Sander Hölsgens
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. S.R.J.J. Hölsgens
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- s.r.j.j.holsgens@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8770-8110
Sander Hölsgens (PhD, UCL) is an anthropologist and educator. As Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, he teaches practice-led courses in visual ethnography and audiovisual culture.
More information about Sander Hölsgens
News
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Anthropologist Sander Hölsgens in Leidsch Dagblad on how skateboarding is changing the city -
Skate culture embraced by Olympic Games is now visible in the city -
Sander Hölsgens in NRC about the online game The Elder Scrolls Online
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The skate-friendly city -
Film by CADS alumna Loes Moree screened at Field Recordings in Rotterdam -
Sander Hölsgens in Belgium Newspaper about changing skate culture -
How engaged documentary filmmakers use new technologies in their work
Publications
Blogs
Sander Hölsgens’ current research continues to explore:
- the anthropology of skateboarding
- engaged and critical pedagogies
- phenomenologies of skill acquisition
- emerging and disappearing media technologies
Students writing theses on these areas of study are particularly invited to reach out for supervisory support.
Sander is one of the founding members of Pushing Boarders, a platform tracing the social impact of skateboarding worldwide. He curates the Rotterdam-based film festival Field Recordings and is part of the Film Place Collective. Sander acted as the Visual and New Media editor of Cultural Anthropology between 2015 and 2019, and is the author of ‘Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography’ (2021).
Prior to joining Leiden, Sander taught at University College London, where he co-ran The Bartlett Film+Place+Architecture Network and contributed extensively to the UCL Writing Lab. At the University of Groningen, he completed two NWO-funded research projects: 1) Exploring Journalism’s Limits: Enacting and Theorising the Boundaries of the Journalistic Field (postdoc, 2018-2019) and 2) Documenting complexity: Intersections of Documentary, Activism and Technological Innovation (co-applicant and postdoc, 2019-2021).
Assistant professor
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Hölsgens S. (2025), "We belong here": Lessons From Skateboarding. In: Hölsgens S. & Ong Adelina (Eds.), Skate/Worlds: New Pedagogies For Skateboarding. Groningen: University of Groningen Press. 7-28.
- Holsgens S.R.J.J. & McGrail J.M. (29 January 2024), Zine-making in Leiden: workshops on experimental print publications. Leiden Anthropology Blog. Leiden: Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University (Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology). [blog entry].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (20 February 2024), Malmö, Leeds en Seoul tonen de meerwaarde van skateplekken voor de stad [Malmö, Leeds en Seoul show the value of skate spots in the city ]. De Architect. Zeist: VMN Media. [web article].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. & Glenney B. (7 October 2024), Rolling warm-ups, or writing up a book as if it were a skate session. Leiden Anthropology Blog. Leiden (Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology). [blog entry].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. & Glenney B. (2024), Skateboarding and the senses: skills, surfaces, and spaces. London: Routledge.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (2024), Learning to see, or how to make sense of the skillful things skateboarders do. In: Vannini P. (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography. Routledge international handbooks. London: Routledge. 387-400.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (2024), ‘Before we begin…’ : the role of introductions in anthropological education, Teaching Anthropology 13(1): 106-112.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (2024), Reassembling digital journalism through arts-based methods . In: Eldridge II S. Cheruiyot D. Banjac S. Swart S. (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. New York: Routledge. 531-540.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. & Boy J.D. (12 May 2023), When all positives are false: the emergence of an academic whodunnit. Leiden Anthropology Blog. Leiden: Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University (Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology). [blog entry].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (29 August 2023), Over skatestoppers en andere vijandige architectuur [Skate stoppers and hostile architecture]. De Architect. Zeist: VMN Media. [web essay].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (10 January 2023), Towards a technical pedagogy . Leiden Anthropology Blog. Leiden: Leiden University. [blog entry].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (17 February 2023), Animal Crossing en de grenzen van culturele representatie. Gamer.nl. [blog entry].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J., Loewen R., Nguyen T.P., Paveck H. & Sborgi A.V. (2022), 12/13/18/19: the making of Blind Spot. In: Mindrup M. & Chee L. (Eds.), Remote practices: architecture at a distance. London: Lund Humphries. 129-136.
- Hölsgens S. (11 May 2022), We need to talk about skateboarding. Leiden Anthropology Blog: Leiden University. [blog entry].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (2021), Skateboarding in Seoul: a sensory ethnography. Groningen: University of Groningen Press.
- Holsgens S. (2020) Skateboarding LA: inside professional street skateboarding. Review of: . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26(4): 917-918.
- Holsgens S. de Wildt S. Witschge T. (2020), Towards an Experientialist Understanding of Journalism: Exploring Arts-based Research for Journalism Studies, Journalism Studies 21(7): 928-946.
- Holsgens S. (3 November 2020), What Is an Interruption? An Interview with Lisa Stevenson. Fieldsights: Cultural Anthropology. [web article].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (2020), Dislocation blues, Visual Anthropology Review 36(2): 412-417.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (2020), Review of: Snyder G.J. Skateboarding LA: inside professional street skateboarding, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26(4): 917-918.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J., De Wildt S. & Witschge T. (2020), Towards an experientialist understanding of journalism: exploring arts-based research for journalism studies, Journalism Studies 21(7): 928-946.
- Hölsgens S., Wildt S. de & Witschge T. (2020), Walking the newsroom: towards a sensory experience of journalism, The Journal for Artistic Research 21: .
- Holsgens S. (2019), Skill Acquisition and Korean Landscape Architecture: An Ethnographic Account of Skateboarding in Seoul, South Korea, JOURNAL OF SPORT & SOCIAL ISSUES 43(5): 368-385.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (3 April 2018), Hell and marble: inside South Korea's skate scene. Vice: Vice Media. [web article].
- Holsgens S. (2017) Anthropology and art practice. Review of: Schneider A. & Wright C. (2015), Anthropology and art practice. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale. London: Bloomsbury. Social Anthropology 25(2): 266-267.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (8 December 2016), Where the image takes us: an interview with the Golden Snail Team. Cultural Anthropology. Boston: Society for Cultural Anthropology (MIT Programs in Digital Humanities). [web article].
- Holsgens S. (2016) Ritual, performance and the senses. Review of: . Social Anthropology 24(2): 252-254.
- Curator and programmer
- (Art) Criticism, podcasts, interviews
- Co-founder and programmer