Since February 2023: Assistant Professor in Ethics, Law, and Policy of New Data Technologies at TILT, Tilburg University.

September 2021 - present: postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Law, Economics, and Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.  Part of Nadya Purtova's ERC project INFO-LEG.

A major part of my current research at both Tilburg and Utrecht involves the idea and practice of 'data commons', or collective forms of data governance more generally. If you're interested in hearing more on this, or are busy with data commoning in practice, please reach out. I am all ears!
 

Next to the (data) commons, I have a growing interest in the philosophical underpinnings of the 'data justice' debate, and do I intend to (re)read in the new year scholars such as Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, Ingrid Robeyns, and Rutger Claassen.
 

Lastly, I've developed a growing interest in forms of civil disobedience, protest, Luddism, and anarchism in the digital domain. While such forms of resistance have been debated within political philosophy more generally, and the environment specifically,  they are less present within the fields of critical data studies and data governance. If digital platforms have been like states or empires,  under what circumstances and on what grounds is protest, resistance, and obstruction legitimate and needed?

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Publications

Work in progress

1.     Nadya Purtova and Gijs van Maanen, guest editors of a special issue on data commons for Digital Society. https://link.springer.com/collections/dbeijdbebj.

2.     Gijs van Maanen and Bryce Newell, ‘Data commons in Amsterdam: from Marineterrein to a new data economy?’. Work in progress.

3.     Gijs van Maanen and Nadya Purtova, ‘Data commons washing’. Work in progress.

4.     Nadya Purtova and Gijs van Maanen, ‘Understanding data as a common good’. Work in progress.

5.     Shirley Kempeneer, Johan Wolswinkel, and Gijs van Maanen, ‘Coming up Dry: Findings from a field lab on citizen friendly open government data communication about drought’. Work in progress.

6.     Gijs van Maanen, 'PSD2: An essay on privacy, identity, and the problem of indirect consent'. Work in progress.

Journal articles

1.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘What if: a short commentary on the philosophical bedrock of open government discourse’. Under review.

2.     Gijs van Maanen and Daan Kolkman, ‘Governance of algorithms requires attention to representation’. Under review.

3.     Gijs van Maanen, (2023). Studying open government data: Acknowledging practices and politics. Data & Policy, 5, E3. doi:10.1017/dap.2022.40

4.     Gijs van Maanen. 2022. “AI Ethics, Ethics Washing, and the Need to Politicize Data Ethics.” Digital Society 1 (2): 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-022-00013-3.

5.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Ethics washing: een introductie’, Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 112:4, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2020.4.020.VANM

6.     Gijs van Maanen, and Annemarie Balvert, 'Open for whom? The role of intermediaries in data publication', Publicum, 5(2), 2019, 129-159. https://doi.org/10.12957/publicum.2019.47205

7.     Gijs van Maanen, 'Drie decennia burgerparticipatie in Groningen: van Verkeerscirculatieplan tot G1000', Leidschrift, 32:3, 2017.

Reviews

1.       Gijs van Maanen, ‘Over Het Belang van Een Politieke Data-Ethiek.’ [On the importance of a politicized data ethics] Krisis - Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 41, no. 1 (June 15, 2021): 196–201. 10.21827/krisis.41.1.37356

2.       Gijs van Maanen, Review of Van Roermund, Law in the first person plural. Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 50, Pre-publications (2021). https://doi.org/10.5553/NJLP/.000104.

3.       Gijs van Maanen, ‘De menselijke strijd voor (en over) biodiversiteit’ [The human battle for (and about) biodiversity] , Bij Nader Inzien, February 6 2020. https://bijnaderinzien.com/2020/02/06/de-menselijke-strijd-voor-en-over…

Popular publications:

1.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Freedom versus/and responsibility in academia’, Amsterdam Science Magazine, issue 13, June 2022. https://amsterdamscience.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceAmsterdamMagazin….

