Joost Jansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joost Jansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joost |
| FAMILY NAME | Jansen |
| SIGNATURE | JANSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1226-2919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Who Can Represent the Nation? Elite Athletes, Global Mega Events and the Contested Boundaries of National Belonging
For those studying national belonging, elite athletes competing in international mega events offer particularly compelling case studies as they represent the nation during periods of sustained media attention and heightened emotional registers. But when compared with other types of representatives - such as heads of state, ambassadors, political leaders - they have received much less scholarly attention. This article analyses reporting of the 'Pl…
Mapping migration studies
Migration studies have developed rapidly as a research field over the past decades. This article provides an empirical analysis not only on the development in volume and the internationalization of the field, but also on the development in terms of topical focus within migration studies over the past three decades. To capture volume, internationalisation, and topic focus, our analysis involves a computer-based topic modelling of the landscape of …
Nationality swapping in the Olympic Games 1978–2017
While the practice of nationality swapping in sports traces back as far as the Ancient Olympics, it seems to have increased over the past decades. Cases of Olympic athletes who switched their national allegiances are often surrounded with controversy. Two strands of thought could help explain this controversy. First, these cases are believed to be indicative of the marketisation of citizenship. Second, these cases challenge established discourses…
Nationality swapping in the Olympic field
Nationality swapping in sports is commonly assumed to be a rapidly expanding practice that is indicative of the marketization of citizenship. Sports are said to have become wholesale markets in which talent is being traded for citizenship. In this article, we seek to empirically explore such claims by analysing 167 athletes who have competed for two different countries in the Summer Olympic Games. It seems that most switches occurred after the 19…
Mapping migration studies
Migration studies have developed rapidly as a research field over the past decades. This article provides an empirical analysis not only on the development in volume and the internationalization of the field, but also on the development in terms of topical focus within migration studies over the past three decades. To capture volume, internationalisation, and topic focus, our analysis involves a computer-based topic modelling of the landscape of …
Who Can Represent the Nation? Elite Athletes, Global Mega Events and the Contested Boundaries of National Belonging
For those studying national belonging, elite athletes competing in international mega events offer particularly compelling case studies as they represent the nation during periods of sustained media attention and heightened emotional registers. But when compared with other types of representatives - such as heads of state, ambassadors, political leaders - they have received much less scholarly attention. This article analyses reporting of the 'Pl…
Nationality swapping in the Olympic field
Nationality swapping in sports is commonly assumed to be a rapidly expanding practice that is indicative of the marketization of citizenship. Sports are said to have become wholesale markets in which talent is being traded for citizenship. In this article, we seek to empirically explore such claims by analysing 167 athletes who have competed for two different countries in the Summer Olympic Games. It seems that most switches occurred after the 19…
Nationality swapping in the Olympic Games 1978–2017
While the practice of nationality swapping in sports traces back as far as the Ancient Olympics, it seems to have increased over the past decades. Cases of Olympic athletes who switched their national allegiances are often surrounded with controversy. Two strands of thought could help explain this controversy. First, these cases are believed to be indicative of the marketisation of citizenship. Second, these cases challenge established discourses…
Nationality swapping in the Olympic field
Nationality swapping in sports is commonly assumed to be a rapidly expanding practice that is indicative of the marketization of citizenship. Sports are said to have become wholesale markets in which talent is being traded for citizenship. In this article, we seek to empirically explore such claims by analysing 167 athletes who have competed for two different countries in the Summer Olympic Games. It seems that most switches occurred after the 19…
Mapping migration studies
Migration studies have developed rapidly as a research field over the past decades. This article provides an empirical analysis not only on the development in volume and the internationalization of the field, but also on the development in terms of topical focus within migration studies over the past three decades. To capture volume, internationalisation, and topic focus, our analysis involves a computer-based topic modelling of the landscape of …
Nationality swapping in the Olympic Games 1978–2017
While the practice of nationality swapping in sports traces back as far as the Ancient Olympics, it seems to have increased over the past decades. Cases of Olympic athletes who switched their national allegiances are often surrounded with controversy. Two strands of thought could help explain this controversy. First, these cases are believed to be indicative of the marketisation of citizenship. Second, these cases challenge established discourses…
Who Can Represent the Nation? Elite Athletes, Global Mega Events and the Contested Boundaries of National Belonging
For those studying national belonging, elite athletes competing in international mega events offer particularly compelling case studies as they represent the nation during periods of sustained media attention and heightened emotional registers. But when compared with other types of representatives - such as heads of state, ambassadors, political leaders - they have received much less scholarly attention. This article analyses reporting of the 'Pl…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Immigration (2 works)