Published papers

International peer-reviewed publications:

• Sonnad, G. & N. van Amsterdam (2023). Exploring Fat Embodiment In Urban Space Through ‘Fermented’ Poetic Inquiry. Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, 8(5). https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2023/11/exploring-fat-embodiment/
• Elidrissi, Y. R., & van Amsterdam, N. (2023). Writing through the body: a matter of attention, humility and touch. In Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies (pp. 240-254). Edward Elgar Publishing.
• van Amsterdam, N. et al. (2023). Feeling clumsy and curious. A collective reflection on experimenting with poetry as an unconventional method. Gender, Work & Organization.
• van Amsterdam, N., Kjær, K. M., & van Eck, D. (2022). Becoming With Barad: A Material-Discursive-Affective Conversation. In Affect in Organization and Management (pp. 76-91). Routledge.
• Mandalaki, E., van Amsterdam, N., Prasad, A., & Fotaki, M. (2022) Caring about the unequal effects of the pandemic: What feminist theory, art, and activism can teach us. Gender, Work & Organization.
• van Amsterdam, N., van Eck, D., & Meldgaard Kjær, K. (2022). On (not) fitting in. Fat embodiment, affect and organizational materials as differentiating agents. Organization Studies, 01708406221074162.
• van Eck, D., van Amsterdam, N., & van den Brink, M. (2021). Unsanitized writing practices: Attending to affect and embodiment throughout the research process. Gender, Work & Organization, 28(3), 1098-1114.
• Mandalaki, E., van Amsterdam, N., & Daou, E. (2021). The meshwork of teaching against the grain: embodiment, affect and art in management education. Culture and Organization, 1-18.
• van Eck, D. & van Amsterdam (2020). Affective engagement with airport security work: Wor(l)ding material agencies through poetry. Organizational Aesthetics.
• Plotnikof, M. et al. (2020). Catching a glimpse: Corona-life and its micro-politics in academia. Gender, Work and Organization.
• Schrijnder, S., van Amsterdam, N., & McLachlan, F. (2020). ‘These chicks go just as hard as us!’(Un) doing gender in a Dutch CrossFit gym. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1012690220913524.
• Kjær, K. M., & van Amsterdam, N. (2020). Pieced together. Writing invisible (dis) abilities in academia. In The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography (pp. 298-312). Routledge.
• van Amsterdam, N. (2020). On silence and speaking out about sexual violence: An exploration through poetry. In Writing Differently. Emerald Publishing Limited.
• van Amsterdam, N., & van Eck, D. (2019). In the flesh: a poetic inquiry into how fat female employees manage weight-related stigma. Culture and Organization, 1-17.
• Sterkenburg, J. Van, Peeters, R., & Amsterdam, N. Van. (2019). Everyday racism and constructions of racial / ethnic difference in and through football talk. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549418823057
• van Amsterdam, N., & van Eck, D. (2018). “I have to go the extra mile”. How fat female employees manage their stigmatized identity at work. Scandinavian Journal of Management, (September), 0–1. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SCAMAN.2018.10.002
• Amsterdam, N. van, Claringbould, I., & Knoppers, A. (2017). Bodies Matter: Professional Bodies and Embodiment in Institutional Sport Contexts. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 41(4). http://doi.org/10.1177/0193723517708904
• Amsterdam, N. van & A. Knoppers (2017). Healthy habits are no fun. How Dutch youth negotiate discourses about food, fit, fat, and fun. Health, http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459316688517
• Amsterdam, N. van. (2015). Othering the ‘leaky body’. An autoethnographic story about expressing breast milk in the workplace. Culture and Organization, 21 (3): 269-287.
• Amsterdam, N. van (2013). Big fat inequalities, thin privilege. An intersectional perspective on 'body size'. European Journal of Women's Studies,  20(2): 155-169.
• Amsterdam, N. van, A. Knoppers, & M. Jongmans (2013). "It's actually very normal that I'm different". How physically disabled youth discursively construct and position their body/self. Sport, Education and Society, 13(3): 259–276
• Amsterdam, N. van, A. Knoppers, I. Claringbould & M. Jongmans (2012). “It’s just the way it is…” or not? How physical education teachers categorize and normalize differences. Gender and Education, 24 (7): 783-798.
• Amsterdam, N. van, A. Knoppers, I. Claringbould & M. Jongmans (2012). A picture is worth a thousand words. Constructing (non-)athletic bodies. Journal of Youth Studies, 15(3): 293-309.

