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Dr. J.J.V. (Vincent) Kuitenbrouwer

Modern History
Faculty of Humanities
Geschiedenis
Photographer: Robin de Puy
Visiting address
  • Kloveniersburgwal 48
  • Room number: C 1.10
Postal address
  • Postbus 1610
    1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profiel

    Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is Senior Lecturer History of International Relations. He is specialised in nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial history, and has a special interest in colonial media. In 2012 he published the monograph War of Words. Dutch pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War. Between November 2020 and September 2023 he co-ordinated the project 'Media War' on propaganda in Dutch-language media during the Second World War at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. His current research focusses on the history of Dutch international broadcasting. Between October 2025 and September 2030 he is project leader of 'Distant Voices: Uncovering the Agency of Indonesian Broadcasters at Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep (1945-1965)'. This project is funded by a NWO Open Competitie M grant.

     

    Research interests

    History of international radio-broadcasting

    Colonial media history

    History of the Dutch empire

    Decolonisation

    History of South Africa

    Imperial culture in Europe

    Selected publications

    with S.J. Potter, D. Clayton, F. Kind-Kovacs, N. Ribeiro, R. Scales, and A. Stanton, The Wireless World. Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting (Oxford University Press 2022). Go to publisher's website

    'Dutch Speaking to Dutch. Broadcasts from the Netherlands to Indonesia during the Decolonization War (1945–1949)', Journal of Radio & Audio Media 29:1 (2022) 42-60. Go to journal website

    'Radio as a Tool of Empire. Intercontinental Broadcasting from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s and 1930s', Itinerario, vol. 40:1 (2016) 83-103. Go to journal website

    War of Words. Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902)  (Amsterdam University Press 2012). Open access version available via JSTOR.

  • Publications

    2025

    • Bardgett, S., Kind-Kovács, F., & Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (Eds.) (2025). Transnational Radio Monitoring in the Twentieth Century: Practices of Propaganda and Surveillance in Europe and Beyond, 1930-1990. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003501251 [details]
    • Bardgett, S., Kind-Kovács, F., & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2025). Introduction: The Act of Listening: Radio Monitoring, 1930–1990. In S. Bardgett, F. Kind-Kovács, & V. Kuitenbrouwer (Eds.), Transnational Radio Monitoring in the Twentieth Century: Practices of Propaganda and Surveillance in Europe and Beyond, 1930-1990 (pp. 1-8). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003501251-1, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2019.1672527 [details]
    • Brolsma, M., & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2025). The Shadow of Rotterdam: The Propaganda Battle about Air Bombardments in the Nazi Occupied Netherlands, 1940-1945. In B. Nietzel, & N. Domeier (Eds.), "Und morgen die ganze Welt": National-sozialismus und internationale Öffentlichkeit (pp. 155-174). Campus Verlag. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2025). The battle for neutrality: The Listening Service of the Dutch Government in Exile During the Second World War. In S. Bardgett, F. Kind-Kovács, & V. Kuitenbrouwer (Eds.), Transnational Radio Monitoring in the Twentieth Century: Practices of Propaganda and Surveillance in Europe and Beyond, 1930-1900 (pp. 9-22). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003501251-2, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2019.1652581 [details]

    2024

    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2024). ‘Electrifying Information: Global Telecommunication Technologies 19th–21st centuries’. In G. Carnino, L. Hilaire-Pérez, & J. Lamy (Eds.), Global History of Techniques: 19th-21st Centuries (pp. 413-426). Brepols.

