Marijn Nieuwenhuis
Biographic Data
| ID | 181706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marijn Nieuwenhuis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marijn |
| FAMILY NAME | Nieuwenhuis |
| SIGNATURE | NIEUWENHUIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1220-6324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cities on fire
This intervention outlines a new way of thinking about the growing entanglements between fire and urban life in the Anthropocene, calling for a dialogue between urban studies and elemental geographies as a conceptual lens that addresses the changing nature of nature in contemporary urban worlds. As wildfires increasingly impact cities—destroying infrastructure and property, displacing populations, and altering air quality across vast distances—fi…
Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine
In this article, we examine how fire-a triangle of heat, fuel and oxygen-functions as a settler colonial tool of destruction closely linked to techniques of elimination and replacement. In Palestine, we conceptualise fire as part of a broader set of pyrotechniques-elemental practices that devastate more than bodies and infrastructures by targeting and eroding the environmental conditions that sustain Palestinian lifeworlds. Drawing on ideas from …
There, seated upon the toilet, apparently in the midst of defecation, was the president of the United States
What can we learn about elite politics from the humble toilet? How do the relations between toilets, bodies, and waste materially and discursively reveal, and become enrolled within, the summits of state political power? While there has been a growth in research on the political geographies of the body, including work on toilets, and a long history of research on elite politics, the two intellectual concerns and debates have not been brought toge…
Respiratory negotiations
Existing at the intersection of health, politics and affect, medical masks evoke lines and flights of contentions and resistance in everyday lives. They are instruments of negotiation that mediate across bodies, breaths, airs, faces, and lived experiences. Carrying a history that goes back only a few hundred years, masks gained unprecedented traction during the COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreaks of social anxiety, frustration, and anger following m…
Back lane geography
Gateshead', the Tory playwright Samuel Johnson said, is 'the dirty back lane leading to Newcastle'. What his derogatory dialectic misses is the significance of the back lane as a place in and of itself. Although not written about much, at least not in geography, I believe that these streets are important places to understand neighbourhoods and communities in the Northeast of England. Without the lives and places of the back lane a Northern town i…
Atmospheric Pedagogies
This paper offers a series of (auto)ethnographic reflections on COVID-19 and the ways it changes how we, as educators, practice, perform and inhabit the spaces of higher education. Using a phenomenological framework based on the concept of atmosphere, which constitutes an embodied relation in space, we explore pedagogical relations in our felt university classrooms and lectures theatres. We focus our shared attention on the unexpected and unplann…
Introduction
In this symposium, we present and think about crises as locations from which to interrogate commonplace approaches to the political.Our goal is to offer case studies in cultivating what Antonio Vazquez-Arroyo calls "political literacy and responsibility," to uncover the Real which capitalist realism suppresses.1 The planet, the border, the safe space, the university-these are just a few of the locations of crisis today that can dislocate entrench…
The politics of subterranean atmospheres in China
Every five seconds someone dies prematurely from air pollution (UN, 2019). Environmental degradation, however, is not limited to the air above alone, but also affects the conditions of life underneath the surface. Black lung disease (pneumoconiosis), a respiratory condition, is by far the most common occupational illness in China today. Official reports suggest that over half a million people, almost exclusively rural migrants, live with the incu…
Geographies of Trust
“Trust is the most joyous kind of bond with another living being. But isn’t it true that whenever we enjoy being with someone, there is [both] a factor of risk there, and also a factor of trust, which gives our enjoyment an edge of rapture?” (Lingis (2004 Anderson, B. 2004. Time-stilled space-slowed: How boredom matters. Geoforum 35 (6):739–54. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.02.005.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]),x…
Social Imaginaries of Space
The author of Social Imaginaries of Space: Concepts and Cases (original: “L'espace de l'Imaginaire: Essais et detours”), Bernard Debardieux, is a Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the University of Geneva. Earlier work written with Gilles Rudaz (Debarbieux & Rudaz, 2015) is an historically rich account of the geographical imagination and socially constructed nature of mountains. It was translated from French by Jane Marie Todd and …
Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics
Porous skin
Atmospheric governance
Breathing is the activity which all forms of animated life share in common. The breath has been symbolised across cultures as the meaning of life itself. If breathing is imagined as life, gassing is the very opposite. Gassing is the intended (or unintended) means to prevent or obstruct breathing. Perhaps it is for this reason that the Nazi concentration camps are remembered as expressions of technological as much as metaphysical terror. The 2013 …
Dust
This essay centres on a recent exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery, London - A Handful of Dust, curated by David Campany. The exhibition focuses on the thing/concept/idea of dust and features the work and thoughts of artists (e.g. Duchamp), photographers (e.g. Man Ray) and others. In this essay, we walk through the exhibition, pausing at some of its displays while contextualising a number of its many themes in the emerging literature on dust. Dust,…
