Paul van Trigt
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. P.W. van Trigt
- Telephone
- 071 5271349
- p.w.van.trigt@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4354-1611
Paul van Trigt is university lecturer social history. His research and teaching are concerned with histories of in- and exclusion of people in multiple contexts in the modern period and the role of concepts such as human rights, the welfare state, religion, disability, ethnicity in these histories.
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News
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KIEM grant for 'Making up Migrants' -
Mild Intellectual Disability and Loneliness: 'We Need to Handle the Discomfort Better' -
365 days of Leiden2022: watch the retrospective -
Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund -
Call for abstracts - Virtuous suffering: New perspectives on the Ethics of Suffering for Critical Global Health and Justice -
Rethinking Disability through visual storytelling -
Paul van Trigt and Anna Derksen receive grants -
Call for Papers: Criptic Identities. Historicizing the identity formation of persons with disabilities across the globe -
Beyond The Last Utopia? A Student Blog Series About the History of Human Rights -
Call for papers workshop 'Historians Without Borders. Writing Histories of International Organizations' -
NWO KIEM Grant for the Digital Disability Archive -
CfP 'Calendar Propaganda' of Human Rights? Historical Perspectives on the United Nations’ Global Observances -
Introducing: Paul van Trigt -
Five History projects selected for Research Traineeship Programme 2016-2017 -
Call for papers 'Whose Welfare? Fresh Perspectives on the Post-war Welfare State and its Global Entanglements'
PhD candidates
Fields of interest
- Social history
- Disability history
- Global history
- Human rights
- Health
- Religion
- Welfare states
Research
Paul van Trigt is currently following three lines of research:
• From legal objects to subjects. Human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s: Van Trigt has investigated from a global history perspective how and why disability became an issue of human rights and of international law. Based on research in multiple archives, he is writing a genealogy of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) that aims to deliver an innovative contribution to current human rights historiography and contests the ‘first in Europe, then elsewhere’ structure that dominates the current accounts on the history of the convention.
• Public histories of marginalized perspectives on health: Van Trigt has worked from different angles on disability and health in collaboration with societal partners and researchers with as main product the first ever public history website in the Netherlands focusing on the experiences of people with disabilities, DisPLACE (2019-). The common thread in these collaborations is his interest in citizen’s perspectives on health and well-being that differ from the way in which health has been approached by medical experts and the state. Recently, he has started a collaboration with the online platform Things That Talk to create an infrastructure to collect, contextualise, and make accessible alternative perspectives on health of Leiden citizens.
• Interdependent Living. Histories of community care from a global and intersectional perspective: Van Trigt intends to investigate how people in different contexts have reordered care by using (their) communities: varying from disabled people who have started “independent living” initiatives to civil servants who have tried to promote health and prevent disease through working together with ethnic communities, from the World Health Organization which has used indigenous technologies for their Community-Based Rehabilitation Manual to religious communities in which people have explored new relationships with their social and natural environment.
Curriculum vitae
Paul van Trigt’s PhD-thesis was published in the form of a book, Blind in een gidsland. Over de bejegening van mensen met een visuele beperking in de Nederlandse verzorgingsmaatschappij, 1920-1990 (Hilversum: Verloren, 2013), and offers an analysis of the Dutch welfare state from a disability studies perspective. As postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-project ‘Rethinking Disability’ Van Trigt expanded the comparative and transnational dimension of disability policies as explored in his PhD-thesis to a global one in line with the project’s principal aim to ‘globalize’ and ‘mainstream’ disability.
Assistant Professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
- Trigt P.W. van (2024), Community makes ill? Marginalized groups and reciprocal obligations in the postwar Netherlands. .
- Spaan N., Trigt P.W. van & Schippers A. (2024), Integration of a disability lens as prerequisite for inclusive higher education, The European Journal of Inclusive Education 3(1): .
- Trigt P.W. van (2024), From institutions to families? : The changing allocation of responsibility for cognitively disabled children in Dutch postwar long-term care policies, Journal of Modern European History : .