    2023

    • Brolsma, M., & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2023). Audio on Paper: The Merits and Pitfalls of the Dutch Digital Media Archive for Studying Transnational Entanglements during the Second World War. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 12(24), 39-53. https://doi.org/10.18146/view.306 [details]

    2022

    2021

    • Jurg, V., & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2021). Dutch Dialogues with Afrikaners: The Netherlands and the Cultural Boycott Against the Apartheid Regime in the 1980s. In K. Andresen, S. Justke, & D. Siegfried (Eds.), Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid in Western Europe (pp. 163–184). (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies ). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53284-0_8 [details]

    2020

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2020). The semantics of decolonisation: The public debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands 1950-62. In B. Sèbe, & M. G. Stanard (Eds.), Decolonising Europe? : Popular Responses to the End of Empire (pp. 75-95). (Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650–2000). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429029363-7 [details]

    2019

    2018

    • Blok, G., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & Weeda, C. (2018). Introduction. In G. Blok, V. Kuitenbrouwer, & C. Weeda (Eds.), Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation (pp. 7-20). (Heritage and Memory Studies; Vol. 5). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048529162-001 [details]
    • Blok, G., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & Weeda, C. (Eds.) (2018). Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation. (Heritage and Memory Studies; Vol. 5). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048529162 [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2018). 'From Heart to Heart': Colonial Radio and the Dutch Imagined Community in the 1920s. In G. Blok, V. Kuitenbrouwer, & C. Weeda (Eds.), Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation (pp. 113-130). (Heritage and Memory Studies; Vol. 5). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048529162-007 [details]
    • van Dijk, R., Kruizinga, S., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & van der Maar, R. (2018). Conclusions and outlook: Small states on the global scene. In R. van Dijk, S. Kruizinga, V. Kuitenbrouwer, & R. van der Maar (Eds.), Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A small country on the global scene (pp. 240-244). (Routledge Studies in Modern European History; Vol. 55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315228440 [details]
    • van Dijk, R., Kruizinga, S., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & van der Maar, R. (2018). Introduction: A small state on the global scene. In R. van Dijk, S. Kruizinga, V. Kuitenbrouwer, & R. van der Maar (Eds.), Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A small country on the global scene (pp. 1-12). (Routledge Studies in Modern European History; Vol. 55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315228440 [details]

    2017

    2016

    2014

    2013

    2012

    2011

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2011). De geografie van de stamverwantschap: Op zoek naar Nederlandse plaatsen van herinnering in Zuid-Afrika. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 124(3), 334-349. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2011.3.KUIT [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2011). Songs of an imperial underdog: Imperialism and popular culture in the Netherlands, 1870-1960. In J. M. MacKenzie (Ed.), European Empires and the People: Popular responses to imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy (pp. 90-123). (Studies in Imperialism). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526118301.00008 [details]

    2024

    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2024). La maison de verre revisitée: la radiodiffusion et les angles morts de l'État colonial tardif dans les Indes néerlandaises (années 1920 et 1930). RadioMorphoses: Revue d’études radiophoniques et sonores , 11(1), 93-111. https://doi.org/10.4000/radiomorphoses.4394
    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2024). ‘“Stem uit die Stamland”: Zuid-Afrikahuis as a Radio Studio for Dutch Broadcasts to South Africa during the Early Years of Apartheid (1949-1959)’. In M. van der Wal, A. Paaijmans, & B. Henkes (Eds.), Absent Presences: Decolonizing Our Views of the Zuid-Afrikahuis and its Collections (pp. 83-97). Zuid-Afrikahuis. https://www.zuidafrikahuis.nl/evenementen/publicaties/
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2024). De smeulende persberichten van Generaal Spoor: [Bespreking van: R. Raben, P. Romijn (2023) Talen van geweld : Stilte, informatie en misleiding tijdens de Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog, 1945-1949]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 137(2), 234-235. https://doi.org/10.5117/TvG2024.2.018.KUIT [details]

    2023

    2022

    2019

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2019). ‘The Brightness You Bring into our Otherwise very Dull Existence’: Responses to Dutch Global Radio Broadcasts from the British Empire in the 1920s and 1930s. In S. Barczewski, & M. Farr (Eds.), The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History: Essays in Honour of John M. MacKenzie (pp. 361-381). (Britain and the World). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24459-0_16 [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V., Luscombe, A., & Wijfjes, H. (2019). Developing Radio Histories. Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, 22(2), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.18146/tmg.593 [details]

