Timo Koren
Biographic Data
| ID | 668695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timo Koren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timo |
| FAMILY NAME | Koren |
| SIGNATURE | KOREN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6553-8798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Clubs to institutions: Culture-led nightlife policies in Amsterdam and Berlin
Nightlife policies have historically been studied through an emphasis on urban governance. This paper takes a novel approach by analysing nightlife policies of Amsterdam and Berlin as examples of cultural policy rooted in localised traditions. Our research not only contrasts and compares different trajectories and objectives of culture-led nightlife policies, but also considers their complex relationship with event organisers (“promoters”). Based…
The 'Unknown Unknowns: Brexit, the Euss and the challenges of governing complexity
Brexit’s project of ‘re-bordering’ Britain impacted residency rights for EU nationals in the UK. Rather than focusing on how EU nationals experience the consequences of Brexit in the UK, this paper focuses on how the key policy instrument, the EUSS (EU Settlement Scheme) described as a complex system, ‘complexifies’ EU nationals’ regularisation of their residency status in the UK. Using qualitative interviews with frontline workers involved in th…
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics
Most of the literature on power and positionality in qualitative, semi-structured interviews discusses research on either precarious, disenfranchised populations or influential elites. This paper focuses on interviewing social groups who have a similar societal status as academic researchers. By combining methodological literature on insider status and whiteness, the article interrogates how sameness unfolds in the research process. Based on two …
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam
Night-time economies have traditionally clustered in city centres and nightlife districts. Yet, due to regulation, urban regeneration and gentrification, nightlife activities and spaces, including nightclubs and club nights, are increasingly located across cities. However, the significance and spatial dynamics of this diffusion and the relationships between different nocturnal spaces and scales remain poorly understood. This paper examines the in…
Beyond door policies: Cultural production as a form of spatial regulation in Amsterdam nightclubs
Understanding regulation is key to identifying and understanding the mechanisms and patterns that (re)produce social inequalities in nightclub production. Roughly speaking, researchers have focused on two forms of regulation: governmental regulation and club-led regulation. First, city councils regulate nightlife through licensing, zoning laws, nightlife districts and urban redevelopment. Second, clubs have their own incentives to regulate spaces…
They were told it was too Black”: The (re)production of whiteness in Amsterdam-based nightclubs
This article investigates the spatial mechanisms through which cultural commodities are ‘reworked’ to become bound up in localised forms of white hegemony through a case study of cultural production in Amsterdam-based nightclubs. Combining geographical research on music scenes with a cultural geography of music genres, it seeks to understand not only how the production and consumption of electronic dance music has ‘become’ white in the Dutch capi…
The work that genre does: How music genre mediates gender inequalities in the informal work cultures of Amsterdam's nightclubs
This article builds on the emerging literature on relation between music genre and social inequalities in the cultural industries. It specifically highlights the role of two localised, genre-specific value systems (the niche-edm genre and the eclectic genre) to understand how and why the gendered outcomes of genres vary across space. Based on qualitative interviews with 36 (mostly white, male) promoters for nightclubs in Amsterdam, it finds that …
Culture Is Bad For You by Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor
Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses
Seeking to overcome the heterosexual bias in marriage-migration scholarship and move beyond individualistic approaches to queer mobility, this article focuses on the lives of same-sex couples that hold unequal residence statuses. In a twofold context marked by the increasing legal recognition of same-sex families combined with heightened hurdles facing certain categories of immigrants, we examine what those simultaneous trends mean for these coup…
Depoliticising literature, politicising diversity: Ethno-racial boundaries in Dutch literary professionals’ aesthetic repertoires
Although still a neglected area, over the years a growing body of sociological research on the position of ethno-racial minorities in Western artistic fields has emerged. With this article we aim to contribute to this research area by focusing on ethno-racial diversity in the Dutch literary field. Through in-depth interviews, we analyse how gatekeepers mobilise specific cultural repertoires and by doing so draw ethno-racial boundaries when discus…
Never Having Been Racist
The accusation that Black Pete—the blackface character at the center of the annual Sinterklaas festival—is a racist caricature has recently become a staple of the Dutch culture wars, leaving media and cultural producers in a quandary over the figure’s meaning and fate. This essay focuses on two recent seasons of the widely popular children’s television program Sinterklaasjournaal. The show deployed new storylines to maintain the innocence of the …
Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses
Seeking to overcome the heterosexual bias in marriage-migration scholarship and move beyond individualistic approaches to queer mobility, this article focuses on the lives of same-sex couples that hold unequal residence statuses. In a twofold context marked by the increasing legal recognition of same-sex families combined with heightened hurdles facing certain categories of immigrants, we examine what those simultaneous trends mean for these coup…
The work that genre does: How music genre mediates gender inequalities in the informal work cultures of Amsterdam's nightclubs
This article builds on the emerging literature on relation between music genre and social inequalities in the cultural industries. It specifically highlights the role of two localised, genre-specific value systems (the niche-edm genre and the eclectic genre) to understand how and why the gendered outcomes of genres vary across space. Based on qualitative interviews with 36 (mostly white, male) promoters for nightclubs in Amsterdam, it finds that …
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam
