Thijs Van Dooremalen
Biographic Data
| ID | 131690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thijs Van Dooremalen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thijs |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Dooremalen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DOOREMALEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7184-775X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
British heatwave discourse (1985–2023): From ice cream to armageddon
Linking crises: Connections between climate change and Covid-19 during American, Canadian, Dutch, and Lithuanian national elections (2020-2021)
Crisis responses are created in reference to the meanings of other crises. We develop the notion of ‘linking crises’ to capture this phenomenon and apply it to two contemporary global crises: climate change and COVID-19. Concretely, we study four crisis linkage dimensions in American, Canadian, Dutch, and Lithuanian party manifestos for national elections from the pandemic heydays (2020–2021): (1) how often links were drawn; (2) the issues they w…
Repertoires of Comparison: How Common Comparisons Shape Social and Political Life
Comparison is ubiquitous in social life, yet some comparisons are far more common, institutionalized, and influential than others. Building on work in cultural sociology, we call these repertoires of comparison (RoCs). Institutionalized across one or more social fields, RoCs are employed at different levels of society (local, national, global) and across myriad social contexts (sports clubs, city offices, the media). For example, horrific events …
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 definition, most empirical studies of events focus on pre/post-measurement strategies. Yet not all events are unexpected (e.g., Eurovision, Oscar nominations, the Olympics). Moreover, pre/post-measurements cannot capture the temporality in which meaning-making processes unfold nor account for the ove…
To foreignize or to domesticate? How media vary cross-nationally in their degrees of incorporating foreign events
While the domestication literature indicates how national media link foreign events to a country’s domestic affairs, it has thus far only examined modes of domestication - the ways through which these links are created. In this article, we introduce a different dimension of the phenomenon: degrees of domestication. This includes the extents to which a foreign event gets connected with the domestic. By making a topic-modeling analysis of French an…
The importance of cultural and social proximity for the cross-border impacts of terrorist attacks
Over the past two decades, social science research has repeatedly shown that societies tend to be affected more by a foreign event when it occurs in a geographically, culturally, and/or socially proximate location. The extant terrorism literature, however, has thus far mainly focused on the role played by geographical proximity in the creation of terrorist attacks' cross–border impacts, thereby largely ignoring the possible importance of cultural…
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
Why do some happenings become incentives for cultural or political transformation (that is: turn into events), whereas others remain ordinary occurrences? The theoretical perspectives of cultural repertoires, cleavage structures, and discursive opportunities are prominent and fruitful approaches for explaining cultural or political behavior and attitudes, yet they do not have a satisfactory answer to this question. To fill in this gap, I introduc…
The framing of 9/11 in American, French, and Dutch national newspapers (2001-2015): An inductive approach to studying events
In this article, the authors employ work on events, framing, and social problems to develop an inductive approach to studying events. The article's central premise is that tracing direct references made to events offers a fruitful strategy to investigate their framing cross-nationally and over time. The authors apply their approach to the case of 9/11 in American, French, and Dutch national newspapers (2001-2015). By combining word counting, topi…
The pros and cons of researching events ethnographically
Events (remarkable, disruptive happenings) are important subjects of study for understanding processes of change. In this essay, I reflect upon the issue of what the ethnographic method has to offer for the analysis of this social phenomenon. To do so, I review three recently published ethnographic studies of events. My conclusion is that it is indeed a very useful method for understanding the feelings and ideas of people who are experiencing eve…
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
Why do some happenings become incentives for cultural or political transformation (that is: turn into events), whereas others remain ordinary occurrences? The theoretical perspectives of cultural repertoires, cleavage structures, and discursive opportunities are prominent and fruitful approaches for explaining cultural or political behavior and attitudes, yet they do not have a satisfactory answer to this question. To fill in this gap, I introduc…
The framing of 9/11 in American, French, and Dutch national newspapers (2001-2015): An inductive approach to studying events
In this article, the authors employ work on events, framing, and social problems to develop an inductive approach to studying events. The article's central premise is that tracing direct references made to events offers a fruitful strategy to investigate their framing cross-nationally and over time. The authors apply their approach to the case of 9/11 in American, French, and Dutch national newspapers (2001-2015). By combining word counting, topi…
The pros and cons of researching events ethnographically
Events (remarkable, disruptive happenings) are important subjects of study for understanding processes of change. In this essay, I reflect upon the issue of what the ethnographic method has to offer for the analysis of this social phenomenon. To do so, I review three recently published ethnographic studies of events. My conclusion is that it is indeed a very useful method for understanding the feelings and ideas of people who are experiencing eve…
