811 research outputs found
Depoliticising literature, politicising diversity: ethno-racial boundaries in Dutch literary professionals’ aesthetic repertoires
No full textAlthough still a neglected area, over the years a growing body of sociological research on the position of ethno-racial minorities in Western artistic fields has emerged. With this article we aim to contribute to this research area by focusing on ethno-racial diversity in the Dutch literary field. Through in-depth interviews, we analyse how gatekeepers mobilise specific cultural repertoires and by doing so draw ethno-racial boundaries when discussing acquisition, assessing quality and positioning themselves in the literary field. We argue that literary publishers and other professionals (selectively) employ an ‘old school’ modernist repertoire that especially values the formal aspects of literary products, by which non-white writers and publishers concerned with diversity are often positioned in an identity politics framework. Their work is said to take in a less prestigious ‘political’/’subjective’ position rather than a ‘literary’/‘universal’ one. As such, this paper informs on how gatekeepers’ practices shape the position of non-white authors in the Dutch literary field
The ‘unknown unknowns’: Brexit, the EUSS and the challenges of governing complexity
No full textBrexit’s project of ‘re-bordering’ Britain impacted residency rights for EU nationals in the UK. Rather than focusing on how EU nationals experience the consequences of Brexit in the UK, this paper focuses on how the key policy instrument, the EUSS (EU Settlement Scheme) described as a complex system, ‘complexifies’ EU nationals’ regularisation of their residency status in the UK. Using qualitative interviews with frontline workers involved in the EUSS application process, we analyse this complexity across three dimensions. First, how digital governance enables the EUSS’s agile approach, based on a mobile and flexible norm that generates uncertainty and confusion. Second, how outsourcing responsibility to non-governmental organisations to assist EU nationals’ application to the scheme increases diversity in the availability for help and blurs accountability. Third, the uneven and never complete distribution of knowledge generates complexity as there remain ‘unknown unknowns’. Taken together, this paper adds to the literature on complex policy systems by scrutinising the role of digital governance and outsourcing, while highlighting how these two policy dimensions can further compound the availability of policy knowledge
Spatialising genre: how music genres shape socio-spatial inequalities in nightclub production in Amsterdam
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to contribute to the geographical study of cultural production a thorough understanding of how music genres shape and remake socio-spatial inequalities. I do so through a critical case study of cultural production in night clubs in Amsterdam, based on 36 interviews with promoters, short-term ethnographies at club nights and public conferences and a document-based analysis of newspaper articles, policy documents and archival material. I use music genres as a lens to understand social structures in the music industries, since genres organise people, music and cultural production within a system of symbolic classification. I combine this conceptualisation with a theoretical approach called the cultural industries framework to couple an analysis of production to an analysis of genre, aesthetics and representation. I make three theoretical contributions. First, I argue geographies of cultural production should be more sensitive to the formative functions of music genre and accompanying classification systems in music economies. I show how club’s classification systems and production practices differ between the niche-edm genre (including house, techno) and the eclectic genre (including R&B, dancehall) and lead to distinguishable forms of gendered and racialised inequalities. Second, I posit the cultural industries framework could benefit from a more geographical lens. The thesis shows how nightclubs’ cultural production is shaped by spaces of consumption, urban regulation and transnational cultural flows. Third, I contend that existing research on nightclubs has missed mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion engrained in cultural production, most prominently because the emphasis has been on clubber’s experiences and governmental regulation. Next to door policies and council-led regulation, the economic organisation of nightclubs – organised differently per genre – explains cultural hierarchies in urban nightlife
Negotiating the night: how nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam
No full textNight-time economies have traditionally clustered in city centres and nightlife districts. Yet, due to regulation, urban regeneration and gentrification, nightlife activities and spaces, including nightclubs and club nights, are increasingly located across cities. However, the significance and spatial dynamics of this diffusion and the relationships between different nocturnal spaces and scales remain poorly understood. This paper examines the intra-urban dispersal of nightclubs in Amsterdam and the ways in which nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to urban processes through genre-based commercial and cultural imperatives. Drawing on interviews with 36 nightclub promoters, 111 hours of participant observation at clubs and document-based analysis, it demonstrates how these reflexive actors respond and contribute to intra-urban dispersal by (1) spatialising music genres, (2) staging affective atmospheres at different scales and (3) spatialising audiences. The paper contributes to studies which focus on nocturnal spaces, actors and activities and the evolving urban geography within cities.</p
Never having been racist: Explaining the blackness of blackface in the Netherlands
No full textThe accusation that Black Pete—the blackface character at the center of the annual Sinterklaas festival—is a racist caricature has recently become a staple of the Dutch culture wars, leaving media and cultural producers in a quandary over the figure’s meaning and fate. This essay focuses on two recent seasons of the widely popular children’s television program Sinterklaasjournaal. The show deployed new storylines to maintain the innocence of the traditional celebration in the face of mounting antiracist critique by refabricating truths that not only erase the colonial roots of Black Pete’s blackness but also deny any connection to race altogether. In so doing, however, these storylines further destabilized the main Sinterklaas narrative, akin to an everyday lie that is about to be discovered. Endeavors by storytellers to disconnect the Black Pete figure from racial blackness resulted in representing the character as racially white but covered in soot, while conveying the message that the origin of dark skin is dirt. The narrative strife over Black Pete illustrates the fragility of the Dutch absencing of race, as the latter proves to resurface in the very effort to obliterate it. Instead of artificially reconstructing the semantic unity of discrete stories, the essay introduces a deconstructive approach that apprehends consistency as an effect of power. It shows how various actors work at making changes in the hegemonic story to maintain its coherence in response to threats from alternative accounts, in the process generating new contradictions and challenges that require further narrative work
The Spoken Wikipedia Corpora
No full textThe Spoken Wikipedia project unites volunteer readers of Wikipedia articles. Hundreds of spoken articles in multiple languages are available to users who are – for one reason or another – unable or unwilling to consume the written version of the article. Our resource, the Spoken Wikipedia Corpus, consolidates the Spoken Wikipediae, adding text segmentation, normalization, time-alignment and further annotations, making it accessible for research and fostering new ways of interacting with the material.
