Abolition Democracies – Transnational Perspectives
Research Project of Daniel Loick funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation
Funded Research Projects
Funded research projects are projects comprising one or more researchers that are externally funded at the national or European level (ERC, VENI, VIDI, VICI, Horizon2020); their performance goals are fixed, as is their lifespan.
Projects overview
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Algorithms Exposed. Investigating Automated Personalization and Filtering for Research and Activism
Proof of Concept Grant (ERC) for Stefania Milan and her DATACTIVE team 2018 | Personalization algorithms—filtering content on the basis of someone's profile—increasingly mediate the web experience of users. -
App Ecosystems: A Critical History of Apps
Veni Anne Helmond | 2018-2022 | The aim of this project is to write the first critical history of the app ecosystem. People spend much of their time online using apps to communicate with people and to share content. ... -
Apps and Data Infrastructures
Veni Esther Weltevrede | 2019 - 2023 | Apps have become an important part of our everyday life. However, how they operate is still largely unknown. This project develops novel digital methods to study how apps ... -
Big Brother Wants Your Vote: How Critical Micro-targeting Influences Dutch Democracy
Beate Roessler [co-applicant], Prof. N. Helberger (Main applicant) receive funding from NWO (Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Innoveren) 2020 | Political parties send citizens tailored, microtargeted messages, hoping to ... -
CLEOPATRA
CLEOPATRA ITN: “Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics Research Academy”, led by Prof. dr. Richard Rogers | 2019 - 2022. -
Capture and Analysis Tools for Social Media Research (CAT4SMR)
Bernard Rieder | Platform Digitale Infrastructuur | The project seeks to stabilize and further develop a set of existing and heavily used tools for the collection and analysis of social media data (Facebook, Twitter, ... -
China Fashion Power
Tommy Tse (Media Studies) ERC Consolidator Grant 2022-2027 | Tse’s project will investigate how, in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s global power is manifested, negotiated and resisted in people’s ... -
Conspiratorial Memory: Cultures of Suspicion in Post-Socialist Europe
Boris Noordenbos – ERC Starting | 2021-2026 | Many classic conspiracy theories concern the withholding of information from the public. -
Covid-19 App Store and Data Flow Ecologies
Esther Weltevrede – UKRI Open Call, Ideas to address Covid-19 (lead: University of Warwick) | Mobile phone applications (apps) have emerged as a key part of the response to COVID-19 around the world and are a ... -
Decentralising Conceptual Art's Internationalism: Latin American Artists in Western Europe, 1968-1979
Eliza Mazadiego receives Funding from the European Commission (Marie Curie Career Integration Grant) -
Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives
A Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPICH-CHIP) | 2021-2024 | A Dutch-French-British research consortium, led by Barbara Titus and meLê yamomo (University of Amsterdam), has ... -
Eco-Islam in Indonesia: Media, Institutions, Publics
ERC Consolidar Grant Leonie Schmidt (2024-2028) -
Entangled Freedoms: Decolonial Modernisms as Transnational Relations of Resistance, 1940s-1980s
ERC Consolidator Sanjukta Sunderason (2024-2028) -
Fixers, Stringers and Foreign Crews: The distribution of risks and emotions in crisis reporting
Johana Kotišová (Mark Deuze) – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, European Fellowship | 2020-2023 | The proposed research project seeks to understand links among the least visible actors and aspects of conflict reporting. -
Gendered and Sexual Citizenship in Curaçao and Bonaire
NWO Project Sruti Bala (2017-2021) in partnership with the University of Curacao | The project asks how citizenship in the islands is practiced and culturally articulated by subjects facing multiple forms of systemic ... -
Imagining Institutions Otherwise: Art, Politics, and State Transformation
Vidi Chiara de Cesari | 2020-2024 | Following the “social turn” in contemporary art, a number of political and cultural theorists have argued that art’s primary function is to “imagine things otherwise” and incite ... -
Infodemic: Combatting COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Marc Tuters – UKRI Open Call, Ideas to address Covid-19 (lead: University of Manchester) | Responding to the World Health Organisation’s warning that misinformation related to COVID-19 constitutes an “infodemic,” ... -
MSCA ITN Early Language Development in the Digital Age (e-LADDA)
Stefania Milan receives funding from the European Commission (Horizon 2020/ Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions) -
Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance
Stefania Milan receives funding from NWO Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Innoveren 2020 | Straddling computer science, sociology, law, and media studies, this project investigates standard-making in relation to ... -
Maritime Imagination: A Cultural Oceanography of The Netherlands
Mikki Stelder has been awarded a Marie Curie Global Fellowship | 2019-2023 | Mikki will develop a multi-era and interdisciplinary approach to the study of maritime worlds, imaginations and entanglements of Dutch ... -
Moral Truth: Exploring the Concept of Practical Cognition in Kant’s Ethics
Open Competition Grant Thomas Nys (2023-2027) -
Narratives from the long tail: transforming access to large-scale audiovisual archives
Giovanna Fossati – Sinergia (main applicant: Sarah Kenderdine, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Zwitserland) -
Platform Labour: Digital Transformations of Work and Livelihood in Post-Welfare Societies
ERC Starting Grant Niels van Doorn | 2018-2022 | Niels van Doorn’s research project aims to determine how digital platforms are reconfiguring the gendered, classed and racialised organisation of labour and social ... -
Preservation as performance: liveness, loss and viability in electroacoustic music
VENI Grant: Hannah Bosma | 2018-2022 | It is very difficult to re-perform experimental electronic music later. The unique software and equipment become obsolete quickly. Knowledge and information are dispersed ... -
Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums
Chiara de Cesari – NWA-ORC (co-applicant) 2021-2025 (main applicant: Susan Legêne, VU Amsterdam) -
Rural Imaginations in the Global Context
ERC Consolidator Esther Peeren | 2018-2023 | With globalization primarily considered an urban phenomenon, its impact on rural areas tends to be neglected. Tackling this blind spot is urgent as rural-urban divides ... -
So Big Data +++
Richard Rogers received funding from the European Commission (Horizon 2020) | SoBigData++ strives to deliver a distributed, Pan-European, multi-disciplinary research infrastructure for big social data analytics, ... -
Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Southeast Asian Sound Recordings, 1890-1950
VENI Grant meLê Yamomo | 2018-2022 | »Sonic Entanglements« will identify, organize, and analyze extant early sound (musical and non-musical) media in and about Southeast Asia during the emergence and development of ... -
Sustainability Performances, Evidence & Scenarios (SPES)
The objective of the Sustainability Performances, Evidence and Scenarios (SPES) project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme, is to better understand the interconnections between economic growth, ... -
The Platformization of the Global Sex Industry. Markets, Morals, and Mass Intimacy
Thomas Poell (with Olav Velthuis) receive funding from NWO (Digitisation), 2020-2024 This project studies the spectacular rise of webcam sex platforms, such as Chaturbate, Cams.com or Myfreecams. What is the impact ... -
The politics of (not) eating animals
Eva Meijer – NWO Veni 2021-2025 | In this research project I examine deliberative practices surrounding the eating of animals. I examine three case studies in order analyse the relation between language and power and ... -
Untimely World Pictures: Confronting the Anthropocene Through Historical Representations of the Global Environment.
Simon Ferdinand – NWO Veni 2021-2025 | Although Earth is now predominantly represented as a geometrical globe, historically it has been depicted in much more diverse ways. This project uses an innovative ... -
Worlding Public Cultures: Art and Social Innovation
Chiara de Cesari [Wayne Modest, main applicant] receives funding from NWO (Social Innovation of the Transatlactic Platform (T-AP-SI)), 2020