Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Kees Boersma

Biographic Data

ID224265
NAMEKees Boersma
GIVEN NAMESKees
FAMILY NAMEBoersma
SIGNATUREBOERSMA K
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-5550-4474
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS81
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6
  • Framing of disaster impact in online news media: A case study from Malawi on flood risk management

    Open Access•Hannah Bailon, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Communication•2025

    Introduction High-quality impact data is essential for several applications in disaster risk management including Early Warning Systems. Currently, most impact data have spatial and temporal gaps, especially in data-poor contexts. Local news media reporting on disasters can contain information to bridge these gaps. However, each news media outlet frames disasters differently, especially since disasters diffuse in time and space. This study addres…

  • Strengthening all-of-society approaches for disaster resilient societies through competency building: A European research agenda

    Open Access•Nathan Clark, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Disaster…•2025

    The increasing frequency of disasters, alongside the recent COVID-19 pandemic, climate emergency, and ongoing/new crises including conflicts and their disproportionate impacts on many communities, all point towards the cascading, multidimensional, and systemic nature of risks. In the wake of this ever-changing risk landscape, it is paramount to adopt multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary risk reduction, preparedness, and adaptation approaches, which …

  • CSR Authenticity During Disruptive Events: Exploring Social Media Evaluations of Tesla's Ventilator Initiative in Response to Covid‐19

    Open Access•Saud Nasser Albusaidi, Tijs A Van Den Broek et al.•ARTICLE•Business Ethics, the Environment…•2025

    Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives have increasingly become subject to authenticity evaluations on social media. Whilst CSR initiatives are evaluated as authentic if they were perceived to genuinely address societal issues and needs, it is unclear, however, how a disruptive event would change the way stakeholders perceive a company's CSR authenticity. Disruptive events have unique features of urgency, scarcity and uncertainty, whic…

  • Exogenous crisis learning of local governments: Learning in unaffected areas after the 7·20 rainstorm disaster in China

    Guanghan Gao, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Disaster Prevention and…•2025

    Purpose Explore the learning orientation and observation orientation of local governments in unaffected areas after the 7·20, 2021, rainstorm disaster in China. Design/methodology/approach Firstly, through a theoretical analysis, the post-disaster learning of local governments in unaffected areas is defined as exogenous crisis learning. Then, the study collated 922 events of exogenous crisis learning, as reported in newspapers and policy document…

  • Unravelling dynamics of vulnerability and social media use on displaced minors in the aftermath of Italian earthquakes

    Open Access•Sara Bonati, Olga Nardini et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Disaster…•2023

  • Disaster Management and Information Technology: Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters

    Hans Jochen Scholl, Eric Holdeman et al.•BOOK•Disaster Management and…•2023

  • Exploring the potential of local stakeholders’ involvement in crisis management. The living lab approach in a case study from amsterdam

    Open Access•Kees Boersma, Rinske Berg et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Disaster…•2022

    This article presents the outcome of research into the potential of local stakeholders’ involvement in crisis management in two Amsterdam neighborhoods. It addresses the recognized challenge of enabling and improving collaboration between established formal response organizations and local actors engaged in extending and emergent organizational behavior during crises. To further explore the potential of local actors in responding to a crisis, the…

  • Humanitarian support in a denial of access context: Emergent strategies at the interface of humanitarian and sovereign law

    Open Access•Erwin Biersteker, Julie Ferguson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2021

    The principles of international humanitarian law (IHL) have evoked considerable debate in the practice of humanitarian support, particularly in terms of emerging tensions with sovereign (national) law. Drawing on organization studies, we examine the emergent strategies aimed at resolving the ambiguous legal context in which humanitarian support operations in a conflict context are embedded. Our analysis of two missions revealed two types of emerg…

  • Social Media in and Around a Temporary Large-Scale Refugee Shelter in the Netherlands

    Open Access•Peer Smets, Youne et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2021•References: 27

    During the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe, temporary refugee shelters arose in the Netherlands to shelter the large influx of asylum seekers. The largest shelter was located in the eastern part of the country. This shelter, where tents housed nearly 3,000 asylum seekers, was managed with a firm top-down approach. However, many residents of the shelter-mainly Syrians and Eritreans-developed horizontal relations with the local receiving society, usi…