2.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Micha’s Muur’, Hard//Hoofd, July 29 2020. https://hardhoofd.com/michas-muur/

3.     Annemarie Balvert and Gijs van Maanen, 'Openbaarheid in de juridische praktijk', iBestuur, October 31 2019. See: (https://ibestuur.nl/podium/openbaarheid-in-de-juridische-praktijk).

4.     Gijs van Maanen, 'Technologie als oplossing voor het klimaatprobleem (?)', Defusie, March 18 2019. See: (http://defusie.net/technologie-als-oplossing-klimaatprobleem/).

5.     Annemarie Balvert and Gijs van Maanen, ‘Is (open) data een oplossing voor democratische problematiek?’, iBestuur, October 4 2018. See: (https://ibestuur.nl/podium/open-data-oplossing-voor-democratische-probl…).

6.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Cambridge Analytica en het probleem van de publieke sfeer’, Defusie (2018). See: (http://defusie.net/cambridge-analytica-en-probleem-publieke-sfeer/).

a.     Republished in Friesch Dagblad July 25 2018.

7.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Mescaline en de lijntjes van je broek: een essay over aandacht, belevenissen en ervaringen’, Defusie (2018). See: (http://defusie.net/mescaline-en-de-lijntjes-van-je-broek-een-essay-over…). One of the five essays nominated for an essay competition on abstinence.

8.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Nieuwe PSD2-wetgeving morrelt aan de privacy van je bankrekening’, Defusie (2018). See: (http://defusie.net/nieuwe-psd2-wetgeving-morrelt-aan-privacy- bankrekening/).

a.     Republished at Waterstof (2018): (http://www.waterstof-ezine.nl/nieuwe-wetgeving-morrelt-aan-de-privacy-v…).

9.     Charlie Groen and Gijs van Maanen, 'Praten met dieren: niet omdat het moet maar omdat het kan', Defusie (2016). See: (http://defusie.net/praten-met-dieren-niet-omdat-het-kan-maar-omdat-het-…).

10.  Gijs van Maanen, 'Boze burgers en democratische legitimiteit', Defusie (2015). See: (http://defusie.net/boze-burgers-en-democratische-legitimiteit/).

11.  Gijs van Maanen, 'De Paradoxale aantrekkingskracht van de 'extreme film' II', Defusie (2015). See: (http://defusie.net/de-paradoxale-aantrekkingskracht-van-de-extreme-film…).

12.  Gijs van Maanen, 'De Paradoxale aantrekkingskracht van de 'extreme film' I', Defusie (2015). See: (http://defusie.net/de-paradoxale-aantrekkingskracht-van-de-extreme-film/).

13.  Gijs van Maanen, 'Burgerschap als startpunt van integratie', Defusie (2014). See: (http://defusie.net/burgerschap-als-startpunt-van-integratie/).

Organisation of academic meetings

Conference panels:

1.       Gijs van Maanen, 'Ethical AI: between theory and practice'. Panel with presentations by Esther Keymolen, Tineke Broer, Merel Noorman, and Gijs van Maanen. CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference, Hamburg, July 2021,

2.       Gijs van Maanen, 'Data ethics reloaded'. Panel with presentations by Esther Keymolen, Linnet Taylor, and Gijs van Maanen. Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference, Twente, November 6 2020.

3.       Gijs van Maanen, ‘Legal and practical aspects of (open) data visualizations in the Netherlands’. Panel with presentations by Annemarie Balvert & Lisanne van Weelden, Alex Ingrams, and Gijs van Maanen. VSR Conference, Nijmegen, January 2020.

Workshops:   

1.     Nadya Purtova, Bryce Newell & Gijs van Maanen. Together with Purtova and Newell I organize an expert workshop on the future of governing the digital society on November 15-16 2022. The workshop will provide an opportunity for a small group of experts in areas like privacy, data protection, technology regulation, data governance, and the digital economy to brainstorm and collaborate on identifying and defining the biggest challenges that must be addressed to protect people from data-driven harms into the future, in light of the findings of the ERC project. 

