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Dissertations 2022

Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

Invisible Men: The social complexities of involving males in biomedical HIV prevention in Eswatini

Programme group: Health, Care & the Body
Candidate: A.K. Adams
Supervisor: E.M. Moyer & R. Reis
Co-supervisors: V.K. Nguyen
Defense: 16 September 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Small pelagic fish for food: Governance and performance of small pelagic fish value chains for food security and nutrition in Ghana

Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development
Candidate: A.K. Ahwireng
Supervisor: J.M. Bavinck & N.R.M. Pouw
Co-supervisors: E.E. Onumah
Defense: 30 March 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Beyond the father and family: A feminist ethnographic study on early marriage decision-making, women's empowerment, and gender equality in rural Pakistan

Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development
Candidate: N. Ajaz
Supervisor: J. Gupta
Co-supervisors: N.R.M Pouw & E.A.J. Miedema
Defense: 9 February 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Beyond the shadow of a doubt: The prosecution of terrorism financing in European courts

Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
Candidate: T. Anwar
Supervisor: M. de Goede
Co-supervisors: B. Isleyen
Defense: 17 May 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Understanding vigilante violence: Toward a more integrative and comprehensive theory

Programme group: Cultural Sociology
Candidate: M. Asif
Supervisor: D. Weenink
Co-supervisors: P. Mascini
Defense: 2 February 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Expanding tree-crop farming: An integrated socio-spatial analysis in a transitioning mosaic landscape in Ghana

Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development
Candidate: K.O. Asubonteng
Supervisor: M.A.F. Ros-Tonen & K. Pfeffer
Co-supervisors: I.S.A. Baud
Defense: 29 March 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Floods in (post-) New Order Jakarta: A political ecology of urbanization

Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development
Candidate: B. Batubara
Supervisor: M.Z. Zwarteveen
Co-supervisors: M.E. Kooy
Defense: 8 June 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Culture and suicide: An exploration of cultural factors involved in suicide

Programme group: Health, Care & the Body
Candidate: I. Boedjarath
Supervisor: J.C. Rath & R.S. Gowricharn
Co-supervisors: R.C. Pool
Defense: 22 December 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Banks as security actors: Countering terrorist financing at the human-technology interface

Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
Candidate: E. Bosma
Supervisor: M. de Goede
Co-supervisors: P.E. Pallister-Wilkins
Defense: 18 February 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Experts and the science-policy interface in China’s climate policy

Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development
Candidate: L.-Y. Chen
Supervisor: J. Gupta
Co-supervisors: C.L. Vegelin
Defense: 28 June 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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The Urban Digital Platform: Unravelling Alternative Spatial Patterns

Programme group: Political and Economic Geographies
Candidate: L. Chiappini
Supervisor: R.C. Kloosterman & M. d' Ovidio
Co-supervisors: J. de Vries & S. Vicari
Defense: 28 October 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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[Re]searching for the public: Public experimentation with institutional entrepreneurial collectives to open up the research and innovation system from within

Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
Candidate: J.B. Cohen
Supervisor: J. Grin
Co-supervisors: A.M.C. Loeber
Defense: 28 September 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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The politics of global statistical harmonization

Programme group: Political Economy and Transnational Governance
Candidate: D.J. DeRock
Supervisor: D.K. Mügge
Co-supervisors: B.M. Burgoon
Defense: 19 January 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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The House of Indigo: Drag performance, beauty pageantry, and cosmopolitan femininity in Johannesburg

Programme group: Moving Matters
Candidate: K. Disemelo
Supervisor: E.M. Moyer & M. Iqani
Co-supervisors: M.P.J. van de Port
Defense: 11 February 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Intervention in (inter)action: A video-based analysis of the role of third parties in interpersonal conflicts

Programme group: Cultural Sociology
Candidate: P. Ejbye-Ernst
Supervisor: M.R. Lindegaard & W. Bernasco
Defense: 13 April 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Brick is warmer than concrete: Aesthetic anxiety and the making of architecture in Eastern European cities

Programme group: Cultural Sociology
Candidate: A. Halauniova
Supervisor: G.M.M. Kuipers
Co-supervisors: O. Sezneva
Defense: 8 September 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Segregation in China: dynamics, patterns and causes. The roles of economic restructuring, the welfare regime and residential (im)mobility

Programme group: Urban Geographies
Candidate: Q. He
Supervisor: S. Musterd
Co-supervisors: W.R. Boterman
Defense: 30 March 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Divorce and inequality: Stratification in the risk and consequences of union dissolution

Programme group: Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses
Candidate: B. Hogendoorn
Supervisor: T. Bol
Co-supervisors: M. Kalmijn & T. Leopold
Defense: 20 April 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Facing genetics: An ethnography of race in forensic DNA phenotyping practices

