Harm Kaal (PhD VU University Amsterdam, 2008) is a political historian and assistant professor at the History Department of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His key areas of interest are the language of politics and urban planning, the scientization of the political, the interaction between politics and popular culture and the history of electoral culture in the twentieth century. He has recently published in the Journal of Urban History, European Review of History, Women’s History, and the Archiv für Sozialgeschichte. Together with Stefan Couperus he has edited a volume in the Routledge Studies in Modern European History series: (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968. Senses of Belonging Below, Beyond and Within the Nation-State (New York and London: Routledge, 2017).