Koen Leurs
Dep. Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen - Genderstudies - LS Gen
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Koen Leurs is Assistant Professor in Gender and Postcolonial studies at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. He has taught new media, philosophy of science and postcolonial studies across the department, and currently teaches the courses Cultural Representations and Gender, Ethnicity and Cultural Criticism. He is a feminist internet researcher interested in multiculturalism, race, migration, diaspora and youth culture using mixed methods and ethnography. From February 2016 onwards he will work on his NWO-Veni research project ‘Young connected migrants. Comparing digital practices of young asylum seekers and expatriates in the Netherlands’.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Leurs, K.H.A. & Madhuri, Prabhakar (2017). Doing digital migration studies. In Evren Yalaz & Ricard Zapata Barrero (Eds.), Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies Cham.
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Leurs, K.H.A. & Shepherd, Tamara (2017). Datafication and discrimination. The Datafied Society - Studying Culture through Data (pp. 211) (231 p.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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Leurs, K.H.A. (22-06-2015). Digital passages. Migrant youth 2.0 - Diaspora, Gender & Youth Cultural Intersections. (323 p.). Amsterdam University Press.
