dr. M.R.R. Ossewaarde (Ringo)

Ringo Ossewaarde is Head of the Department of Public Administration and an Associate Professor in Governance, Society and Technology in the Faculty of Behavioural, Management & Social Sciences at the University of Twente. He took his undergraduate and master degrees at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and he took his PhD at the LSE. He coordinates and teaches in the BSc Management, Society & Technology and the MSc Public Administration and MSc European Studies programs. His research is concerned with the intermingling between political-administrative constellations, society and technology. He focusses on relationships between societal and technological transformations, contemporary societal and technological challenges, and political-administrative changes in various policy areas.

In recent years, Ringo Ossewaarde has developed expertise in the area of public administration in transforming technological contexts. These include:

The politics of artificial intelligence
The European Green Deal
The governance of digital transformation
Algorithmic governance
Resilience to climate change
Global governance
Administrative reforms
Protest movements

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Public Administration (PA)

In recent years, Ringo Ossewaarde has developed expertise in the area of public administration in transforming technological contexts. These include:

The politics of artificial intelligence
The European Green Deal
The governance of digital transformation
Algorithmic governance
Resilience to climate change
Global governance
Administrative reforms
Protest movements

Ossewaarde, R. (2024). A Cultural Discourse Called Science. In The Routledge Handbook of Multicultural Discourse Studies (pp. 188-199). Taylor & Francis.

von Essen, L. , & Ossewaarde, M. (2024). Artificial Intelligence and European Identity: The European Commission’s Struggle for Reconciliation. European Politics and Society, 25(2), 375-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2023.2244385

Ossewaarde, R. (2023). 32: De Tocqueville, Alexis. In M. Grasso, & M. Giugni (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology (pp. 127-130). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803921235.00038

Ossewaarde, R. (Author). (2023). AI in het publieke domein: De democratische verantwoordelijkheid van bestuur. Performance

Ossewaarde, R. (2023). Kafkaësk Algoritmisch Bestuur: Het Toeslagenschandaal en de Rol van Irrationaliteit in de Gemechaniseerde Fraudejacht. Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, 13(1), 69-76. https://doi.org/10.5553/TCC/221195072023013001005

Ossewaarde, R. (2023). Wat er Gebeurt als AI Wordt Gescheiden van Democratie: Het Risico van Kafkaësk Algoritmisch Bestuur. Idee: tijdschrift van het wetenschappelijk bureau van D66, 2023(221), 51-55. Article 221.

Ossewaarde, R., & Steinhorst, S. (2023). The final assault on nature: how the environmental crisis reinforces the civilizational crisis in Colombia. AlterNative, 19(3), 521-532. https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801231177868

Ossewaarde, R. (2023). Climate Change and Heroism. In Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17125-3_68-1

Ossewaarde, R. (2023). De Tragiek van Maatschappelijke Teloorgang en Collectieve Teleurstelling in een Wereld van Kunstmatige Intelligentie. Sophie, 13(2). https://sophieonline.nl/onbeschikbaarheid/

Mutlu-Numansen, S. (2022). "I am telling you this for I have seen it": The Sayfo diasporic politics of memory and the genocide recognition struggle of the Aramean, Assyrian, and Chaldean migrant communities in Western Europe. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554312

Ossewaarde, R. (2022). Algoritmes als de Culturele Iconen van het Openbaar Bestuur. Radix, 48(2), 96-106.

Köstler , L. , & Ossewaarde, R. (2022). The making of AI society: AI futures frames in German political and media discourses. AI & society, 37(1), 249-263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01161-9

Ossewaarde, R. (2021). Het katholieke postliberalisme en de culturele crises van het technologisch tijdperk. In P. Overeem, & H. M. ten Napel (Eds.), Het radicale midden overzee: Verkenningen van het postliberalisme: Translated title of the contribution: The radical center overseas: Explorations of postliberalism (pp. 43-64). (Annalen van het Thijmgenootschap; Vol. 109, No. 2). Eburon Academic Publishers.

Ossewaarde, R. (2021). Uncovering the Political and Moral Dimensions of Technology: A Dialectic Between Classicism and Phenomenology. Human studies, 44(3), 491-496. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-021-09599-y

Honarmand Ebrahimi, S. , Ossewaarde, R. , & Need, A. (2021). Smart Fishery: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda for Sustainable Fisheries in the Age of AI. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(11), Article 6037. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116037

Isaza, C. , & Ossewaarde, R. (2021). Corruption in Public Discourses: A Comparison Between Colombian and European Metaphors. Public Integrity, 23(4), 401-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2021.1881299

Nisrane, B. L. , Ossewaarde, R. M. R. R. , & Need, A. (2021). “I Should Get Married as Soon as Possible, but the Relationships I Start Do Not Work”: Marital Prospects of Ethiopian Female Return Migrants from the Arabian Gulf. Journal of family issues, 42(2), 231-252. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X20948919

Ossewaarde, R. , Filatova, T. , Georgiadou, Y. , Hartmann, A. , Özerol, G. , Pfeffer, K. , Stegmaier, P. , Torenvlied, R. , van der Voort, M. , Warmink, J. , & Borsje, B. (2021). Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change. Natural hazards and earth systems sciences discussions, 21(3), 1119–1133. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1119-2021

Ossewaarde, R. , Filatova, T. , Georgiadou, P. Y. , Hartmann, A. , Özerol, G. , Pfeffer, K. , Stegmaier, P. , Torenvlied, R. , Voort, M. V. D. , Warmink, J. , & Borsje, B. W. (2020). Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2020-90

Ossewaarde, R., & Ossewaarde-Lowtoo, R. (2020). De coronacrisis en goed burgerschap: een culturele diagnose. Groen, 4(4), 57-61.

Ossewaarde, M., & Ossewaarde-Lowtoo, R. (2020). The EU's Green Deal: A Third Alternative to Green Growth and Degrowth? Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(23), 1-15. Article 9825. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239825

Ossewaarde, R. M. R. R. (2020). The West European Politics of AI: Implications for Central and Eastern Europe. Paper presented at NIG Conference 2020, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Ossewaarde, M., & Gülenç, E. (2020). National Varieties of Artificial Intelligence Discourses: Myth, Utopianism, and Solutionism in West European Policy Expectations. Computer (New York), 53(11), 53-61. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2020.2992290

Torenvlied, R. , & Ossewaarde, R. M. R. R. (2020). Toekomst van de Bestuurskunde in een Ongekende High Tech Samenleving. Bestuurskundige berichten, Vol. 35(no. 2), 2-4. https://www.bilboard.nl/_media/1368926/724ea4287e244397a89078318f6b6c0c

Bär, L. , Ossewaarde, M. , & van Gerven, M. (2020). The ideological justifications of the Smart City of Hamburg. Cities, 105, Article 102811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102811

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Ringo Ossewaarde teaches in the BSc Management, Society & Technology, MSc Public Administration and MSc European Studies programs. He teaches the following courses:

- Introduction to Society and Technology

- Societal Transformation in the Technological Age

- European Governance of Society and Technology

- Knowledge and Power

- Public Governance and Legitimacy

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Management, Society & Technology

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Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Ringo Ossewaarde's current projects include:

- The politics of artificial intelligence

- Algorithmic governance and smart cities

- The EU Green Deal and the governance of sustainability

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