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Dr. J.J.V. (Vincent) Kuitenbrouwer

Modern History
Faculty of Humanities
Geschiedenis
Photographer: Robin de Puy

Visiting address
  • Kloveniersburgwal 48
  • Room number: C 1.10
Postal address
  • Postbus 1610
    1000 BP Amsterdam
  • Profiel

    Biography

    Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is Senior Lecturer History of International Relations. He is specialised in nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial history, and has a special interest in colonial media. In 2012 he published the monograph War of Words. Dutch pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War. In recent years he published on Dutch international radio-broadcasting in the late colonial era and the era of decolonisation. He currently co-ordinates the project 'Media War' on propaganda in Dutch-language media during the Second World War at the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision.

     

    Research interests

    History of international radio-broadcasting

    Colonial media history

    History of the Dutch empire

    Decolonisation

    History of South Africa

    Imperial culture in Europe

    Selected publications

    'Radio as a Tool of Empire. Intercontinental Broadcasting from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s and 1930s', Itinerario, vol. 40:1 (2016) 83-103. Go to journal website

    'Propaganda dare not speak its name. International information services about the Dutch East Indies, 1919-1934', Media History vol. 20:3 (2014) 239-253. Go to journal website

    with Marieke Bloembergen eds., 'A New Dutch Imperial History. Connecting Dutch and Overseas Pasts', special issue of BMGN-Low Countries Historical Review 128:1 (2013). Open access version available via journal website.

    War of Words. Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902)  (Amsterdam University Press 2012). Open access version available via OAPEN.

     

    Links

    project website 'Mediaoorlog', Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid project website 'Connecting the Wireless World' Online version A New Dutch Imperial History online version War of Words
  • Publications

    2022

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2022). Neutral news. Forging a small states’ transnational media network, 1914‒40. In S. Kruizinga (Ed.), The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe: Size, Identity and International Relations since 1800 (pp. 115-132). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350168916.ch-006 [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2022). The Traces of a Media War: Archives of Dutch Broadcasts from London during the Second World War. TMG – Journal for Media History, 25(2). https://doi.org/10.18146/tmg.821 [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V., & Wijfjes, H. (2022). Mediaoorlog: Radio, geschreven pers en propaganda tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 135(2/3), 179-199. https://doi.org/10.5117/TvG2022.2/3.001.KUIT [details]
    • Potter, S. J., Clayton, D., Kind-Kovács, F., Kuitenbrouwer, V., Ribeiro, N., Scales, R., & Stanton, A. L. (2022). The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting. Oxford University Press. [details]

    2021

    • Jurg, V., & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2021). Dutch Dialogues with Afrikaners: The Netherlands and the Cultural Boycott Against the Apartheid Regime in the 1980s. In K. Andresen, S. Justke, & D. Siegfried (Eds.), Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid in Western Europe (pp. 163–184). (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies ). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53284-0_8 [details]

    2020

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2020). The semantics of decolonisation: The public debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands 1950-62. In B. Sèbe, & M. G. Stanard (Eds.), Decolonising Europe? : Popular Responses to the End of Empire (pp. 75-95). (Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650–2000). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429029363-7 [details]

    2019

    • Bardgett, S., Kind-Kovács, F., & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2019). The Act of Listening: Radio Monitoring, 1930-1990. Media History, 25(4), 391-399. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2019.1672527 [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V., Bardgett, S., & Kind-Kovacs, F. (Eds.) (2019). Transnational Radio Monitoring. Media History, 25(4).
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2019). The Glass House Revisited: Radio Broadcasting and the Blind Spots in the Late Colonial State in the Netherlands Indies, 1920s and 1930s. In R. Koekkoek, A-I. Richard, & A. Weststeijn (Eds.), The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600-2000 (pp. 183-204). (Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27516-7_9 [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2019). The battle for neutrality: The Listening Service of the Dutch Government in Exile During the Second World War. Media History, 25(4), 400-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2019.1652581 [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V., Luscombe, A., & Wijfjes, H. (Eds.) (2019). Developing Radio Histories. Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, 22(2). https://www.tmgonline.nl/52/volume/22/issue/2/

