AISSR Dissertations 2019

 

Keeping things gezellig. Negotiating Dutchness and racism in the struggle over ‘Black Pete’

Programmegroup: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
Candidate: H. Schols
Promotors: M.A. Hajer, M.J.M. Maussen
Defense: September, 18, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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The framing of 9/11 in the American, French, and Dutch public spheres (2001 - 2015). A contribution to the sociology of events.

Programmegroup: Political Sociology
Candidate: T. van Dooremalen
Promotor: J.W. Duyvendak
Copromotor: J.L. Uitermark
Defense: September, 11, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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A threatening geography. Forced displacement and convict labour in Western Siberia, 1879–1953.

Programmegroup: Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas
Candidate: Z. Popova
Promotors: M.M. van der Linden, N.D. Adler
Defense: September, 5, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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A good life with dementia. Ethnographic articulations of everyday life and care in Dutch nursing homes.

Programmegroup: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: A.-E. Driessen
Promotor: A.J. Pols
Copromotor: K. Krause
Defense: July, 4, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Transit Oriented Development and its effects. Exploring relationships between TOD, accessibility and labour productivity in Beijing, China.

Programmegroup: Urban Planning
Candidate: G. Lyu
Promotors: L. Bertolini, K. Pfeffer
Defense: June, 17, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Pretty interventions and good intentions. Northern European cultural institutions in Cairo's contemporary culture scene after 2011.

Programmegroup: Globalizing Culture and the Quest for Belonging: Ethnographies of the Everyday
Candidate: I.-S. Eickhof
Promotor: A.C.A.E. Moors
Copromotor: R.M.K. Aly
Defense: June, 7, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Governing ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction. Mangroves in Indonesia and India.

Programmegroup: Governance and Inclusive Development
Candidate: A. Triyanti
Promotor: J. Gupta
Copromotor: J.M. Bavinck
Defense: May, 29, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Governing imbalances in the economic and monetary union. A political economy analysis of the macroeconomic imbalance procedure.

Programmegroup: Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV)
Candidate: D.J. Bokhorst
Promotors: J.H. Zeitlin, D.K. Mügge
Defense: May, 24, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Between promise and practice. Exploring the politics of urban food strategies in European cities.

Programmegroup: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
Candidate: A. Cretella
Promotor: J. Grin
Copromotor: A.M.C. Loeber
Defense: May, 14, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Vigilant citizenship. Legal imaginaries and political subjectivity in Miami.

Programmegroup: Governance and Inclusive Development
Candidate: T.J. Jeursen
Promotor: R.K. Jaffe
Copromotors: C.J. Klaufus, J.B.F. Nijman
Defense: April, 12, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Something new, something used, something borrowed. Innovation of migrant entrepreneurs in the service sector.

Programmegroup: Political Sociology
Candidate: J.F. Alvarado Valenzuela
Promotors: J.C. Rath, F. Squazzoni
Defense: April, 8, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Working mothers around the world. Moderating effects of social position on mothers’ paid work in middle- and high-income countries.

Programmegroup: Institutions, Inequalities and Life Courses
Candidate: J.W. Besamusca
Promotor: M.J. Keune
Copromotors: K.G. Tijdens, S.M. Steinmetz
Defense: March, 26, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Kagalingan. The Filipino’s search for well-being, happiness and health.

Programmegroup: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: N.C.T. Castillo
Promotor: A.P. Hardon
Copromotor: H.J. Hiddinga
Defense: March, 22, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Free to live their lives as they wish? The social well-being gap between persons in same-sex and mixed-sex relationships in Europe.

Programmegroup: Institutions, Inequalities and Life Courses
Candidate: M.M. Fischer
Promotor: M. Kalmijn
Copromotor: S.M. Steinmetz
Defense: February, 22, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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There is politics in your shampoo. On youth activism, endocrine disruption, and making everyday toxicity visible in France.

Programmegroup: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: M. Rios Sandoval
Promotor: A.P. Hardon
Copromotor: E.I.G. Sanabria
Defense: February, 22, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Joint Accessibility Design. A framework to improve integrated transport and land use strategy making.

Programmegroup: Urban Planning
Candidate: T. Straatemeier
Promotor: L. Bertolini
Copromotor: M.C.G. te Brommelstroet
Defense: February, 13, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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New modes of lobbying for new modes of governance. Interest groups and experimentalist governance in the European Union.

Programmegroup: Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV)
Candidate: D.G. Truijens
Promotor: J.H. Zeitlin
Copromotor: R.M Sanchez Salgado
Defense: February, 8, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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The many hidden faces of extreme poverty. Inclusion and exclusion of extreme poor people in development interventions in Bangladesh, Benin and Ethiopia.

Programmegroup: Governance and Inclusive Development (GID)
Candidate: A. Altaf
Promotor: A.J. Dietz
Copromotor: N.R.M. Pouw
Defense: January, 29, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Enacting the state through security assemblages. Materiality, technology and political subjectification in Nairobi.

Programmegroup: Governance and Inclusive Development (GID)
Candidate: F. Colona
Promotor: R.K. Jaffe
Copromotor: T.G. Diphoorn
Defense: January, 25, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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The modular security toolbox. Assembling state and citizenship in Jerusalem.

Programmegroup: Governance and Inclusive Development (GID)
Candidate: L. Volinz
Promotor: R.K. Jaffe
Copromotor: E. Grassiani
Defense: January, 23, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Transitioning the transport and land-use system

Programmegroup: Urban Planning
Candidate: A.W. Switzer
Promotors: L. Bertolini, J. Grin
Defense: January, 16, 2019, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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