Peter Van Dam
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Van Dam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Dam |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DAM P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9547-1993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy
This editorial examines how corporate practices have evolved to address social and environmental concerns. In addition to the division of labor between business historians and historians of social movements, we identify two key challenges to be addressed when conducting research on efforts to change corporate behavior. The first challenge relates to the source material related to interactions in these fields. Such material is often difficult to a…
Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy
Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy
Can Activists Change Business For Good
Can Activists Change Business For Good
For peace, justice, and the integrity of creation
The Conciliar Process was a transnational campaign initiated by churches throughout the world, adhorting Christians to consider their responsibility for global justice, peace, and the environment. This article analyses the trajectory of this campaign, also known as the campaign for Justice, Peace and the integrity of Creation (JPIC), as it unfolded between 1987 and 1992. If focuses primarily on its evolution in the Netherlands, where it was recei…
Working Out a Sustainable Diet
From the 1960s onwards, the sustainability of the modern diet became a topic of fierce discussion in industrialised societies. Vocal critics proposed radical alternatives to the prevailing modes of production, but their impact remained fairly modest. To understand how Western European countries nonetheless became ‘light green societies’ (Michael Bess), this article assesses the distinct interpretation of sustainable food consumption which was cha…
Small is Unsustainable
This article analyses how the alternative food movement in the Low Countries successfully promoted the ideal of small-scale production and consumption since the 1970s. This history highlights an interpretation of sustainability which addressed global problems by a return to the local. Operating on a small scale enabled the alternative food movement to bridge the gap between social and environmental concerns. Although alternative food remained mar…
The Age of Interdependence
Where has sustainability come from and how could it become such a popular idea? This special issue analyses the intersection between twentieth-century attempts to attune environmental, social and economic concerns in the Low Countries and the rise of ‘sustainable development’ from the 1980s onwards. The introduction to this issue first relates the articles to the international historiography on sustainability and elaborates their shared approach.…
No justice Without Charity
Humanitarian actors have firmly stated that they have moved on from charity since the 1960s. Instead, they have anchored their work in a notion of justice, rejecting religious differences and colonial ties. Their new focus was on the structural reforms to which the disadvantaged had a right. The analysis of the activities of the agencies which imported fair trade products from the 1960s until the 1980s demonstrates how the purported transition fr…
Goodbye to Grand Politics
In 1968 Dutch activists launched a campaign focused on cane sugar as a symbol of unfair trading conditions for the global South. The history of the cane sugar campaign from 1968 to 1974 highlights how European integration provided hope for large-scale change and a common target. This led activists to establish European networks and campaigns. Its demise sheds new light on the new social movements’ shift from ‘grand politics’, aimed at a sudden an…
Trajectories of Global Solidarity. Fair Trade Activism Since the 1960s
Activists throughout Western Europe joined Southern actors in demanding a reform of global trade during the 1960s. This forum focuses on the subsequent trajectories of fair trade activism: the initiatives which aimed to achieve equitable economic relations between the South and the North. The evolution of this movement is situated within larger debates about social movements since the 1960s. The forum demonstrates the importance of a transnationa…
Moralizing Postcolonial Consumer Society
Decolonization challenged people across the globe to define their place in a new postcolonial order. This challenge was felt in international political and economic affairs, but it also affected daily lives across the globe. The history of fair trade activism as seen from the Netherlands highlights how citizens in the North grappled to position themselves in a postcolonial consumer society. Interventions by fair trade activists connected debates …
Religious Regimes
This article discusses the concept of ‘religious regimes’ in order to identify institutionalised arrangements regulating the social position of religion. By analysing such regimes and the views underpinning them, three visions of the societal role of religion come into focus: segmented pluralism, the Christian nation and the secular nation. Taking up Dutch post-war history as a case study, it becomes clear that religious regimes regularly result …
Constructing a Modern Society Through "Depillarization". Understanding Post-War History as Gradual Change
