The experience of bachelors in particular can be understood as a ‘double liminality’ in that it is both temporary and spatial. Many of our bachelor informants felt they were ‘betwixt and between’ the socio-cultural expectations they grew up with and what they perceive to be Dutch or Western culture, and between those that pertain to childhood and to adulthood. They live on a metaphorical threshold,
shaped by their masculine ideals, beliefs about ‘Indian culture’,
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Migrants in liminal time and space
This paper sheds light on the relationship between individual agency, transnational social relations, geographic place, and cultural constructions of life phase and gender among highly skilled Indian migrants to the Netherlands. Amsterdam is attracting an increasing number of Indian migrants who work primarily in the fields of information technology, engineering and business management. The nature of this highly skilled work requires mobile, flexible workers, and therefore mainly attracts single men between 25 and 34. Their migrant experiences and choices are marked by a ‘performance of liminality’: migration is part of a coming of age ritual that both structures their lives and is structured by circumstances and agency. their expected life trajectories, and their experiences in and expectations of the Netherlands and the city of Amsterdam.
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City Marketing in Amsterdam
This dissertation discourses on how collaboration in the area of urban policy between public and private parties in Amsterdam comes about and develops. The discourse focuses on the collaboration in a specific policy area, namely in the field of city marketing. The central question posed is the following: In what way do different public and private actors interpret and give significance to the Amsterdam city marketing process and what consequences does this have for relationships in the types of collaboration and administration found in today’s urban policy processes?
Lombarts, A. (2011). Citymarketing in Amsterdam: Een organisatieantropologische studie van het publiek-private samenwerkingsverband op citymarketinggebied in Amsterdam. Antwerpen-Apeldoorn: Garant.
Volledige proefschrift is hier te vinden.
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The body size ideals and body size satisfaction of Dutch residents and African-origin residents living in Amsterdam
Hoenink, J., Beune, E. J., Hartman, M., Snijder, M. B., Dijkshoorn, H., Peters, R., ... Nicolaou, M. (2018). The body size ideals and body size satisfaction of Dutch residents and African-origin residents living in Amsterdam. The HELIUS Study. European journal of public health, 28(Ssuppl_1), [cky047.236].
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Teargas, taboo and transformation
The last decades have witnessed an increasing prevalence of community resistance against large-scale infrastructure projects that pose serious threats to their environment, calling for further empirical scrutiny. Hence, this paper applies a neo-institutional lens to investigate how project actors who plan and implement large-scale infrastructure projects respond to community resistance in their attempt to legitimize and embed these projects in their environment.
To do so, we draw from a longitudinal study of two subway projects in Amsterdam; the East line (1965–1980) and the North-South line (1995-2018). While considered crucial for urban development, both projects encountered severe community resistance by locals protecting the historic city. This resistance, in turn, prompted ‘institutional work’ by project actors to socially (re)construct the projects in pursuit of legitimacy from the Amsterdam community. The twofold contribution of the paper to the field of project studies is (1) the application of a neo-institutional lens showcasing the dynamic interrelation between projects and their environment, processes of institutional transformation, and practices of institutional work; and (2) the longitudinal empirical account exhibiting the contextual dialectic of resistance and accommodation with an emphasis on shifting approaches of institutionalization, the constant struggle to acquire legitimacy, and the local embeddedness of projects.
van den Ende, L., & van Marrewijk, A. (2019). Teargas, taboo and transformation: A neo-institutional study of community resistance and the struggle to legitimize subway projects in Amsterdam 1960–2018. International journal of project management, 37(2), 331-346.
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Report on the eviction of ADM Free-space (Vrijplaats) community in Amsterdam
ADM is one of the very last remaining free-spaces (vrijplaatsen) that historically comprised Amsterdam’s urban character since the 1970s. The community follows very unique lifestyles and operates, socially, culturally, economically and politically in distinctively different ways than the mainstream population of the city. These distinct ways of life are tied with the specific place where they are located and thus an eviction will lead to displacement with potentially very significant negative consequences for the community.
Dalakoglou, D. (2018). Report on the eviction of ADM Free-space (Vrijplaats) community in Amsterdam. (infra-demos reports; Vol. 1). Amsterdam.
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Evicting Amsterdam
As was mentioned in the previous report concerning the eviction of ADM (Dalakoglou 2018), the ADM community is one of the last examples of the vanishing socio-cultural minority of Amsterdam squatters and their unique and endangered free-spaces (vrijplaats), DIY culture and material culture. The general cultural and artistic production of the squatter communities has been a determinant for the identity, history and character of the entire city between the 1960s and 2010. The political, social and cultural contribution of squatters to the life and the history of Amsterdam cannot be stressed enough, however, since 2010 when squatting was criminalised by the Dutch authorities several police campaigns have systematically persecuted the community and its practices and the size of the group has decreased enormously. Despite all this it is not yet extinct completely and even continues to grow within specific enclaves in spite ofthe institutional obstacles.
Dalakoglou, D. (2019). Evicting Amsterdam: Preliminary Report on the eviction of ADM community and their tangible and intangible heritage. (infra-demos report; Vol. 2). Amsterdam.
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Water en de kom
De moskeeorganisatie Milli Görüş werd in eerste instantie opgericht om in religieuze behoeftes van de moskeegangers te voorzien. Maar ook in het maatschappelijk middenveld bekleedt het een functie. Dit proefschrift onderzoekt het sociaal denken en handelen van de kaderleden van deze moskee in Amsterdam-West.
Yar, H. (2017). Water en de Kom: Sociaal denken en handelen van kaderleden van de Turkse moskeeorganisatie Milli Gorus Amsterdam-West.
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