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Dr. C. (Christian) Bröer

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Political Sociology: Power, Place and Difference
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Room number: B6.06
Postal address
  • Postbus 15508
    1001 NA Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    I am associate professor of sociology interested in the interaction between health, everyday life practices and micro and macro politics. In the most general sense, I research the political origins of subjectivity in relation to biomedical processes. Conceptually, I aim to further develop medicalization theory. Empirically, I focus on cases like bodily (over)activity, microbes, sadness, (over)weight, mobile phone technology or aircraft noise. I am also interested in the way our research in/excludes citizens and affects (health) practices.  Methodologically I try to advance qualitative methods through systematizing collaborative interpretative and longitudinal approaches. 

    My career is a bit a-typical since I first studied ballet, worked outside academia between my MA (cum laude) and the beginning of my PhD study and worked part-time since my daughter was born in 2000 until 2012. I am still keen on dancing, currently mostly Latin dances. 

    I am leading a group of researchers called the SocioHealth team with whom I participate in the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and in a number of interdisciplinary research projects: Sarphati Etnografie , MetaHealth, MicroHealth, Personal Microbiome Health, CO-CREATE , Urban Mental Health and TimingHealth. I am member of the Workers Council and Co-founder and shareholder of Panel software. My work is published in journals like Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Obesity Reviews or Mobilization.

    CV and publication list Christian Bröer
  • Teaching

    Teaching

     

    In the past I have taught the following courses :

    • Bachelor Research Project
    • Citizenship and Health
    • Introduction to the social sciences
    • Social Media and the City
    • Crowd Findings: developing software for online collaborative interpretation, honours program
    • Theme's and region's in medical anthropology and sociology
    • Practices of care
    • Qualitative Data Analysis
    • Introduction to sociology and anthropology for medical students
    • Introduction to sociology
    • Recent debates in sociology 
    • Sociological Theory
    • Historical-comparative anthropology / sociology
    • Research workshops

    Supervising PhD

    I am supervising PhD´s, research (master) en bachelor students with their thesis. My PhD-students:

    2028                   Supervisor Anne van Wieringen, Healthism and microbiome enriched food

    2027                   Supervisor Soely Mandrone, Participatory Action and Inclusion

    2027                   Supervisor Yosheng Liu, Ethnography of health practice

    2021                   Co-Supervisor of Minke Hajer, Citizenship and migrant illegality

    2020                   Co-Supervisor of Robert Davidson, The Dutch state and gay advocacy .

    2020                   Supervisor of Colette Santha, Childrens experience of ill-health in Ghana

    2019                   Supervisor Huong Nguyen Minh, Vietnamese Risk Policy.

    2018                   Co-Supervisor Melissa Sebrechts, recognition and activation policies for young adults.

    2016                   Supervisor Bert de Graaf, Politics and risk communication.

    2016                   Co-supervisor Judith Elshout, Sources of Self-respect in Meritocracy.

    2013                   External examiner of A. Yamamoto, discourse of urban planning, Univ. College London

    2012                   Co-supervisor, N. Thijsen, Imagining the Sixties.

     

    Supervising MA students

    Over the years I have supervise many MA and BA students and in several cases co-authored scientific articles with them. The full list would be too long so I present some examples here: 

     

