Jorrit Van Den Berk

Biographic Data

ID159453
NAMEJorrit Van Den Berk
GIVEN NAMESJorrit Van Den
FAMILY NAMEBerk
SIGNATUREVAN DEN BERK J
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0002-2495-1586
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The Diplomacy of Gratitude

    Open AccessLudivine Broch, Jorrit Van Den Berk et al.ARTICLEContemporary European History2026

    This introductory article situates the study of gratitude within the historiography on emotions and transatlantic relations, particularly in relation to the affective turn in the humanities and social sciences. It also sets out the common goals of the articles: inviting historians to take gratitude seriously by defining its relationship to ongoing work in memory, humanitarian and international studies. By identifying a diplomacy of gratitude, it …

  • Hip Hip Hooray and Thank You Marshall

    Open AccessJorrit Van Den Berk, Albertine BloemendalARTICLEContemporary European History2025References: 15

    This article conceptualises a transatlantic diplomacy of gratitude that developed in the context of the Marshall Plan as a case of emotional diplomacy by focusing on a Dutch commemorative tradition that celebrates the US aid programme. It shows that US Marshall Planners carefully refrained from explicit demands of gratitude and that it was the Dutch government, rather, that initiated a discourse of gratitude for US aid. Through the ways in which …

  • Oppressive Even As It Inspires

    Open AccessLaura Visser-Maessen, Jorrit Van Den BerkARTICLEDu Bois Review Social Science…2024References: 96

    In this article, we trace the evolution of the connections between Black America and (Black) Europe since the mid-twentieth century and the study thereof. We do so through the lens of 'Black American centrality,' referring to the ways in which perceptions of Black America serve as an outsized reference point in European understandings of race, 'Blackness,' and Black (European) emancipation struggles. This allows for exploring the dilemmas that th…

  • The Intermediary is the Message

    Open AccessJorrit Van Den BerkARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History2020Cited by: 1

    This article analyzes the public diplomacy of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) in the Netherlands during the Marshall Plan era. It shows that the impact of the ECA’s public diplomacy was shaped by its negotiations with local partners. The argument focuses on the operational level of US information campaigns, which sought to mobilize specific Dutch social groups behind a model of increased productivity and economic growth. By examinin…

  • Race Matters

    Open AccessJorrit Van Den Berk, Laura Visser-MaessenARTICLEEuropean Journal of American…2019Cited by: 1References: 18

    New questions about the legacies of 1968 and the 1960s in general are presenting themselves to us, as scholars and as citizens, ever more urgently. This is particularly true of race and racial struggle, as unresolved race matters from the past poignantly intersect with twenty-first century activism aimed at countering the continued devaluation of black lives. This special issue of The European Journal of American Studies focuses on the black free…

  • We Should not Content Ourselves with a Sham

    Open AccessJorrit Van Den BerkARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies2016References: 1

    Scholars have paid considerable attention to the connection between Washington's withdrawal from intervention and the emergence of dictatorship in Central America during the 1930s. The current article seeks to enhance our understanding of those interconnected developments through the investigation of the US Foreign Service and its role in the early 1930s presidential campaigns in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. It shows that the dynamic int…