  • Research on Politics of Disaster Risk Governance: Where Are We Headed

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 27

    This thematic issue aims at unravelling how the global consensus towards a shift to risk reduction and inclusive disaster governance evolves in everyday governance practices, where roles and responsibilities are evolving and negotiated, permeated by politics of power and legitimacy. It identifies three different dimensions of disaster governance. The first is the formal dimension: the way governance arrangements are designed or meant to work. The…

  • The Legitimacy, Accountability, and Ownership of an Impact-Based Forecasting Model in Disaster Governance

    Open Access•Sterre Bierens, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    The global shift within disaster governance from disaster response to preparedness and risk reduction includes the emergency of novel Early Warning Systems such as impact based forecasting and forecast-based financing. In this new paradigm, funds usually reserved for response can be released before a disaster happens when an impact-based forecast—i.e., the expected humanitarian impact as a result of the forecasted weather—reaches a predefined dan…

  • Responding to the Dutch Asylum Crisis: Implications for Collaborative Work between Civil Society and Governmental Organizations

    Open Access•Robert Larruina, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Social Inclusion•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    Between 2015 and 2016, the Netherlands experienced an asylum crisis, one that directly affected organizations working with refugee reception and integration. Besides civil society and governmental organizations (CSOs and GOs), the period also saw individuals coming together to form emergent CSOs (ECSOs). We look at these organizations to determine whether their work brought a shift in Dutch practice and policy with regarding refugee reception. We…

  • A port in a storm: Spontaneous volunteering and grassroots movements in Amsterdam. A resilient approach to the (European) refugee crisis

    Open Access•Kees Boersma, Anastasiia Kraiukhina et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Administration•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 60

    This article seeks to expand knowledge about spontaneous volunteering in Amsterdam during the European refugee crisis in the winter of 2015–16. As formal institutions, which relied on a top–down command and control approach, were unable to handle the relatively large number of refugees who arrived in a short period of time, grassroots social movements based on bottom–up participation emerged. Grassroots volunteers were not only politically engage…

  • Management strategies in response to an institutional crisis: The case of earthquakes in the Netherlands

    Open Access•Arjen Schmidt, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Public Administration•2018•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    When a policy sector is confronted with a relatively strong and steep decline in legitimacy, we speak of an institutional crisis. We know little about the causes or consequences of these crises. This article explores how institutional crises are managed. It focuses on the effects of management strategies observed in a case study of an institutional crisis in the Netherlands. While we found that policy elites displayed a tendency to maintain the s…

  • Sociale media in en rondom de vluchtelingen-noodopvang bij Nijmegen

    Peer Smets, Younes Younes et al.•ARTICLE•Mens & Maatschappij•2017

    Social media in and around the emergency shelter for refugees near Nijmegen, the Netherlands To cope with the limited capacity of the established reception centres during the refugee crisis of 2015, the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) set up emergency reception centers for refugees such as Heumensoord nearby the Dutch city of Nijmegen. At the peak of the crisis, the Heumensoord centre hosted about 3,000 asylum seekers. CO…

  • Questioning Big Data: Crowdsourcing crisis data towards an inclusive humanitarian response

    Open Access•Femke Mulder, Julie Ferguson et al.•ARTICLE•Big Data & Society•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 27

    The aim of this paper is to critically explore whether crowdsourced Big Data enables an inclusive humanitarian response at times of crisis. We argue that all data, including Big Data, are socially constructed artefacts that reflect the contexts and processes of their creation. To support our argument, we qualitatively analysed the process of ‘Big Data making’ that occurred by way of crowdsourcing through open data platforms, in the context of two…

  • Past, present and future: How the Lithuanian Diaspora in the Netherlands accumulates human capital from social capital

    Open Access•Julie E Ferguson, Julie Ferguson et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 46

    This paper explains how social capital activates the accumulation of human capital within a Diaspora context. Our study focused on migrants in the Lithuanian Diaspora and revealed unexpected differences in the way low- and high-skilled migrants developed and applied social capital in order to accumulate human capital. Namely, despite a less privileged point of departure, low-skilled Lithuanians appeared stronger in developing new social networks,…

