Mischa Dekker
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. M.J.T. Dekker Ph.D.
- Telephone
- 070 8009500
- m.j.t.dekker@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5882-8412
Mischa Dekker is an Assistant Professor in the Violence and Violence Prevention research group at Leiden University. He graduated in philosophy and social sciences and subsequently completed a PhD in sociology at the University of Amsterdam and at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
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Mischa Dekker is an Assistant Professor in the Violence and Violence Prevention research group at Leiden University. He graduated in philosophy and social sciences and subsequently completed a PhD in sociology at the University of Amsterdam and at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Following his doctoral research on the politicization of street harassment in the Netherlands and France, Mischa Dekker was a Marie Curie fellow at KU Leuven and Sciences Po Paris. His research revolves around the politics of gender-based violence, with a focus on policy, social movements, and media coverage. In September 2024, he started a new research project supported by an NWO-Veni grant: 'Why Is Sexual Violence Still Not a Man’s Problem? Comparing Post #MeToo Policy and Awareness Training in the Dutch and French Cultural Sectors'
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Physical violence and public order
- Dekker M.J.T., Dooremalen T.J.A. van & Watts G. (2025), Repertoires of comparison: how common comparisons shape social and political life, Cultural Sociology : .
- Dekker M.J.T. (2024), Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’, Sociological Review 73(1): 175-195.
- Dekker M.J.T. (2024), How boys deflect responsibility for street harassment: class, race, and responses to sexual violence awareness programs, Men and Masculinities 28(1): 65-85.
- Dekker M.J.T. (2024), What shapes feminist journalism?: Comparing Dutch and French reporting on street harassment, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly : .
- Dekker M.J.T. & Duyvendak J.-W. (2024), Journalists’ apprehension of being politically correct: a source of racial stereotyping of street harassment perpetrators in the press, Journalism Studies 25(4): 379-398.
- Chevalier D.A.M. & Dekker M.J.T. (11 June 2024), Why is street harassment a public problem?. Leiden Law Blog. Leiden (Universiteit Leiden). [blog entry].
- Dekker M.J.T. (2023), How apprehensions impact policy implementation: a comparison of Dutch and French campaigns on street harassment, European Journal of Politics and Gender 6(1): 58-75.
- Dekker M.J.T. (2023), Straatintimidatie en stigmatisering, Agora: Magazine voor sociaalruimtelijke vraagstukken 39(4): 14-15.
- Dekker M.J.T. (2022), De strafbaarstelling van straatintimidatie en het risico van etnisch profileren: een pragmatische ‘sociologie van kritiek’, Recht der Werkelijkheid 43(1): 8-30.
- Dekker M.J.T. (2021), Une mesure raciste ?: Négocier le risque de stigmatisation dans la verbalisation du harcèlement de rue, Déviance et Société 45(1): 25-57.
- Gayet-Viaud C. & Dekker M.J.T. (2021), Le problème public du harcèlement de rue: dynamiques de publicisation et de pénalisation d’une cause féministe, Déviance et Société 45(1): 7-23.
- Dekker M.J.T. (12 May 2021), Politicizing street harassment: the constitution of a public problem in the Netherlands and France (Dissertatie, Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam). Supervisor(s): Duyvendak J.W.
- Dekker M.J.T. & Duyvendak J.W. (2020), Justifying the protest camp: how occupy movements’ ‘intimate protest’ challenged ideas about legitimate manifestation, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 7(4): 452-476.
- Dekker M.J.T. (2019), Faire réagir les témoins face au harcèlement de rue: enquête sociologique sur la politisation des rapports de genre dans l’espace public, Politix 125(1): 87-108.
- Dekker M.J.T. (2018), Erik Neveu: sociologie politique des problèmes publics, Emulations - Revue de sciences sociales : .