    2018

    • Blok, G., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & Weeda, C. (2018). Introduction. In G. Blok, V. Kuitenbrouwer, & C. Weeda (Eds.), Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation (pp. 7-20). (Heritage and Memory Studies; Vol. 5). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048529162-001 [details]
    • Blok, G., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & Weeda, C. (Eds.) (2018). Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation. (Heritage and Memory Studies; Vol. 5). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048529162 [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2018). 'From Heart to Heart': Colonial Radio and the Dutch Imagined Community in the 1920s. In G. Blok, V. Kuitenbrouwer, & C. Weeda (Eds.), Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation (pp. 113-130). (Heritage and Memory Studies; Vol. 5). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048529162-007 [details]
    • van Dijk, R., Kruizinga, S., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & van der Maar, R. (2018). Conclusions and outlook: Small states on the global scene. In R. van Dijk, S. Kruizinga, V. Kuitenbrouwer, & R. van der Maar (Eds.), Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A small country on the global scene (pp. 240-244). (Routledge Studies in Modern European History; Vol. 55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315228440 [details]
    • van Dijk, R., Kruizinga, S., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & van der Maar, R. (2018). Introduction: A small state on the global scene. In R. van Dijk, S. Kruizinga, V. Kuitenbrouwer, & R. van der Maar (Eds.), Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A small country on the global scene (pp. 1-12). (Routledge Studies in Modern European History; Vol. 55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315228440 [details]

    2017

    2016

    2014

    2013

    • Bloembergen, M., & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2013). A new Dutch imperial history: connecting Dutch and overseas pasts. Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 128(1), 1-4. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2013). 'A newspaper war'? Dutch information networks during the South African War (1899-1902). Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 128(1), 127-150. [details]

    2012

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2012). War of words: Dutch pro-Boer propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [details]

    2011

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2011). De geografie van de stamverwantschap: Op zoek naar Nederlandse plaatsen van herinnering in Zuid-Afrika. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 124(3), 334-349. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2011.3.KUIT [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2011). Songs of an imperial underdog: Imperialism and popular culture in the Netherlands, 1870-1960. In J. M. MacKenzie (Ed.), European Empires and the People: Popular responses to imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy (pp. 90-123). (Studies in Imperialism). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526118301.00008 [details]

    2022

    2019

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2019). ‘The Brightness You Bring into our Otherwise very Dull Existence’: Responses to Dutch Global Radio Broadcasts from the British Empire in the 1920s and 1930s. In S. Barczewski, & M. Farr (Eds.), The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History: Essays in Honour of John M. MacKenzie (pp. 361-381). (Britain and the World). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24459-0_16 [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V., Luscombe, A., & Wijfjes, H. (2019). Developing Radio Histories. Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, 22(2), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.18146/tmg.593 [details]

    2018

    • van Dijk, R., Kruizinga, S., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & van der Maar, R. (Eds.) (2018). Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A small country on the global scene. (Routledge Studies in Modern European History; Vol. 55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315228440 [details]

    2017

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2017). Zoeken naar woorden [Bespreking van: P. Bijl (2015) Emerging Memory : Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 130(2), 307-309. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2017.2.RECE [details]

    2015

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2015). The Dutch East Indies During the First World War and the Birth of Colonial Radio. World History Bulletin, 31(1), 28-31. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2015). Tropisch Nederland door de ogen van Charles Boissevain: een verkenning van de koloniale verslaggeving rond 1900. In F. Grijzenhout, & P. Raedts (Eds.), Deze lange eeuw: metamorfosen van het vaderland 1780-1950: opstellen voor Niek van Sas (pp. 189-203). Prometheus/Bert Bakker. [details]

    2022

    2019

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2019). 'Band met Nederland': Radio voor Nederlanders in het buitenland. In H. Wijfjes (Ed.), De Radio: Een cultuurgeschiedenis (pp. 281-311, 331-333). Amsterdam: Boom.

    2015

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2015). Nederlands architectonisch erfgoed in Zuid-Afrika [Bespreking van: K.A. Bakker, N.J. Clarke (2014) Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens: A Shared Dutch Built Heritage in South Africa]. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 92(10), 217. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2015). Zuid-Afrikaanse studentenprotesten in mondiaal perspectief. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 92(10), 224. [details]

    2014

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2014). De oorlog die Zuid-Afrika vormde [Bespreking van: M. Bossenbroek (2012) De Boerenoorlog]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 127(2), 349-351. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2014.2.KUIT [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2014). Dr.ir. C.J. de Groot: radiopionier in de tropen. In W. F. B. Melching, F. Boterman, & A. Labrie (Eds.), Na de catastrofe: de Eerste Wereldoorlog en de zoektocht naar een nieuw Europa (pp. 255-266). Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2014). Mandelaplein: Nederlandse plaatsen van herinnering voor een Zuid-Afrikaanse held. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 91(1), 6-7. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2014). Orakel van het Afrikaner nationalisme [Bespreking van: L. Koorts (2014) D.F. Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism]. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 91(9), 177. [details]

