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An overview of all 2024 dissertations by discipline, in chronological order
  • Political Science

    Psychopathology and violent extremism: The need for primary data and assessment of countering violent extremism (CVE) policies

    Blueprints and fingerprints: Politicians' use of emotional appeals in European democracies

    From liberty to equality: Religious freedom in normative theory and Dutch politics

    Connected agents of representation: The form, function and intensity of connections between political parties and civil society organisations in 21st century Western Europe

    Our place in politics: Urban-rural political divergence and how place affects political attitudes

    • Organisations: Challenges to Democratic Representation (AISSR, FMG)
    • Contributors: Huijsmans, T. M.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/cc38e7c8-2daa-468a-9d2f-a580c5565b39
    • Supervisors/Advisors: van der Brug, W. (Supervisor), Lancee, B. (Supervisor), de Lange, S. L. (Co-supervisor) & Harteveld, E. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 21 Mar 2024

    Citizens’ affective, cognitive and behavioral responses to the emotional displays of politicians

    Minority voting and representation: The impact of religion, migration background and gender on voter preferences for in- and out-group politicians in France, Germany and the Netherlands

    • Organisations: Challenges to Democratic Representation (AISSR, FMG)
    • Contributors: van Oosten, S. B.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/99bfedc0-8391-4fef-b6f8-6eb3f5db0934
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Mügge, L. M. (Supervisor), Vermeulen, F. F. (Supervisor), Hakhverdian, A. (Co-supervisor) & van der Pas, D. J. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 11 Oct 2024

    Navigating risks, shaping mobilities: A mixed-method study of migration aspirations among displaced people from Syria and Afghanistan in Turkey

    • Organisations: Challenges to Democratic Representation (AISSR, FMG)
    • Contributors: Kirişçioğlu Taşan, E.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/5eb26926-8031-4fca-8c68-b96ca9bf66a4
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Içduygu, A. (Supervisor), Kalir, B. (Supervisor), Üstübici Önay, A. E. (Co-supervisor) & van Heelsum, A. J. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 4 Nov 2024
  • Anthropology

    Making change against the odds: Entrepreneurial pursuits among young professionals in South Africa

    Un/seeing race: Articulating differences in governing people in Europe through multimodal methods

    Ayahuasca crossroads: An ethnography of the circulation of ayahuasca rituals between urban Brazil and Europe

    “What’s love got to do with it?”: A hospital ethnography on sexual violence response and care in Bangladesh

    • Organisations: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body (AISSR, FMG)
    • Contributors: Siddiqui, S.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/cebef5bb-69d6-4a82-9d99-f28f8559a15b
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Hardon, A. P. (Supervisor), Gerrits, G. J. E. (Supervisor), Krause, K. (Co-supervisor) & Rashid, S. F. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 19 Apr 2024

    In the shadows of respectability: Gendered trajectories of marital dissidence amongst Dakarois professionals

    Representation and performativity of whiteness in China: The case of foreign digital entrepreneurs

    The fluidity of patriarchy: Resisting Dutch gender interventions in Uganda and Zambia

    A choreography of life: Conviviality and secrecy among women in Eastern Africa

    Responding to dementia: A critical phenomenology of everyday life among community-dwelling people with dementia in the Netherlands

    • Organisations: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body (AISSR, FMG)
    • Contributors: Vermeulen, L. H.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/d94762af-9cb9-4f4a-8a06-d148879cf037
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Pool, R. C. (Supervisor), The, B. A. M. (Supervisor), Samuels, A. (Co-supervisor) & Dyring, R. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 22 Oct 2024

    Women’s quest for justice beyond the law: Marriage, divorce and commitment to God in Istanbul

    • Organisations: Exploring Diversity: Critical ethnographies of belonging and exclusion (ED, AISSR, FMG)
    • Contributors: Kalpaklıoglu, B.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/35991f15-6be1-4aee-812a-ce62ee0e97a3
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Moors, A. C. A. E. (Supervisor), Sirman, N. (Co-supervisor) & McBrien, J. A. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 22 Nov 2024

    Pooping together: Ordinary practices, philosophical interferences

  • Sociology

    Homopolitiek in Nederland (1966-2023): De symbolische kracht van wetgeving

    Information actors beyond modernity and coloniality in times of climate change: A comparative design ethnography on the making of monitors for sustainable futures in Curaçao and Amsterdam, between 2019-2022

    ‘Hard werken om normaal te zijn’: Praktijken en illusies van inclusie

    A matter of appearances: How workers’ aesthetics are regulated in advice, hiring, and at work

    Inequality at work: Occupations, organizations, and the wage distribution

    Behind the webcam: Contested visibility in online sex work in the Netherlands, Romania and the United Kingdom

    Breaking barriers: The labour market position of Sub-Saharan Africans in the Netherlands

    • Organisations: Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses (IIL, AISSR, FMG)
    • Contributors: Ngorouma Abieri, D. P.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/3a2d60c4-4fc1-4645-8aea-baef087b5047
    • Supervisors/Advisors: van de Werfhorst, H. G. (Supervisor), Gowricharn, R. S. (Supervisor) & Dagevos, J. M. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 25 Sept 2024

    “Whatever you do, it’s never enough”: Third-party professionals and residents in bottom-up community building in Amsterdam’s Kolenkitbuurt

    Neighboring alone? Digitally mediated communal life in a post-socialist large housing estate

    City rhythms in action: Advancing the methodologies and concepts for a spatio-temporal perspective on the urban social context

    Queer late/r life sex: Women and non-binary people's unruly stories

    Urban struggles in Santiago: Place-based claims and resistance to neoliberal urbanism

  • Human Geography, Planning and International Development

    False security: An extended case study of RMBS in the Netherlands

    Community engagement in landscape governance and prospects for operationalising integrated landscape approaches in northern Ghana

    • Organisations: Governance and Inclusive Development (GID, AISSR, FMG)
    • Contributors: Bayala, E. R. C.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/ed0fcb9b-dc36-4209-be65-710f2898f325
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Ros-Tonen, M. A. F. (Supervisor), Sunderland, T. (Supervisor), Reed, J. (Co-supervisor) & Djoudi, H. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 27 Mar 2024

    Towards inclusive and negotiated environmental governance: The potential of multistakeholder platforms for landscape approaches in Southern Zambia

    Green and atmospheric water: An interdisciplinary perspective on governance for the anthropocene

    Staying in the city or moving to the suburbs: Changes and variations in residential mobility and impacts on metropolitan areas

    The everyday politics of urban shrinkage: Negotiating “decline” in two medium-sized cities

    Experimenting with streets for system change in urban mobility

    Rising together: Polycentric governance, niche expansion & the scaling of energy communities

    Exploring the politics of luzibo kusangana: The potential of Tonga local, integrated and hybrid knowledge for equitable landscape approaches in Southern Zambia

    Reversing the politics of youth velonomy: Realist action research on the pluriversal rationalities and representations of collaborative cycling governance

    Human capital migration from a life course perspective: The role of geography and gender