Biography
**Friso van Houdt is Academic Director of the Erasmus Honours Programme, Senior Lecturer Political Philosophy & Critical Theory at Erasmus University College Rotterdam (EUR), and a researcher at the Elsa Lab AIMAPS**
Friso was trained as a criminologist, sociologist and social philosopher.
As Academic Director he is responsible for the educational policy, general content and organisation of the interdisciplinary Honours Programme “Grand Challenges: Sustainability”, a programme specifically designed for 40 carefully selected, motivated and skilled second year students coming from all faculties of EUR.
Friso teaches several courses at Erasmus University College such as “Critical Theory”, “Late Modernity: A Genealogy of Neoliberalism”, and “Cheap: A Critique of Capitalism in the Web of Life”. He is coordinator of the Humanities major Political Philosophy and Critical Theory. He was awarded several times teacher of the year.
Friso is also a researcher at the NWA/NWO funded Elsa Lab AIMAPS that studies the ethical, legal and societal aspects of artificial intelligence and surveillance practices.
Erasmus University College
- vanhoudt@euc.eur.nl
- Location
- Nieuwemarkt 1A, Rotterdam
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Work
- Friso van Houdt & Willem Schinkel (2019) - Laboratory Rotterdam. Logics of Exceptionalism in the Governing of Urban Populations - doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-96041-8
- Friso van Houdt (2015) - Doing Sociology: Zoo Keeping Meets Governmentality - [link]
- Friso van Houdt (2014) - Governing citizens: The government of citizenship, crime and migration in the Netherlands - [link]
- Friso van Houdt & Willem Schinkel (2013) - Crime, citizenship and community: neoliberal communitarian images of governmentality - Sociological Review, 62 (1), 47-67 - doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12115 - [link]
- Friso van Houdt & Willem Schinkel (2013) - A Genealogy of Neoliberal Communitarianism - Theoretical Criminology, 17 (4), 493-515 - doi: 10.1177/1362480613485768 - [link]
- Friso van Houdt & Willem Schinkel (2013) - Het Nieuwe Contractualisme; Bestuursrationaliteiten op het gebied van criminaliteit aan het begin van de 21ste eeuw - Sociologie, 9 (2), 129-150 - [link]
- Friso van Houdt, S Suvarierol Hoen & Willem Schinkel (2011) - Neoliberal communitarian citizenship - Current trends towards ‘earned citizenship’ in the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands - International Sociology, 26 (3), 408-432 - doi: 10.1177/0268580910393041 - [link]
- Willem Schinkel & Friso van Houdt (2010) - Besturen door vrijheid: Neoliberaal communitarisme en de verantwoordelijke burger - Bestuurskunde, 2010 (2), 12-21 - [link]
- Willem Schinkel & Friso van Houdt (2010) - The Double Helix of Cultural Assimilationism and Neo-liberalism: Citizenship in Contemporary Governmentality - British Journal of Sociology, 61 (4), 696-715 - doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2010.01337.x - [link]
- Willem Schinkel, R (Rianne) Dekker & Friso van Houdt (2010) - Verbindend Burgerschap: conclusies en aanbevelingen - [link]
- Friso Houdt (2014) - Neuro-governmentality: assessing the rise and implications of euro-criminology
- Friso Houdt (2014) - Governing the Migration Control Predicament: Reconfiguring Sovereignty-Discipline-Government
- Friso Houdt (2014) - The New (Biological) Culture of Control: Neoliberal Communitarianism and the Singularity of the Contemporary Homo Criminalis
- Friso Houdt (2014) - For Sociology, Against Sociological Zoo-keeping
- Friso Houdt (2012) - Beleid & Maatschappij (Journal)
- Friso Houdt (2012) - Sociologie (Journal)
- Friso Houdt (2010) - Beleid & Maatschappij (Journal)
- Friso Houdt (2009) - Sociologie (Journal)
- Friso Houdt (2008) - Citizenship in the Context of Bio-Politics
- Friso van Houdt (2015) - "Best Article 2013: A Genealogy of Neoliberal Communitarianism" published in Theoretical Criminology (3/53 in Criminology/Penology)
- Friso van Houdt (2014) - Teacher of the Year 2013-4
- Friso van Houdt (2013) - Teacher of the Year 2012-3
Capstone Thesis
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- EUC-CAP400