  • Machine baptisms and heroes of the underground: Performing sociomateriality in an Amsterdam metro project

    Open Access•Leonore Van Den Ende, Alfons Van Marrewijk et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Organizational…•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 31

    Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of sociomateriality to exhibit how the social and material are entangled and (re)configured over time and in practice in a particular organization of study.Design/methodology/approach- The authors conduct an ethnographic case study of the North-South metro line project in Amsterdam and use the methods of participant-observation, in-depth interviewing and a desk study.Findings- The authors …

  • Histories of State Surveillance in Europe and Beyond

    E Higgs, Kees Boersma et al.•BOOK•Histories of State Surveillance…•2014

  • Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2. 0 and Social Media

    Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma et al.•BOOK•Internet and Surveillance•2013

    The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of Web 2.0, social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this context. With such platforms comes the massive provision and storage of personal data that are systematically evaluated, marketed, and used for targeting use…

  • Liminal Surveillance. Intensified use of an existing CCTV system during a local event

    Open Access•Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2013•References: 11

    This article is about the targeted, temporarily intensified use of an already existing, permanently installed surveillance system for the safety and security management during a local event at the campus of the University of Illinois, USA. In particular it is the CCTV system that is analyzed after an ethnographic control room study. It became clear that the law enforcement intensified the use of the CCTV system during the festival. The temporal, …

  • Zooming in on 'heterotopia: CCTV-operator practices at Schiphol Airport

    Open Access•Pieter Wagenaar, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Information Polity•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Airports are places that are heavily surveilled by different(technical) means, including CCTV (Closed Circuit Television). So far, the literature on CCTV has not paid much attention to the practices behind the screens of the CCTV monitors at airports. In this article, we present an in-depth, ethnographic study of the use of CCTV in the Military Police's control room at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. We find that, since nobody is 'at home' at Schipho…

  • Writing history for business: The development of business history between ‘old’ and ‘new’ production of knowledge

    Elena Ponzoni, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Management & Organizational History•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    This article focuses on the recent developments in business history as an academic discipline. Recently, the strategies used by commissioned, academic researchers are to make corporate history an institutional form of knowledge production. Corporate history is the more narrowed, often commissioned, brand of business history. Whereas in the past the commissioned activities of the business historians were looked down upon, with the increasing press…

  • The endless city

    Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Culture and Organization•2010•References: 1

    edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic, New York, Phaidon Press, 2007, 512 pp. Global cities never sleep. This is the impression that remains after reading The endless city, an ambitious book abo

  • The 'Iranian Diaspora' and the New Media: From Political Action to Humanitarian Help

    Open Access•H Ghorashi, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2009•Cited by: 15•References: 33

    This article looks at the shifting position of the 'Iranian diaspora' in relation to Iran as it is influenced by online and offline transnational networks. In the 1980s the exilic identity of a large part of the Iranian diaspora was the core factor in establishing an extended, yet exclusive form of transnational network. Since then, the patterns of identity within this community have shifted towards a more inclusive network as a result of those t…

Next
  • The 'Iranian Diaspora' and the New Media: From Political Action to Humanitarian Help

    Open Access•H Ghorashi, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2009•Cited by: 15•References: 33

    This article looks at the shifting position of the 'Iranian diaspora' in relation to Iran as it is influenced by online and offline transnational networks. In the 1980s the exilic identity of a large part of the Iranian diaspora was the core factor in establishing an extended, yet exclusive form of transnational network. Since then, the patterns of identity within this community have shifted towards a more inclusive network as a result of those t…

  • A port in a storm: Spontaneous volunteering and grassroots movements in Amsterdam. A resilient approach to the (European) refugee crisis

    Open Access•Kees Boersma, Anastasiia Kraiukhina et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Administration•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 60

    This article seeks to expand knowledge about spontaneous volunteering in Amsterdam during the European refugee crisis in the winter of 2015–16. As formal institutions, which relied on a top–down command and control approach, were unable to handle the relatively large number of refugees who arrived in a short period of time, grassroots social movements based on bottom–up participation emerged. Grassroots volunteers were not only politically engage…

