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P.W. (Peter-Wim) Zuidhof is assistant professor in European political economy in the European Studies program in the Department of History, Archeology and Area Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

On Leave: Zuidhof is on research leave during the academic semester from February to August 1 2012, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Research

Zuidhof’s research focuses on the history and philosophy of neoliberalism. He is especially interested in the relation between economics and neoliberalism and its specific European manifestations.

He recently completed a dissertation on the discourse of neoliberalism, titled Imagining Markets: The Discursive Politics of Neoliberalism (2012, Erasmus University Rotterdam, School of History, Culture and Communication). In the thesis, Zuidhof studies the discourse of economics textbooks and the neoliberal discourse of US and Dutch policy think tanks. Revisiting existing theories on neoliberalism, the thesis shows that neoliberalism is best understood as a discursive type of politics that draws on the market metaphor. It argues that neoliberalism is marked by a variety of performances and that these are departing from, and deconstructing existing liberal governmentalities.

Zuidhof’s areas of specialization are: history and philosophy of neoliberalism, European political economy, governmentality (Foucault), rhetoric of economics, history and methodology of economics, poststructuralism and economics, and discourse theory. His areas of interest are: history and theory of European integration, political theory, economic sociology, science studies, and economic sociology.


Imagining Markets: The Discursive Politics of Neoliberalism

Teaching

P.W. Zuidhof teaches courses on economics and European integration at the MA and BA level. He also teaches European integration at Amsterdam University College (AUC).

For a current listing of course taught, follow links below:

Teaching European Studies Program UvA

Teaching Amsterdam University College (AUC)

Departmental Service

P.W. Zuidhof has been coordinator of the BA-program in European Studies and a member of the Board of Examiners of the Department of History, Archeology and Area Studies since September 2009. He has served as chair of the steering committee for the new BA program (884) and member of the Board of Studies for European Studies.

Short Bio

P.W. Zuidhof has an MSc. in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (1997) and an MA. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research, New York, USA (2003). At the New School for Social Research he studied with Charles Taylor, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Jacques Derrida. Zuidhof was awarded a Fulbright Graduate Student Grant (2001-2003) and a Vera List Scholarship from the New School for Social Research (2001-2003).
Zuidhof has taught at the Hogeschool voor Economische Studies (HES) Rotterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since 2007 he is lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
Zuidhof was research associate at Department of Art and Culture Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, doing commissioned research on the economics of the arts and culture for the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, The Social Committee, DG V, European Union, Brussels, Musuem Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and the City Council of ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Zuidhof worked as director (a.i) at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE).
Zuidhof lives with his wife and three children in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.