R.J. van Ginkel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Universiteit van Amsterdam

Name: Rob van Ginkel
Office Address: Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam
Telephone work: *31.20.5254811
E-mail:

Education

Rob van Ginkel graduated in sociology and cultural anthropology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (1988). In 1993, he obtained his Ph.D. from the same university with a dissertation on transformations in two fishing villages on the Dutch Island of Texel.

Research interests

His research interests are in the field of maritime cultures, fisheries and fishing communities, animal symbolism, history and anthropology, European ethnology, national culture and identity, suburbia, and the ethnography of the Netherlands.

Current research/projects

Van Ginkel is conducting research on traditional whaling and fishing communities, multiple use conflicts in the Dutch inshore zone and the impact of fisheries management on the occupational culture of North Sea fishermen in the Netherlands.

Current teaching

Graduate courses on History of Anthropology, Anthropology of Europe and Animal Symbolism

Selected Full-length publications

2009 Braving Troubled Waters: Sea Change in a Dutch Fishing Community. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

2007 Coastal Cultures: An Anthropology of Fishing and Whaling Traditions. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Spinhuis Publishers.

2007 (with Alex Strating) (eds.), Wildness and Sensation: Anthropology of Sinister and Sensuous Realms. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Spinhuis Publishers.

1999 Op zoek naar eigenheid. Denkbeelden en discussies over cultuur en identiteit (In Search of Dutchness. Ideas and Debates on Culture and Identity). Den Haag: Sdu.

1997 Notities over Nederlanders (Notes on the Dutch).Amsterdam: Boom.

1993 Tussen Scylla en Charybdis. Een etnohistorie van Texels vissersvolk (1813-1932) (Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. An Ethnohistory of Texelian Fisher Folk [1813-1932]). Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.

1991 Elk vist op zijn tij. Een historisch-antropologische studie van een Zeeuwse maritieme gemeenschap, Yerseke 1870-1914. Zutphen: Walburg Pers.

Selected articles and contributions to edited volumes

2010 Mattanza: The Ritual Killing of Tuna in Sicily. In: Gabriella Mondardini Morelli (ed.), Emozioni del mondo del mare. Sassari: Editrice Democratica Sarda: pp. 51-73.

2007 Rejoinder: Holy Whale! Maritime Studies 6(1):52-56.

2007 Gentle Giants, Barbaric Beasts and Whale Warriors: Contentious Traditions, Eco-Political Discourse and Identity Politics. Maritime Studies 6(1):9-43.

2007 Touching Creatures, Sensing Nature: The Sensorial ‘Consumption’ of Cetaceans. In: Rob van Ginkel and Alex Strating (eds.), Wildness and Sensation: Anthropology of Sinister and Sensuous Realms. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Spinhuis Publishers, pp. 398-420.

2007 Celebrating Localism: The Festive Articulation of Texel’s Identity. In: Peter Jan Margry and Herman Roodenburg (eds.), Between Otherness and Authenticity: Reframing Dutch Culture. An Ethnological Perspective. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 37-57.

2006 Three Cheers for the Fisheries Biologists… and an Anthropologist’s Oratio Pro Domo. Maritime Studies 4(2):41-42.

2005 Killing giants of the sea: contentious heritage and the politics of culture. Journal of Mediterranean Studies 15(1):71-97.

2005 Between top-down and bottom-up governance: Dutch beam trawl fishermen's engagement with fisheries management. In: T. Gray (ed.), Participation in Fisheries Governance. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 119-139.

2004 The Makah Whale Hunt and Leviathan’s Death: Reinventing Tradition and Disputing Authenticity in the Age of Modernity. Etnofoor 17(1/2):58-89.

2002 Ginkel, R. van and J. Verrips. Maritime Studies (MAST): An Editorial
Reintroduction. MAST/Maritime Studies 1(1):5-7.

2001 Ginkel, R. van. Inshore fishermen: cultural dimensions of a maritime occupation. In: D. Symes and J. Philipson (eds.), Inshore Fisheries Management. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 177-193.

2001 (with Nathalie Steins) Multi-use conflicts in inshore waters. In: D. Symes and J. Philipson (eds.), Inshore Fisheries Management. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 257-273.

2001 Ginkel, R. van. The Netherlands. In: D. Symes and J. Philipson (eds.), Inshore Fisheries Management. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 79-96.

1999 'A Nice Shipload of Fish' and Other Issues. On the Work World of Dutch Beamtrawl Fishermen. Europaea 5(2):121-142.

1999 Ginkel, R. van. The Ways of Fishers: Cultural Dimensions of a Maritime Occupation. Europaea 5(2):21-44.

1999 The dynamics of fisheries: a sensitising framework. In: David Symes (Ed.), Europe's Southern Waters: Management Issues and Practice. Oxford: Blackwell Science, pp. 19-32.