2.     Gijs van Maanen, Michiel de Lange, Nadya Purtova and Jörg Pohle. I am the main organizers of a seminar and workshop series on the notion of the data common. The seminar series consisted of four lectures by invited scholars on a number of themes relates to the collective or common governance of data. These seminars were preparatory sessions for the related in-depth workshops organized in the fall of 2022 at the HIIG in Berlin. More information and the full call for participants and papers can be found here: https://www.uu.nl/en/events/data-commoning-in-practice-how-or-not-to-co….

3.      Gijs van Maanen & Nadya Purtova, ‘Data and the common’. Workshop to be held March 2021. Link CFP: http://infolegproject.net/call-for-papers-for-workshop-data-and-the-com….

4.      Gijs van Maanen & Jonathan Gray, ‘Studying public data practices’. November 30 and May 4 2022. Workshop organized with the Public Data Lab. An invitation-based workshop on how to account for the social lives, politics and possibilities of open and public data, including looking at what recent work grounded in STS, new media studies and data studies might contribute to civil society and institutional work to assess and make sense of their impacts and consequences. The workshop aims to result in Field Guide to Public Data Practices.  Gray and I, together with a growing list of interested contributors, are developing a card game based on the workshops.

Talks and presentations

1.     Gijs van Maanen and Nadya Purtova, ‘Data commons: commonswashing, digital sovereignty, and data ownership’. To be presented at Infrastructures of Autonomy, HIIG, Berlin, November 2022.

2.     Gijs van Maanen and Bryce Newell, ‘Data commons in Amsterdam: from Marineterrein to a new data economy (?)’. HIIG, October 6 2022.

3.     Gijs van Maanen and Nadya Purtova, ‘Data commons: commonswashing, digital sovereignty, and data ownership’. MANCEPT workshops, September 9 2022.

4.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Data commoning in practice: what are data commons?’ The Global Meeting on Law and Society, July 13 2022.   

5.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Data commoning in practice: what are data commons?’ 2022 SASE Annual Conference, July 9 2022.

6.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘On values, preferences, principles, and practices’. Invited talk at Academie Minerva, Groningen May 10.

7.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Data commoning in practice: what are data commons?’ Introductory talk part of data common seminar April 21. https://www.uu.nl/en/news/data-commoning-in-practice-on-how-or-not-to-c…. 

8.     Gijs van Maanen, ‘Medical Health Data Commons’, Invited talk at Waag, Amsterdam, April 6 2022. https://waag.org/nl/event/biocommons-meetup-1. 

9.     Gijs van Maanen & Nadya Purtova, ‘Introducing the data commons: on the importance of moving beyond individual and collective data-induced harm’, Montaigne Atelier, Utrecht University, November 3 2021.

10.  Gijs van Maanen, ‘AI Ethics, ethics washing, and the need to politicize data ethics’. Paper presented at panel ‘Governance of AI’ at MANCEPT Workshops. September 9 2021.

11.  Gijs van Maanen and Daan Kolkman, ‘Governance of algorithms requires attention to representation’. Presented at TILT PhD colloquium, June 16 2021.

12.  Gijs van Maanen, ‘Open ground water in Brabant’: a philosophical ethnography of open data policy’. Paper presented at Knowledge, Citizenship, Democracy conference organized at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 14-16 April 2021.

13.  Gijs van Maanen, 'Researching open data in practice', Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten The Hague, February 18 2021.

14.  Gijs van Maanen, 'Open ground water data in Brabant: A philosophical ethnography', TILT Seminar, November 24 2020.

15.  Gijs van Maanen, 'The politics of data ethics'. Paper presented at Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference, Twente, November 6 2020.

16.  Gijs van Maanen, 'Critical data science education in practice: A Dutch exemplar'. Paper co-authored with Annemarie Balvert, Marijke Roosen, and Dirk Fahland, and presented at 7th RME Research Conference, October 20 2020.

17.  Gijs van Maanen, 'Opening the black box: an ethnography of Dutch open data policy'. Paper presented at VSR Conference, January 16 2020.

