Huub van Baar
University of Giessen, University of Amsterdam, Department of Social Sciences and the Humanities, Assistant Professor of Political Theory
I am a Professor of Politics at Leuven International and European Studies (LINES), Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven in Belgium. My research focuses on the securitization of migration and on the position and protection of vulnerable minority and migrant groups in Europe. At KU Leuven I teach about international and European politics. Together with Angéla Kóczé, I am the editor of the book series New Directions in Romani Studies, published by Berghahn in Oxford.
I am also a Senior Research Affiliate of the collaborative research center Dynamics of Security at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Philipps University Marburg and the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Germany, as well as a Senior Research Fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Between 2014 and 2021 and together with Regina Kreide, I have coordinated a long-term research project (2014-21, with a possible extension until 2025) on Roma minority formation in modern European history, at the University of Giessen. This project is part of the research program “Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
I was trained as a mathematician and philosopher at the University of Amsterdam. After I worked several years as a journalist for Dutch newspapers and magazines, I returned to the academy. In 2011 I finished my PhD project, titled The European Roma: Minority Representation, Memory and the Limits of Transnational Governmentality as part of the research project Globalization and the Transformation of Cultural Identities in East Central Europe. This project was funded by the Dutch Research Foundation (NWO) in its research program Transformations in Art and Culture (2003-2011).
After I finished my PhD project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), I first lectured for a short time at the Department of Philosophy and then became an Assistant Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam (2012-14). I have taught BA, MA and research MA courses on European integration, on migration, minority, development, security and border policies of the European Union, on governmentality, biopolitics, power and agency in Foucauldian political philosophy, and on the histories, cultures, minorities and post-communist transitions of Central and Eastern Europe.
For more information, see: www.huubvanbaar.nl
E-mail: huub.vanbaar@kuleuven.be
Active at acamedia.edu since September 2014
Address: http://www.huubvanbaar.nl
I am also a Senior Research Affiliate of the collaborative research center Dynamics of Security at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Philipps University Marburg and the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Germany, as well as a Senior Research Fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Between 2014 and 2021 and together with Regina Kreide, I have coordinated a long-term research project (2014-21, with a possible extension until 2025) on Roma minority formation in modern European history, at the University of Giessen. This project is part of the research program “Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
I was trained as a mathematician and philosopher at the University of Amsterdam. After I worked several years as a journalist for Dutch newspapers and magazines, I returned to the academy. In 2011 I finished my PhD project, titled The European Roma: Minority Representation, Memory and the Limits of Transnational Governmentality as part of the research project Globalization and the Transformation of Cultural Identities in East Central Europe. This project was funded by the Dutch Research Foundation (NWO) in its research program Transformations in Art and Culture (2003-2011).
After I finished my PhD project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), I first lectured for a short time at the Department of Philosophy and then became an Assistant Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam (2012-14). I have taught BA, MA and research MA courses on European integration, on migration, minority, development, security and border policies of the European Union, on governmentality, biopolitics, power and agency in Foucauldian political philosophy, and on the histories, cultures, minorities and post-communist transitions of Central and Eastern Europe.
For more information, see: www.huubvanbaar.nl
E-mail: huub.vanbaar@kuleuven.be
Active at acamedia.edu since September 2014
Address: http://www.huubvanbaar.nl
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There is a limited time 50% discount code KOC425, valid for the next month (until end of March 2020) on orders of your title placed directly via Berghahn book webpage.
With contributions by Jef Huysmans, Nicholas De Genova, Regina Kreide, Olivier Legros, Marion Lièvre, Ryan Powell, Huub van Baar, Manuel Mireanu, Annabel Tremlett, Angéla Kóczé, Ioana Vrabiescu, Ana Ivasiuc, Markus End, and Marija Dalbello.
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Ilya Rabinovich is a Dutch-Moldovan photographer, internationally acclaimed for his unique photo projects. Rabinovich is based in Amsterdam, where he graduated from the Rijksakademie in 2000. In 2008 he travelled to his birthplace Chişinău in Moldova to photograph the exhibitions in its national museums. Here he encountered a remarkable process, which led to the photographic project Museutopia. The country, formerly known as Moldavia, was annexed by the former USSR in 1940 and remained under Soviet rule till 1991. This period of its history has become distorted or totally erased in the national museums. Each museum orchestrates its own ideal image of Moldova.