  • Responding to the Dutch Asylum Crisis: Implications for Collaborative Work between Civil Society and Governmental Organizations

    Open Access•Robert Larruina, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Social Inclusion•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    Between 2015 and 2016, the Netherlands experienced an asylum crisis, one that directly affected organizations working with refugee reception and integration. Besides civil society and governmental organizations (CSOs and GOs), the period also saw individuals coming together to form emergent CSOs (ECSOs). We look at these organizations to determine whether their work brought a shift in Dutch practice and policy with regarding refugee reception. We…

  • The Structuration of Organizational Learning

    Open Access•Hans Berends, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2003•Cited by: 9•References: 40

    Although it is currently common to speak of organizational learning, this notion is still surrounded by conceptual confusion. It is unclear how notions like learning, knowledge and cognitive activities can be applied to organizations. Some authors have tried to unravel the conceptual and ontological problems by giving an account of the role of individuals in organizational learning. However, this has not yet led to an agreed upon analysis. In thi…

  • Questioning Big Data: Crowdsourcing crisis data towards an inclusive humanitarian response

    Open Access•Femke Mulder, Julie Ferguson et al.•ARTICLE•Big Data & Society•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 27

    The aim of this paper is to critically explore whether crowdsourced Big Data enables an inclusive humanitarian response at times of crisis. We argue that all data, including Big Data, are socially constructed artefacts that reflect the contexts and processes of their creation. To support our argument, we qualitatively analysed the process of ‘Big Data making’ that occurred by way of crowdsourcing through open data platforms, in the context of two…

  • Research on Politics of Disaster Risk Governance: Where Are We Headed

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 27

    This thematic issue aims at unravelling how the global consensus towards a shift to risk reduction and inclusive disaster governance evolves in everyday governance practices, where roles and responsibilities are evolving and negotiated, permeated by politics of power and legitimacy. It identifies three different dimensions of disaster governance. The first is the formal dimension: the way governance arrangements are designed or meant to work. The…

  • Management strategies in response to an institutional crisis: The case of earthquakes in the Netherlands

    Open Access•Arjen Schmidt, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Public Administration•2018•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    When a policy sector is confronted with a relatively strong and steep decline in legitimacy, we speak of an institutional crisis. We know little about the causes or consequences of these crises. This article explores how institutional crises are managed. It focuses on the effects of management strategies observed in a case study of an institutional crisis in the Netherlands. While we found that policy elites displayed a tendency to maintain the s…

  • Machine baptisms and heroes of the underground: Performing sociomateriality in an Amsterdam metro project

    Open Access•Leonore Van Den Ende, Alfons Van Marrewijk et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Organizational…•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 31

    Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of sociomateriality to exhibit how the social and material are entangled and (re)configured over time and in practice in a particular organization of study.Design/methodology/approach- The authors conduct an ethnographic case study of the North-South metro line project in Amsterdam and use the methods of participant-observation, in-depth interviewing and a desk study.Findings- The authors …

  • Tensions within an Industrial Research Laboratory: The Philips Laboratory's X-Ray Department between the Wars

    Open Access•Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Enterprise & Society•2003•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Tensions arose in the X-ray department of the Philips research laboratory during the interwar period, caused by the interplay among technological development, organizational culture, and individual behavior. This article traces the efforts of Philips researchers to find a balance between their professional goals and status and the company's strategy. The X-ray research, overseen by Gilles Holst, the laboratory's director, and Albert Bouwers, the …

  • The Legitimacy, Accountability, and Ownership of an Impact-Based Forecasting Model in Disaster Governance

    Open Access•Sterre Bierens, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    The global shift within disaster governance from disaster response to preparedness and risk reduction includes the emergency of novel Early Warning Systems such as impact based forecasting and forecast-based financing. In this new paradigm, funds usually reserved for response can be released before a disaster happens when an impact-based forecast—i.e., the expected humanitarian impact as a result of the forecasted weather—reaches a predefined dan…

  • Past, present and future: How the Lithuanian Diaspora in the Netherlands accumulates human capital from social capital

    Open Access•Julie E Ferguson, Julie Ferguson et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 46