18.  Gijs van Maanen, 'PSD2: An essay on privacy, identity, and the problem of indirect consent'. Paper presented at GikII at Tilting, May 14 2019.

19.  Gijs van Maanen, ‘Great expectations: on the relationships between technology, law, and politics in Dutch (open) data policies’.  Paper presented at Applied Ethics Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, December 2018.

20.  Gijs van Maanen, ‘Great expectations: on the relationships between technology, law, and politics in Dutch (open) data policies’. Presentation at workshop ‘New Directions of Law and Governance’ organized by Netherlands Institute for Law and Governance, November 2018.

21.  Gijs van Maanen, ‘Grote verwachtingen: over het gebruik van (open) data als oplossing voor democratische problematiek’. Presented at Waag, September 2018.

22.  Gijs van Maanen, ‘Taking things seriously: the politics of new materialism’. Presentation at the conference ‘Human-Technology Relations: Postphenomenology and Philosophy of Technology’, organized by the University of Twente, July 2018.

23.  Gijs van Maanen, 'Taking things seriously: the politics of new materialism'. Presentation at the feminist theory masterclass 'ethics in the anthropocene' organized by the Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW), June 2017.

24.  Gijs van Maanen, 'Taking things seriously: discourse ethics, its limits, and potential'. Presentation at the conference 'Animal Politics: Justice, Power and the Nation-state', at the Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte, November 2016.

Background

November 2017 - March 2023: PhD researcher, Tilburg Law School, Department of Public Law and Governance, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, under supervision of Prof. dr. Meuwese and Prof. dr. Linnet Taylor. Thesis titled: 'From communicating to distributing: studying open government and open data in the Netherlands'. To be defend March 8 2023.

2022: fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin. https://www.hiig.de/en/gijs-van-maanen/

2020-2021: Project on the effects of private funding on academic research, funded by the Young Academy, under supervision of Prof. dr. Linnet Taylor. Research report to be published in beginning of 2022.

January – March 2021: visiting scholar at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies of the University of Warwick (UK). I worked together with prof. dr. Noortje Marres on, among other things, the relationship between philosophy and empirical research (or: ‘empirical philosophy’).

2014 – 2017: MA (cum laude) ‘Philosophy of Political Science’, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Thesis: Taking Things Seriously: The Politics of New Materialism. Supervisor: dr. T. Fossen. The thesis can be found here: https://www.academia.edu/34486073/Taking_Things_Seriously_The_Politics_….

2014 – 2016: MA (cum laude) ‘History: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence’, Leiden University. Thesis: Deliberative Democracy in the Netherlands: The G1000 Groningen put in Perspective. Supervisor: prof. dr. H. te Velde. A short Dutch version of the thesis, published in Leidschrift, can be found here: https://www.academia.edu/34618172/Drie_decennia_burgerparticipatie_in_G….

Teaching
2022: LLM course “Algorithmic Transparency. Capita Selecta.” Course convenor and lecturer (LLM Law & Technology in Europe)
2022: LLB course “Law, Society, and Justice.” Coordinated by Dr. Lukas van den Berge. Lecturer (University College Utrecht).

2018-2022: Understanding the Information Society. BA Data Science course. (Co)coordinator and lecturer. (Tilburg University / Eindhoven University of Technology)
2018-2021: Data Challenge 3. BA Data Science course. (Co)coordinator and lecturer. (Tilburg University / Eindhoven University of Technology)
2019: AJD B (Academic and legal skills). Pre-master Law course. Lecturer. (Tilburg University / Eindhoven University of Technology)

Click here for my courses.

2020: Understanding the Information Society. BA Data Science course. (Co)coordinator.
2020: Data Challenge 3. BA Data Scence course. (Co)coordinator.
2019: Understanding the Information Society. BA Data Science course. (Co)coordinator.
2019: Data Challenge 3. BA Data Scence course. (Co)coordinator.
2019: AJD B. Pre-master Law course.
2018: Data Challenge 3. BA Data Science course. (Co)coordinator.
2018: Understanding the Information Society. BA Data Science course. (Co)coordinator.