Other:

• N. van Amsterdam (2015). Gooien als een meisje en andere stereotype ideeën over sekseverschillen in de gymles. LO1, p. 7-9.
• Aalten, A., N. van Amsterdam & M. van der Linden (2008). Het verhaal van pijn: wat het lichaam ons vertelt en waarom wij (niet) luisteren. Pijnbeleving bij dansers. Rotterdam: Codarts.
• Aalten, A., & N. van Amsterdam (2007). Pain and injuries in dance. An annotated report. Rotterdam: Codarts.

Invited papers:

• Amsterdam N. van (2014). Healthy habits are no fun. How Dutch youth negotiate conflicting discourses about food, fit, fat and fun. Paper presented at a colloqium meeting of Maasticht University, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, 26 November 2014.
• Amsterdam, N. van (2014). Fastidious Fatness. An intersectional approach to weight stigmatization. Paper presented at the Annual Weight Stigma Conference, Canterbury, UU, 24 June 2014.
• Amsterdam, N. van (2012). “It’s actually very normal that I’m different”. Discursive constructions and performative strategies of Dutch disabled youth regarding their body/self. Paper presented at the Research Associates Meeting. Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, 16 November 2012.

Presented papers:

• Eck, D. van & N. van Amsterdam (2018). Shame, fear and courage: Addressing emotions through poetic inquiry in organization studies. Paper presented at the Art of Management and Organization Conference, Brighton, 30 Aug – 2 Sept 2018
• Amsterdam, N. van & D. van Eck (2017). Sins of the Flesh. Stigma Strategies of Fat Employees. Paper presented at the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Rome, 10-13 July, 2017.
• Knoppers, A. & N. van Amsterdam (2016). To identify or not to identify: that’s the ethical question. Paper presented at the NASSM International Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2-4 June 2016.
• Amsterdam, N. van (2016). The use of crying over spilled milk. An autoethnographic story about a lactating body in the workplace. Paper presented at the IUAES International Conference, Dubrovnik, 4-9 May 2016.
• Amsterdam, N. van (2014). Spilling the milk. An autoethnographic story about a lactating body in the workplace. Paper presented at the LOVA International Conference ‘Ethnographies of Gender and the Body’, Amsterdam, 8-11 July 2014.
• Amsterdam, N. van, I Claringbould, J. Halfman & J. Vermeulen (2014). Performing the Playground. Performative work presented at the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Utrecht, 7-10 July, 2014.
• Knoppers, A. & N. van Amsterdam (2014). Bringing the Body into Sport Management Research. Paper presented at the Annual North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Pittsburgh, US, 27 – 31 May 2014.
• Claringbould, I., N. van Amsterdam, J. Vermeulen & J. Halfman (2014). Challenging Landscapes in Sport and Science. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Association of Sport Sociology, Utrecht, 7-10 May 2014.
• Knoppers, A., N. van Amsterdam & D. van der Hoogt (2013). Youth negotiating health and sociability: Competing discourses about food, fat, fit and fun. Paper presented at the annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport , Quebec, Canada, 6-9 November 2013.
• Knoppers, A. & N. van Amsterdam (2013). Challenging the norm? Physical impairment, active aging and sporting bodies. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European College of Sport Science, Barcelona, Spain, 26-29 June 2013.
• Amsterdam, N. van (2013). The leaky body un/covered. An autoethnographic account of pumping breast milk at work. Paper presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 16-18 May 2013.
• Amsterdam, N. van (2012). Can ‘body size’ be considered an axis of signification? Similarities, differences and intersections with other axes. Paper presented at the NOG PhD research day. University of Nijmegen, 9 March 2012.
• Knoppers, A. & N. van Amsterdam (2011). Challenging hierarchies of ability? Active aging and disability in sport. Paper presented at the 2011 conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. Minnesota, 2-5 November 2011.
• Amsterdam, N. Van (2012). Discursively constructing (non)athletic bodies: A participatory photography project with youth. Paper presented at the Conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, San Diego, 3 -6 November 2010.
• Amsterdam, N. Van (2012). Het oog wil ook wat: Beelden en betekenissen die jongeren toekennen een (niet) atletisch/sportief lichaam, Paper presented at the De Dag van het Sportonderzoek, Amsterdam, 7 October 2012.
• Amsterdam, N. Van (2012). Physical education teachers’ discursive constructions of the body: Given and Project. Paper presented at the Copenhagen International Summer School 2009, Institut for Idræt/ Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 18 August 2009.