Bert Suykens
 Publications
Books and Book Chapters

Suykens, B. (2008), Maoisme in India: Tussen hamer, sikkel en aambeeld, in: Ruddy Doom (ed.), Conflict en ontwikkeling: Overleven in de grensgebieden van de globalisering, Gent: Academia Press.
     
Articles

Suykens, B. The Gotte Koya IDP Mystery: Tribal Identity and the IDP-Migrant Continuum in the Chhattisgarh-Andhra Pradesh Borderland (India).in: Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 24, No 1 (2011) 110-131.

Suykens, B. Diffuse authority in the Beedi commodity chain: Naxalite and state governance in tribal Telangana (India), in: Development & Change, Vol.41, No 1 (2010) 153-178.

Suykens, B. Maoist Martyrs: Remembering the revolution and its heroes in Naxalite propaganda (India), in: Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 22, no. 3 (2010) 379-394.

Suykens, B. 'You know we are Indians too': Tribal displacement and violent encounters with a 'blind' state in Andhra Pradesh, in: IIAS Newsletter, Vol. 53 (2010) 19.

Suykens, B., The tribal-forest nexus in law and society in India: Conflicting narratives, in: Critical Asian Studies, Vol. 41, no. 3 (September 2009) 381-402.

Suykens, B. & Vandekerckhove, N., ‘The Liberation of Bodoland’: Tea, Forestry and Tribal Entrapment in Western Assam, in: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 31, no. 3, December 2008.

Suykens, B., Internal borders and conflict: Lessons from Bodoland, Assam, Conflict Research Group Working Paper, no. 5, 2006.
     
Editorials

Suykens, B., De Indiase tijger heeft krampen, in: De Standaard, 02/08/2008.
 Presentations
   
Suykens, B. & N. Vandekerckhove, Insurgent border-making on a turbulent frontier: Insights from Bodoland and Nagalim (Northeast India), Paper presented on the Asian borderlands conference, 5-7 Novermber 2010, Chiang Mai.
Suykens, B., (Ideologies of) Governance in Naxalite and Naga India, paper presented at the international workshop on rebel governance, 10-12 September 2010, Minary Center, Darthmouth College.
Suykens, B. & N. Vandekerckhove., The Nature of the state in South Asia, Paper presented at the European Conference of Modern South Asia, 26-29 July 2010, Bonn.

Suykens, B. State Making and the Suspension of Law in India's Northeast
The Place of Exception in the Assam-Nagaland Border Dispute, paper presented during the workshop Bringing the margins back in. War making and state making in the borderlands, 12-13 February 2010, Ghent University.

Suykens, B., How the War on Terror went Local: US-India Relations, Anti-Terror Legislation and its implementation in India, presented on the workshop on the Impact of the 'war on terror' on contemporary armed intrastate conflicts, 15 December 2009, Ghent University.
Suykens, B., The Interface between the Rebel and the State: Politics/Business as Usual in Maoist and Naga India, Paper presented at the International Conference on Rebel Governance, 2-4 October 2009, Yale University.

Suykens, B., Legal pluralism in the Beedi commodity chain: Naxalite and state governance in tribal Telangana (Andhra Pradesh), paper presented at the ‘20th European conference on South Asian Studies’, 8-11 July 2008, University of Manchester.
Suykens, B. Twilight authority in the Beedi Commodity Chain, paper presented at the “Second European PhD Seminar on South Asian Studies”, 19-20 September 2008, University of Ghent.