Peter van Dam
Dr. Peter van Dam's Details
Dr. Peter van Dam is interested in the history of civil society particularly in Germany and the Netherlands, in the societal role of religion in Western Europe since the French Revolution and in the relationship between the national and the transnational in writing history. Since 2011 he has engaged on research on the Fair Trade movement. The relationship between civil society and the market, the manifest influence of globalisation on society and new forms of civic engagement are the focal points of this project. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded this project with a veni-research grant in 2012.
Affiliation
University of Amsterdam
Location
Netherlands
p.h.vandam@uva.nl
Website
http://www.uva.nl/profile/p.h.vandam
Expertise Keywords
History of Fair Trade, Transnational Activism, Repertoire, Networks,
Publications:
| Authors | Year | Title | Journal or Book | Other | Language | Type | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | The Puzzle of Postcolonial Entanglement: Fair Trade Activism in the 1960s and 1970s | Politics of Entanglement in the Americas pp. 115-128 | English | Book Chapter | |||
| 2017 | In Search of the Citizen-Consumer: Fair Trade Activism in the Netherlands since the 1960s | BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 132 (3) pp. 139-166 | English | Academic Journal | Link | ||
| 2018 | Attracted and repelled: Transnational relations between civil society and the state in the history of the fair trade movement since the 1960s | Shaping the international relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A small country on the global scene pp. 183-200 | English | Book Chapter | Link | ||
| 2015 | Tales of the Market: New Perspectives on Consumer Society in the 20th Century | H-Soz-U-Kult | English | Report | Link | ||
| 2015 | Handel im Tempel? Fair trade und Kirchen in den Niederlanden seit 1945 | Neue Soziale Bewegungen als Herausforderung sozialkirchlichen Handelns pp. 279-296 | Edited by W. Damberg & T. Jà¤hnichen; Stuttga |
German | Book Chapter | ||
| 2016 | Moralizing Postcolonial Consumer Society: Fair Trade in the Netherlands, 1964-1997 | International Review of Social History 61 (2) pp. 223-250 | English | Academic Journal | Link | ||
| 2014 | Een stukje ellende in uw eigen wereldje. Solidariteit met de derde werdeld in de Nederlandse vakbeweging | Onbehagen in de polder. Nederland in conflict sinds 1795 | edited by Peter van Dam, Bram Mellink and Jouke |
German | Book Chapter | Link | |
| 2014 | Beyond the merchant and the clergyman: Assessing moral claims about development cooperation | Third World Quarterly 9 (5) pp. 1636-1655 | English | Journal | |||
| 2014 | It’s not just about Europe, sugar. Contesting global economic relations, 1964-1974 | Fourth European Congress on World and Global Hi |
English | Report | Link | ||
| 2015 | The limits of a success story: Fair trade and the history of postcolonial globalization | Comparativ 25 (1) pp. 62-77 | English | Journal | Link |
Primary Expertise - Fair Trade Research
Discipline
history
Research Interest
History of fair trade as a transnational social movement
Countries of Expertise
Europe, especially the Netherlands