Thijs van Dooremalen

@tvdooremalen.bsky.social

Assistant Prof in Crisis Governance at Leiden University Sociologist, researching how events and crises shape social and political life https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/thijs-van-dooremalen#tab-1

How can sociology help to understand and possibly tackle the climate crisis? Are there signs of climate politics optimism in the current political moment? I hosted a podcast episode with ‪@catherinewong.bsky.social‬ and @rfelliott.bsky.social discussing this! pod.link/1533967764/e...

Culture & Inequality Podcast

How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...

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Al te actueel aforisme: Op de dag na een grote historische crisis voelen we ons even ontstemd en ziek als 's ochtends na een nacht van uitspattingen. Maar er bestaat geen aspirine voor een historische kater. (Albert Camus, Laatste cahiers 1951 - 1959, vorig jaar in het Nederlands verschenen)

I have a new OA article out in Poetics, with Luca Carbone, @mijs.bsky.social and Stijn Daenekindt! We develop the notion of "recurrent events" - occurrences that structure social life through their regular cadence - and apply it to the case of Eurovision in 18 countries (from 1981 until 2021).

Towards a sociology of recurrent events. Constellations of cultural change around Eurovision in 18 countries (1981–2021)

Sociologists usually conceptualize events as unexpected occurrences bringing about long-lasting transformations of social structures. Following this d…

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As of the new year, I will start working as Assistant Professor at Leiden Uni's Institute for Security and Global Affairs. I will continue researching events, in particular the relationship between extreme weather and climate crisis politics, and will teach on similar topics. Looking forward!

I wrote a review for Social Forces on Rin Ushiyama's book about the 1995 Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack, Japan's worst terrorist attack since WW II - an interesting read, covering how a wide diversity of actors shaped the event's position within contemporary Japanese collective memory

Review of “Aum Shinrikyō and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory”

On 20 March 1995, Japan was startled by its worst terrorist attack since World War II (at least, in terms of the number of victims). That morning, the terrorist

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