    • Xiaonan Guo: sleep and sleeplessness among Chineze students
    • Mathilde van Rijsewijk: de journalistiek en kritiek in de coronapandemie
    • Bloeme Hulsman: Recognition and Claims of Women with Self-reported Breast Implant Illness in the Netherlands
    • Sterre Aandewiel: Navigating DSM Classifications in Practice. On Classifications, Psychiatry and Care
    • Elisabeth Piek: “Pregnancy and birth amidst the covid-19 pandemic; A phenomenological exploration on the perceptions of risk and uncertainty.”
    • Antonio Ramirez Asapchi: Managing trust in online environments: a case study of performing artists’ emotions in a physically distanced society
    • Sasha Neuville: COVID-19 and European students’ wellbeing: The shattering reversal of patterns of interaction
    • Leah van Ees: Caring Cavemen: The New Masculine Norm? Homebound fatherhood during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
    • Elise de Wit: From Top to Bottom-Up. The impact of Everyday Politics on Dutch Covid-19 Policy
    • Thijmen Zomer: de sociale oorzaken van burn-out
    • Amy Renckens:  ‘Man up’ Emotional literacy and well-being in the context of gendered power structures and privilege.
    • Eva Hart: Active Citizenship in Crisis Times. A case study on welfare provisions in Amsterdam for those without a home during the COVID-19 health crisis
    • Kelly Prins: ‘I always knew I was different’ reconstruction of identity by late-diagnosed autistic women
    • Kate Hinchey: Queering Care 
    • Paige O'Brian: Pain medication narratives
    • Hanne Zweers: Ongelukkig of depressief?
    • Joost Wagenaar: MakeHealth en maker communities 
    • Linde Olde Hampsink: Distress onder studenten
    • Megan van Gremberghe: Nestvlieders van Zeeland
    • Nienke Adelerhoff: Eating like a man 
    • Jonathan Berg: ADHD in Indian schools
    • Brechtje van Hiele: klachten bij de ombudsman
    • Tim ten Ham: governance of information technology and health risks: the case of patient records
    • Nienke Slagboom: Globalization of mental health diagnosis and treatment:  ADHD in Pune / India
    • Jante Schmidt: Autonomy and care needs: long term care patients in the Netherlands
    • Melissa Sebrechts: care and active citizenship: ADHD in a childcare facility Antwerp / Belgium
    • Edith de Vast: ethnographic comparison of large-scale and small scale home's for demented elderly  
    • Nora van der Linden: Leefbaar Rotterdam voters: reflexive or straightfoward
    • Marthe van Andel: Stigmatization of school children with HIV
    • Robbie Vos: creating the authenticity of electric hypersensitivity
    • Femke van Leeuwen: dealing with loss after suicide
    • Lumi Holopainen: psychotherapy on TV in Romania 
    • Marjolein Heerings: adults with ADHD, discourse and identity
    • Chantal Smeekens: stigmatization and anti-stigmatization of HIV  / AIDS within Philippine families
    • Bert de Graaff, Electrohypersensitivity in daily life (graduated cum laude)
    • Eva van der Meer, the effect of media reports on risk perception
    • Iwan van der Meer, identification of victims and perpetrators of domesticviolence
    • Marieke Boele van Hensbroek, aggression against ambulance personel
    • Marieke Kroezen, the effect of health prevention on risk perception
    • Nienke van Sambeek, diagnose relatedgroups(DBC in Dutch) and psy-professionals (graduated cum laude)
  • Publications

    2024

    • Baillergeau, E., Veltkamp, G., Bröer, C., Helleve, A., Kulis, E., Lien, N., Luszczynska, A., Mendes, S., Rito, A., Moerman, G., de Sauvage Nolting, R., & Klepp, K.-I. (2024). Democratising participatory health promotion: power and knowledge involved in engaging European adolescents in childhood obesity prevention. Health, Risk & Society, 26(5-6), 201-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2024.2338120 [details]
    • Eltink, E., & Bröer, C. (2024). Healthism online: ‘What I eat in a day’ vlogs before and during COVID-19 restrictions. Heliyon, 10(1), Article e23623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23623 [details]

    2023

    • Bröer, C., Ayuandini, S., Baillergeau, E., Moerman, G., Veltkamp, G., Luszczynska, A., Budin-Ljøsne, I., Rito, A. I., Stensdal, M., Lien, N., & Klepp, K.-I. (2023). Recruiting and engaging adolescents in creating overweight and obesity prevention policies: The CO-CREATE project. Obesity Reviews, 24(S1), Article e13546. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13546 [details]
    • Bröer, C., Veltkamp, G., Ayuandini, S., Baillergeau, E., Moerman, G., de Sauvage , R., Banik, A., Luszczynska, A., Mendes, S., Klepp, K.-I., Helleve, A., Nesrallah, S., Lien, N., & Kaur Grewal , N. (2023). Negotiating policy ideas: Participatory action research projects across five European countries. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health , 28, Article 100905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2023.100905 [details]
    • Budin-Ljøsne, I., Ayuandini, S., Baillergeau, E., Bröer, C., Helleve, A., Klepp, K.-I., Kysnes, B., Lien, N., Luszczynska, A., Nesrallah, S., Rito, A., Rutter, H., Samdal, O., Savona, N., & Veltkamp, G. (2023). Ethical considerations in engaging young people in European obesity prevention research: The CO-CREATE experience. Obesity Reviews, 24(1), Article e13518. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13518 [details]
    • Grewal , N. K., Klepp, K-I., Banik, A., Bröer, C., Holbæk, H., Luszczynska, A., Macauley, T., Rutter, H., & Lien, N. (2023). Assessing adolescents' readiness for action and attitudes toward obesity prevention: Instrument development and psychometric properties. Obesity Reviews, 24(S1), Article e13533. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13533 [details]
    • Klepp, K.-I., Helleve, A., Brinsden, H., Bröer, C., Budin-Ljøsne, I., Harbron, J., Knai, C., Lien, N., Luszczynska, A., Nesrallah, S., Oldridge-Turner, K., Rito, A., Samdal, O., Savona, N., Stensdal, M. K., Allender, S., Hoelscher, D. M., & Rutter, H. (2023). Overweight and obesity prevention for and with adolescents: The “Confronting obesity: Co-creating policy with youth” (CO-CREATE) project. Obesity Reviews, 24(S1), Article e13540. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13540 [details]
    • Samdal, O., Budin-Ljøsne, I., Haug, E., Helland, T., Kjostarova-Unkovska, L., Bouillon, C., Bröer, C., Corell, M., Cosma, A., Currie, D., Eriksson, C., Felder-Puig, R., Gaspar, T., Hagquist, C., Harbron, J., Jåstad, A., Kelly, C., Knai, C., Kleszczewska, D., ... Klepp, K.-I. (2023). Encouraging greater empowerment for adolescents in consent procedures in social science research and policy projects. Obesity Reviews, 24(S2), Article e13636. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13636 [details]

