Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

And our AMCIS survey experiments workshop is a wrap! Two great and intense days with lots of exiting survey experimental designs and projects being presented + two great keynotes 😀 Thanks everyone for coming to Amsterdam
@aissr.bsky.social

*state secretary

Genomineerden Joke Smitprijs 2025 bekend Liza Mügge, Hoofddocent Politicologie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, de feministische beweging Dolle Mina en vrouwenorganisatie Vrouwen van Nu zijn genomineerd voor de Joke Smit oeuvreprijs. De ge...

Political scientist @lizamugge.bsky.social is nominated for the Joke Smit Prize 2025 for her pioneering research on gender, politics & inclusion. Congrats, Liza! 🎉

Winners announced on 3 Nov by stage secretary Koen Becking.

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Militarized Policing and the Imperial Boomerang in the US and Britain - AISSR Join the first AISSR lecture of the 2025-2026 series, that will be kicked off by professor of Sociology Julian Go (University of Chicago), exploring social dynamics, structures and the impact of empir...

🚨 AISSR Lecture Series kick-off! 𝟭𝟳 𝗢𝗰𝘁 | 𝟭𝟰:𝟯𝟬-𝟭𝟲:𝟬𝟬

With @juliango.bsky.social on how imperialism & colonialism shaped today’s militarized policing in the US & UK. Aftertalk with Rivke Jaffe (Urban Geograhpy)

Open to students, researchers & the public

Register here: aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

Jongeren bezorgd om pesten, wonen en veiligheid, en voelen zich niet gehoord Veel jongeren tot 18 jaar voelen zich, net als vorig jaar, niet gehoord door de politiek, terwijl ze er volgens onderzoekers wel mee bezig zijn.

Nederlandse jongeren voelen zich vaak niet gehoord door politici. Vanochtend sprak ik met @nporadio1.bsky.social over hoe politici, ouders en scholen hun kijk op politiek en democratie beïnvloeden, én hoe we ze meer gehoord kunnen laten voelen.

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New report by @hannems.bsky.social, @bexxxie.bsky.social & @emilijajok.bsky.social on webcam sex work reveals poor protections & calls for change.

🧾 Read their report here ➡️ www.plexxxi.org/report
📰 And the (Dutch) interview in @nrc.nl 👇

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👩‍🎓 Great news! Kristine Krause is now Professor of Anthropology of Health & Care 🎉

Kristine’s research tackles one of today’s biggest challenges: how to meet the growing need for care in aging societies while fewer people are available to provide it.

🔗Read more: aissr.uva.nl/shared/facul...

Good luck to Merve Aygun🍀 Defending her PhD thesis this Wednesday on Istanbul’s middle-class lifestyles, showing how class, politics, and religion intersect in everyday life.

Supervised by @janrath.bsky.social & @willemboterman.bsky.social

📅 3 Sept, 14:00
🎥 Watch live: www.uva.nl/shared-conte...

Book talk  | The rule of dons: Criminal leaders and political authority in urban Jamaica | Rivke ...

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚌𝚊 🇯🇲

In Kingston local 'dons' are seen as leaders even though they are linked to crime. Join the hybrid lecture @kitlv.bsky.social on 4 Sept to learn about these 'dons' who support poor communities using their own networks and ties to political parties.

@aissr.bsky.social

🚲 Amsterdam is hailed as a cycling paradise, but who gets left out?

Join award-winning mobility expert Charles T. Brown - founder of @equiticity.bsky.social - on 5 Sept for a keynote on equity, belonging & mobility justice, co-hosted by @urbancyclinginstitute.org

👉 aissr.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

Reminder: you can still submit your abstract for the workshop on Survey Experiments that @bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising @aissr.bsky.social early October. Submission deadline is 27/08/2025 ⬇️

Congratulations @kdpham.bsky.social! 🥳

Call for Papers and/or research designs for a workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences" at the University of Amsterdam in October.

@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam.
We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025.

@aissr.bsky.social

Luc Fransen appointed professor of Transnational Governance - AISSR Luc Fransen appointed Professor of Transnational Governance at the UvA. He researches cross-border collaboration on environment, human rights, and economic development.