    2018

    • van Dijk, R., Kruizinga, S., Kuitenbrouwer, V., & van der Maar, R. (Eds.) (2018). Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A small country on the global scene. (Routledge Studies in Modern European History; Vol. 55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315228440 [details]

    2017

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2017). Zoeken naar woorden [Bespreking van: P. Bijl (2015) Emerging Memory : Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 130(2), 307-309. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2017.2.RECE [details]

    2015

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2015). The Dutch East Indies During the First World War and the Birth of Colonial Radio. World History Bulletin, 31(1), 28-31. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2015). Tropisch Nederland door de ogen van Charles Boissevain: een verkenning van de koloniale verslaggeving rond 1900. In F. Grijzenhout, & P. Raedts (Eds.), Deze lange eeuw: metamorfosen van het vaderland 1780-1950: opstellen voor Niek van Sas (pp. 189-203). Prometheus/Bert Bakker. [details]

    2024

    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2024). ‘Luisteren naar oorlogspropaganda Radio-opnamen uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog onder de loep’. Web publication or website

    2022

    2020

    2019

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2019). 'Band met Nederland': Radio voor Nederlanders in het buitenland. In H. Wijfjes (Ed.), De Radio: Een cultuurgeschiedenis (pp. 281-311, 331-333). Amsterdam: Boom.

    2015

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2015). Nederlands architectonisch erfgoed in Zuid-Afrika [Bespreking van: K.A. Bakker, N.J. Clarke (2014) Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens: A Shared Dutch Built Heritage in South Africa]. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 92(10), 217. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2015). Zuid-Afrikaanse studentenprotesten in mondiaal perspectief. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 92(10), 224. [details]

    2014

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2014). De oorlog die Zuid-Afrika vormde [Bespreking van: M. Bossenbroek (2012) De Boerenoorlog]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 127(2), 349-351. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2014.2.KUIT [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2014). Dr.ir. C.J. de Groot: radiopionier in de tropen. In W. F. B. Melching, F. Boterman, & A. Labrie (Eds.), Na de catastrofe: de Eerste Wereldoorlog en de zoektocht naar een nieuw Europa (pp. 255-266). Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2014). Mandelaplein: Nederlandse plaatsen van herinnering voor een Zuid-Afrikaanse held. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 91(1), 6-7. [details]
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2014). Orakel van het Afrikaner nationalisme [Bespreking van: L. Koorts (2014) D.F. Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism]. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 91(9), 177. [details]

    2013

    2012

    2007

    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2007). [Review of: P. Jaikumar (2006) Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India]. European review of history, 14, 268-270. [details]

    2023

    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2023). 'Hallo Bandoeng'. De radiotelefon-verbinding tussen Nederland en de Indonesische Archipel. In P. Eckhardt, & P. M. (Eds.), Atlas van Indonesie: een cultuurgeschiedenis van het eilandenrijk (pp. 64-65). WBooks.
    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (Author). (2023). Fake News: de werkelijkheid vertekend. Web publication or website https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ppKu1SN3SkIsjuC1uHg8P
    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (Author). (2023). Media als wapen. Exhibition, .

    2017

    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2017). Boerenmanie: De Tweede Boerenoorlog in de Nederlandse publieke opinie. In M. Gosselink, M. Holtrop, & R. Ross (Eds.), Goede Hoop: Zuid-Afrika en Nederland vanaf 1600 (pp. 233-250). (Landenreeks Rijksmuseum). Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Vantilt.

    2016

    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2016). Eugène Marais [bespreking van C. van der Merwe (2016) Donkerstroom]. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 93(10).
    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2016). Op zoek naar een gedeeld verleden: Junior conservator Maria Holtrop. Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, 93(4), 81-82.

    2007

    • Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2007). 'Zoon van een dappere natie'. NRC Handelsblad.

