Thomas Van Gaalen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4629791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Van Gaalen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Gaalen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN GAALEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-0437-2236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Roffa Goddam
In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement spread across the Atlantic. Dutch activists embraced the US movement’s cultural material, incorporating Nina Simone covers and American rap quotes. New music produced to accompany the Dutch protests referenced historical and contemporary US racism. Critics labeled this reliance on US-American memories ‘Americanization’. But musical material produced in the Dutch BLM movement also addressed local concerns, …
Fighting for Political Influence
In 1974, a collective of Surinamese migrants in the Netherlands took to squatting in an effort to break out of their deplorable housing situation. When faced with evictions, the squatters employed a variety of protest tactics, ranging from nonviolent marches and sit-ins to anti-capitalist songs and the forging of ties with the Dutch new left. This article examines the protest repertoire employed by these ‘Bijlmer squatters’—named after the neighb…
Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left
This essay introduces the key themes of the special issue Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals , edited by Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van Gaalen. The authors review existing scholarship on left-wing anti-imperialism and detail the interventions of the five articles published in the issue. Arguing that left-wing anti-imperialism is a fruitful lens to pursue the decolonization of the history of th…
Selling Solidarity
Centring Dutch leftist expressions of solidarity with two anti-colonial revolts – the 1926 Indonesian revolt and an attempted 1929 Curaçaoan revolution – this article examines how leftists in the European metropole sold solidarity with anti-colonialism across different political arenas and organizational levels. Relating their efforts specifically to the communist–social-democratic divisions that shaped various leftist political arenas in the per…
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Roffa Goddam
In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement spread across the Atlantic. Dutch activists embraced the US movement’s cultural material, incorporating Nina Simone covers and American rap quotes. New music produced to accompany the Dutch protests referenced historical and contemporary US racism. Critics labeled this reliance on US-American memories ‘Americanization’. But musical material produced in the Dutch BLM movement also addressed local concerns, …
Fighting for Political Influence
In 1974, a collective of Surinamese migrants in the Netherlands took to squatting in an effort to break out of their deplorable housing situation. When faced with evictions, the squatters employed a variety of protest tactics, ranging from nonviolent marches and sit-ins to anti-capitalist songs and the forging of ties with the Dutch new left. This article examines the protest repertoire employed by these ‘Bijlmer squatters’—named after the neighb…
Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left
This essay introduces the key themes of the special issue Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals , edited by Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van Gaalen. The authors review existing scholarship on left-wing anti-imperialism and detail the interventions of the five articles published in the issue. Arguing that left-wing anti-imperialism is a fruitful lens to pursue the decolonization of the history of th…
Selling Solidarity
Centring Dutch leftist expressions of solidarity with two anti-colonial revolts – the 1926 Indonesian revolt and an attempted 1929 Curaçaoan revolution – this article examines how leftists in the European metropole sold solidarity with anti-colonialism across different political arenas and organizational levels. Relating their efforts specifically to the communist–social-democratic divisions that shaped various leftist political arenas in the per…
Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Scholarship (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Americanization (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Asian Studies and History (1 work) · Black music (1 work)