Introduction
Breathing materiality
The gassing events in Ferguson, Hong Kong, Istanbul and Syria, among countless other places, have made it clear that policing can no longer be simply understood as a bodily disciplining of individuals, but that the target has shifted to the medium of the air. The air has for a long time been the neglected element of politics. Modern politics historically arises as a practice that is rooted in the soil on which borders are drawn and in which natio…
The emergence of materialism in geography
This article provides an analysis and discussion of the concept of emergence in the context of the materialist turn in the discipline of geography. Etymologically, the word emergence is said to describe that which 'becomes visible after being concealed' but is also described as an 'unforeseen occurrence; a state of things unexpectedly arising, and demanding immediate attention' ( Oxford English Dictionary). The concept is in this article analysed…
Atemwende, or how to breathe differently
This commentary makes use of the affinity between the body and the element of air to come to what I call ‘a politics of the air’. The commentary uses Peter Adey’s discussion on the relationship between the air and geopolitics as a springboard to initiate a project, which wishes to reconsider the material components conventionally considered to constitute politics. The commentary first provides a general introduction expanding on Adey’s notion of …
Breathing materiality
The gassing events in Ferguson, Hong Kong, Istanbul and Syria, among countless other places, have made it clear that policing can no longer be simply understood as a bodily disciplining of individuals, but that the target has shifted to the medium of the air. The air has for a long time been the neglected element of politics. Modern politics historically arises as a practice that is rooted in the soil on which borders are drawn and in which natio…
Atmospheric governance
Breathing is the activity which all forms of animated life share in common. The breath has been symbolised across cultures as the meaning of life itself. If breathing is imagined as life, gassing is the very opposite. Gassing is the intended (or unintended) means to prevent or obstruct breathing. Perhaps it is for this reason that the Nazi concentration camps are remembered as expressions of technological as much as metaphysical terror. The 2013 …
Porous skin
The emergence of materialism in geography
This article provides an analysis and discussion of the concept of emergence in the context of the materialist turn in the discipline of geography. Etymologically, the word emergence is said to describe that which 'becomes visible after being concealed' but is also described as an 'unforeseen occurrence; a state of things unexpectedly arising, and demanding immediate attention' ( Oxford English Dictionary). The concept is in this article analysed…
Dust
This essay centres on a recent exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery, London - A Handful of Dust, curated by David Campany. The exhibition focuses on the thing/concept/idea of dust and features the work and thoughts of artists (e.g. Duchamp), photographers (e.g. Man Ray) and others. In this essay, we walk through the exhibition, pausing at some of its displays while contextualising a number of its many themes in the emerging literature on dust. Dust,…
Respiratory negotiations
Existing at the intersection of health, politics and affect, medical masks evoke lines and flights of contentions and resistance in everyday lives. They are instruments of negotiation that mediate across bodies, breaths, airs, faces, and lived experiences. Carrying a history that goes back only a few hundred years, masks gained unprecedented traction during the COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreaks of social anxiety, frustration, and anger following m…
Atemwende, or how to breathe differently
This commentary makes use of the affinity between the body and the element of air to come to what I call ‘a politics of the air’. The commentary uses Peter Adey’s discussion on the relationship between the air and geopolitics as a springboard to initiate a project, which wishes to reconsider the material components conventionally considered to constitute politics. The commentary first provides a general introduction expanding on Adey’s notion of …
Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine
In this article, we examine how fire-a triangle of heat, fuel and oxygen-functions as a settler colonial tool of destruction closely linked to techniques of elimination and replacement. In Palestine, we conceptualise fire as part of a broader set of pyrotechniques-elemental practices that devastate more than bodies and infrastructures by targeting and eroding the environmental conditions that sustain Palestinian lifeworlds. Drawing on ideas from …
Introduction
Atemwende, or how to breathe differently
This commentary makes use of the affinity between the body and the element of air to come to what I call ‘a politics of the air’. The commentary uses Peter Adey’s discussion on the relationship between the air and geopolitics as a springboard to initiate a project, which wishes to reconsider the material components conventionally considered to constitute politics. The commentary first provides a general introduction expanding on Adey’s notion of …
Introduction
Breathing materiality
The gassing events in Ferguson, Hong Kong, Istanbul and Syria, among countless other places, have made it clear that policing can no longer be simply understood as a bodily disciplining of individuals, but that the target has shifted to the medium of the air. The air has for a long time been the neglected element of politics. Modern politics historically arises as a practice that is rooted in the soil on which borders are drawn and in which natio…
The emergence of materialism in geography
This article provides an analysis and discussion of the concept of emergence in the context of the materialist turn in the discipline of geography. Etymologically, the word emergence is said to describe that which 'becomes visible after being concealed' but is also described as an 'unforeseen occurrence; a state of things unexpectedly arising, and demanding immediate attention' ( Oxford English Dictionary). The concept is in this article analysed…