    2013

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2013). De blanke top der duinen voorbij: grensverleggende perspectieven op het Nederlands nationalisme. In Voortschrijdend inzicht: omdat de wetenschap niet stil staat (pp. 64-66). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [details]

    2012

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2012). [Bespreking van: W. van den Doel (2011) Zo ver de wereld strekt: de geschiedenis van Nederland overzee vanaf 1800]. Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 127(3), [review 44]. [details]

    2007

    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2007). [Review of: P. Jaikumar (2006) Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India]. European review of history, 14, 268-270. [details]

    Prize / grant

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2018). Fellowship Beeld en Geluid.
    • Brolsma, M., Kruizinga, S. F. & Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2017). Cutting Edge Network Grant of the Faculty of Humanities UvA (with Samuël Kruizinga and Vincent Kuitenbrouwer).

    Media appearance

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (20-04-2017). Goede Hoop [Television]. Goede Hoop.

    Talk / presentation

    • Brolsma, M. (speaker) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (28-9-2022). Media War: Press, Radio and Propaganda in Nazi Occupied Netherlands, 1940-1945, Nationalsozialismus und internationale Öffentlichkeit, Bochum.
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (7-7-2022). The colonial provenance of Dutch International Broadcasting 1930-1950, ‘Radio Soundscapes in (Post)colonial Settings’.
    • Brolsma, M. (speaker) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (24-6-2022). Using history for propagandistic purposes in Dutch-language media during the Second World War, Webinar History in Conflict (organized by Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz). https://premodernconflictmanagement.org/conferences/historyinconflictwebinarsblog.p/95.m/100/marjet-brolsma-and-vincent-kuitenbrouwer-using-…
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (23-6-2022). Orientalism on Air: The early years of the Arabic service of Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep (1949-1950), Conference ‘Ruling the Waves: Transnational Radio Broadcasting in the Middle East and the Mediterranean between Production and Reception, 1920-1970’, Rome.
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (24-9-2020). Broadcasting Empire, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa. https://www.broadcastingempire.com/programa
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (12-2-2020). Radio and Decolonisation: the Case of Dutch International Broadcasting, University of Exeter. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events//details/index.php?event=10161
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (24-1-2020). Inward Outward. Critical Archival Engagement with Sounds and Films of Coloniality, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid. https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/bezoek/agenda/inward-outward-symposium

    Others

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (16-9-2022). ‘The Wireless World 1945-1975: Connecting Radio Histories of Decolonization and the Cold War’, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://ash.uva.nl/shared/subsites/amsterdam-institute-for-humanities-research/en/events/2022/09/the-wireless-world-1945-1975.html?origin=Zv…
    • Yamomo, m. (chair), Titus, B. (member of programme committee), Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant), Margana, S. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant), Buenconsejo, J. (participant) & de Jesus, R. (participant) (13-9-2019). Euroseas conference, Berlin, Berlin. Double Panel entitled "Sonic Entanglements: Sound, Archive, and Acoustic Historiographies in Southeast Asia" (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/sonic-entanglements-sound-archive-and-acoustic-historiographies-in-southeast-asia
    • Yamomo, m. (organiser), Titus, B. (participant), Margana, S. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant), Buenconsejo, J. (participant), de Jesus, R. (participant) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (9-9-2019 - 16-9-2019). Sonic Entanglements Archival Visits. Between 9-16 September, The Sonic Entanglements Research Project gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://sonic-entanglements.com/news/
    • Yamomo, m. (organiser), Titus, B. (organiser), de Kloet, J. (participant), Margana, S. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant), Barendregt, B. (participant), Buenconsejo, J. (participant), Birdsall, C. (participant), Schmidt, L. (participant), Chow, Y. (participant), Ajotikar, R. (participant), Spiller, H. (participant), de Jesus, R. (participant) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (9-9-2019). Sonic Entanglements, Hilversum. This workshop gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, and psychology working on/in (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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  • Ancillary activities
    • Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis
      redactie secretaris
    • Instituut Beeld en Geluid
      Project-coordinator Mediaoorlog