    2022

    2021

    • Bröer, C., & Agyekum, H. A. (2021). Medicalization and manhood: Is an ADHD diagnosis emerging for allegedly troublesome boys in Accra, Ghana? Social Science & Medicine, 291, Article 114465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114465 [details]
    • Bröer, C., Veltkamp, G., Bouw, C., Vlaar, N., Borst, F., & de Sauvage Nolting, R. (2021). From Danger to Uncertainty: Changing Health Care Practices, Everyday Experiences, and Temporalities in Dealing With COVID-19 Policies in the Netherlands. Qualitative Health Research, 31(9), 1751-1763. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323211005748
    • Slagboom, M. N., Bröer, C., & Berg, J. (2021). Negotiating ADHD: Pragmatic medicalization and creolization in urban India. Social Science & Medicine, 289, Article 114400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114400 [details]
    • Wilderom, B. R., Bröer, C., & van Rijsewijk, M. (2021). Van geheimzinnig buitenlands virus naar binnenlands systemisch risico: een studie naar de veranderende frames over COVID-19. Tijdschrift Sociologie, 2, 12-42. https://doi.org/10.38139/TS.2021.03

    2020

    2019

    • Brown, P., Moerman, G., & Bröer, C. (2019). Interviews as a Means of Exploring Risk Lifeworlds: Excavating the Roots of Everyday Meanings, Experiences and Practices. In A. Olofsson, & J. O. Zinn (Eds.), Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies (pp. 205-230). (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty). Palgrave Macmillan. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95852-1_9 [details]
    • de Graaff, M. B., & Bröer, C. (2019). Governance and risk in everyday life: depoliticization and citizens' experiences of cell site deployment in the Netherlands and Southern California. Journal of Risk Research, 22(12), 1586–1601. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2018.1501596 [details]

    2018

    • Bröer, C., Spronk, R., & Kraak, V. (2018). Exploring the ADHD Diagnosis in Ghana: between disrespect and lack of institutionalization. In M. R. Bergey, A. M. Filipe, P. Conrad, & I. Singh (Eds.), Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries (pp. 354-375). Johns Hopkins University Press. [details]
    • Schrijver, E., Duyvendak, J. W., & Bröer, C. (2018). Woede in meervoud: Boze burgers aan het woord. In R. Gabriëls, S. Koenis, & T. Swierstra (Eds.), Het hart op de tong: Emoties in de politiek (pp. 25-38). Amsterdam University Press. [details]
    • Sebrechts, M., Tonkens, E., & Bröer, C. (2018). Rituals of recognition: Interactions and interaction rules in sheltered workshops in the Netherlands. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 5(4), 455-475. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2018.1464399 [details]

    2017

    2016

    2015

    2014

    • Bröer, C., Moerman, G., Spruijt, P., & van Poll, R. (2014). Risk policies and risk perceptions: a comparative study of environmental health risk policy and perception in six European countries. Journal of Risk Research, 17(4), 525-542. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2014.889197 [details]
    • Trundle, C., Singh, I., & Bröer, C. (2014). Fighting to be heard: contested diagnoses. In A. Goldstein Jutel, & K. Dew (Eds.), Social issues in diagnosis: an introduction for students and clinicians (pp. 165-182). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. [details]