- Pollaert E. & Trigt P.W. van (2024), Archiving Dutch Disability Activism: What can Digital Culture do?. In: Salerno D. & Rigney A. (Eds.), Archiving Activism in the Digital Age .
- Trigt P.W. van (2024), Contested cure. The postwar Dutch history of cell therapies for Down syndrome from a transnational perspective: Paper conference Transformations of Postwar Europe: Medicine, Bodies and Technologies. [working paper].
- Trigt P.W. van (2023), Care and time. Historicizing Dutch palliative care: Paper presentation medical humanities workshop Kyoto. .
- Trigt P.W. van (2023), Transcending the Social Policy/ Human Rights Divide. Self-advocates and the Making of Global Disability Policies, 1981-2011: Paper presentation ENIUGH conference. .
- Trigt P.W. van (2023), Disabling suffering. Dutch self-advocates and pain (relief) during the 1990s: Paper presentation conference Histories of Disability and Emotions. .
- Trigt P.W. van (2023), The framing of ‘community’ in global disability policies since the 1970s: Paper presentation LSHTM seminar. .
- Trigt P.W. van (2023), Dutch disability human rights policies and the (digital) state. A historical analysis of political debates since the 1990s: Paper presentation Tilburg conference 'Vulnerability, Disability Rights, and Digital Government'. .
- Trigt P.W. van (2022), Belated integration: disability in international human rights law. In: Eckel J. & Stahl D. (Eds.) Embattled visions: human rights since 1990. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 101-120.
- Krijger T.E.M. & Trigt P.W. van (2022), Pandemieën en protestanten: De omgang met infectieziekten in protestants Nederland sinds 1800. Jaarboek voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme na 1800 no. 30. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Kok.
- Krijger T.E.M. & Trigt P.W. van (2022), “Opdat Ik u en uw volk met de pestilentie zou slaan”: Het Nederlandse protestantisme in de context van epidemische ziekten. In: Krijger T.E.M. & Trigt P.W. van (Eds.) Pandemieën en protestanten: De omgang met infectieziekten in protestants Nederland sinds 1800. Jaarboek voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme na 1800 no. 30 Utrecht: Uitgeverij Kok. 7-18.
- Trigt P.W. van (2022), 'Beproef uzelf': de viering van het avondmaal tijdens de COVID-19-pandemie als venster op de verhouding tussen publieke gezondheid en protestantse religie. In: Krijger T.E. & Trigt P.W. van (Eds.), Pandemieën en protestanten: de omgang met infectieziekten in protestants Nederlands sinds 1800: Kokboekencentrum Non-Fictie. 155-170.
- Trigt P.W. van (2022), De positie van mensen met een lvb in de maatschappij: toen en nu. In: Kaal K., Scheppingen L. van, Douma J., Oostaijen E. van & Bouwman-van Ginkel E. (Eds.), Basisboek lvb voor sociaal werkers . Assen: Koninklijke van Gorcum.
- Trigt P.W. van (2022), Review of: Beyens N. (2021) Els Borst: medicus in de politiek, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis = The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 19(3): 159-161.
- Trigt P.W. van (2021), Do we still need another ‘other’? New Directions in the Historiography of Disability (panel discussion). [other].
- Trigt P.W. van (2021), Rights and Disability Internationalism since the 1960s. 6th ENIUGH Congress 15 June 2021 - 19 June 2021.
- Trigt P.W. van, Baar M.K., Kudlick C., Vikström L. & Zoanni T. (2021), Do we still need another ‘other’? New Directions in the Historiography of Disability: Roundtable. ESSHC 24 March 2021 - 27 March 2021.
- Trigt P.W. van & Krijger T.E.M. (2021), Community maakt ziek/gezond? Een interdisciplinair symposium over gemeenschappen, gezondheid en de pandemie. Community maakt ziek/gezond? Een interdisciplinair symposium over gemeenschappen, gezondheid en de pandemie 11 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
- Trigt P.W. van, Krijger T.E.M. & Pollaert E. (2021), Alleen/samen gezond? [podcast].