☀️ Almost summer break, but we’ve got great news: Luc Fransen is appointed Professor of Transnational Governance at the UvA.

He'll focus on how civil society, business & governments shape global governance, from labour rights to climate policy.

🌍 Congrats, Luc!

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🎉 Congrats to Dr. Sofia Wickberg (Political Science) on receiving a prestigious NWO VENI grant!

Her project, 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝗽' 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲, explores why digital anti-corruption tools often fall short of their promises 👇

🔗 aissr.uva.nl/shared/uva/e...

Turning low-grade waste into high-value sustainable materials - HIMS The Catalysis Engineering group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) led by associate professor Shiju Raveendran is part of the newly established ABEL consortium that aims to con...

♻️ Turning low-grade waste into high-value materials. Congrats to Joyeeta Gupta & the ABEL consortium with the €6.7M Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) grant for driving circular bioeconomy forward 🌱👏

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🎉 Congrats to AISSR & @uva-fmg.bsky.social political scientist Ursula Daxecker & the DeMoCraft team with a €6.6M grant via NWA–ORC! 🙌

With @christianburgers.bsky.social, @shjjacobs.bsky.social (@ascor.bsky.social) @theresakuhn.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)

🔗 aissr.uva.nl/shared/uva/e...

YouTube video by Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research AISSR - How it started

📀 We recently found a dusty DVD in the AISSR office: a 15-year-old intro video from our founding days.

A nostalgic glimpse of our researchers, early work, piled desks, and projects. And how far we’ve come. Here’s to what’s next! 🥂

#15yrs

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Funding from NWO SSH Open Competition for 11 UvA research projects Eleven UvA researchers and their teams can start promising projects thanks to allocations within SSH Open Competition M 2025 of the Dutch Research Council. The projects will cover a diverse range of topic -such as social media, health and the labour market- with plenty of room for experimentation and innovation. The projects last for a maximum of five years.

👏 Congrats to cultural sociologist Olga Sezneva on receiving the €400K Dutch Research Council grant for her Contested Objects, Connected Histories (COCH) project on memory, conflict & heritage in the Polish-German borderlands 💐

www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

The new Gilded Age: For billionaire weddings, discretion is out and consumption is in The displays of wealth and power at the recent weddings of billionaires, like Bezos-Sánchez's nuptials, are a callback to the Gilded Age.

Sociologist Ashley Mears weighs in on Jeff Bezos’ wedding in @businessinsider.com: “More money in the system = more elaborate ways of showing status.” A new Gilded Age of conspicuous consumption? 💸

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Research article entitled "Politics without Presence? The Symbolic Representation of Trans People in Germany and the Netherlands" by Anne Louise Schotel and Liza Mügge. Abstract begins: Historically, trans people have been excluded from politics. Despite political under representation, trans interests increasingly appear on the political agenda in the Netherlands and Germany. In 2021, trans women were elected to the Dutch and German parliaments for the first time. However, increased trans visibility is accompanied by backlash and transphobia. The political representation of trans people does not follow a familiar pattern from elected descriptive representatives to increased substantive representation of interests. What mechanisms shape the political representation of trans people? We argue that symbolic representation shapes possibilities for descriptive and substantive representation of trans people.

🏆 Winner of this year's Best Article Prize 🏆

@alschotel.bsky.social & @lizamugge.bsky.social use of qualitative text analysis paired with in-depth interviews bring out critical insights into trans symbolic representation in 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇱 parliaments.

Available 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟
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The climate and ecological crisis - what is to be done? - Centre for Sustainable Development Studies Lunch lecture with Professor Adam Aron on June 27: why personal change isn’t enough and how collective action can tackle the climate crisis.

🗣️ What does real climate action look like?

Join UC Diego Prof Adam Aron (@swaziadam.bsky.social) tomorrow, for a talk on collective action, climate justice & the power of local movements

📅 27 June
🕐 13:00-14:00
🔗 csds.uva.nl/content/even...