Atmospheric governance
Breathing is the activity which all forms of animated life share in common. The breath has been symbolised across cultures as the meaning of life itself. If breathing is imagined as life, gassing is the very opposite. Gassing is the intended (or unintended) means to prevent or obstruct breathing. Perhaps it is for this reason that the Nazi concentration camps are remembered as expressions of technological as much as metaphysical terror. The 2013 …
Dust
This essay centres on a recent exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery, London - A Handful of Dust, curated by David Campany. The exhibition focuses on the thing/concept/idea of dust and features the work and thoughts of artists (e.g. Duchamp), photographers (e.g. Man Ray) and others. In this essay, we walk through the exhibition, pausing at some of its displays while contextualising a number of its many themes in the emerging literature on dust. Dust,…
Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics
Porous skin
Social Imaginaries of Space
The author of Social Imaginaries of Space: Concepts and Cases (original: “L'espace de l'Imaginaire: Essais et detours”), Bernard Debardieux, is a Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the University of Geneva. Earlier work written with Gilles Rudaz (Debarbieux & Rudaz, 2015) is an historically rich account of the geographical imagination and socially constructed nature of mountains. It was translated from French by Jane Marie Todd and …
Geographies of Trust
“Trust is the most joyous kind of bond with another living being. But isn’t it true that whenever we enjoy being with someone, there is [both] a factor of risk there, and also a factor of trust, which gives our enjoyment an edge of rapture?” (Lingis (2004 Anderson, B. 2004. Time-stilled space-slowed: How boredom matters. Geoforum 35 (6):739–54. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.02.005.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]),x…
The politics of subterranean atmospheres in China
Every five seconds someone dies prematurely from air pollution (UN, 2019). Environmental degradation, however, is not limited to the air above alone, but also affects the conditions of life underneath the surface. Black lung disease (pneumoconiosis), a respiratory condition, is by far the most common occupational illness in China today. Official reports suggest that over half a million people, almost exclusively rural migrants, live with the incu…
Atmospheric Pedagogies
This paper offers a series of (auto)ethnographic reflections on COVID-19 and the ways it changes how we, as educators, practice, perform and inhabit the spaces of higher education. Using a phenomenological framework based on the concept of atmosphere, which constitutes an embodied relation in space, we explore pedagogical relations in our felt university classrooms and lectures theatres. We focus our shared attention on the unexpected and unplann…
Introduction
In this symposium, we present and think about crises as locations from which to interrogate commonplace approaches to the political.Our goal is to offer case studies in cultivating what Antonio Vazquez-Arroyo calls "political literacy and responsibility," to uncover the Real which capitalist realism suppresses.1 The planet, the border, the safe space, the university-these are just a few of the locations of crisis today that can dislocate entrench…
There, seated upon the toilet, apparently in the midst of defecation, was the president of the United States
What can we learn about elite politics from the humble toilet? How do the relations between toilets, bodies, and waste materially and discursively reveal, and become enrolled within, the summits of state political power? While there has been a growth in research on the political geographies of the body, including work on toilets, and a long history of research on elite politics, the two intellectual concerns and debates have not been brought toge…
Respiratory negotiations
Existing at the intersection of health, politics and affect, medical masks evoke lines and flights of contentions and resistance in everyday lives. They are instruments of negotiation that mediate across bodies, breaths, airs, faces, and lived experiences. Carrying a history that goes back only a few hundred years, masks gained unprecedented traction during the COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreaks of social anxiety, frustration, and anger following m…
Back lane geography
Gateshead', the Tory playwright Samuel Johnson said, is 'the dirty back lane leading to Newcastle'. What his derogatory dialectic misses is the significance of the back lane as a place in and of itself. Although not written about much, at least not in geography, I believe that these streets are important places to understand neighbourhoods and communities in the Northeast of England. Without the lives and places of the back lane a Northern town i…
Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine
In this article, we examine how fire-a triangle of heat, fuel and oxygen-functions as a settler colonial tool of destruction closely linked to techniques of elimination and replacement. In Palestine, we conceptualise fire as part of a broader set of pyrotechniques-elemental practices that devastate more than bodies and infrastructures by targeting and eroding the environmental conditions that sustain Palestinian lifeworlds. Drawing on ideas from …
Cities on fire
This intervention outlines a new way of thinking about the growing entanglements between fire and urban life in the Anthropocene, calling for a dialogue between urban studies and elemental geographies as a conceptual lens that addresses the changing nature of nature in contemporary urban worlds. As wildfires increasingly impact cities—destroying infrastructure and property, displacing populations, and altering air quality across vast distances—fi…
Politics (14 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)