- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- Room
- M7-16
- Telephone
- 0104088890
- martens@eshcc.eur.nl
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Profile
Dr. Emiel Martens (1980) is a media lecturer, researcher, programmer, and producer. He graduated cum laude in both Media Studies and Human Geography at the University of Amsterdam, was a visiting scholar at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at University of the West Indies, Mona, and holds a Ph.D in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam. His dissertation, entitled ‘Welcome to Paradise Island: The Rise of Jamaica’s Cine-Tourist Image, 1891-1951’, marked the first study of Jamaica’s early film history and its connections with the island's early tourism history.
Emiel joined the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam as a lecturer and researcher in 2004, where he is now working as Assistant Professor in Film and Visual Culture. In 2016, he also joined the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC) to become a team member of the research project 'Worlds of Imagination' (ERC Consolidator Grant), a comparative study of film tourism in non-western societies. His research interests span the fields of Postcolonial (Media) Studies, Media Geography, Popular Geopolitics, Migration and Diversity Studies, Creative Industries, Film (and) Tourism and Alternative Media, with a particular focus on the history, theory and praxis of the (Anglophone) Caribbean film and visual culture.
Besides his posts at the University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Emiel is also the founding director of Caribbean Creativity, a non-profit organization committed to the promotion of Caribbean and Caribbean-themed cinema, board member of NALACS, the Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, film review editor at ERLACS, the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, text editor at the Dutch Film Festival, board member at IDleaks, a non-profit organization aimed at better communication about international development, co-organiser of the Ammehoela Film Festival, and one of the dudes of media and communications agency Dudes in your Face (Dutch: Gasten in je Gezicht).
- E.S. Martens & W. Oomen (2020). Waarom deze ontwikkelingscampagnes echt niet meer kunnen. Vakblad Fondsenwerving, 7, 18-23. Retrieved from https://www.fondsenwerving.nl/verdieping/artikel/2021/01/04/Waarom-deze-ontwikkelingscampagnes-echt-niet-meer-kunnen
- W. Oomen, E.S. Martens & A. Piccoli (2020). The Neoliberal Workings of ‘The Family Meal’ Campaign: Unfortunate Others, European Citizens, and the Branding of the EU. European Journal of Cultural Studies.
- E.S. Martens (2020). A Daughter of the Gods (1916): Film, Tourism and Empire on Location in Jamaica. TMG - Journal for Media History, 23 (1-2), 1-40. doi: 10.18146/tmg.599
- E.S. Martens (2019). From The Harder They Come to Yardie: The Ghetto-Reggae Aesthetics of the Jamaican Urban Crime Film. Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, 20 (1), 71-92. doi: 10.1080/1369801X.2019.1659160
- D. Póvoa, S.L. Reijnders & E.S. Martens (2019). The Telenovela Effect: Challenges of Location Filming and Telenovela Tourism in the Brazilian Favelas. Journal of Popular Culture, 52 (6), 1536-1556. doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12861 [go to publisher's site]
- E.S. Martens & D. Póvoa (2017). How to Get Away with Colour: Colour-Blindness and the Myth of a Post-Racial America in Popular American Television Series. Alphaville - Journal of Film and Screen Media, 13, 117-134. [go to publisher's site]
- E.S. Martens (2016). Caribbean Popular Culture: Everyday Lives, Racial Politics and Transnational Movements. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 102, 101-108. doi: 10.18352/erlacs.10177
- E.S. Martens (2020). Stop Filming Us: De film die inderdaad nooit gemaakt had mogen worden. One World Europe: http://nt.oneworld.nl/thinktank/industry/front/thm.
- E.S. Martens (2016). Maori Cinema. In J. Murray & K. Nadeau (Eds.), Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania (Entertainment and Society around the World) (pp. 139-142). Santa Barbara and Denver: ABC-CLIO
- E.S. Martens (2018). The History of Film and Tourism in Jamaica. In A. Bandau, A Brüske & N Ueckmann (Eds.), Reshaping (G)local Dynamics of the Caribbean (pp. 193-216). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing
- E.S. Martens & C. Malig Jedlicki (2018). Review of The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research. [Bespreking van het boek The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research]. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1-2.
- E.S. Martens (2016). Review of Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class, by Carla Freeman, 2014. [Bespreking van het boek Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class]. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 101, 138-140. doi: 10.18352/erlacs.10147
- E.S. Martens (Ed.). (2019-2021) European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
- E.S. Martens (Ed.). (2018-2018) European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
- E.S. Martens (2018). DocuDoka #10: Is The Cove A Whale of A Tale? DocuDoka: Doka, Amsterdam (2018, april 19).
- E.S. Martens (2018). DocuDoka #9: Is Digital Nomadism Too Good To Be True? DocuDoka: Doka, Amsterdam (2018, maart 1).
- E.S. Martens (2018). The Politics of Cultural Landscapes and Heritages. Annual Cultural Heritage Summer School on Cultural Landscapes: Nida, Lithuania (2018, augustus 9).
- E.S. Martens (2017). DocuDoka #5: Are Tourists and Refugees Getting Along? DocuDoka: Doka, Amsterdam (2017, maart 30).
- E.S. Martens (2017). DocuDoka #4: Is Voluntourism Doing More Harm Than Good? DocuDoka: Doka, Amsterdam (2017, januari 27).
- E.S. Martens (2016). DocuDoka #2: Is Sustainable Tourism Really Possible? DocuDoka: Doka, Amsterdam (2016, september 30).
- E.S. Martens (2016). DocuDoka #1: Gringo Trails (Are Tourists Destroying the Planet?). DocuDoka: Doka, Amsterdam (2016, juni 17).
- E.S. Martens (2016). Organizing NALACS Conference Cities and Citizenship in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.
- E.S. Martens (2016). DocuDoka #3: Why Is Child Sex Tourism So Difficult To Prevent? DocuDoka: Doka, Amsterdam (2016, december 2).
- E.S. Martens (2016). Academic reflection. 1 jaar Stay West: rol van de media. Verbinden of polariseren?: Amsterdam (2016, november 24).
- E.S. Martens & B. Ackermann (2018). Gifts from Babylon: A Short Narrative Film on Illegal Africa-EU Migration and Return Migration.
- E.S. Martens & B. Ackermann (2016). Welcome to the Smiling Coast: A Feature-length Documentary about African Tourism, Development and Migrations.
- E.S. Martens (2016-2016). Board member. Position with : Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
- E.S. Martens & W. Oomen (2020). Episode 14: Poverty Porn 2.0. (podcast). Disrupt Development.
Caribbean Creativity
- Start date approval
- Apr/2019
- End date approval
- Apr/2022
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- Founding director
NL. Assoc. for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
- Start date approval
- Apr/2019
- End date approval
- Apr/2022
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- Board member and PR manager
Ammehoela Film Festival
- Start date approval
- Jan/2020
- End date approval
- Dec/2022
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- Board member
Gasten in je gezicht / Dudes in your Face
- Start date approval
- Jan/2020
- End date approval
- Dec/2022
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- Co-founder & Co-director
IDleaks
- Start date approval
- Jan/2020
- End date approval
- Dec/2022
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- Board member and PR manager
UVA - Dept of Mediastudies
- Start date approval
- Jan/2020
- End date approval
- Dec/2022
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- Ass. prof. in Film and Visual Culture
Academic Researcher
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- Department
- Department of Arts & Culture Studies
- Country
- The Netherlands
- Telephone
- 0104088890