- Trigt P.W. van (2021), Het religieuze archief van handicap, Transparant 32(2): 22-25.
- Trigt P.W. van (2020), Equal reproduction rights? The right to found a family in United Nations’ disability policy since the 1970s, History of the Family 25(2): 202-213.
- Trigt P.W. van (2020), Missing Utopia: reconsidering the politics of time in the global disability movement. In: Bagchi B. (Ed.), Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation. Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press. 120-139.
- Parry M.S., Tijsseling C. & Trigt P.W. van (2020), Slow, uncomfortable, and badly paid: disPLACE and the benefits of disability history. In: Lynch B., Smed S., Chynoweth A. & Petersen K. (Eds.), Museums and social change: challenging the unhelpful museum. London: Routledge. 149-159.
- Trigt P.W. van (2020) An interdisciplinary perspective on ethical drives in human life. Review of: Mattingly C., Dyring R., Louw M. & Schwarz Wentzer T. (2018), Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life. New York: Berghahn Books. History of the Human Sciences .
- Trigt P.W. van, 1916 Staatscommissie. Onderzoek tot verbetering van het lot van blinden en halfblinden. [blog entry].
- Molenaar A. & Trigt P.W. van (2020), Het persoonsgebonden budget: 25 bewogen jaren, Zorg & Sociaalweb : .
- Scheewe L. & Trigt P.W. van (2020), De roep om inclusieve ontwikkeling komt uit het zuiden, Vice Versa : .
- Trigt P.W. van (2020), Contribution to webinar 'A journey through disability and development'. [other].
- Trigt P.W. van (2020), Bijdrage aan webinar 'Pgb: toen, nu en straks'. [other].
- Trigt P.W. van (2020), Human rights, an unknown disability history and the future of the nation state. Disability Histories and Futures of the Nation 15 October 2020 - 15 October 2020.
- Trigt P.W. van (2020), Bijdrage rondetafelgesprek College voor de Rechten van de Mens over de positie van jonge mensen met een arbeidsbeperking in het licht van het VN-verdrag Handicap. [other].
- Trigt P.W. van (2020), From asylum to prison? Legality, morality and defendants with intellectual disabilities in Western Europe in the 1990s and 2000s. 134th Annual Meeting American Historical Association 3 January 2020 - 6 January 2020.
- Pollaert E. & Trigt P.W. van (2020), Van internaat naar inclusie? Een leergeschiedenis van 'het gehandicapte kind' 1950-2020.
- Trigt P.W. van (2020), Membership of Scientific Committee, European Society for Disability Research (ALTER) conference, Rennes/ France . [other].
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Gelijkheid zonder beperking: over de Algemene Wet Gelijke Behandeling (1994) en de constructie van handicap in politieke instituties, BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review 134(1): 3–27.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Ordering disability: how can modernity theory inform disability history, International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 7: 423-442.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Inequality in Global Disability Policies since the 1970s. In: Christiansen C.O. & Jensen S.L.B. (Eds.), Histories of Global Inequality. New Perspectives: Palgrave Macmillan. 187-206.
- Baar M.K. & Trigt P.W. van (2019), Introduction. In: Baar M.K. & Trigt P.W. van (Eds.), Marginalized Groups, Inequalities and the Post-War Welfare State: Whose Welfare?. Londen: Routledge. 1-8.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Farewell to social Europe? An entangled perspective on European Disability Policies in the 1980s and 1990s. In: Baar M.K. & Trigt P.W. van (Eds.), Marginalized Groups, Inequalities and the Post-War Welfare State: Whose Welfare?. Londen: Routledge. 69-80.
- Baar M.K. & Trigt P.W. van (2019), British and European citizenship: entanglements through the lens of disability, Contemporary European History 28(1): 50-52.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Introduction: Scripts for a new stage: United Nations’ observances and new perspectives on diplomatic history, Diplomatica: a journal of diplomacy and society 1(2): 145-156.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), De invoering van het Persoonsgebonden Budget (PGB) in de gezondheidszorg in 1996 en het ontstaan van 'vrije markt bureaucratie', Tijdschrift voor sociologie 15(3): 271-287.
