Jeroen Vermeulen
Biographic Data
| ID | 189431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeroen Vermeulen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeroen |
| FAMILY NAME | Vermeulen |
| SIGNATURE | VERMEULEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7166-7759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Negotiating Capitalist Rhythms in Everyday Urban Life
Capitalism is not necessarily associated with outdoor life and leisure time. This article examines how capitalist rhythms are embedded and negotiated in the everyday life of an urban park and how movements within the park space reveal a tension between linear and cyclical rhythms. Taking the Griftpark in the Dutch city of Utrecht as a case study, we draw on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis and Tim Ingold’s concepts of wayfinding and navigation to …
Keats's Haggard Shadow
This article discusses how John Keats’s biography and poetry exerted influence on the development of the plot, structure, protagonists and metaphorical framework of Patrick McGrath’s novel Dr Haggard’s Disease (1993). Furthermore, it contends that the novel does not simply aim to pay tribute to Keats or to function as a literary emulation or even mimicry of Keats’s life and oeuvre. Instead, the novel suggests a postmodernist comment on Keatsian R…
Freud by Numbers? – Hysteria and Transgenerational Haunting in Patrick McGrath’s Constance (2013)
This article investigates the literary technique with which Patrick McGrath opposes two narrators and illustrates how the subtle story of one of them, Constance, deconstructs the apparently dominant discourse of the second narrator, Sidney. This article furthermore refutes the current critical interpretation of Constance as a hysteric and demonstrates that it is Sidney who deliberately constructs this notion of hysteria and who himself – paradoxi…
Assembling the Irreconcilable
This article demonstrates how youth workers in a Dutch city bring together seemingly irreconcilable worlds: the development policies of their organisations and the state on the one hand and the practices, needs and aspirations of young people on the other. Current policies, like much academic literature on street-level professionals, define youth workers as frontline workers, implementing policies as representatives of their organisations. We app…
Play and work
In recent decades, sport as a social practice has become relevant in many different fields: in health, economy, politics, education, work and leisure. The importance of sport transcends the confine
On Lines, Place-making and Children’s Play. An Exploration of Street Life in the Netherlands
In this essay the author explores the diverse ways in which children are creating places for play in the streets of the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. More specifically, the focus of the essay is on the lines that children actively draw in place-making for play and on the meaning of lines that have been drawn for them as part of the design of playgrounds in streets. The written and visual observations about children, places and lines are the…
The bridge as playground
This article deals with sport activities of youths on public playgrounds in the Netherlands and the organizing practices they are engaged in. In the evaluation of the social value of sport the metaphor of the bridge is widely used. Predominantly the bridge stands for ideals of connection and social inclusion through sport, while processes of separation and exclusion remain underexposed. In this article, I will argue that the real places where spo…
Local Korfball versus Global Basketball
Korfball contre basket-ball : les liens entre la fabrication des règles et la diffusion Dans cet article, l'auteur se demande pourquoi, bien que ces deux sports soient étroitement liés et fortement comparables, le korfball est resté un sport local, soumis à la moquerie et à la dérision dans son pays d'origine, alors que le basketball a connu un essor mondial et prestigieux qui fascine les populations. En répondant à la question, cette étude a l'i…
Culture in Action
This article discusses the relation between administrative culture and the capacity to act. It analyses how the Dutch city of Rotterdam radically altered its safety and ‘livability’ approaches in the face of new challenges, and how the city used its cultural make-up and traditions in doing so. This takes its importance from that fact that local governments are almost continuously confronted with the need to reform policies and methods in the face…
Assembling the Irreconcilable
This article demonstrates how youth workers in a Dutch city bring together seemingly irreconcilable worlds: the development policies of their organisations and the state on the one hand and the practices, needs and aspirations of young people on the other. Current policies, like much academic literature on street-level professionals, define youth workers as frontline workers, implementing policies as representatives of their organisations. We app…
The bridge as playground
This article deals with sport activities of youths on public playgrounds in the Netherlands and the organizing practices they are engaged in. In the evaluation of the social value of sport the metaphor of the bridge is widely used. Predominantly the bridge stands for ideals of connection and social inclusion through sport, while processes of separation and exclusion remain underexposed. In this article, I will argue that the real places where spo…