Timo Baumann and Arne Köhn and Felix Hennig. 2018. The Spoken Wikipedia Corpus Collection: Harvesting, Alignment and an Application to Hyperlistening, in Language Resources and Evaluation, Special Issue representing significant contributions of LREC 2016.
Arne Köhn, Florian Stegen, Timo Baumann. 2016. Mining the Spoken Wikipedia for Speech Data and Beyond, in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016).
CLARIN Metadata summary for The Spoken Wikipedia Corpora (CMDI-based)
Title: The Spoken Wikipedia Corpora
Description: The Spoken Wikipedia project unites volunteer readers of Wikipedia articles. Hundreds of spoken articles in multiple languages are available to users who are – for one reason or another – unable or unwilling to consume the written version of the article. Our resource, the Spoken Wikipedia Corpus, consolidates the Spoken Wikipediae, adding text segmentation, normalization, time-alignment and further annotations, making it accessible for research and fostering new ways of interacting with the material.
Publication date: 2017
Data owner: Timo Baumann - Universität Hamburg
Contributors: Timo Baumann (author), Arne Köhn (author), Florian Stegen (author)
Languages: English (eng), German (deu), Dutch (nld)
Size: 5397 article, 1005 hour
Segmentation units: other
Genre: encyclopedia
Modality: spoken
References: Timo Baumann; Arne Köhn; Felix Hennig (2018) The Spoken Wikipedia Corpus Collection: Harvesting, Alignment and an Application to Hyperlistening References: Arne Köhn; Florian Stegen; Timo Baumann (2016) Mining the Spoken Wikipedia for Speech Data and Beyon
Replication Data for: Efficient Application of Accelerator Cards for the Coupling Library preCICE
No full textThis dataset contains all testcase setup files and result files for the measurements presented in the Master's thesis with the title "Efficient Application of Accelerator Cards for the Coupling Library preCICE" (Author: Timo Pierre Schrader).
Furthermore, it contains the version of preCICE used throughout this thesis.
The thesis revolves around GPU acceleration of RBF data mapping in preCICE. See the README for more information how to build and run the testcase
Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses
No full textSeeking to overcome the heterosexual bias in marriage-migration scholarship and move beyond individualistic approaches to queer mobility, this article focuses on the lives of same-sex couples that hold unequal residence statuses. In a twofold context marked by the increasing legal recognition of same-sex families combined with heightened hurdles facing certain categories of immigrants, we examine what those simultaneous trends mean for these couples. Based on 42 interviews conducted in France, the Netherlands and the United States with people from a variety of class backgrounds, we show how higher resource levels moderate the impact of constraining legal frameworks without suppressing them. We distinguish between low-resource homogamous, heterogamous, and high-resource homogamous couples. The first configuration often results in forced immobility and separation. In heterogamous couples, conjugality becomes a major pathway to legal status for the migrant spouse – potentially feeding suspicions of instrumentality. In contrast, privileged migrants in a homogamous couple tend to relate to law in less of a binary way and experience regulations as more easily surmountable. Yet, for them, securing permanent residence represents but one objective among several (including their careers and studies), an investment often disconnected from their matrimonial relationship and at times in competition with it
Timo de Rijk: 'We plant the seed'; interview
No full textArt historian Timo de Rijk was appointed Professor of Design, Culture and Society in Delft and Leiden last September. He calls this combination ‘a real breakthrough’. ‘Leiden University studies the workings of culture, while TU Delft aims at creating new things. These are fundamentally different approaches. I am the bridge between the two.’Industrial Design Engineerin
Educación Artística Comunitaria en Finlandia: entrevista a Timo Jokela
No full textEste artículo presenta un estudio sobre la educación artística comunitaria en la Universidad de Laponia en Finlandia. En primer lugar se analizan las líneas principales de este modelo formativo y de su plan de estudios. En segundo lugar se presenta una entrevista con Timo Jokela, Decano de la Facultad de Arte y Diseño de la Universidad de Laponia y director del Departamento de Educación Artística en esa misma Facultad. En la entrevista Timo Jokela habla de las relaciones entre arte, medio ambiente, comunidad y educación partiendo de su propia experiencia como artista y centrado en el contexto finlandés. También sobre los aspectos sociales, culturales, artísticos y educativos que están implícitos en el modelo de educación artística comunitaria que se pone en práctica, como itinerario formativo, en la Universidad de Laponia.
This article presents a study on community-based art education at the University of Lapland in Finland. First, the main guidelines of this training model and its curriculum are analysed. Second, the author includes an interview with Timo Jokela, Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design of The University of Lapland in Finland and Director of the Department of Art Education at the same faculty. In the interview Timo Jokela draws upon his own experience as an artist in Finland to talk about the relationships between art, the environment, community and education. He also talks about the social, cultural, artistic and educational aspects, which are central to the community-based art education scheme in place at The University of Lapland
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