschot, W.J., Bedner, A.W., Riyadi Laggut-Terre, E., Novirianti, D. (Eds.), Akses terhadap keadilan: Perjuangan masyarakat miskin dan kurang beruntung untuk menuntut hak di Indonesia [Access to Justice: the Struggle of Indonesia's Poor to Claim their Rights] (Seri Socio-Legal Indonesia), pp. 53-71. Jakarta: HuMa Jakarta; Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University; KITLV; Epistema Institute.
(Part of book or chapter of book) -
Vel, J.A.C. (2011)
Eiland Sumba is helemaal geen spiegel voor het Westen. Trouw
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)
2010
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Vel, J.A.C. & Makambombu, S. (2010)
Access to Agrarian Justice in Sumba, Eastern Indonesia. Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal, 15 (1)
(Article) -
Bedner, A.W. & Vel, J.A.C. (2010)
An analytical framework for empirical research on Access to Justice. Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal, 15 (1)
(Article) -
Vel, J.A.C. (2010)
Editorial to Special Issue. Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal, 15 (1)
(Article) -
Vel, J.A.C. (2010)
Ekonomi-Uma: Penerapan adat dalam dinamika ekonomi berbasis kekerabatan [The Uma-Economy: Indigenous economics and development work in Lawonda, Sumba, Eastern-Indonesia]. (Seri Socio-Legal Indonesia). Jakarta: HuMa; Van Vollenhoven Institute; KITLV-Jakarta.
(Book (monograph)) -
Vel, J.A.C. (2010)
Penggunaan hukum adat terkait tanah pada masa kini di Sumba, Nusa Tanggara Timur [Contemporary use of customary land law in Sumba, Eastern Indonesia]. In: Safitri, M.A. & Moeliono, T. (Eds.), Hukum Agraria dan Masyaraka di Indonesia [Agrarian Law and Society in Indonesia] (Seri Sosio-Legal Indonesia), pp. 213-247. Jakarta: HuMa-Jakarta; Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University; KITLV-Jakarta.
(Part of book or chapter of book) -
Vel, J.A.C. (2010)
Policy Research on Access to Justice in Indonesia: A review of World Bank and UNDP reports. Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal, 15 (1)
(Article)
2009
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Vel, J.A.C. & Makambombu, S. (2009)
Access in Land Disputes Arising in the Context of the Commercialization of Agriculture in Sumba (Nusa Tenggara Timur). Van Vollenhoven Institute Working Papers
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Vel, J.A.C. (2009)
Playing the Religious Card: Competing for District Leadership in West Sumba, Indonesia. In: Kirsch, T.G. & Turner, B. (Eds.), Permutations of Order: Religion and Law as Contested Sovereignties (Law, Justice and Power Series), pp. 207-225. Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
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Vel, J.A.C. (2009)
Reading Politics from a Book of Donations: The Moral Economy of the Political Class in Sumba. In: Klinken, G., van & Barker, J. (Eds.), State of Authority. The State in Society in Indonesia, pp. 117-148. Ithaka, New York: Cornell Southeast Asia Program.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2008
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Vel, J.A.C. (2008)
Kampanye Pemekaran di Sumba Barat. In: Schulte Nordholt, H. & Klinken, G., van (Eds.), Politik lokal di Indonesia, pp. 116-153. Jakarta: Obor/KITLV Jakarta.
(Part of book or chapter of book) -
Vel, J.A.C. (2008)
Miracle solution or imminent disaster? Jatropha biofuel production in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara. Inside Indonesia, 91
(Article) -
Vel, J.A.C. (2008)
Uma politics: an ethnography of democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 1986-2006. (Verhandelingen van het KITLV, 260). Leiden: KITLV Press.
(Book (monograph))
2007
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Vel, J.A.C. (2007)
Creating a new district in West Sumba. In: Schulte Nordholt, H. & Klinken, G., van (Eds.), Renegotiating Boundaries: Local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia, pp. 91-120. Leiden: KITLV Press.
(Part of book or chapter of book)