The term "depillarization" ("ontzuiling") emerged in the Netherlands during the 1970s to proclaim the end of a society dominated by "pillarization" ("verzuiling"). In breaking away from the past, a groundbreaking renewal of religious and civic life through secularization and individualization was proclaimed or deplored. As hopes of an emancipation from the past subsided in the face of a considerable continuity, depillarization became a narrative …
Beyond the merchant and the clergyman
This article proposes to move beyond the categories of altruism and self-interest in the analyses of the motives for development cooperation. This opposition ignores the inherently moral nature of development policy. The article illustrates the shortcomings of such a perspective by tracing the metaphor of the merchant and the clergyman as archetypical figures shaping Dutch development policy. Through these images the suggestion of an opposition b…
Propaganda nach Hitler
Journal Article Propaganda nach Hitler: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Wahlkampfs in der Bundesrepublik 1949–1990 Get access Propaganda nach Hitler: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Wahlkampfs in der Bundesrepublik 1949–1990. By Mergel Thomas. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2010. 415pp. €29,90 (hardback). Peter van Dam Peter van Dam University of Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 30, Issue 4, Dec…
Constructing a Modern Society Through "Depillarization". Understanding Post-War History as Gradual Change
The term "depillarization" ("ontzuiling") emerged in the Netherlands during the 1970s to proclaim the end of a society dominated by "pillarization" ("verzuiling"). In breaking away from the past, a groundbreaking renewal of religious and civic life through secularization and individualization was proclaimed or deplored. As hopes of an emancipation from the past subsided in the face of a considerable continuity, depillarization became a narrative …
Moralizing Postcolonial Consumer Society
Decolonization challenged people across the globe to define their place in a new postcolonial order. This challenge was felt in international political and economic affairs, but it also affected daily lives across the globe. The history of fair trade activism as seen from the Netherlands highlights how citizens in the North grappled to position themselves in a postcolonial consumer society. Interventions by fair trade activists connected debates …
Religious Regimes
This article discusses the concept of ‘religious regimes’ in order to identify institutionalised arrangements regulating the social position of religion. By analysing such regimes and the views underpinning them, three visions of the societal role of religion come into focus: segmented pluralism, the Christian nation and the secular nation. Taking up Dutch post-war history as a case study, it becomes clear that religious regimes regularly result …
Goodbye to Grand Politics
In 1968 Dutch activists launched a campaign focused on cane sugar as a symbol of unfair trading conditions for the global South. The history of the cane sugar campaign from 1968 to 1974 highlights how European integration provided hope for large-scale change and a common target. This led activists to establish European networks and campaigns. Its demise sheds new light on the new social movements’ shift from ‘grand politics’, aimed at a sudden an…
Trajectories of Global Solidarity. Fair Trade Activism Since the 1960s
Activists throughout Western Europe joined Southern actors in demanding a reform of global trade during the 1960s. This forum focuses on the subsequent trajectories of fair trade activism: the initiatives which aimed to achieve equitable economic relations between the South and the North. The evolution of this movement is situated within larger debates about social movements since the 1960s. The forum demonstrates the importance of a transnationa…
Beyond the merchant and the clergyman
This article proposes to move beyond the categories of altruism and self-interest in the analyses of the motives for development cooperation. This opposition ignores the inherently moral nature of development policy. The article illustrates the shortcomings of such a perspective by tracing the metaphor of the merchant and the clergyman as archetypical figures shaping Dutch development policy. Through these images the suggestion of an opposition b…
Propaganda nach Hitler
Journal Article Propaganda nach Hitler: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Wahlkampfs in der Bundesrepublik 1949–1990 Get access Propaganda nach Hitler: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Wahlkampfs in der Bundesrepublik 1949–1990. By Mergel Thomas. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2010. 415pp. €29,90 (hardback). Peter van Dam Peter van Dam University of Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 30, Issue 4, Dec…
Beyond the merchant and the clergyman
This article proposes to move beyond the categories of altruism and self-interest in the analyses of the motives for development cooperation. This opposition ignores the inherently moral nature of development policy. The article illustrates the shortcomings of such a perspective by tracing the metaphor of the merchant and the clergyman as archetypical figures shaping Dutch development policy. Through these images the suggestion of an opposition b…
Religious Regimes