    2013

    2012

    • Beerends, S., & Bröer, C. (2012). ‘Als je pillen gaat slikken, vermijd je iets wat echt is’: romantische en sociologische denkbeelden in het publieke debat over geestelijke gezondheidszorg. Sociologie, 8(3), 318-342. https://doi.org/10.5117/SOC2012.3.BEER [details]
    • Bröer, C., & Duyvendak, J. W. (2012). Sensing and seizing opportunities: how contentious actors and strategies emerge. In J. Goodwin, & J. M. Jasper (Eds.), Contention in context: political opportunities and the emergence of protest (pp. 240-255). Stanford University Press. [details]
    • de Graaff, M. B., & Bröer, C. (2012). ‘We are the canary in a coal mine’: establishing a disease category and a new health risk. Health, Risk & Society, 14(2), 129-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2012.661040 [details]

    2011

    2009

    • Bröer, C., & Duyvendak, J. W. (2009). Discursive opportunities, feeling rules and the rise of protests against aircraft noise. Mobilization, 14(3), 337-356. [details]
    • Hugenholtz, M., Bröer, C., & van Daalen, R. (2009). Apprehensive parents: a qualitative study on parents seeking immediate primary care for their children. British Journal of General Practice, 59(560), 173-180. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp09X394996 [details]
    • Kroesen, M., & Bröer, C. (2009). Policy discourse and people's internal frames, and declared aircraft noise annoyance: an application of Q-methodology. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(1), 195-207. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3139904 [details]
    • Wolfshöfer, C., & Bröer, C. (2009). Opvang en resocialisatie: hoe daklozen leven in de maatschappelijk opvang. Sociologie, 5(4), 463-483. [details]

    2008

    • Bröer, C. (2008). Private trouble, policy issue: people's noise annoyance and policy discours. Critical Policy Analysis, 2(2), 93-117. [details]

    2007

    • Bröer, C. (2007). Aircraft noise and risk politics. Health, Risk & Society, 9(2), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698570601181631 [details]
    • Bröer, C. (2007). Noise annoyance and policy: How policy shapes non-acoustical factors. In Turkish Acoustical Society - 36th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2007 ISTANBUL (Vol. 6, pp. 3819-3827)

    2005

    • Bröer, C., Wirth, K., Brink, M., & Schierz, C. (2005). Veränderung der Lärmbelästigung im zeitlichen Verlauf. Umweltmedizin in Forschung und Praxis, 10(2). [details]

    1997

    • Bröer, C. (1997). Leven met twee landen: de sociale positie van Surinaamse remigranten in historisch sociologisch perspectief. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 23(4), 608-639. [details]

    2020

    2013

    2010

    2009

    • Bröer, C. (2009). Een kritisch en interpretatief kader voor 'Q'. KWALON, 14, 21-22. [details]

    2006

    • Bröer, C. (2006). Beleid vormt overlast: hoe beleidsdiscoursen de beleving van geluid bepalen. Amsterdam: Aksant. [details]

    2004

    • Bröer, C., & Wirth, K. (2004). Mehr Belästigung bei gleichem Pegel, Wieso Flugzeuggeräusche heute möglicherweise lästiger sind als vor 40 Jahren. Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung, (4), 118-122. [details]

    2002

    • Bröer, C. (2002). Sound, meaning and politics, The social construction of aircraft noise annoyance. Revista da acústica. [details]

    2020

    2015

    2012

    • Driessen, A-E., & Bröer, C. (2012). Actieve en passieve patiënten: sociale media en mannen met borstkanker. Psychosociale oncologie.

    2011

    • Bröer, C. (2011). Definitiemacht in een risicosamenleving. In IGZ Cahier IGZ.

    2010

    2009

    2008

    2007

    2004

    • Bröer, C., & Wirth, K. (2004). Wachsende Empfindlichkeit gegenüber Fluglärm? Immobilia, 71(11), 12-14. [details]

    2001

    • Kapteyn, P., Bröer, C., & Beck, W. (2001). 'Sociale cohesie, over natievorming en het gebrek daaraan'. Den Haag: NWO. [details]

    2000

    • Kapteyn, P., Bröer, C., & Beck, W. (2000). "'Sociale Cohaesie', de bruikbaarheid van een begrip.". Den Haag: NWO. [details]

    2020

    2014

    • Bröer, C. (2014). Het is zinvol burgers bij onderzoek te betrekken. Het Parool.

    2011

    • ten Ham, T., & Bröer, C. (2011). Oranje Boven. #kijkSW, 1(1).

