Sociology of Development and Change

Projects

Projects per year 2000 2005 2007 2008 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023

• 33 Active
• 71 Finished

Projects per year

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  Tackling Crises in the Countryside: An Integrative Approach to Regenerative Agriculture, Circular Agri-Food Systems, and Convivial Conservation

  Roep, D., Schneider, M. & Stein, S.

  1/10/20 → 1/09/23

  Project: PostDoc

  • biodiversity loss 100%
  • agriculture 89%
  • food production 88%
  • food 85%
  • biodiversity 60%

• SecTenSusPeace

  van der Haar, G.

  1/09/18 → 1/09/19

  Project: Staff

• Decolonizing Sustainable Surf Tourism: Alternatives to Development, Surfer Subjectivity and Surfscape Commons Governance

  Ruttenberg, T., Fletcher, R., Morrow, O. & Sato, C.

  1/05/18 → 17/10/22

  Project: PhD

  • Tourism 100%
  • governance 24%
  • subjectivity 23%
  • economics 8%
  • field research 8%

• Evalutatie VNG-International / LOGOReP

  van der Haar, G. & Jansen, B.

  1/05/18 → 1/05/20

  Project: Staff

• CONVIVA

  Büscher, B., Fletcher, R. & Massarella, K.

  12/01/18 → 1/12/21

  Project: Staff

• Drylands facing change

  van Dijk, H. & Warner, J.

  20/11/17 → 19/11/21

  Project: Staff

• Local responses to multiple environmentalities of Corbett Tiger Reserve, India

  Pandya, R., Büscher, B. & Fletcher, R.

  1/10/17 → 18/10/22

  Project: PhD

• Land and State-building in South Sudan

  Justin, P. & van Dijk, H.

  1/08/17 → 7/12/20

  Project: PhD

  • South Sudan 100%
  • peace 36%
  • civil war 36%
  • violence 28%
  • governance 23%

• Grounding Land Governance

  Kobusingye, D. & van Dijk, H.

  1/08/17 → 30/04/18

  Project: PhD

  • conflict situation 100%
  • state formation 87%
  • Uganda 86%
  • decentralization 75%
  • governance 53%

• Youth at the forefront in peasantry re-signification processes

  Goris, M., Turnhout, E., Behagel, J. & Verschoor, G.

  1/01/17 → 30/11/20

  Project: PhD

  • emancipation 100%
  • peasant 94%
  • Brazil 67%
  • farm 47%
  • social movement 39%

• Gorilla tracking for peace? Dynamics of tourism, peace and violence around the Virunga Conservation Area

  Trogisch, L., Büscher, B., Fletcher, R. & de Vries, L.

  1/01/17 → 4/10/21

  Project: PhD

  • Conservation of Nature 100%
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo 78%
  • Rwanda 75%
  • Uganda 69%
  • geography 48%

• European Disasters in Urban centres: a Culture Expert Network (EDUCEN)

  Warner, J.

  1/06/16 → 1/06/17

  Project: Staff

  • disaster 100%
  • expert 22%
  • manager 16%
  • stakeholder 16%
  • urban planner 15%

• Security & Rule of Law

  van der Haar, G.

  28/05/16 → 28/05/17

  Project: Staff

• Making sense of ecosystem services: between local knowledge and international scientific and political trends

  van den Berg, L., Turnhout, E., Behagel, J. & Verschoor, G.

  1/04/16 → 18/11/20

  Project: PhD

  • Brazil 100%
  • Social Movements 68%
  • Territories 40%
  • politics 34%
  • peasant 21%

• Investigating the consequences of green violence on property and labour in the wildlife economy in the Kruger to Canyons Region, South Africa

  Thakholi, L., Büscher, B. & Koot, S.

  15/03/16 → 1/10/21

  Project: PhD

  • nature reserve 100%
  • conservation 54%
  • labor 44%
  • mode of production 8%
  • Republic of South Africa 8%

• ICCO EU aid Volunteers project

  van der Haar, G.

  1/02/16 → 1/03/19

  Project: Staff

• Crisis Conservation: Saving Nature in Times and Spaces of Exception

  Büscher, B., Kiggell, T., Karimasari, N. & Thakholi, L.

  1/11/15 → 1/09/21

  Project: Staff

  • crime 100%
  • wildlife 95%
  • resource 46%
  • political ecology 40%
  • environmental governance 37%

• The Socio-Economic Impacts of Ecotourism Development in Bhutan

  Montes, J., Büscher, B. & Fletcher, R.

  1/11/15 → 1/11/19

  Project: PhD

  • Bhutan 100%
  • subjectivity 63%
  • happiness 61%
  • conservation 49%
  • governance 46%

• Meanings of food crops: Analysis of socio-cultural dynamics of food crop cultivation, usage and marketing in western Kenya

  Kimanthi, H., van Dijk, H. & Hebinck, P.