To foreignize or to domesticate? How media vary cross-nationally in their degrees of incorporating foreign events
While the domestication literature indicates how national media link foreign events to a country’s domestic affairs, it has thus far only examined modes of domestication - the ways through which these links are created. In this article, we introduce a different dimension of the phenomenon: degrees of domestication. This includes the extents to which a foreign event gets connected with the domestic. By making a topic-modeling analysis of French an…
The importance of cultural and social proximity for the cross-border impacts of terrorist attacks
Over the past two decades, social science research has repeatedly shown that societies tend to be affected more by a foreign event when it occurs in a geographically, culturally, and/or socially proximate location. The extant terrorism literature, however, has thus far mainly focused on the role played by geographical proximity in the creation of terrorist attacks' cross–border impacts, thereby largely ignoring the possible importance of cultural…
Repertoires of Comparison: How Common Comparisons Shape Social and Political Life
Comparison is ubiquitous in social life, yet some comparisons are far more common, institutionalized, and influential than others. Building on work in cultural sociology, we call these repertoires of comparison (RoCs). Institutionalized across one or more social fields, RoCs are employed at different levels of society (local, national, global) and across myriad social contexts (sports clubs, city offices, the media). For example, horrific events …
The pros and cons of researching events ethnographically
Events (remarkable, disruptive happenings) are important subjects of study for understanding processes of change. In this essay, I reflect upon the issue of what the ethnographic method has to offer for the analysis of this social phenomenon. To do so, I review three recently published ethnographic studies of events. My conclusion is that it is indeed a very useful method for understanding the feelings and ideas of people who are experiencing eve…
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
Why do some happenings become incentives for cultural or political transformation (that is: turn into events), whereas others remain ordinary occurrences? The theoretical perspectives of cultural repertoires, cleavage structures, and discursive opportunities are prominent and fruitful approaches for explaining cultural or political behavior and attitudes, yet they do not have a satisfactory answer to this question. To fill in this gap, I introduc…
The framing of 9/11 in American, French, and Dutch national newspapers (2001-2015): An inductive approach to studying events
In this article, the authors employ work on events, framing, and social problems to develop an inductive approach to studying events. The article's central premise is that tracing direct references made to events offers a fruitful strategy to investigate their framing cross-nationally and over time. The authors apply their approach to the case of 9/11 in American, French, and Dutch national newspapers (2001-2015). By combining word counting, topi…
The importance of cultural and social proximity for the cross-border impacts of terrorist attacks
Over the past two decades, social science research has repeatedly shown that societies tend to be affected more by a foreign event when it occurs in a geographically, culturally, and/or socially proximate location. The extant terrorism literature, however, has thus far mainly focused on the role played by geographical proximity in the creation of terrorist attacks' cross–border impacts, thereby largely ignoring the possible importance of cultural…
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 definition, most empirical studies of events focus on pre/post-measurement strategies. Yet not all events are unexpected (e.g., Eurovision, Oscar nominations, the Olympics). Moreover, pre/post-measurements cannot capture the temporality in which meaning-making processes unfold nor account for the ove…
To foreignize or to domesticate? How media vary cross-nationally in their degrees of incorporating foreign events
While the domestication literature indicates how national media link foreign events to a country’s domestic affairs, it has thus far only examined modes of domestication - the ways through which these links are created. In this article, we introduce a different dimension of the phenomenon: degrees of domestication. This includes the extents to which a foreign event gets connected with the domestic. By making a topic-modeling analysis of French an…
British heatwave discourse (1985–2023): From ice cream to armageddon
Linking crises: Connections between climate change and Covid-19 during American, Canadian, Dutch, and Lithuanian national elections (2020-2021)
Crisis responses are created in reference to the meanings of other crises. We develop the notion of ‘linking crises’ to capture this phenomenon and apply it to two contemporary global crises: climate change and COVID-19. Concretely, we study four crisis linkage dimensions in American, Canadian, Dutch, and Lithuanian party manifestos for national elections from the pandemic heydays (2020–2021): (1) how often links were drawn; (2) the issues they w…
Repertoires of Comparison: How Common Comparisons Shape Social and Political Life
Comparison is ubiquitous in social life, yet some comparisons are far more common, institutionalized, and influential than others. Building on work in cultural sociology, we call these repertoires of comparison (RoCs). Institutionalized across one or more social fields, RoCs are employed at different levels of society (local, national, global) and across myriad social contexts (sports clubs, city offices, the media). For example, horrific events …
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works)