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Thijs van Dooremalen
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. T.J.A. van Dooremalen
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- t.j.a.van.dooremalen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7184-775x
Thijs van Dooremalen is an Assistant Professor within the Governance of Crises research group. He researches how and why events can cause transformations within national public spheres (media, politics, policy making). In his PhD thesis, he analyzed this for the case of 9/11 in the United States, France, and the Netherlands. He is currently particularly interested in the impact of extreme weather events on climate crisis politics.
Thijs van Dooremalen is an Assistant Professor within the Governance of Crises research group. He researches how and why events can cause transformations within national public spheres (media, politics, policy making). In his PhD thesis, he analyzed this for the case of 9/11 in the United States, France, and the Netherlands. He is currently particularly interested in the impact of extreme weather events on climate crisis politics.
Thijs studied Sociology in Utrecht, Mannheim, and Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam. As part of his PhD training, he spent research time at Washington University St. Louis, EHESS (Paris Campus) and the Graduate Centre of City University New York. Before joining ISGA, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at KU Leuven. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs as well as Coordinator of its Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. In the fall of 2024, he will be a visiting scholar at Northwestern University (Chicago).
Assistant professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Carbone Luca Mijs Jonathan van Dooremalen Thijs Daenekindt Stijn (2024), Towards a sociology of recurrent events. Constellations of cultural change around Eurovision in 18 countries (1981–2021), Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts : 101889 (101889).
- Dooremalen T.J.A. van & Duyvendak J.W. (15 April 2024), Buitenlandse gebeurtenissen worden in Nederland vaak een binnenlands probleem. Stuk rood vlees. [blog entry].
- Dooremalen Thijs van & Duyvendak Jan Willem (2024), To foreignize or to domesticate? How media vary cross-nationally in their degrees of incorporating foreign events, Journalism : .
- Dooremalen T.J.A. van (2023), Review of “Aum Shinrikyō and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory”, Social Forces 102(3): e20.
- Knoester O. & Dooremalen T.J.A. van (2023), The importance of cultural and social proximity for the cross-border impacts of terrorist attacks, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression : 1-20.
- Dooremalen T.J.A. van & Duyvendak J.W. (22 March 2022), Fransen bedrijven geopolitiek, Nederland houdt het liever bij het binnenland. NRC Handelsblad.
- Dooremalen T. van (2021), 9/11 was géén kantelpunt in het Nederlandse Islam-debat, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Vraagstukken : .
- Dooremalen Thijs van (2021), How happenings do (not) turn into events: A typology and an application to the case of 9/11 in the American and Dutch public spheres, The British Journal of Sociology 72: 725-741.
- Dooremalen T. van & Uitermark J. (2020), The framing of 9/11 in American, French, and Dutch national newspapers (2001–2015): an inductive approach to studying events, International Sociology : 1-25.
- Dooremalen T.J.A. van (11 September 2019), The framing of 9/11 in the American, French, and Dutch public spheres (2001-2015): a contribution to the sociology of events (Dissertatie, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Duyvendak J.W., Uitermark J.
- Dooremalen T. van (2017), The pros and cons of researching events ethnographically, Ethnography 18(3): 415-424.
- Dooremalen T.J.A. van (8 September 2016), 15 jaar naschokken van 9/11. De Groene Amsterdammer.
- Dooremalen T.J.A. van (2016) Een sociologische grootmacht. Review of: Heilbron J. (2015), French Sociology: Cornell University Press 24(1): 26-27.
- Dooremalen T.J.A. van (2015), Vergelijking tussen Parijs en 11 september gaat deels op, maar misleidt ook. Het Parool.
- Dooremalen van T. & Berg van den J. (2014), Interview met Abram de Swaan, Sociologie Magazine (1): .
- Dooremalen T. van (2013), Intermezzo 2: Discoursen van onbehagen. In: Dekker P., Noije L. van, Ridder J. den & Dooremalen T. van (Eds.), Overvloed aan onbehagen. Den Haag: Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau. 95-102.
- Dekker P., Noije L. van, Ridder J. den & Dooremalen T.J.A. van (2013), Overvloed aan onbehagen: ontwikkelingen, concentraties, tegenbeelden en emoties van het maatschappelijke onbehagen in Nederland. Den Haag: Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau.
- Dooremalen T. van (2013), De politiek: stabiele structuur, veranderlijke cultuur. In: Duyvendak J.W., Bouw C., Gërxhani K. & Velthuis O. (Eds.), Sociale kaart van Nederland: Over instituties en organisaties. Den Haag: Boom Lemma uitgevers. 53-66.
- Dooremalen van T. & Hul L. van 't (2013), Interview: De sociologie in het wereldbeeld van Marcel van Dam, Sociologie Magazine (4): .
- Dooremalen van T. (2011), "Sociologie is lastig in slogans te vatten". Interview met Nico Wilterdink, Sociologie Magazine (3): .
- Dooremalen van T. (2011), Interview: "Topsportsucces is maakbaar", Sociologie Magazine (2): .