1999 Capturing and Culturing the Commons. Public-Private Dynamics in the Dutch Oyster and Mussel Industry. In: Jan Kooiman, Martijn van Vliet and Svein Jentoft (Eds.), Creative Governance. Opportunities for Fisheries in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 35-58.

1999 Contextualising Marine Resource Use: A Case from the Netherlands. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 1(3):223-233.

1998 The Political Economy of Marine Resource Management. Dutch Musselmen, the State and Environmentalists. In: David Symes (Ed.), Northern Waters: Management Issues and Practice. Oxford: Blackwell Science, pp. 227-237.

1997 Zostera marina in Dispute. Management Regimes in the Dutch Eelgrass Industry. In: David Symes and Jeremy Phillipson (Eds.), Property Rights and Regulatory Systems in Fisheries. Oxford: Blackwell Science, pp. 230-243.

1996 Co-operating Competitors. Texel Fishermen and Their Organisations (c. 1870-1930). Anthropological Quarterly, 69(2):51-65.

1996 The Abundant Sea and Her Fates. Texelian Oystermen and the Marine Commons, 1700 to 1932. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38(2):218-242.

1995 Fishy Resources and Resourceful Fishers. The Marine Commons and the Adaptive Strategies of Texel Fishermen. Netherlands' Journal of Social Sciences, 31(1):50-63.

1994 'One Drop of Luck Weighs More Than a Bucketful of Wisdom'. Success and the Idiom and Ideology of Dutch Shellfish Planters. Ethnologia Europaea, XXIV(2):155-166.

1994 Tacking between Scylla and Charybdis. The Adaptive Dynamics of Texelian Fishermen. International Journal of Maritime History, VI(1):215-229.

Other major professional activities

2001-2004 Editor of the journal Maritime Studies (MAST).

Member of Editorial Board of Dutch journals Cultuur, Etnofoor and Sociologie

1998-1993 Co-editor of the journal Maritime Anthropological Studies

Languages

Fluent in Dutch, English and German. Reading knowledge of French.

External Link: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/r.j.vanginkel/