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: R. A. Hopman
Supervisor: A.A. M'charek
Co-supervisors: V.H. Toom
Defense: 12 January 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Our whole house has Alzheimer's. How early-onset dementia shapes relationships of families in the Netherlands

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: S. Hoppe
Supervisor: R.C. Pool & B.A.M. The
Co-supervisors: R. Reis
Defense: 24 October 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Going beyond the dyad. Adult intergenerational closeness after divorce and remarriage

Programme group: Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses
Candidate: M. Hornstra
Supervisor: M. Kalmijn
Co-supervisors: K.O. Ivanova
Defense: 16 September 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Inclusive business models. Empowering women in urban agriculture in Burkina Faso

Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development
Candidate: J. Kini
Supervisor: J. Gupta
Co-supervisors: N.R.M. Pouw
Defense: 29 June 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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The educational divide in openness towards globalisation in Western Europe

Programme group: Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses
Candidate: S. Kunst
Supervisor: H.G. van de Werfhorst  
Co-supervisors: T. Kuhn
Defense: 17 February 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Putting taste to work. The senses and circulation of beer in Amsterdam

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: T. Mandler
Supervisor: A.P. Hardon & M. Kaika
Defense: 14 September 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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The persistence of IUU fishing in Indonesia. A multi-level governance perspective

Programme group: Political Economy and Transnational Governance
Candidate: Nilmawati
Supervisor: B.M. Burgoon
Co-supervisors: U. Daxecker & P. Schleifer
Defense: 16 February 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Trusting medicines. The social embeddedness of everyday medicine use in Maputo, Mozambique

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: C. Rodrigues
Supervisor: A.P. Hardon
Co-supervisors: N.G. Mendes Lopes & G.J.E. Gerrits
Defense: 23 June 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Inside the drinking circle. Cap Tikus, contested modernities and youth resistance in Manado, North Sulawesi

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: N.I. Roels
Supervisor: A.P. Hardon
Co-supervisors: M. Rios Sandoval
Defense: 23 September 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Negotiating sexuality amidst refugee uncertainty. Burundian adolescent refugees in Mahama camp in Rwanda and Nakivale settlement in Uganda

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: Y. Ruzibiza
Supervisor: R. Reis
Co-supervisors: L.H. Berckmoes & S. Neema
Defense: 20 September 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Feeling techniques. Making methods to articulate bodily practices

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: U. Scholtes
Supervisor: A. Mol
Co-supervisors: R.J. Benschop
Defense: 13 June 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Making and unmaking Indonesian Islam. Legacies of colonialism in museums

Programme group: Exploring Diversities
Candidate: M.J. Shatanawi
Supervisor: A.C.A.E Moors & M. Bloembergen
Defense: 13 May 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Interest groups and political parties in issue politics

Programme group: Challenges to Democratic Representation
Candidate: P.D. Statsch
Supervisor: A. Mol
Co-supervisors: D.J. Berkhout & M.C. Hanegraaff
Defense: 25 May 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Men's place. The incomplete integration of women in workplace authority

Programme group:  Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses
Candidate: D. Stojmenovska
Supervisor: B.G.M. Volker
Co-supervisors: S.M. Steinmetz
Defense: 18 March 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Navigating intergenerational trends. Children of migrants reiterating and resisting social vulnerabilities in Berlin-Neukölln

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: C. Tize
Supervisor: R. Reis
Co-supervisors: J.T.V.M. de Jong & L.H. Berckmoes
Defense: 22 June 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Reframing HIV treatment as prevention in eSwatini. Transformations of a public health intervention in context

Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Candidate: E. Vernooij
Supervisor: R. Reis & A.P. Hardon
Co-supervisors: C.M. Montgomery
Defense: 15 September 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Informal volunteering in Greece's discriminatory migrant regime: Practices in inclusivity

Programme group: Moving Matters
Candidate: A.L. Witcher
Supervisor: B. Kalir & V. Fumadó Pérez
Co-supervisors: R.P.M. Gerrets & K. Krause
Defense: 1 June 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Education systems and inequality of civic and political engagement

Men's place. The incomplete integration of women in workplace authority

Programme group: Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses
Candidate: J.H.M. Witschge
Supervisor: H.G. van de Werfhorst
Co-supervisors: S. Karsten
Defense: 21 March 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Disrupting looming violence. Practices of social control by nightlife and event security

Programme group: Cultural Sociology
Candidate: M.F.S. van Rompu
Supervisor: D. Weenink & G.M.M. Kuipers
Defense: 13 July 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Leren van burgers. De vergeten rol van de eigenaar-bewoner in het klimaatakkoord

Programme group: Urban Geographies
Candidate: Th. van der Steeg
Supervisor: A. Reijndorp
Co-supervisors: N. Verloo
Defense: 1 March 2022, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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