    This paper explains how social capital activates the accumulation of human capital within a Diaspora context. Our study focused on migrants in the Lithuanian Diaspora and revealed unexpected differences in the way low- and high-skilled migrants developed and applied social capital in order to accumulate human capital. Namely, despite a less privileged point of departure, low-skilled Lithuanians appeared stronger in developing new social networks,…

  • Writing history for business: The development of business history between ‘old’ and ‘new’ production of knowledge

    Elena Ponzoni, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Management & Organizational History•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    This article focuses on the recent developments in business history as an academic discipline. Recently, the strategies used by commissioned, academic researchers are to make corporate history an institutional form of knowledge production. Corporate history is the more narrowed, often commissioned, brand of business history. Whereas in the past the commissioned activities of the business historians were looked down upon, with the increasing press…

  • Zooming in on 'heterotopia: CCTV-operator practices at Schiphol Airport

    Open Access•Pieter Wagenaar, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Information Polity•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Airports are places that are heavily surveilled by different(technical) means, including CCTV (Closed Circuit Television). So far, the literature on CCTV has not paid much attention to the practices behind the screens of the CCTV monitors at airports. In this article, we present an in-depth, ethnographic study of the use of CCTV in the Military Police's control room at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. We find that, since nobody is 'at home' at Schipho…

  • Soft Sister and the Rationalization of the World: The Driving Forces Behind Increased Surveillance

    Pieter Wagenaar, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Administrative Theory & Praxis•2008•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    In the discussions concerning the emergence of the surveillance state it is often the "Big Brother" perspective that comes to the fore. The idea is that responses to security threats cause penetration of administration into the lives of individual citizens. However, according to Higgs (2004), increased administrative surveillance caused by security issues is temporary by nature. Surveillance of individual citizens that has a lasting character is …

  • No Time to Spare: Time and technology

    Open Access•Sytze Kingma, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Time & Society•2002•Cited by: 1

  • No Time to Spare: Time and technology

    Open Access•Sytze Kingma, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Time & Society•2002•Cited by: 1

  • Tensions within an Industrial Research Laboratory: The Philips Laboratory's X-Ray Department between the Wars

    Open Access•Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Enterprise & Society•2003•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Tensions arose in the X-ray department of the Philips research laboratory during the interwar period, caused by the interplay among technological development, organizational culture, and individual behavior. This article traces the efforts of Philips researchers to find a balance between their professional goals and status and the company's strategy. The X-ray research, overseen by Gilles Holst, the laboratory's director, and Albert Bouwers, the …

  • The Structuration of Organizational Learning

    Open Access•Hans Berends, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2003•Cited by: 9•References: 40

    Although it is currently common to speak of organizational learning, this notion is still surrounded by conceptual confusion. It is unclear how notions like learning, knowledge and cognitive activities can be applied to organizations. Some authors have tried to unravel the conceptual and ontological problems by giving an account of the role of individuals in organizational learning. However, this has not yet led to an agreed upon analysis. In thi…

  • Arjan van Rooij, Building Plants. Markets for Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSM's Fertiliser Business, 1925-1970

    Open Access•Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•TSEG/ Low Countries Journal of…•2005

    TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis

  • Soft Sister and the Rationalization of the World: The Driving Forces Behind Increased Surveillance

    Pieter Wagenaar, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Administrative Theory & Praxis•2008•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    In the discussions concerning the emergence of the surveillance state it is often the "Big Brother" perspective that comes to the fore. The idea is that responses to security threats cause penetration of administration into the lives of individual citizens. However, according to Higgs (2004), increased administrative surveillance caused by security issues is temporary by nature. Surveillance of individual citizens that has a lasting character is …

  • The 'Iranian Diaspora' and the New Media: From Political Action to Humanitarian Help

    Open Access•H Ghorashi, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2009•Cited by: 15•References: 33

    This article looks at the shifting position of the 'Iranian diaspora' in relation to Iran as it is influenced by online and offline transnational networks. In the 1980s the exilic identity of a large part of the Iranian diaspora was the core factor in establishing an extended, yet exclusive form of transnational network. Since then, the patterns of identity within this community have shifted towards a more inclusive network as a result of those t…