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Phone: +31 20 5254185
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Home Who We Are What We Do Conferences Journal MAST Publications Links	R.J. van Ginkel, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Universiteit van Amsterdam Name: Rob van Ginkel Office Address: Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam Telephone work: 31.20.5254811 E-mail: Education* Rob van Ginkel graduated in sociology and cultural anthropology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (1988). In 1993, he obtained his Ph.D. from the same university with a dissertation on transformations in two fishing villages on the Dutch Island of Texel. Research interests His research interests are in the field of maritime cultures, fisheries and fishing communities, animal symbolism, history and anthropology, European ethnology, national culture and identity, suburbia, and the ethnography of the Netherlands. Current research/projects Van Ginkel is conducting research on traditional whaling and fishing communities, multiple use conflicts in the Dutch inshore zone and the impact of fisheries management on the occupational culture of North Sea fishermen in the Netherlands. Current teaching Graduate courses on History of Anthropology, Anthropology of Europe and Animal Symbolism Selected Full-length publications 2009 Braving Troubled Waters: Sea Change in a Dutch Fishing Community. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2007 Coastal Cultures: An Anthropology of Fishing and Whaling Traditions. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Spinhuis Publishers. 2007 (with Alex Strating) (eds.), Wildness and Sensation: Anthropology of Sinister and Sensuous Realms. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Spinhuis Publishers. 1999 Op zoek naar eigenheid. Denkbeelden en discussies over cultuur en identiteit (In Search of Dutchness. Ideas and Debates on Culture and Identity). Den Haag: Sdu. 1997 Notities over Nederlanders (Notes on the Dutch).Amsterdam: Boom. 1993 Tussen Scylla en Charybdis. Een etnohistorie van Texels vissersvolk (1813-1932) (Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. An Ethnohistory of Texelian Fisher Folk [1813-1932]). Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis. 1991 Elk vist op zijn tij. Een historisch-antropologische studie van een Zeeuwse maritieme gemeenschap, Yerseke 1870-1914. Zutphen: Walburg Pers. Selected articles and contributions to edited volumes 2010 Mattanza: The Ritual Killing of Tuna in Sicily. In: Gabriella Mondardini Morelli (ed.), Emozioni del mondo del mare. Sassari: Editrice Democratica Sarda: pp. 51-73. 2007 Rejoinder: Holy Whale! Maritime Studies 6(1):52-56. 2007 Gentle Giants, Barbaric Beasts and Whale Warriors: Contentious Traditions, Eco-Political Discourse and Identity Politics. Maritime Studies 6(1):9-43. 2007 Touching Creatures, Sensing Nature: The Sensorial ‘Consumption’ of Cetaceans. In: Rob van Ginkel and Alex Strating (eds.), Wildness and Sensation: Anthropology of Sinister and Sensuous Realms. Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Spinhuis Publishers, pp. 398-420. 2007 Celebrating Localism: The Festive Articulation of Texel’s Identity. In: Peter Jan Margry and Herman Roodenburg (eds.), Between Otherness and Authenticity: Reframing Dutch Culture. An Ethnological Perspective. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 37-57. 2006 Three Cheers for the Fisheries Biologists… and an Anthropologist’s Oratio Pro Domo. Maritime Studies 4(2):41-42. 2005 Killing giants of the sea: contentious heritage and the politics of culture. Journal of Mediterranean Studies 15(1):71-97. 2005 Between top-down and bottom-up governance: Dutch beam trawl fishermen's engagement with fisheries management. In: T. Gray (ed.), Participation in Fisheries Governance. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 119-139. 2004 The Makah Whale Hunt and Leviathan’s Death: Reinventing Tradition and Disputing Authenticity in the Age of Modernity. Etnofoor 17(1/2):58-89. 2002 Ginkel, R. van and J. Verrips. Maritime Studies (MAST): An Editorial Reintroduction. MAST/Maritime Studies 1(1):5-7. 2001 Ginkel, R. van. Inshore fishermen: cultural dimensions of a maritime occupation. In: D. Symes and J. Philipson (eds.), Inshore Fisheries Management. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 177-193. 2001 (with Nathalie Steins) Multi-use conflicts in inshore waters. In: D. Symes and J. Philipson (eds.), Inshore Fisheries Management. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 257-273. 2001 Ginkel, R. van. The Netherlands. In: D. Symes and J. Philipson (eds.), Inshore Fisheries Management. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 79-96. 1999 'A Nice Shipload of Fish' and Other Issues. On the Work World of Dutch Beamtrawl Fishermen. Europaea 5(2):121-142. 1999 Ginkel, R. van. The Ways of Fishers: Cultural Dimensions of a Maritime Occupation. Europaea 5(2):21-44. 1999 The dynamics of fisheries: a sensitising framework. In: David Symes (Ed.), Europe's Southern Waters: Management Issues and Practice. Oxford: Blackwell Science, pp. 19-32. 1999 Capturing and Culturing the Commons. Public-Private Dynamics in the Dutch Oyster and Mussel Industry. In: Jan Kooiman, Martijn van Vliet and Svein Jentoft (Eds.), Creative Governance. Opportunities for Fisheries in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 35-58. 1999 Contextualising Marine Resource Use: A Case from the Netherlands. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 1(3):223-233. 1998 The Political Economy of Marine Resource Management. Dutch Musselmen, the State and Environmentalists. In: David Symes (Ed.), Northern Waters: Management Issues and Practice. Oxford: Blackwell Science, pp. 227-237. 1997 Zostera marina in Dispute. Management Regimes in the Dutch Eelgrass Industry. In: David Symes and Jeremy Phillipson (Eds.), Property Rights and Regulatory Systems in Fisheries. Oxford: Blackwell Science, pp. 230-243. 1996 Co-operating Competitors. Texel Fishermen and Their Organisations (c. 1870-1930). Anthropological Quarterly, 69(2):51-65. 1996 The Abundant Sea and Her Fates. Texelian Oystermen and the Marine Commons, 1700 to 1932. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38(2):218-242. 1995 Fishy Resources and Resourceful Fishers. The Marine Commons and the Adaptive Strategies of Texel Fishermen. Netherlands' Journal of Social Sciences, 31(1):50-63. 1994 'One Drop of Luck Weighs More Than a Bucketful of Wisdom'. Success and the Idiom and Ideology of Dutch Shellfish Planters. Ethnologia Europaea, XXIV(2):155-166. 1994 Tacking between Scylla and Charybdis. The Adaptive Dynamics of Texelian Fishermen. International Journal of Maritime History, VI(1):215-229. Other major professional activities 2001-2004 Editor of the journal Maritime Studies (MAST). Member of Editorial Board of Dutch journals Cultuur, Etnofoor and Sociologie 1998-1993 Co-editor of the journal Maritime Anthropological Studies Languages Fluent in Dutch, English and German. Reading knowledge of French. External Link: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/r.j.vanginkel/	Centre for Maritime Research Plantage Muidergracht 14-16 NL-1018 TV Amsterdam Phone: +31 20 5254185 Fax: +31 20 5254051 Contact Form

R.J. van Ginkel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Universiteit van Amsterdam

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Universiteit van Amsterdam