    Prize / grant

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (2018). Fellowship Beeld en Geluid.
    • Brolsma, M., Kruizinga, S. F. & Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2017). Cutting Edge Network Grant of the Faculty of Humanities UvA (with Samuël Kruizinga and Vincent Kuitenbrouwer).

    Media appearance

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (20-04-2017). Goede Hoop [Television]. Goede Hoop.

    Talk / presentation

    • Brolsma, M. (speaker) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (7-10-2023). Oorlogspropaganda in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Geschiedenis festival 2023, Haarlem.
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (invited speaker) (15-6-2023). Radio, community, power: domination and emancipation in segregated contexts, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
    • Brolsma, M. (speaker) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (28-9-2022). Media War: Press, Radio and Propaganda in Nazi Occupied Netherlands, 1940-1945, Nationalsozialismus und internationale Öffentlichkeit, Bochum.
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (7-7-2022). The colonial provenance of Dutch International Broadcasting 1930-1950, ‘Radio Soundscapes in (Post)colonial Settings’.
    • Brolsma, M. (speaker) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (24-6-2022). Using history for propagandistic purposes in Dutch-language media during the Second World War, Webinar History in Conflict (organized by Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz). https://premodernconflictmanagement.org/conferences/historyinconflictwebinarsblog.p/95.m/100/marjet-brolsma-and-vincent-kuitenbrouwer-using-…
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (23-6-2022). Orientalism on Air: The early years of the Arabic service of Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep (1949-1950), Conference ‘Ruling the Waves: Transnational Radio Broadcasting in the Middle East and the Mediterranean between Production and Reception, 1920-1970’, Rome.
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (24-9-2020). Broadcasting Empire, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa. https://www.broadcastingempire.com/programa
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (12-2-2020). Radio and Decolonisation: the Case of Dutch International Broadcasting, University of Exeter. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events//details/index.php?event=10161
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (speaker) (24-1-2020). Inward Outward. Critical Archival Engagement with Sounds and Films of Coloniality, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid. https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/bezoek/agenda/inward-outward-symposium

    Others

    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (organiser) (26-4-2023). Mediaoorlog (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (2023). IAMCR, Lyon (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (2023). Practices of Public Diplomacy 1500-2000, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (2023). DeCoSEAS, Kuala Lumpur (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (16-9-2022). ‘The Wireless World 1945-1975: Connecting Radio Histories of Decolonization and the Cold War’, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://ash.uva.nl/shared/subsites/amsterdam-institute-for-humanities-research/en/events/2022/09/the-wireless-world-1945-1975.html?origin=Zv…
    • Yamomo, m. (chair), Titus, B. (member of programme committee), Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant), Margana, S. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant), Buenconsejo, J. (participant) & de Jesus, R. (participant) (13-9-2019). Euroseas conference, Berlin, Berlin. Double Panel entitled "Sonic Entanglements: Sound, Archive, and Acoustic Historiographies in Southeast Asia" (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/sonic-entanglements-sound-archive-and-acoustic-historiographies-in-southeast-asia
    • Yamomo, m. (organiser), Titus, B. (participant), Margana, S. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant), Buenconsejo, J. (participant), de Jesus, R. (participant) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (9-9-2019 - 16-9-2019). Sonic Entanglements Archival Visits. Between 9-16 September, The Sonic Entanglements Research Project gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://sonic-entanglements.com/news/
    • Yamomo, m. (organiser), Titus, B. (organiser), de Kloet, J. (participant), Margana, S. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant), Barendregt, B. (participant), Buenconsejo, J. (participant), Birdsall, C. (participant), Schmidt, L. (participant), Chow, Y. (participant), Ajotikar, R. (participant), Spiller, H. (participant), de Jesus, R. (participant) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (9-9-2019). Sonic Entanglements, Hilversum. This workshop gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, and psychology working on/in (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

    2010

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