On Rabinovich’s photographs, the exhibited museum artefacts appear in the midst of curious wall paintings, models and display cabinets, as if they were from a mythical world, rather than documents of the national historical past. In themselves, the photographs are pleasing to the eye and appeal to the viewer with their nostalgic traces. Yet, they also reveal an entirely different narrative to those who allow themselves to be guided further by the sensitive eye of the photographer. In what ways do these museums contribute to the formation of new cultural and national identities? Ultimately, Rabinovich’s work encourages us to rethink the influence of historical canons and shifting cultural policies in post-1989 European museums.
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This book project is the outcome of a long and intense conversation and collaboration between Ilya Rabinovich and Huub van Baar, and of the generous support of Esther Krop at Alauda Publications in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The concept for the book was developed by Huub van Baar and, in the final stage, the chapters were edited by Huub van Baar and Ingrid Commandeur.
Papers by Huub van Baar
This chapter is the first, introductory chapter of the volume The Securitization of the Roma in Europe, edited by Huub van Baar, Ana Ivasiuc, and Regina Kreide (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Human Rights Interventions Series)
Keywords: anthropo-sociology; ethnic turn ; Europeanization; governmentality; neoliberalism; travelling activism
Translation from the English into the German by Michael Adrian
There is a limited time 50% discount code KOC425, valid for the next month (until end of March 2020) on orders of your title placed directly via Berghahn book webpage.
With contributions by Jef Huysmans, Nicholas De Genova, Regina Kreide, Olivier Legros, Marion Lièvre, Ryan Powell, Huub van Baar, Manuel Mireanu, Annabel Tremlett, Angéla Kóczé, Ioana Vrabiescu, Ana Ivasiuc, Markus End, and Marija Dalbello.
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Ilya Rabinovich is a Dutch-Moldovan photographer, internationally acclaimed for his unique photo projects. Rabinovich is based in Amsterdam, where he graduated from the Rijksakademie in 2000. In 2008 he travelled to his birthplace Chişinău in Moldova to photograph the exhibitions in its national museums. Here he encountered a remarkable process, which led to the photographic project Museutopia. The country, formerly known as Moldavia, was annexed by the former USSR in 1940 and remained under Soviet rule till 1991. This period of its history has become distorted or totally erased in the national museums. Each museum orchestrates its own ideal image of Moldova.
On Rabinovich’s photographs, the exhibited museum artefacts appear in the midst of curious wall paintings, models and display cabinets, as if they were from a mythical world, rather than documents of the national historical past. In themselves, the photographs are pleasing to the eye and appeal to the viewer with their nostalgic traces. Yet, they also reveal an entirely different narrative to those who allow themselves to be guided further by the sensitive eye of the photographer. In what ways do these museums contribute to the formation of new cultural and national identities? Ultimately, Rabinovich’s work encourages us to rethink the influence of historical canons and shifting cultural policies in post-1989 European museums.
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This book project is the outcome of a long and intense conversation and collaboration between Ilya Rabinovich and Huub van Baar, and of the generous support of Esther Krop at Alauda Publications in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The concept for the book was developed by Huub van Baar and, in the final stage, the chapters were edited by Huub van Baar and Ingrid Commandeur.
This chapter is the first, introductory chapter of the volume The Securitization of the Roma in Europe, edited by Huub van Baar, Ana Ivasiuc, and Regina Kreide (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Human Rights Interventions Series)
Keywords: anthropo-sociology; ethnic turn ; Europeanization; governmentality; neoliberalism; travelling activism
Translation from the English into the German by Michael Adrian
The international and multidisciplinary conference THE POLITICS OF SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING AND CHALLENGING THE SECURITIZATION OF EUROPE’S ROMA aims at reflecting on the practices, discourses and mechanisms through which and the consequences of how, in post-1989 Europe, the Roma have increasingly been problematized in terms of security. We will discuss and address this central question in four closely related contexts, corresponding to the main four panels of the conference: security and visuality; security and mobility; security and development, and security and marketization.
For those who are interested in the event, please have a look at the two attachments, which will inform you about the rationale and program of the conference.