Night-time economies have traditionally clustered in city centres and nightlife districts. Yet, due to regulation, urban regeneration and gentrification, nightlife activities and spaces, including nightclubs and club nights, are increasingly located across cities. However, the significance and spatial dynamics of this diffusion and the relationships between different nocturnal spaces and scales remain poorly understood. This paper examines the in…
Beyond door policies: Cultural production as a form of spatial regulation in Amsterdam nightclubs
Understanding regulation is key to identifying and understanding the mechanisms and patterns that (re)produce social inequalities in nightclub production. Roughly speaking, researchers have focused on two forms of regulation: governmental regulation and club-led regulation. First, city councils regulate nightlife through licensing, zoning laws, nightlife districts and urban redevelopment. Second, clubs have their own incentives to regulate spaces…
They were told it was too Black”: The (re)production of whiteness in Amsterdam-based nightclubs
This article investigates the spatial mechanisms through which cultural commodities are ‘reworked’ to become bound up in localised forms of white hegemony through a case study of cultural production in Amsterdam-based nightclubs. Combining geographical research on music scenes with a cultural geography of music genres, it seeks to understand not only how the production and consumption of electronic dance music has ‘become’ white in the Dutch capi…
Never Having Been Racist
The accusation that Black Pete—the blackface character at the center of the annual Sinterklaas festival—is a racist caricature has recently become a staple of the Dutch culture wars, leaving media and cultural producers in a quandary over the figure’s meaning and fate. This essay focuses on two recent seasons of the widely popular children’s television program Sinterklaasjournaal. The show deployed new storylines to maintain the innocence of the …
Depoliticising literature, politicising diversity: Ethno-racial boundaries in Dutch literary professionals’ aesthetic repertoires
Although still a neglected area, over the years a growing body of sociological research on the position of ethno-racial minorities in Western artistic fields has emerged. With this article we aim to contribute to this research area by focusing on ethno-racial diversity in the Dutch literary field. Through in-depth interviews, we analyse how gatekeepers mobilise specific cultural repertoires and by doing so draw ethno-racial boundaries when discus…
Culture Is Bad For You by Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor
Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses
Seeking to overcome the heterosexual bias in marriage-migration scholarship and move beyond individualistic approaches to queer mobility, this article focuses on the lives of same-sex couples that hold unequal residence statuses. In a twofold context marked by the increasing legal recognition of same-sex families combined with heightened hurdles facing certain categories of immigrants, we examine what those simultaneous trends mean for these coup…
The work that genre does: How music genre mediates gender inequalities in the informal work cultures of Amsterdam's nightclubs
This article builds on the emerging literature on relation between music genre and social inequalities in the cultural industries. It specifically highlights the role of two localised, genre-specific value systems (the niche-edm genre and the eclectic genre) to understand how and why the gendered outcomes of genres vary across space. Based on qualitative interviews with 36 (mostly white, male) promoters for nightclubs in Amsterdam, it finds that …
Beyond door policies: Cultural production as a form of spatial regulation in Amsterdam nightclubs
Understanding regulation is key to identifying and understanding the mechanisms and patterns that (re)produce social inequalities in nightclub production. Roughly speaking, researchers have focused on two forms of regulation: governmental regulation and club-led regulation. First, city councils regulate nightlife through licensing, zoning laws, nightlife districts and urban redevelopment. Second, clubs have their own incentives to regulate spaces…
They were told it was too Black”: The (re)production of whiteness in Amsterdam-based nightclubs
This article investigates the spatial mechanisms through which cultural commodities are ‘reworked’ to become bound up in localised forms of white hegemony through a case study of cultural production in Amsterdam-based nightclubs. Combining geographical research on music scenes with a cultural geography of music genres, it seeks to understand not only how the production and consumption of electronic dance music has ‘become’ white in the Dutch capi…
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam
Night-time economies have traditionally clustered in city centres and nightlife districts. Yet, due to regulation, urban regeneration and gentrification, nightlife activities and spaces, including nightclubs and club nights, are increasingly located across cities. However, the significance and spatial dynamics of this diffusion and the relationships between different nocturnal spaces and scales remain poorly understood. This paper examines the in…
Clubs to institutions: Culture-led nightlife policies in Amsterdam and Berlin
Nightlife policies have historically been studied through an emphasis on urban governance. This paper takes a novel approach by analysing nightlife policies of Amsterdam and Berlin as examples of cultural policy rooted in localised traditions. Our research not only contrasts and compares different trajectories and objectives of culture-led nightlife policies, but also considers their complex relationship with event organisers (“promoters”). Based…
The 'Unknown Unknowns: Brexit, the Euss and the challenges of governing complexity
Brexit’s project of ‘re-bordering’ Britain impacted residency rights for EU nationals in the UK. Rather than focusing on how EU nationals experience the consequences of Brexit in the UK, this paper focuses on how the key policy instrument, the EUSS (EU Settlement Scheme) described as a complex system, ‘complexifies’ EU nationals’ regularisation of their residency status in the UK. Using qualitative interviews with frontline workers involved in th…
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics
Most of the literature on power and positionality in qualitative, semi-structured interviews discusses research on either precarious, disenfranchised populations or influential elites. This paper focuses on interviewing social groups who have a similar societal status as academic researchers. By combining methodological literature on insider status and whiteness, the article interrogates how sameness unfolds in the research process. Based on two …
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Night-time city culture (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)