Pauwke Berkers is full professor Sociology of Popular Music, specifically in relation to Inclusion, Well-Being, and Resilience in the Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Together with dr. Julian Schaap, he co-founded research group Rotterdam Popular Music Studies (RPMS) as well as the EUR minor MU$IC: The Economy, Sociology and Practice of Popular Music. He co-leads of the thematic line Arts, Culture & Creativity of UNIC: the European University of Post-Industrial Cities. Together with Frank Kimenai, he has been working on resilience thinking and its applications for the music industries. Finally, he fully believes in creative failure, turning some ideas of a rejected Horizon application into this keynote lecture. Pauwke is a straight-edge dropout who still sometimes listens to Judge.

Key Lecture

From metaphor to measurement of popular music ecosystems: Putting diversities at the heart of resilience.

 

Publications

Swartjes, B. & Berkers, P. (2023). ‘Getting in’ or ‘moving on’? On internship experiences and representation in the popular music festival sector. Journal of Education and Work 36(7-8):623-635.

Jong, J. E. & Berkers, P. (2023). Geographies of (un)ease: Embodying racial stigma and social navigation in public spaces in a reluctantly super-diverse city. Journal of Race Ethnicity and the City. DOI:10.1080/26884674.2023.2212847

Swartjes, B. & Berkers, P. (2022). How Music Festival Organisers in Rotterdam Deal with Diversity. In Festivals and the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events, pp. 95-109. DOI:10.16997/book64.f