Dr. J.J.V. (Vincent) Kuitenbrouwer
Modern History
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Geschiedenis
Visiting address
- Kloveniersburgwal 48
- Room number: C 1.10
Postal address
- Postbus 1610
1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profiel
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
Biography
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is Senior Lecturer History of International Relations. He studied history at the Universities of Aberdeen and Amsterdam and obtained the degree Master of Studies in Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford (St Antony's College). In February 2010 obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam with his thesis A War of Words. Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902). In 2017 he contributed to the Goede Hoop exhibiton about the shared history of South Africa and the Netherlands in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the accompanying television series by NTR (episode 5).
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is specialised in nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial history, and has a special interest in colonial media, particurlarly radio-broadcasting. In recent years he published on Dutch transnational media networks 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
Imperial culture in Europe
History of South Africa
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
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Publications
- refereed (22)
- academic (6)
- professional (11)
- popular scientific (4)
- recognitions (9)
- doctoral thesis (1)
2021
- Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V., & Jurg, V. (2021). Dutch Dialogues with Afrikaners: The Netherlands and the Cultural Boycott Against the Apartheid Regime in the 1980s. In K. Andresen, D. Siegfried, & S. Justke (Eds.), Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid in Western Europe Palgrave Macmillan.
2020
- Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2020). The semantics of decolonisation: The public debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands 1950-62. In B. Sèbe, & M. Stanard (Eds.), Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire (pp. 75-95). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Decolonising-Europe-Popular-Responses-to-the-End-of-Empire/Sebe-Stanard/p/book/9780367139605
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. (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. 361-382). Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030244583
- 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). Cham: 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: 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: 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
- Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2017). Journalistiek oriëntalisme. C.K. Elout en de transformatie van de koloniale verslaggeving in Nederland 1920–1930. Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, 20(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.18146/2213-7653.2017.278
2016
- Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2016). Beyond the ‘Trauma of Decolonisation': Dutch Cultural Diplomacy during the West New Guinea Question (1950–62). Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 44(2), 306-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2016.1175736 [details]
- Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2016). Radio as a Tool of Empire: Intercontinental Broadcasting from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s and 1930s. Itinerario, 40(1), 83-103. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115316000061 [details]
2014
- Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2014). Propaganda that dare not speak its name: International information service about the Dutch East Indies, 1919-1934. Media History, 20(3), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2014.920204 [details]
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, J. J. V. (2011). De geografie van de stamverwantschap. Op zoek naar Nederlandse plaatsen van herinnering in Zuid-Afrika. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 124(3), 335-350.
- Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. 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. 90-124)
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). Cham: 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). Amsterdam: Prometheus/Bert Bakker. [details]
2020
- Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2020). Van je familie moet je het hebben. Zuid-Afrika Spectrum. https://www.zuidafrikahuis.nl/2020/09/24/van-je-familie-moet-je-het-hebben-recensie-b-henkes-negotiating-racial-politics-in-the-family/?login=failed
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
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]
2017
- Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2017). Boerenmanie: De Tweede Boerenoorlog in de Nederlandse publieke opinie. In M. Gosselink, M. Holtrop, & R. Ross (Eds.), Goede Hoop: Zuid-Afrika en Nederland vanaf 1600 (pp. 233-250). (Landenreeks Rijksmuseum). Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Vantilt.
2016
- Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2016). Eugène Marais [bespreking van C. van der Merwe (2016) Donkerstroom]. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 93(10).
- Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2016). Op zoek naar een gedeeld verleden: Junior conservator Maria Holtrop. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 93(4), 81-82.
2007
- Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2007). 'Zoon van een dappere natie'. NRC Handelsblad.
Award
- 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. Goede Hoop.
Talk / presentation
- Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (24-9-2020). Broadcasting Empire, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa.
- Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (12-2-2020). Radio and Decolonisation: the Case of Dutch International Broadcasting, University of Exeter.
- Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (24-1-2020). Inward Outward. Critical Archival Engagement with Sounds and Films of Coloniality, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid.
Others
- 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, ...).
- 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, ...).
- 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. F. (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
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Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis
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Instituut Beeld en Geluid
Project-coordinator Mediaoorlog
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Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis
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.