Culture in Action
This article discusses the relation between administrative culture and the capacity to act. It analyses how the Dutch city of Rotterdam radically altered its safety and ‘livability’ approaches in the face of new challenges, and how the city used its cultural make-up and traditions in doing so. This takes its importance from that fact that local governments are almost continuously confronted with the need to reform policies and methods in the face…
Local Korfball versus Global Basketball
Korfball contre basket-ball : les liens entre la fabrication des règles et la diffusion Dans cet article, l'auteur se demande pourquoi, bien que ces deux sports soient étroitement liés et fortement comparables, le korfball est resté un sport local, soumis à la moquerie et à la dérision dans son pays d'origine, alors que le basketball a connu un essor mondial et prestigieux qui fascine les populations. En répondant à la question, cette étude a l'i…
Culture in Action
This article discusses the relation between administrative culture and the capacity to act. It analyses how the Dutch city of Rotterdam radically altered its safety and ‘livability’ approaches in the face of new challenges, and how the city used its cultural make-up and traditions in doing so. This takes its importance from that fact that local governments are almost continuously confronted with the need to reform policies and methods in the face…
The bridge as playground
This article deals with sport activities of youths on public playgrounds in the Netherlands and the organizing practices they are engaged in. In the evaluation of the social value of sport the metaphor of the bridge is widely used. Predominantly the bridge stands for ideals of connection and social inclusion through sport, while processes of separation and exclusion remain underexposed. In this article, I will argue that the real places where spo…
Local Korfball versus Global Basketball
Korfball contre basket-ball : les liens entre la fabrication des règles et la diffusion Dans cet article, l'auteur se demande pourquoi, bien que ces deux sports soient étroitement liés et fortement comparables, le korfball est resté un sport local, soumis à la moquerie et à la dérision dans son pays d'origine, alors que le basketball a connu un essor mondial et prestigieux qui fascine les populations. En répondant à la question, cette étude a l'i…
On Lines, Place-making and Children’s Play. An Exploration of Street Life in the Netherlands
In this essay the author explores the diverse ways in which children are creating places for play in the streets of the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. More specifically, the focus of the essay is on the lines that children actively draw in place-making for play and on the meaning of lines that have been drawn for them as part of the design of playgrounds in streets. The written and visual observations about children, places and lines are the…
Play and work
In recent decades, sport as a social practice has become relevant in many different fields: in health, economy, politics, education, work and leisure. The importance of sport transcends the confine
Assembling the Irreconcilable
This article demonstrates how youth workers in a Dutch city bring together seemingly irreconcilable worlds: the development policies of their organisations and the state on the one hand and the practices, needs and aspirations of young people on the other. Current policies, like much academic literature on street-level professionals, define youth workers as frontline workers, implementing policies as representatives of their organisations. We app…
Freud by Numbers? – Hysteria and Transgenerational Haunting in Patrick McGrath’s Constance (2013)
This article investigates the literary technique with which Patrick McGrath opposes two narrators and illustrates how the subtle story of one of them, Constance, deconstructs the apparently dominant discourse of the second narrator, Sidney. This article furthermore refutes the current critical interpretation of Constance as a hysteric and demonstrates that it is Sidney who deliberately constructs this notion of hysteria and who himself – paradoxi…
Keats's Haggard Shadow
This article discusses how John Keats’s biography and poetry exerted influence on the development of the plot, structure, protagonists and metaphorical framework of Patrick McGrath’s novel Dr Haggard’s Disease (1993). Furthermore, it contends that the novel does not simply aim to pay tribute to Keats or to function as a literary emulation or even mimicry of Keats’s life and oeuvre. Instead, the novel suggests a postmodernist comment on Keatsian R…
Negotiating Capitalist Rhythms in Everyday Urban Life
Capitalism is not necessarily associated with outdoor life and leisure time. This article examines how capitalist rhythms are embedded and negotiated in the everyday life of an urban park and how movements within the park space reveal a tension between linear and cyclical rhythms. Taking the Griftpark in the Dutch city of Utrecht as a case study, we draw on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis and Tim Ingold’s concepts of wayfinding and navigation to …
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)