- Gaas D., Brants L., Bunthof A., Waals A. van der, Veen P. van, Kef S., Boss E., Trip H. & Trigt P.W. van (2019), Sectorstudie Geweld in doven- en blindeninternaten.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Emancipation of people with disabilities in the Dutch Caribbean since the 1970s. 51st Annual ACH Conference 26 May 2019 - 30 May 2019.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), The Fall of Utopia and the Integration of Disability in International Law. Conference: “Putting Human Rights to the Test Claims, Interventions, and Contestations since 1990” 16 May 2019 - 17 May 2019.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Bijdrage Movisie Expertmeeting Toegankelijke Dienstverlening. [other].
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Redistributive Human Rights and Disability Policies in the 1980s and 1990s. Redistributive Human Rights? 31 January 2019 - 1 February 2019.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Including Disabled Persons in Humanity: A Genealogy of Disability as a Human Rights Issue. Visions of Humanity (Culture and International History) 6 May 2019 - 8 May 2019.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Marktwerking in de zorg en depolitisering van sociaal beleid: de casus van het Persoonsgebonden Budget (1996). Congres ‘De zichtbare hand’ 29 August 2019 - 30 August 2019.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), From welfare to rights? The Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities 1993 – 2002. The 11th International Convention of Asian Scholars 17 July 2019 - 19 July 2019.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Suffering responsibility. Moral agency in court cases with disabled convicts. Virtuous Suffering: New perspectives on the Ethics of Suffering for Critical Global Health and Justice 16 September 2019 - 17 September 2019.
- Trigt P.W. van (2019), Balancing Acts. Vulnerability, the State and Convicts with Cognitive Disabilities in Western Europe since the 1970s. A Workshop on the Politics of Public Health: Disability, Age, and Other ‘Categories’ of Universal Human Vulnerability 19 September 2019 - 20 September 2019.
- Baar M.K. & Trigt P.W. van (Eds.) (2019), Marginalized Groups and the post-War Welfare State in Historical Perspective: Whose Welfare?: Routledge .
- Baar M.K. & Trigt P.W. van (Eds.) (2019), Diplomatica Special issue Script for a New Stage: The United Nations’ Global Observances: Brill.
- Brants L., Trigt P.W. van & Schippers A. (2018), A short history of approaches to disability in the Netherlands. In: Brants L., Trigt P.W. van & Schippers A. (Eds.), The Routledge History of Disability. London: Routledge. 151 - 163.
- Trigt P.W. van (5 February 2018), Beyond the last utopia? Introduction to a student blog series about the history of human rights. Rethinking Disability. Leiden University. [blog entry].
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), Voorbij de laatste utopie: Over de historiografie van mensenrechten, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 131(2): 327-340.
- Trigt P.W. van & Baar M.K. (2018), 1974. Dennedal: een progressief experiment?. In: Heerma van Voss L., Hart M. 't, Davids K., Fatah-Black K., Lucassen L. & Touwen J. (Eds.), Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland 665-670.
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), Diversity, Disability and Words. In: Modest W. & Lelijveld R. (Eds.), Words Matter. An Unfinished Guide to Word Choices in the Cultural Sector 64-67.
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), Diversiteit, handicap en taal. In: Modest W. & Lelijveld R. (Eds.), Woorden doen ertoe. Een Incomplete Gids voor woordkeuze binnen de culturele sector 66-69.
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), 'Missing Utopia: Human Rights and the Politics of Time in the Global Disability Movement’, international workshop Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 21 and 22 February 2018. International workshop Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation 21 February 2018 - 22 February 2018.
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), Hoeveel gelijkheid verdraagt de gastheer?. In: Berkelaar W., Seijlhouwer H. & Wallet B. (Eds.), Tussen Amsterdam en Kampen. George Harinck en het Historisch Documentatiecentrum aan de Vrije Universiteit 1985-2017. Donum Reeks no. 18 119-121.