  1/03/15 → 4/09/19

  Project: PhD

  • peasant 100%
  • Kenya 92%
  • farmer 38%
  • agriculture 14%
  • gender relations 9%

• Peasant Sociality and rural development Policies in Nayarit

  Lopez Regalado, F., van Dijk, H. & Arce, A.

  1/01/15 → 1/09/23

  Project: PhD

• Cultural and Bio – diversity Protection through Heritage Policies. BIOVALUE

  Arce, A. & Ange, O.

  16/11/14 → 16/11/16

  Project: Staff

  • potato 100%
  • domestication 95%
  • potatoes 56%
  • tuber 45%
  • policy 44%

• Peri-urban Water Security and Climate Change: Exploring Conflict and Cooperation

  Shrestha, A., van Dijk, H., Joshi, D. & Roth, D.

  1/10/14 → 25/11/19

  Project: PhD

  • Water flows 100%
  • Nepal 66%
  • water 47%
  • urbanization 22%
  • resilience 20%

• Neoliberal Governance through development and cultural interventions in a conflictive political context. The case of Mapuche in Arauco Province, Chile

  Studemann Henriquez, N., Büscher, B. & de Vries, P.

  4/03/14 → 17/12/18

  Project: PhD

  • emancipation 100%
  • Chile 81%
  • governance 58%
  • aesthetics 16%
  • Group 16%

• TRANSMANGO

  Hebinck, P., Oostindie, H., Hebinck, A. & Villarreal Herrera, G.

  1/02/14 → 31/01/18

  Project: Staff

• The politics of scale in palm oil land disputes in West-Kalimantan, Indonesia

  de Vos, R., van Dijk, H., Köhne, M. & Roth, D.

  2/01/14 → 26/03/19

  Project: PhD

  • ethnography 100%
  • acquisition process 24%
  • Land use planning 24%
  • Land rights 23%
  • Code of Conduct 22%

• CoCooN – Conflict and Cooperation in the Management of Climate Change

  Roth, D. & Shrestha, A.

  1/01/14 → 1/01/18

  Project: Staff

  • water 100%
  • climate change 84%
  • urbanization 80%
  • urban area 37%
  • Water resources 33%

• Urbanizing Delta of the World

  Warner, J.

  1/01/14 → 1/01/18

  Project: Staff

  • risk assessment 100%
  • social process 84%
  • flood risk management 82%
  • social system 78%
  • social science 70%

• Food sovereignth in Ecuador

  Vasconcellos Fernandez, N., Wiskerke, H. & Arce, A.

  1/12/13 → 10/03/21

  Project: PhD

  • Ecuador 100%
  • peasant 97%
  • sovereignty 83%
  • farmer 81%
  • food 63%

• Changing Gender Roles: Women, livelihoods and Post conflict Challenges in Nepal

  Kc, L., Hilhorst, T. & van der Haar, G.

  1/05/13 → 16/01/19

  Project: PhD

  • everyday experience 100%
  • Nepal 92%
  • gender role 81%
  • disaster 72%
  • natural disaster 26%

• Exploring the role of worldviews in conservation practice, management and policy of sacred natural sites

  Verschuuren, B., Visser, L. & Verschoor, G.

  1/04/13 → 6/10/17

  Project: PhD

  • management practice 100%
  • policy 66%
  • thesis 27%
  • WorldView 26%
  • nature conservation 19%

• International cooperation in 'fluid' situations: a Deleuzian perspective on Foreign Affairs and governance

  Umans, L., Wiskerke, H. & Arce, A.

  1/02/13 → 11/11/16

  Project: PhD

  • international cooperation 100%
  • diplomacy 36%
  • development aid 35%
  • time 34%
  • Bolivia 17%

• Opening the conservancy 'black box' to understand the issues, chanllenges and dilemmas affecting communal conservancies in Caprivi, Namibia

  Lubilo, R., van Dijk, H. & Hebinck, P.

  1/02/12 → 8/05/18

  Project: PhD

  • Namibia 100%
  • natural resources 72%
  • conservation 68%
  • biodiversity 51%
  • management 38%

• Enacting a community of learners: Visions and realities of the Council of Sustainable Settlements of Americas CASA in Colombia

  Chaves Villegas, M., Wals, A. & Verschoor, G.

  15/01/12 → 22/11/16

  Project: PhD

  • Colombia 100%
  • sustainability 78%
  • Social Movements 66%
  • learning process 52%
  • network society 48%

• Mining reform, Livelihoods and Development in Artisanal Mining Sites in Northern Katanga (Eastern DRC)

  Iguma Wakenge, C., Hilhorst, T. & Cuvelier, J.

  1/01/12 → 21/06/17

  Project: PhD

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo 100%
  • social change 68%
  • reform 49%
  • livelihood 15%
  • smuggling 13%

• Technological culture: An opportunity to reduce vulnerability to earthquake/ tsunami disasters?

