K Kolbe
Biographic Data
| ID | 47268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Kolbe |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolbe |
| SIGNATURE | KOLBE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1254-3024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Care, Justice, Protest and the Politics of Creative Work
Sociological studies of creative work have frequently discussed the precarious and unequal nature of cultural production and labour. Parallel strands of research, however, show how creative work can also be a site of care politics, political protest and creative justice pursuits that not only sustain solidarity and community within precarious environments but also link cultural production to wider social and political struggles. However, while ad…
Beyond Distinction
The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy. In this paper, we demonstrate how wealthy elites deploy this form of cultural philanthropy for (self)legitimation. Based on topic modelling analysis, we exami…
Introduction to ‘Gender, Sexuality, and State Violence
The term ‘state violence’ has been used to refer to a wide range of actions across many disciplines, from the interrogation of prisoners and torture to institutional discrimination against specific groups and the denial of access to equal rights and resources [...]
Making genre
This paper examines the intricate interplay between public arts funding and artists' creative practices, with an empirical focus on the Netherlands. Drawing on interviews with emerging interdisciplinary artists, we explore how policies, purportedly aligned with neoliberal values, surrounding public arts funding shape their creative decision-making processes, particularly in aesthetic terms. By putting forth the notion of 'genre-making affordances…
The art of (self)legitimization
This article explores private art museums' role for elite legitimization processes. Based on interviews with founders, directors, and curators of Germany-based private museums, I explore the discourses participants invoke to legitimize museum founders as actors in the artworld and as elites generally. I draw out a two-pronged legitimation strategy. First, respondents posit private museums' increasingly important role for today's art ecosystem, im…
The global rise of private art museums a literature review
Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations - Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the U.S
It is not only since global anti-racist struggles and decolonizing efforts have increasingly entered mainstream public debates that the cultural and creative industries have tried to reckon with th
Producing (Musical) Difference
This article examines whether diversity debates in the Western cultural industries can contribute to the undoing of racialised representations of otherness or reproduce ‘race’-making logics. Based on a year-long ethnography of diversity efforts made at an opera house in Germany, I explore how difference is negotiated in the production of two opera pieces meant to bring together Western and Turkish musical practices. I specifically examine how pow…
An Institutional Politics of Place
This article reflects on the current status of art’s critical power in a world of intensifying economic inequality. We document how the art world is saturated with economic imperatives that limit the power of conventional artistic critique to meaningfully contest economic instrumentalism. Such imperatives also constrain both artistic and curatorial choices, with profound implications for questions of representation. Informed by interviews with ar…
Unequal entanglements
This article discusses how arts practitioners reflect on their work amidst deepening economic inequality. Given the renewed interest in the social role of arts institutions under conditions of financialised neo-liberalism, the paper traces the complex ways in which economic imperatives figure in cultural practice. Drawing on interviews with UK-based gallery directors, museum curators, art consultants, and artists, I map out how austerity politics…
Playing the system
Figures of Crisis
This article examines how borders are discursively reproduced in representations of the 'refugee crisis' in the German media. Based on an extensive content and discourse analysis of German press representations in 2015 and 2016, we argue that the discourse of crisis obscures the reasons for migration and instead shifts the focus to the advantages and disadvantages that refugees are assumed to bring to their host country. More specifically, we con…
Figures of Crisis
This article examines how borders are discursively reproduced in representations of the 'refugee crisis' in the German media. Based on an extensive content and discourse analysis of German press representations in 2015 and 2016, we argue that the discourse of crisis obscures the reasons for migration and instead shifts the focus to the advantages and disadvantages that refugees are assumed to bring to their host country. More specifically, we con…
The art of (self)legitimization
This article explores private art museums' role for elite legitimization processes. Based on interviews with founders, directors, and curators of Germany-based private museums, I explore the discourses participants invoke to legitimize museum founders as actors in the artworld and as elites generally. I draw out a two-pronged legitimation strategy. First, respondents posit private museums' increasingly important role for today's art ecosystem, im…
Unequal entanglements
This article discusses how arts practitioners reflect on their work amidst deepening economic inequality. Given the renewed interest in the social role of arts institutions under conditions of financialised neo-liberalism, the paper traces the complex ways in which economic imperatives figure in cultural practice. Drawing on interviews with UK-based gallery directors, museum curators, art consultants, and artists, I map out how austerity politics…
Playing the system
Figures of Crisis
This article examines how borders are discursively reproduced in representations of the 'refugee crisis' in the German media. Based on an extensive content and discourse analysis of German press representations in 2015 and 2016, we argue that the discourse of crisis obscures the reasons for migration and instead shifts the focus to the advantages and disadvantages that refugees are assumed to bring to their host country. More specifically, we con…
Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations - Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the U.S
It is not only since global anti-racist struggles and decolonizing efforts have increasingly entered mainstream public debates that the cultural and creative industries have tried to reckon with th
Producing (Musical) Difference
This article examines whether diversity debates in the Western cultural industries can contribute to the undoing of racialised representations of otherness or reproduce ‘race’-making logics. Based on a year-long ethnography of diversity efforts made at an opera house in Germany, I explore how difference is negotiated in the production of two opera pieces meant to bring together Western and Turkish musical practices. I specifically examine how pow…
An Institutional Politics of Place
This article reflects on the current status of art’s critical power in a world of intensifying economic inequality. We document how the art world is saturated with economic imperatives that limit the power of conventional artistic critique to meaningfully contest economic instrumentalism. Such imperatives also constrain both artistic and curatorial choices, with profound implications for questions of representation. Informed by interviews with ar…
Unequal entanglements
This article discusses how arts practitioners reflect on their work amidst deepening economic inequality. Given the renewed interest in the social role of arts institutions under conditions of financialised neo-liberalism, the paper traces the complex ways in which economic imperatives figure in cultural practice. Drawing on interviews with UK-based gallery directors, museum curators, art consultants, and artists, I map out how austerity politics…
Playing the system
The global rise of private art museums a literature review
The art of (self)legitimization
This article explores private art museums' role for elite legitimization processes. Based on interviews with founders, directors, and curators of Germany-based private museums, I explore the discourses participants invoke to legitimize museum founders as actors in the artworld and as elites generally. I draw out a two-pronged legitimation strategy. First, respondents posit private museums' increasingly important role for today's art ecosystem, im…
Introduction to ‘Gender, Sexuality, and State Violence
The term ‘state violence’ has been used to refer to a wide range of actions across many disciplines, from the interrogation of prisoners and torture to institutional discrimination against specific groups and the denial of access to equal rights and resources [...]
Making genre
This paper examines the intricate interplay between public arts funding and artists' creative practices, with an empirical focus on the Netherlands. Drawing on interviews with emerging interdisciplinary artists, we explore how policies, purportedly aligned with neoliberal values, surrounding public arts funding shape their creative decision-making processes, particularly in aesthetic terms. By putting forth the notion of 'genre-making affordances…
Care, Justice, Protest and the Politics of Creative Work
Sociological studies of creative work have frequently discussed the precarious and unequal nature of cultural production and labour. Parallel strands of research, however, show how creative work can also be a site of care politics, political protest and creative justice pursuits that not only sustain solidarity and community within precarious environments but also link cultural production to wider social and political struggles. However, while ad…
Beyond Distinction
The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy. In this paper, we demonstrate how wealthy elites deploy this form of cultural philanthropy for (self)legitimation. Based on topic modelling analysis, we exami…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (8 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Economics (3 works)