Dr. C.H. Roessingh

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

Themes

• Entrepreneurship
• Ethnicity/gender/diversity
• Globalization/localization
• Mechanisms of culture
• Narrative/discourse

Research fields

• Cooperating organizations

Networks

• Transnational organizations
• Small/medium scale organizations
• Local/regional governments

Regions

• Middle- and North America
• South America

• MSc thesis (thesis subjects)

Publications (Source: METIS VU)

Books:

• Carel Roessingh and Tanja Plasil (eds.)
  (2009) Between Horse & Buggy and Four-Wheel Drive. Change and Diversity among Mennonite Settlements in Belize, Central America. Amsterdam: VU University Press.
  ISBN 978-90-8659-332-3
• Carel Roessingh
  (2007) Mennonite communities in Belize. In: International Journal of Business and Globalisation 1(1), 107-124
  ISSN 1753-3627 (print), 1753-3635 (online)
• Carel Roessingh, Karin Bras, Myrte Berendse and Hanneke Duijnhoven (eds)
  (2005) Entrepreneurs in Tourism in the Caribbean Basin. Case studies from Belize, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica & Suriname. Amsterdam: Dutch university Press.
  ISBN 90-3610-048-8
• Carel Roessingh    
  (2004) The Belizean Garifuna: Organization of Identity in an Ethnic Community in Central America.  Latin American Research Series. Amsterdam: Dutch University Press. [2001]
  ISBN 90-5170-574-3
• Carel Roessingh    
  (1998) De Belizaanse Garifuna: De Contouren van een etnische gemeenschap in Midden-Amerika. Amsterdam: Thela Thesis.
  ISBN 90-5538-033-4

Articles:

Belizean Mennonites

• Carel Roessingh & Karen Smits
  (2010) Mennonite entrepreneurship in Belize. In Léo-Paul Dana (ed.): Entrepreneurship and Religion. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 226-248. ISBN 978-1-84720-572-8
• Carel Roessingh & Karen Smits
  (2010) Social Capital and Mennonite Entrepreneurship: The case of Circle R. in Blue Creek, Northern Belize. In: International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development. 2 (1/2), 22-35.
  ISSN (online) 1753-0679 – ISSN (print) 1753-0660
• Carel Roessingh & Linda Mol
  (2008) Working ladies. Mennonite women in the enterprises of Spanish Lookout, Belize. In: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 5 (3/4), 241-256.
  ISSN (online) 1741-8054 – ISSN (print) 1476-1297
• Carel Roessingh
  Mennonite communities in Belize. In: International Journal of Business and Globalisation 1(1), 107-124.
  ISSN 1753-3627 (print); 1753-3635 (online)
  >click here for the article 
• Carel Roessingh & Amber Schoonderwoerd    
  (2005) Traditional Farmers or Modern Businessmen? Religious Differentiation and Entrepreneurship in a Kleine Gemeinde Mennonite Community in Belize. In:  Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 10 (1), 65-77.
  ISSN 1084-9467
• Carel Roessingh & Tanja Plasil    
  (2006) From Collective Body to Individual Mind: Changes in Leadership and attitudes in an Old Colony Mennonite Community in Northern Belize. In:  Journal of Mennonite Studies 24, 57-74.
  ISSN 0824-5053
  >click here for the article Roessingh&Plasil
• Tanja Plasil & Carel Roessingh
  (2006) Food and Community – The Role of Sharing a Meal Among the Mennonite of Shipyard, Belize. In: Belizean Studies 28 (1), 42-56.
  ISSN 0230-6831
  >click here for the article Plasil&Roessingh

Caribbean Tourism and Belizean Studies

• Marissa Popma & Carel Roessingh
  (2010) The Overseas Taiwanese in Belize: An exploration of a South-South development project in a Belizean context. In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy. 4(2), 120-141
  ISSN 1750-6204
• Carel Roessingh, Hanneke Duijnhoven & Myrte Berendse
  (2008) Caribbean Delight: Moving Beyond the Sustainability Discourse in Tourism. In: ARA Journal of Tourism Research. 1(2), 21-33.
  ISSN 1997-2520
• Myrte Berendse & Carel Roessingh
  (2007) Hidden and Unspoiled: Image building in the tourism industry of Belize. In: International Journal of Tourism Policy 1 (3), 267-282
  ISSN (online) 1750-4104 – ISSN (print) 1750-4090
• Hanneke Duijnhoven & Carel Roessingh
  (2006) The Tourist with a Secret Agenda? Shifting Identities in the Field of Tourism Research.
  In: International Journal of Tourism Research 8 (2), 115-126.
  ISSN 1099-2340
• Carel Roessingh & Kees Boersma
  (2005) Local Interests versus Global Organizational Power: Political Conflicts in the Organization of Belizean Football.
  In: Belizean Studies 27 (1), 77-82.
  ISSN 0230-6831
• Carel Roessingh & Myrte Berendse    
  (2005) Combining sustainable tourism and cruise-ships in Belize.
  In:  Journal of Hospitality and Tourism 3 (1), 55-76.
  ISSN 0972-7787 
• Carel Roessingh & Hanneke Duijnhoven    
  (2004) Small Entrepreneurs and Shifting Identities: The Case of Tourism in Puerto Plata (Northern Dominican Republic).
  In:  Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 2 (3), 185-201.
  ISSN 1476-6825
• Carel Roessingh & Karin Bras    
  (2003) Garifuna Settlement Day: Tourism Attraction, National Celebration Day or Manifestation of Ethnic Identity? In: Tourism, Culture & Communication 4 (3), 163-172.
  ISSN 1098-304X