  Engel, K., Frerks, G. & Warner, J.

  1/11/11 → 12/12/18

  Project: PhD

  • cultural analysis 100%
  • subculture 87%
  • natural disaster 76%
  • Chile 73%
  • disaster 68%

• Multi-level actors decision making procesesses for national level policy agenda setting and formulation related to MDG 4 and 5 in Ghana

  Koduah, A. & van Dijk, H.

  1/09/11 → 9/11/16

  Project: PhD

  • health decisions 100%
  • food 99%
  • natural resource management 96%
  • irrigation 87%
  • slum 82%

• Emerging in the Middle: Continues quality improvements for managerial decision-making in maternal and child health policy implemention in Ghana

  Kwamie, A. & van Dijk, H.

  1/04/11 → 19/05/16

  Project: PhD

  • policy implementation 100%
  • Ghana 91%
  • health policy 88%
  • district 64%
  • leadership 59%

• Frontline health worker retension, motivation, morale and quality of Maternal and Child health service provision

  Aberese-Ako, M. & van Dijk, H.

  1/03/11 → 9/11/16

  Project: PhD

  • health workers 100%
  • Ghana 90%
  • health care 66%
  • worker 58%
  • manager 47%

• Realities under construction: Exploring complexity in the building of Marine Protected Areas in Indonesia

  Pauwelussen, A., Visser, L. & Verschoor, G.

  7/02/11 → 5/04/17

  Project: PhD

  • anthropology 100%
  • Indonesia 99%
  • conservation 71%
  • way of life 32%
  • foreignness 17%

• Decision-making: Frontline Providers of Maternal and Newborn Care and Clients

  Yevoo, L. & van Dijk, H.

  1/02/11 → 2/12/22

  Project: PhD

• Farmer's perception and and actula use of the fertility of Terra Pretra soils in Colombia.

  Pena Venegas, C., Stomph, T., Struik, P., Verschoor, G., Pena Venegas, C., Struik, P., Stomph, T. & Verschoor, G.

  5/01/11 → 1/07/15

  Project: PhD

  • soil 100%
  • ethnic group 58%
  • floodplain 53%
  • agriculture 52%
  • food production 31%

• How does the Farmer Field school in Nepal contribute to empowerment, social inclusion and how does this impact on rural transformation?

  Visser, L.

  1/01/10 → 20/11/12

  Project: PhD

• Livelihood Practices within Hybrid Governance: Local Negotiations to the Threat of Land Scarcity in Expanding Urban Areas of Bukavu

  van Overbeek, F., van Dijk, H. & Tamas, P.

  1/10/09 → 14/10/20

  Project: PhD

  • governmentality 100%
  • uncertainty 28%
  • governance arrangement 20%
  • governance 17%
  • subjectivation 14%

• Converging ethnography, indigenous knowledge and technical science: improving oil palm processing in the Kwaebibirim district, Ghana

  Osei-Amponsah, C., Visser, L. & Stomph, T.

  1/03/09 → 12/12/13

  Project: PhD

• Contested Paradigms of Modernity in the Casamance, Senegal: An enquiry into the ongoing Struggles for Autonomy and Progress by the Casamance Peasantry

  Hebinck, P. & van der Ploeg, J.

  1/10/08 → 3/11/17

  Project: PhD

  • Senegal 100%
  • autonomy 59%
  • livelihood 24%
  • farmer 18%
  • agrarian reform 18%

• Human rights and livelihoods of juvenile detainees in Ghana

  Ayete Nyampong, L., Visser, L. & Gigengack, R.

  8/09/08 → 23/05/13

  Project: PhD

• Driving factors behind fishers' decision-making and livelihood strategies on Lake Victoria, Tanzania

  Medard, M., van Dijk, H. & Hebinck, P.

  1/07/08 → 28/04/15

  Project: PhD

  • fishery 100%
  • global player 46%
  • market 35%
  • factory 32%
  • commodity 30%

• State building in South Sudan at the borders into Uganda and DR Congo

  de Vries, L. & van Dijk, H.

  4/02/08 → 7/11/12

  Project: PhD

  • South Sudan 100%
  • political center 35%
  • Uganda 25%
  • government agency 23%
  • peace 19%

• Easting Mexico in Western Europe

  Matus, M., Visser, L. & Verschoor, G.

  26/01/08 → 2/05/12

  Project: PhD

  • opposition 100%
  • economy 78%
  • food 43%

• The development of new institutional frameworks for bridging the gap between government devolution and community based institutions for integrated natural resource management: a Pakistani case study

  Nizami, A., Visser, L. & Hebinck, P.

  20/05/07 → 21/01/13

  Project: PhD

  • Pakistan 100%
  • management 10%
  • resources 6%
  • forestry 5%
  • social actor 5%