Prof. H.J. van Houtum (Henk)

Professor - Geography

Chair: Political Geography and Geopolitics

Contact

henk.vanhoutum@ru.nl
0243612725

Visiting address

Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9108
6500 HK NIJMEGEN

Prof. dr. Henk van Houtum is professor Political Geography and Geopolitics and co-founder and coordinator of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Radboud University Nijmegen. Henk van Houtum is an expert on European border policy, cross-border cooperation, migration, conflicts, national identity politics, the politics of sports and the cartography of borders and migration.

Recent books:

-Houtum H. van (2024), Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes: A new cartography of borders and migration. Nai010 Publishers
https://www.nai010.com/en/publicaties/free-the-map/246126/

-Houtum H. van, en L. Lucassen, (2016), Voorbij Fort Europa, een nieuwe visie op migratie, Atlas Contact

-Eker M. and Houtum H. van (2013), Borderland, Blauwdruk: Wageningen

-Houtum, van H., en J. van Vugt (2012) (red.), Eerlijke Nieuwe Wereld, voorbij de grenzen van de natiestaat, Klement Uitgeverij, Zoetermeer

Research group

Nijmegen Centre for Border Research

Tags: Europe, borders, geopolitics, migration, conflicts, identity, football, cartography

Publications

Key publications

Houtum, H.J. van (2024). Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes: A new cartography of borders and migration. Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers
Bueno Lacy, R.B.L. & Houtum, H.J. van (2023). Europe’s Selective Dehumanisation: The Revival of Geographical Determinism as Rationalisation to Justify the Preferential Protection of Ukrainian Refugees in the EU. In S. Carrera & M. Ineli Ciger (Eds.), EU Responses to the Large-Scale Refugee Displacement from Ukraine. Brussels: European University Institute doi: 10.2870/90812 Full text
Enk, B., Houtum, H.J. van & Uden, A.M. van (2023). Beyond own and affluent people first. Learning from the political auto-immunity of the COVID-19 response and the need for a pandemocratic agape. BMJ Global Health, 8 (5):e012293. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012293 Full text
Houtum, H.J. van & Uden, A. van (2023). Carceral Technique 2. Nativism. The Global Border Disorder and the Missed Momentum of COVID-19. International Political Sociology, 17 (3), 8-11. doi: 10.1093/ips/olad011 Full text
Houtum, H.J. van & Bueno Lacy, R.B.L. (2023). Normalization, Legalization, Equalization, Towards Sustainable and Humane EU’s Border Policy. In A. Klonari,, M.L De Lázaro y Torres & A. Kizos (Eds.), Re-Visioning Geography, Key Challenges in Geography (EUROGEO Book Series) (pp. 265-291). London: Springer Verlag doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-40747-5_15 Full text
Bueno Lacy, R. & Houtum, H.J. van (2022). The proximity trap: how geography is misused in the differential treatment of Ukrainian refugees to hide for the underlying global apartheid in the EUropean border regime,. CEPS. (available: 27 Jun 2022). Full text
Houtum, H.J. van & Uden, A.M. van (2022). The autoimmunity of the modern university: how its managerialism is self-harming what it claims to protect. Organization, 29 (1), 197-208. doi: 10.1177/1350508420975347 Full text
Minca, C., Pallister-Wilkins, P., Tazzioli, M., Vigneswaran, D., Houtum, H.J. van & Uden, A. (2022). Rethinking the biopolitical: Borders, refugees, mobilities…. Environment and Planning C. Politics and Space, 40 (1), 3-30. doi: 10.1177/2399654420981389 Full text
Bueno Lacy, R.B.L. & Houtum, H.J. van (2021). Death as Policy: The EU's criminalisation of solidarity with undocumented migrants. In J.P. Laine, I. Moyo & C. Changwe Nshimbi (Eds.), Expanding Boundaries Borders, Mobilities and the Future of Europe-Africa Relations. London: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781003083726-5 Full text
Campenhout, G. van & Houtum, H.J. van (2021). ''I am German when I win, but an immigrant when lose'', Theorising on the deservedness of migrants international football; using the case of Mesut Özil. Sport in Society, 24 (11), 1924-1940. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1865314 Full text
Houtum, H.J. van (2021). Beyond ‘Borderism’: Overcoming Discriminative B/Ordering and Othering. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 112 (1), 34-43. doi: 10.1111/tesg.12473 Full text
Houtum, H.J. van & Uden, A.M. van (2021). The birth of the paper prison: the global inequality trap of visa borders. Environment and Planning C. Politics and Space, 40 (1), 3-30. doi: 10.1177/2399654420981389 Full text
Boedeltje, F. & Houtum, H.J. van (2020). The lie of the wall. Peace Review, 32 (2), 134-139. doi: 10.1080/10402659.2020.1836303 Full text
Houtum, H.J. van & Bueno Lacy, R. (2020). Migration map trap: on the invasion arrows in the cartography of migration. Mobilities, 15 (2), 196-219. doi: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1676031 Full text
Houtum, H.J. van & Lacy, R. (2020). The Autoimmunity of the EU's Deadly B/ordering Regime; Overcoming its Paradoxical Paper, Iron and Camp Borders. Geopolitics, 25 (3), 706-733. doi: 10.1080/14650045.2020.1728743 Full text
Uden, A.M. van & Houtum, H.J. van (2020). Beyond coronativism: the need for agape. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 111 (3), 333-346. doi: 10.1111/tesg.12438 Full text
Bueno Lacy, R. & Houtum, H.J. van (2019). The Glocal Green Line: The Imperial Cartopolitical Puppeteering of Cyprus. Geopolitics, 24 (3), 586-624. doi: 10.1080/14650045.2018.1508014 Full text
Houtum, H.J. van (2019). The Janusface of the Monad versus the Nomad; an essay on the philosophy of B/ordering and Othering. In A. Cooper & S. Tinning (Eds.), Debating and Defining Borders: philosophical and theoretical perspectives (Routledge Borderlands Studies) (pp. 181-194). London: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781351124881 Full text
Bueno Lacy, R. & Houtum, H.J. van (2018). The Glocal Green Line: The Imperial Cartopolitical Puppeteering of Cyprus. Geopolitics, 24 (3), 586-624. doi: 10.1080/14650045.2018.1508014 Full text
Bueno Lacy, R. & Houtum, H.J. van (2017). Lies, Damned Lies & Maps: The EU’s Cartopolitical Invention of Europe. In A. Cooper (Ed.), Where are Europe’s new borders?: critical insights into contemporary European bordering. London: Routledge
Houtum, H.J. van & Bueno Lacy, R. (2017). The political extreme as the new normal: the cases of Brexit, the French state of emergency and Dutch Islamophobia. Fennia. International Journal of Geography, 195 (1), 85-101. doi: 10.11143/fennia.64568 Full text

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