Hosted by our Centre for Sustainable Development Studies

Opinie: De politiek hanteert een veel te beperkte definitie van dakloosheid Een meerderheid van alle daklozen in Nederland verblijft niet in de maatschappelijke opvang, maar slapen bij vrienden op de bank of in illegale huisvestingen. Ook zij zouden dus recht moeten hebben op...

Vandaag betogen Jan de Vries en ik in de Volkskrant dat effectief dakloosheidsbeleid dakloosheid in al haar vormen moet erkennen. Dat betekent ook urgentiestatus voor al deze groepen, zodat de problemen niet hoeven op te stapelen

Hierover debatteert de TK vandaag

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D66-migratieplan roept gemengde reacties op: “Radicale koerswijziging” - Ey! Daily Experts en belangenorganisaties reageren verdeeld op het voorstel van D66-leider Rob Jetten om het Nederlandse asielbeleid om te gooien naar een ‘Canadees model’. Critici spreken van een ‘egoïstisch’ ...

'Het idee om mensen buiten Europa asiel te laten aanvragen is lovenswaardig als het gaat om veiligheid. Maar het is lastig om het goed en menswaardig uit te voeren', zegt @saskiabonjour.bsky.social over het nieuwe @d66.nl migratieplan. 'Goedbedoeld, maar problematisch'.

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Westen kijkt weg van oorlog in Gaza, waarschuwen deskundigen: 'Palestijnen betalen de prijs' De oorlog tussen Israël en Iran komt voor premier Netanyahu op een strategisch moment. Het kan de aandacht afleiden van die andere oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. De afgelopen maanden kwam internationaal...

Erella Grassiani ziet de toekomst somber in nu er oorlog is tussen Israël en Iran. "De Gazanen zullen zien hoe snel de blik van de wereld kan verschuiven naar een ander onderwerp. De weinige aandacht die er voor Gaza was, is nu verschoven naar Iran," zegt ze tegen @rtl.nl

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Modified bodies, material selves: beauty ideals in post-reform Shanghai Published in Asian Anthropology (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2025)

Did you know that Asian Anthropology publishes book reviews?

In our latest issue, Ke Ma (@aissr.bsky.social) reviews 'Modified Bodies, Material Selves' by Julie E. Starr — on beauty, identity & the body in post-reform Shanghai.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683...

#BookReview #Beauty #China #Anthropology

ERC Advanced Grants for six UvA researchers The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Advanced Grants to UvA academics particle physicist Gianfranco Bertone, astronomer Carsten Dominik, political scientist Marieke de Goede, lo...

👏 Congratulations to @mdgoede.bsky.social, Professor of Politics of Security Cultures, on her €2.5M @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant for her research 'Colonial Financial Infrastructures', exploring colonial roots of modern finance 💰

🔗 Read more: www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

How criminal leaders gain political legitimacy How criminal leaders in Jamaica and global figures like Trump and Putin gain legitimacy: leadership within and beyond the law, explored by Rivke Jaffe.

👑 What do King Willem-Alexander & Queen Máxima have in common with violent criminal leaders in Jamaica?

In her new book The Rule of Dons, Prof Rivke Jaffe explores how local criminal leaders in Kingston - 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘴 - come to be seen as legitimate political figures.

🔗 www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

👩‍🎓 Wednesday 18 June at 14:00, @zahrarunderkamp.bsky.social defends her thesis 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀. 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀.

Supervised by @lizamugge.bsky.social, Daphne v/der Pas & @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social

🎥 Join or watch live: www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

Burgers als contractpartners In participatieve processen onderhandelen bewoners met beleidsmakers over de toekomst van hun buurt. In de afgelopen decennia gebeurde dit steeds vaker in co-creatiesessies, waarin burgers een gelijkw...

📚 Vanavond om 20u presenteert Michiel Stapper zijn nieuwe boek *Contracting with Citizens* in SPUI25.

Hoe veranderen burgers de stad wanneer ze als gelijkwaardige contractpartners onderhandelen over de toekomst van hun buurt? 🤝

Aanmelden of livestream 👇 spui25.nl/programma/bu...