Thijs van Dooremalen
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Assistant Prof in Crisis Governance at Leiden University Sociologist, researching how events and crises shape social and political life https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/thijs-van-dooremalen#tab-1
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How can sociology help to understand and possibly tackle the climate crisis? Are there signs of climate politics optimism in the current political moment? I hosted a podcast episode with ‪@catherinewong.bsky.social‬ and @rfelliott.bsky.social discussing this!
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Culture & Inequality Podcast
How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...
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This is another issue. New forms of climate accountability have certainly come about as a result, but clearly a double reality of a mismatch between discourse and practice remains ongoing.
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Social movements and climate scientists thus seem to have been successful in raising these concerns, even for the case of British heatwaves. Will this shift in discourse have an impact on how politicians, policymakers and individual citizens deal with these concerns in their actions?
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Were heatwaves back then also seen as a reason to go to the beach and ice cream, today their dominant framing is one of doom. This is mostly related climate concerns becoming highly present in the last decades. The occurrence of a new heatwave case now is mostly a vehicle to voice these concerns.
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The Brits traditionally consider them a fortunate break from dull weather. We analyze the development of their framing through analyzing 35.217 British newspaper articles.

We find a genre shift: from a combination of romantic and apocalyptic in the 1980s and 1990s to apocalyptic dominance today.
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How has climate change public discourse developed over the last decades?

In a new article, Phil Smith and I answer this question by analyzing the framing of heatwaves in Britain (1985 - 2023), a least likely case for the occurrence of climate crisis concerns.
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Al te actueel aforisme:
Op de dag na een grote historische crisis voelen we ons even ontstemd en ziek als 's ochtends na een nacht van uitspattingen. Maar er bestaat geen aspirine voor een historische kater.
(Albert Camus, Laatste cahiers 1951 - 1959, vorig jaar in het Nederlands verschenen)
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The second theorizes that crises responses are often created through links with other crises. It shows how this plays out for Covid and climate change in American, Canadian, Dutch and Lithuanian elections, and finds a remarkable degree of cross-national parity:
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A good academic start of 2025: two articles of mine are out in print! The first shows how national media can differ in their degrees of foreign event domestication, here with foreignizing French newspapers vs domesticating Dutch ones:
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Crises responses are created in reference to the meanings of other crises. How can we study such processes? And how do they work out for the cases of climate change and Covid? We answer these questions in our new International Sociology article!
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I have a new OA article out in Poetics, with Luca Carbone, @mijs.bsky.social and Stijn Daenekindt! We develop the notion of "recurrent events" - occurrences that structure social life through their regular cadence - and apply it to the case of Eurovision in 18 countries (from 1981 until 2021).
Towards a sociology of recurrent events. Constellations of cultural change around Eurovision in 18 countries (1981–2021)
Sociologists usually conceptualize events as unexpected occurrences bringing about long-lasting transformations of social structures. Following this d…
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