  • The endless city

    Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Culture and Organization•2010•References: 1

    edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic, New York, Phaidon Press, 2007, 512 pp. Global cities never sleep. This is the impression that remains after reading The endless city, an ambitious book abo

  • Writing history for business: The development of business history between ‘old’ and ‘new’ production of knowledge

    Elena Ponzoni, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Management & Organizational History•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    This article focuses on the recent developments in business history as an academic discipline. Recently, the strategies used by commissioned, academic researchers are to make corporate history an institutional form of knowledge production. Corporate history is the more narrowed, often commissioned, brand of business history. Whereas in the past the commissioned activities of the business historians were looked down upon, with the increasing press…

  • Zooming in on 'heterotopia: CCTV-operator practices at Schiphol Airport

    Open Access•Pieter Wagenaar, Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Information Polity•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Airports are places that are heavily surveilled by different(technical) means, including CCTV (Closed Circuit Television). So far, the literature on CCTV has not paid much attention to the practices behind the screens of the CCTV monitors at airports. In this article, we present an in-depth, ethnographic study of the use of CCTV in the Military Police's control room at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. We find that, since nobody is 'at home' at Schipho…

  • Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2. 0 and Social Media

    Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma et al.•BOOK•Internet and Surveillance•2013

    The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of Web 2.0, social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this context. With such platforms comes the massive provision and storage of personal data that are systematically evaluated, marketed, and used for targeting use…

  • Liminal Surveillance. Intensified use of an existing CCTV system during a local event

    Open Access•Kees Boersma•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2013•References: 11

    This article is about the targeted, temporarily intensified use of an already existing, permanently installed surveillance system for the safety and security management during a local event at the campus of the University of Illinois, USA. In particular it is the CCTV system that is analyzed after an ethnographic control room study. It became clear that the law enforcement intensified the use of the CCTV system during the festival. The temporal, …

  • Histories of State Surveillance in Europe and Beyond

    E Higgs, Kees Boersma et al.•BOOK•Histories of State Surveillance…•2014

  • Machine baptisms and heroes of the underground: Performing sociomateriality in an Amsterdam metro project

    Open Access•Leonore Van Den Ende, Alfons Van Marrewijk et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Organizational…•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 31

    Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of sociomateriality to exhibit how the social and material are entangled and (re)configured over time and in practice in a particular organization of study.Design/methodology/approach- The authors conduct an ethnographic case study of the North-South metro line project in Amsterdam and use the methods of participant-observation, in-depth interviewing and a desk study.Findings- The authors …

  • Questioning Big Data: Crowdsourcing crisis data towards an inclusive humanitarian response

    Open Access•Femke Mulder, Julie Ferguson et al.•ARTICLE•Big Data & Society•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 27

    The aim of this paper is to critically explore whether crowdsourced Big Data enables an inclusive humanitarian response at times of crisis. We argue that all data, including Big Data, are socially constructed artefacts that reflect the contexts and processes of their creation. To support our argument, we qualitatively analysed the process of ‘Big Data making’ that occurred by way of crowdsourcing through open data platforms, in the context of two…

  • Past, present and future: How the Lithuanian Diaspora in the Netherlands accumulates human capital from social capital

    Open Access•Julie E Ferguson, Julie Ferguson et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 46

    This paper explains how social capital activates the accumulation of human capital within a Diaspora context. Our study focused on migrants in the Lithuanian Diaspora and revealed unexpected differences in the way low- and high-skilled migrants developed and applied social capital in order to accumulate human capital. Namely, despite a less privileged point of departure, low-skilled Lithuanians appeared stronger in developing new social networks,…

  • Sociale media in en rondom de vluchtelingen-noodopvang bij Nijmegen

    Peer Smets, Younes Younes et al.•ARTICLE•Mens & Maatschappij•2017

    Social media in and around the emergency shelter for refugees near Nijmegen, the Netherlands To cope with the limited capacity of the established reception centres during the refugee crisis of 2015, the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) set up emergency reception centers for refugees such as Heumensoord nearby the Dutch city of Nijmegen. At the peak of the crisis, the Heumensoord centre hosted about 3,000 asylum seekers. CO…

  • Management strategies in response to an institutional crisis: The case of earthquakes in the Netherlands