This article discusses the concept of ‘religious regimes’ in order to identify institutionalised arrangements regulating the social position of religion. By analysing such regimes and the views underpinning them, three visions of the societal role of religion come into focus: segmented pluralism, the Christian nation and the secular nation. Taking up Dutch post-war history as a case study, it becomes clear that religious regimes regularly result …
Constructing a Modern Society Through "Depillarization". Understanding Post-War History as Gradual Change
The term "depillarization" ("ontzuiling") emerged in the Netherlands during the 1970s to proclaim the end of a society dominated by "pillarization" ("verzuiling"). In breaking away from the past, a groundbreaking renewal of religious and civic life through secularization and individualization was proclaimed or deplored. As hopes of an emancipation from the past subsided in the face of a considerable continuity, depillarization became a narrative …
Moralizing Postcolonial Consumer Society
Decolonization challenged people across the globe to define their place in a new postcolonial order. This challenge was felt in international political and economic affairs, but it also affected daily lives across the globe. The history of fair trade activism as seen from the Netherlands highlights how citizens in the North grappled to position themselves in a postcolonial consumer society. Interventions by fair trade activists connected debates …
Goodbye to Grand Politics
In 1968 Dutch activists launched a campaign focused on cane sugar as a symbol of unfair trading conditions for the global South. The history of the cane sugar campaign from 1968 to 1974 highlights how European integration provided hope for large-scale change and a common target. This led activists to establish European networks and campaigns. Its demise sheds new light on the new social movements’ shift from ‘grand politics’, aimed at a sudden an…
Trajectories of Global Solidarity. Fair Trade Activism Since the 1960s
Activists throughout Western Europe joined Southern actors in demanding a reform of global trade during the 1960s. This forum focuses on the subsequent trajectories of fair trade activism: the initiatives which aimed to achieve equitable economic relations between the South and the North. The evolution of this movement is situated within larger debates about social movements since the 1960s. The forum demonstrates the importance of a transnationa…
No justice Without Charity
Humanitarian actors have firmly stated that they have moved on from charity since the 1960s. Instead, they have anchored their work in a notion of justice, rejecting religious differences and colonial ties. Their new focus was on the structural reforms to which the disadvantaged had a right. The analysis of the activities of the agencies which imported fair trade products from the 1960s until the 1980s demonstrates how the purported transition fr…
Small is Unsustainable
This article analyses how the alternative food movement in the Low Countries successfully promoted the ideal of small-scale production and consumption since the 1970s. This history highlights an interpretation of sustainability which addressed global problems by a return to the local. Operating on a small scale enabled the alternative food movement to bridge the gap between social and environmental concerns. Although alternative food remained mar…
The Age of Interdependence
Where has sustainability come from and how could it become such a popular idea? This special issue analyses the intersection between twentieth-century attempts to attune environmental, social and economic concerns in the Low Countries and the rise of ‘sustainable development’ from the 1980s onwards. The introduction to this issue first relates the articles to the international historiography on sustainability and elaborates their shared approach.…
For peace, justice, and the integrity of creation
The Conciliar Process was a transnational campaign initiated by churches throughout the world, adhorting Christians to consider their responsibility for global justice, peace, and the environment. This article analyses the trajectory of this campaign, also known as the campaign for Justice, Peace and the integrity of Creation (JPIC), as it unfolded between 1987 and 1992. If focuses primarily on its evolution in the Netherlands, where it was recei…
Working Out a Sustainable Diet
From the 1960s onwards, the sustainability of the modern diet became a topic of fierce discussion in industrialised societies. Vocal critics proposed radical alternatives to the prevailing modes of production, but their impact remained fairly modest. To understand how Western European countries nonetheless became ‘light green societies’ (Michael Bess), this article assesses the distinct interpretation of sustainable food consumption which was cha…
Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy
This editorial examines how corporate practices have evolved to address social and environmental concerns. In addition to the division of labor between business historians and historians of social movements, we identify two key challenges to be addressed when conducting research on efforts to change corporate behavior. The first challenge relates to the source material related to interactions in these fields. Such material is often difficult to a…
Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy
Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy
Can Activists Change Business For Good
Can Activists Change Business For Good
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