Biography
**Roy Kemmers (1980) is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam's Department of Public Administration and Sociology. As a cultural sociologist I am interested in processes of cultural change, as manifested in the (changing) meanings that are attributed to such topics as politics, religion, identity, gender and ethnicity. In my PhD project I studied contemporary popular discontents about politics by taking a cultural sociological perspective. With this project I aimed to develop a theory about political discontents that emphasizes the importance of ordinary people’s own definitions of the situations they find themselves (and society) in. In different parts of my dissertation I analyse 1) the different types of political discontents that can be found in the letters to the editor of Dutch popular newspaper De Telegraaf, 2) the socialization of discontented citizens into (what I refer to as) their ‘anti-establishment careers’, and 3) the differences between populist party voters and nonvoters in their subjective abilities to perform meaningfully in politics. Through these efforts, I engage theory on populism, political distrust, participation and deviance. Taken together, these different analyses inspire a problematisation of the exclusive focus on the institutional-political domain of many relevant theories.
I am chief editor for the full-colour Dutch quarterly Sociologie Magazine. [Sociologie Magazine]: http://www.sociologiemagazine.nl
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- kemmers@essb.eur.nl
- Room
- T15-51A
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Shireen Jagriti Bhalla, Roy Kemmers, Ana Vasques & Abi Tamim Vanak (2022) - ‘Stray appetites’: a socio-ecological analysis of free-ranging dogs living alongside human communities in Bangalore, India - Urban Ecosystems, 24 (6), 1245-1258 - doi: 10.1007/s11252-021-01097-4 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2022) - "Us know who is to blame": Understanding popular political discontents in the Netherlands
- Willem de Koster, Roy Kemmers, Kjell Noordzij & Jeroen van der Waal (2022) - Van pacificatie naar polarisatie: Sociaal-culturele scheidslijnen en politiek in naoorlogs Nederland
- Roy Kemmers (2021) - Sociologie op een operationele manier: Een interview met politiecommissaris Ramon Arnhem
- Roy Kemmers (2020) - Sociologisch bloed - Sociologie Magazine, 2020 (1), 1-1 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2020) - Veranderende identiteiten - Sociologie Magazine, 2020 (1), 34-34 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2019) - Gekanaliseerd onbehagen? PVV-stemmers, niet-stemmers, en hun betekenisvolle politieke agency - Sociologie, 14 (2/3), 177-198 - doi: 10.5117/SOC2018.2/3.006.KEMM - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2019) - Leer reflectie waarderen - Sociologie Magazine, 2019 (3), 1-1 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2019) - Ontevreden burgers serieus nemen - Tijdschrift voor Klachtrecht, 15 (2), 7-10 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2019) - Schoon, op heel verschillende manieren - Sociologie Magazine, 2019 (3), 35-35 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2019) - Ver(ar)moeid - Sociologie Magazine, 2019 (4), 1-1 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2019) - Verdeeld volk - Sociologie Magazine, 2019 (1), 34-34 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2019) - Wat betere sociologen - Sociologie Magazine, 2019 (1), 1-1 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2018) - Boze burgers zijn geen speelballen van abstracte krachten - [link]
- Roy Kemmers, Jeroen van der Waal & Willem de Koster (2018) - Burgers op afstand? Naar een beter begrip van ontevreden burgers - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2018) - De aan(deel)houder wint - Sociologie Magazine, 2018 (3), 28 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2018) - De cryptosamenleving - Sociologie Magazine, 2018 (1), 23 - [link]
- Roy Kemmers (2019) - Boze burgers begrijpen - Openingstoespraak CVS congres
- Roy Kemmers (2017) - Identity and the self in Sociology - Guest lecture
- Roy Kemmers (2016) - Channeling Discontent? Nonvoters, Populist Party Voters and their Affective Political Agency
- Roy Kemmers, SD Aupers & Jeroen Waal (2015) - Becoming Politically Discontented: Anti-establishment Careers of Dutch Nonvoters and Populist Party Voters
- Roy Kemmers (2015) - “It’s just no fun to watch TV anymore!’ On Becoming Politically Discontented and (re) evaluating media’
- Roy Kemmers (2014) - Channeling Discontent? Comparing Nonvoters and Populist Party Voters' Political Self-Efficacy
- Roy Kemmers (2014) - Politiek onbehagen gekanaliseerd? Een vergelijking in politieke voldoening tussen PVV stemmers en niet stemmers
- Roy Kemmers (2014) - Sociologie Magazine (Journal)
- Roy Kemmers (2013) - Becoming Politically Discontented: How Dutch Nonvoters and PVV- voters Have Come to Reject Established Politics
- Roy Kemmers (2013) - Understanding anti-establishment discourse among Dutch citizens