    Open Access•Arjen Schmidt, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Public Administration•2018•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    When a policy sector is confronted with a relatively strong and steep decline in legitimacy, we speak of an institutional crisis. We know little about the causes or consequences of these crises. This article explores how institutional crises are managed. It focuses on the effects of management strategies observed in a case study of an institutional crisis in the Netherlands. While we found that policy elites displayed a tendency to maintain the s…

  • Responding to the Dutch Asylum Crisis: Implications for Collaborative Work between Civil Society and Governmental Organizations

    Open Access•Robert Larruina, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Social Inclusion•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    Between 2015 and 2016, the Netherlands experienced an asylum crisis, one that directly affected organizations working with refugee reception and integration. Besides civil society and governmental organizations (CSOs and GOs), the period also saw individuals coming together to form emergent CSOs (ECSOs). We look at these organizations to determine whether their work brought a shift in Dutch practice and policy with regarding refugee reception. We…

  • A port in a storm: Spontaneous volunteering and grassroots movements in Amsterdam. A resilient approach to the (European) refugee crisis

    Open Access•Kees Boersma, Anastasiia Kraiukhina et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Administration•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 60

    This article seeks to expand knowledge about spontaneous volunteering in Amsterdam during the European refugee crisis in the winter of 2015–16. As formal institutions, which relied on a top–down command and control approach, were unable to handle the relatively large number of refugees who arrived in a short period of time, grassroots social movements based on bottom–up participation emerged. Grassroots volunteers were not only politically engage…

  • Research on Politics of Disaster Risk Governance: Where Are We Headed

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 27

    This thematic issue aims at unravelling how the global consensus towards a shift to risk reduction and inclusive disaster governance evolves in everyday governance practices, where roles and responsibilities are evolving and negotiated, permeated by politics of power and legitimacy. It identifies three different dimensions of disaster governance. The first is the formal dimension: the way governance arrangements are designed or meant to work. The…

  • The Legitimacy, Accountability, and Ownership of an Impact-Based Forecasting Model in Disaster Governance

    Open Access•Sterre Bierens, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    The global shift within disaster governance from disaster response to preparedness and risk reduction includes the emergency of novel Early Warning Systems such as impact based forecasting and forecast-based financing. In this new paradigm, funds usually reserved for response can be released before a disaster happens when an impact-based forecast—i.e., the expected humanitarian impact as a result of the forecasted weather—reaches a predefined dan…

  • Humanitarian support in a denial of access context: Emergent strategies at the interface of humanitarian and sovereign law

    Open Access•Erwin Biersteker, Julie Ferguson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2021

    The principles of international humanitarian law (IHL) have evoked considerable debate in the practice of humanitarian support, particularly in terms of emerging tensions with sovereign (national) law. Drawing on organization studies, we examine the emergent strategies aimed at resolving the ambiguous legal context in which humanitarian support operations in a conflict context are embedded. Our analysis of two missions revealed two types of emerg…

  • Social Media in and Around a Temporary Large-Scale Refugee Shelter in the Netherlands

    Open Access•Peer Smets, Youne et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2021•References: 27

    During the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe, temporary refugee shelters arose in the Netherlands to shelter the large influx of asylum seekers. The largest shelter was located in the eastern part of the country. This shelter, where tents housed nearly 3,000 asylum seekers, was managed with a firm top-down approach. However, many residents of the shelter-mainly Syrians and Eritreans-developed horizontal relations with the local receiving society, usi…

  • Exploring the potential of local stakeholders’ involvement in crisis management. The living lab approach in a case study from amsterdam

    Open Access•Kees Boersma, Rinske Berg et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Disaster…•2022

    This article presents the outcome of research into the potential of local stakeholders’ involvement in crisis management in two Amsterdam neighborhoods. It addresses the recognized challenge of enabling and improving collaboration between established formal response organizations and local actors engaged in extending and emergent organizational behavior during crises. To further explore the potential of local actors in responding to a crisis, the…

  • Unravelling dynamics of vulnerability and social media use on displaced minors in the aftermath of Italian earthquakes

    Open Access•Sara Bonati, Olga Nardini et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Disaster…•2023

Political science (23 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works)

Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae