Biography
Roy Kemmers is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam's Department of Public Administration and Sociology. As a cultural sociologist I am interested in processes of cultural change, as manifested in the (changing) meanings that are attributed to such topics as politics, religion, identity, gender and ethnicity.
In my PhD project I studied contemporary popular discontents about politics by taking a cultural sociological perspective. With this project I aimed to develop a theory about political discontents that emphasizes the importance of ordinary people’s own definitions of the situations they find themselves (and society) in.
After my PhD, I have been active to develop a research agenda into everyday anti-institutionalism. In it, I aim to take anti-institutionalism, a fundamental part of populism, and study it in (seeimingly) non-political domains of society- (ie, everyday life). See my (in Dutch) essay 'Nederlandse instituties op de tocht', available here in pdf, for this argument.
Most of my teaching takes place at Erasmus University College, where I teach Highlights of Sociology, Qualitative Research through Interviewing, A Global View on Migration (minor), and I supervise bachelor's theses. At DPAS I supervise bachelor's and master's theses.
I am chief editor (hoofdredacteur) for the full-colour Dutch quarterly Sociologie Magazine. [Sociologie Magazine]: http://www.sociologiemagazine.nl
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- kemmers@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Roy Kemmers (2023) - De oplossing voor het onbehagen van de PVV-stemmer ligt grotendeels buiten bereik van ‘Den Haag’ (Volkskrant opinie)
- Roy Kemmers (2024) - Nederlandse instituties op de tocht
- Roy Kemmers (2022) - "Us know who is to blame": Understanding popular political discontents in the Netherlands
- Willem de Koster, Roy Kemmers, Kjell Noordzij & Jeroen van der Waal (2022) - Van pacificatie naar polarisatie: Sociaal-culturele scheidslijnen en politiek in naoorlogs Nederland
- Roy Kemmers, Jeroen van der Waal & Willem de Koster (2018) - Burgers op afstand? Naar een beter begrip van ontevreden burgers - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2019) - Boze burgers begrijpen - Openingstoespraak CVS congres (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Roy Kemmers (2017) - Identity and the self in Sociology - Guest lecture (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Kemmers (2016) - Channeling Discontent? Nonvoters, Populist Party Voters and their Affective Political Agency (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Kemmers, SD Aupers & Jeroen Waal (2015) - Becoming Politically Discontented: Anti-establishment Careers of Dutch Nonvoters and Populist Party Voters (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Roy Kemmers (2015) - “It’s just no fun to watch TV anymore!’ On Becoming Politically Discontented and (re) evaluating media’ (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Roy Kemmers (2014) - Channeling Discontent? Comparing Nonvoters and Populist Party Voters' Political Self-Efficacy (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Kemmers (2014) - Politiek onbehagen gekanaliseerd? Een vergelijking in politieke voldoening tussen PVV stemmers en niet stemmers (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Kemmers (2014) - Sociologie Magazine (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Roy Kemmers (2013) - Becoming Politically Discontented: How Dutch Nonvoters and PVV- voters Have Come to Reject Established Politics (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Kemmers (2013) - Understanding anti-establishment discourse among Dutch citizens (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
