OWNERS is a 5-year research project (2017-2022) funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant awarded to Dr. Borja Martinović at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The project examines collective psychological ownership (CPO) - a sense that a territory belongs to one's ethnic group.
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Ownership claims in Western Europe
Ownership claims in settler societies
Ownership claims in conflict regionsWho we are
We are a group of researchers at Utrecht University, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, working on the OWNERS project. The core research team consists of Borja Martinović (Principal Investigator), Tom Nijs (PhD student working on Project 1), Wybren Nooitgedagt (PhD student working on Project 2), and Nora Storz (PhD student working on Project 3). Our research interests are in the field of migration and intergroup relations and we are all part of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). The wider team includes collaborators in the nine countries that are covered by the OWNERS project.
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News
New publication in Journal of Social and Political Psychology
The article entitled “Collective psychological ownership and reconciliation in territorial conflicts”, written by Nora Storz, Borja Martinovic, Maykel Verkuyten, Iris […]
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A conference talk at the European Consortium for Sociological Research conference
Tom Nijs presented a draft version of his paper entitled ”We were here first’: Autochthony belief as a driver of […]
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Blog on collective psychological ownership on Stuk Rood Vlees
Tom Nijs wrote a blog post on the Dutch political science blog Stuk Rood Vlees about his paper on collective […]
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New publication in British Journal of Social Psychology
The article entitled “‘This Country is OURS’: The Exclusionary Potential of Collective Psychological Ownership”, written by Tom Nijs, Borja Martinovic, […]
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Presentation at the Democracy & Elections Seminar at the University of Manchester
Tom Nijs gave a talk about collective psychological ownership in Western Europe in the Democracy & Elections seminar of the […]
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Research visit at the University of Manchester
Tom Nijs has visited the Politics Department at the University of Manchester to work together with Professor Rob Ford for […]
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Panel debate
Borja Martinović was a panelist in a session titled “Engraved in our memory” (27 November 2018) organized by Studium Generale […]
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Research visit at New York University
Nora Storz visited the department of Applied Psychology at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to work […]
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New publication
The first publication of the Owners project has appeared in the European Journal of Social Psychology, entitled “Support for collective […]
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Two research master’s students joined the Owners team
Lianne Straver and Mischa Hoffer joined the Owners team to work on their master’s theses. Lianne will focus on Western countries […]
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