Stephan Kreuk researches the mechanics of institutional power, focusing specifically on the volatile dialectic of resistance and counter-resistance within the modern university. As a PhD researcher at the Open University of the Netherlands, his work deconstructs the "architecture of silence" in higher education, mapping how organizations manage, pacify, and digest dissent to protect elite governance.
His current doctoral research provides a comprehensive 28-month comparative case study (October 7, 2023 – February 12, 2026) analyzing the discursive treatment of pro-Palestinian student protests. By comparing the Dutch right-conservative De Telegraaf with the Flemish left-progressive De Morgen, Stephan deconstructs the "progressive myth" in media science. He demonstrates that journalists across the ideological spectrum do not act as objective observers, but as discursive shields for the elite (university management, rectors, and political actors), facilitating institutional corruption (Banerjee, 2008). While De Telegraaf functions as a crude "megaphone of repression" through overt criminalization, De Morgen utilizes a subtler "trojan balance." Through a process of "discursive sluicing," the left-progressive outlet adopts a non-performative language of sympathy, only to neutralize political urgency by capturing the student voice within a labyrinth of administrative framing and procedural noise.
Methodologically, Stephan introduces the Voice-Packaging Index (VPI) to quantify the discursive displacement and smothering of student agency. This quantitative foundation is triangulated with a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) rooted in Van Leeuwen’s (2008) framework, Kärreman and Alvesson’s (2009) theory of counter-resistance, and Sara Ahmed’s (2012) concept of non-performativity.
Bringing this framework to the migration and social cohesion focus of IMISCOE, his work exposes the stark realities of civic exclusion and the policing of political identity within European academic spaces. Ultimately, his research maps a profound structural trap: a friction-filled feedback loop where power, resistance, and counter-resistance do not dismantle the institution, but are instead co-opted into a vicious circle of layered consent—perpetuating the subjugation of radical dissent and turning urgent moral claims into manageable process risks.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 6455 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3743-0775 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephan-Kreuk?ev=hdr_xprf |
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UN Countries
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