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), ‘Equal reproduction rights? The right to found a family in the UN Disability Policy since the 1970s’, ESSHC Belfast 4 April. ESSHC 4 April 2018 - 4 April 2018.
- Trigt P.W. van & Tijsseling C. (2018), ‘Culturele identiteitspolitiek. De casus van het Digital Disability Archive’, KNHG voorjaarscongres 26 april 2018, Arnhem. KNHG voorjaarscongres 26 April 2018 - 26 April 2018.
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), ‘From Social Enginering to Human Rights. Disability Internationalism since the 1970s’, Research Seminar RIAS, 11 April Middelburg. Research Seminar RIAS 11 April 2018 - 11 April 2018.
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), ‘International law and disability. A non-linear and non-western trajectory of disability as a human rights issue’, TWAIL conference, 19 July Singapore. TWAIL conference 19 July 2018 - 19 July 2018.
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), ‘Structures and events. How can the investigation of the UN’s observances inform Diplomatic History’, NDH conference, 25 October Middelburg. NDH conference 25 October 2018 - 25 October 2018.
- Trigt P.W. van (2018), Disabled reproduction? A history of the right to found a family in the UN observances dedicated to people with disabilities, conference Family, Human Rights and Internationalism, Göttingen, 2-3 November. Family, Human Rights and Internationalism 2 November 2018 - 3 November 2018.
- Trigt P.W. van, Emancipation and violence against people with disabilities in the past. Public Disability History. [blog entry].
- Trigt P.W. van (2017), Historicizing the social model: Some preliminary thoughts about the history of disability, science, and politics in postwar Britain and the Netherlands, Studien des Aachener Kompetenzzentrums für Wissenschaftsgeschichte 17: 93-103.
- Couperus S., Kaal H., Randeraad N. & Trigt P.W. van (2017), Provincializing the Dutch State: South Holland in the 19th Century, Administory: Zeitschrift Fur Verwaltungsgeschichte 2(1): 166-184.
- Trigt P.W. van (2017), Historisch pionierswerk. Recensie van Marco Gietema en Cecile aan de Stegge, Vergeten slachtoffers, Psychiatrische inrichting de Willem Arntsz Hoeve in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Markant 22(3): 22.
- Trigt P.W. van, A new take on human rights history? Investigating the United Nations’ Observances. Rethinking Disability Blog. [blog entry].
- Trigt P.W. van (2017), Hoogstens een accentuerende variatie van de menselijke conditie’. Over de betekenis van blindheid voor liedboekdichter Jan Wit (1914-1980). In: Trigt P.W. van (Ed.), Een door God geschonken gave. Luthers erfenis in de Nederlandse protestantse kerkmuziek.
- Graas Dorien, Tijsseling Corrie & Trigt P.W. van (2017), Haalbaarheidsonderzoek naar geweld in doven- en blindeninternaten.
- Trigt P.W. van (2016), Hoeveel diversiteit kan de familie Doorsnee aan?, Sociale Vraagstukken : .
- Brants L., Trigt P.W. van & Schippers A. (2016), Handicap in Nederland. Een historisch overzicht van benaderingen van mensen met een beperking in het moderne Nederland. In: Hove G. van & et al. (Eds.), Disability Studies in de Lage Landen. Antwerpen/ Apeldoorn: Garant. 320-333.
- Trigt P.W. van (2016), Human Rights and the Welfare State. An Exploratory History of Social Rights in the Postwar Netherlands, Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict 3: .
- Trigt P.W. van & Legêne S. (2016), Writing disability into colonial histories of humanitarianism, Social Inclusion 4(4): 188-196.
- Trigt P.W. van, Schippers A. & Kool J. (2016), Humanity as a Contested Concept: Relations between Disability and ‘Being Human’, Social Inclusion 4(4): 125-128.
- Trigt P.W. van, De historicus, de moralist en de kunstenaar. Blog Disability Studies in Nederland. Amersfoort: Stichting Disability Studies in Nederland. [blog entry].
- Trigt P.W. van (2016), Hoeveel diversiteit kan de familie Doorsnee aan?, Sociale Vraagstukken : .