    2005

    • Bröer, C. (2005). Schiphol moet vertrouwen wekken. De Volkskrant.

    2016

    • Karasaki, M., Veltkamp, G., & Bröer, C. (2016). Engaging with infants: Making of subjectivity in everyday infant eating, sleeping, and body movement practices.. Paper presented at British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

    2012

    • Verhoeven, I., & Broer, C. (2012). Contentious governance. Local governments as social movement actors. Paper presented at Mini-conference: Social Movements Players Formerly Known as the State Part Two.

    2011

    • Bröer, C. (2011). Policy and Protest. Paper presented at European Sociological Association conference.
    • Bröer, C. (2011). Private trouble, public issue, adults on ADHD. Paper presented at European Sociological Association conference.
    • Bröer, C. (2011). Risk Policy and Risk Perception. Paper presented at ESA-Risk and Uncertainty Network midterm conference.
    • Bröer, C. (2011). Variants of medicalization, Hyperactive adults and neurochemical discourse. Paper presented at The British Sociological Association annual conference: '60 years of sociology'.

    2010

    • Tonkens, E. H., Broer, C., van Hassel, D., & van Sambeek, N. (2010). Effects of marketization in health care: new breeds of professionalism. Paper presented at USBO Working Conference.

    Prize / grant

    • Bröer, C. (2011). Henk Sol prize for the innovative approach in ‘Policy discourse and people's internal frames on declared aircraft annoyance: an application of Q-methodology’. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(1), 195-207, with M. Kroesen.
    • Bröer, C. (2011). Young Career Achievement prize for the period 2007-2011, for the article ‘Private Trouble, policy issue, how policy discourses shape our experience of aircraft sound..

    Membership / relevant position

    • Broer, C. (2007-2011). Board member, NSV.

    Media appearance

    • Broer, C. (22-12-2014). BNR [Radio]. BNR.

    Journal editor

    • Bröer, C. (editor) (2011). Sociologie (Journal).
    • Broer, C. (editor) (2008). Sociologie (Journal).

    Talk / presentation

    • Bröer, C. (invited speaker) (1-11-2014). Crowdfindings: a way to collaborative analyse qualitative material, Wikimedia Conference, Utrecht.
    • Bröer, C. (invited speaker) (20-10-2014). From Open Access to Open Collaboration, Symposium Open Access, the new beginning.
    • Bröer, C. (invited speaker) (19-4-2013). Policy cultures, Glamorgen seminar series, University of Cardiff, School of Social Science.
    • Bröer, C. (invited speaker) (25-4-2012). Neurobiology in public and in privateAdults on ADHD, European Science Foundation / European Neuroscience and Society Network conference, Kings College and Goodenough College London.
    • Bröer, C. (invited speaker) (17-2-2012). Noise policies shape protest, ESRC Seminar on the Politics of Sustainable Aviation, University of Essex.
    • Bröer, C. (invited speaker) (14-12-2011). Policy Impact, Advocacy and Health Risks in the Netherlands, 'Connected communities’ program, financed by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Leicester.

    Others

    • Moerman, G. (organiser), Broer, C. (organiser), Veenis, M. (organiser) & Grassiani, E. (organiser) (27-8-2014 - 29-8-2014). #Ethnography: Trends, Traverses and Traditions (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van de Werfhorst, H. G. (other), Kuipers, G. M. M. (other) & Bröer, C. (other) (2013 - 2014). Principal author of self-assessment report UvA Sociology research programme “Dynamics of Institutions: Life Course, Citizenship and Culture” (other).
    • Brown, P. (organiser), Bröer, C. (organiser), Zinn, J. O. (organiser) & de Graaff, B. (organiser) (2013). ESA / ISA Risk and Uncertainty Network Midterm Conference (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Verhoeven, I. (participant) & Broer, C. (participant) (5-7-2012 - 7-7-2012). 7th IPA conference Understanding the Drama of Democracy, Tilburg. Panel ‘Understanding Processes of Policy Contestation’ (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

    2006

    • Bröer, C. (2006). Beleid vormt overlast : hoe beleidsdiscoursen de beleving van geluid bepalen. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. Aksant. [details]

    2021

    • Vries, D. H. ., Bröer, C., Bouw, C., Vlaar, N., Borst, F., de Sauvage Nolting, R. & Veldkamp, G. (2021). Sociale impact van fysieke afstand op kwetsbare populaties tijdens COVID-19 (2020): herhaalde interviews met gezinnen met jonge kinderen. EASY. https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zxn-fud8
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