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Projects - dr. HM (Hilje) van der Horst

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  Rethinking the place of meat in religious traditions through ritual intervention (NWO) exploring the potential for ritual intervention to reduce meat consumption

  Selected output

  Interactive evening: Is meat holy? 

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  Understanding dignity of food aid receivers in Europe (WASS), exploring the way in which forms of food aid shape dignity of recipients through, among others, ethnographic fieldwork 

  Selected output: 

  Dekkinga, P., van der Horst, H., & Andriessen, T. (2022). “Too big to fail”: the resilience and entrenchment of food aid through food banks in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic. Food Security, 14(3), 781-789.

  Andriessen, T., Van der Horst, H., & Morrow, O. (2022). “Customer is king”: Staging consumer culture in a food aid organization. Journal of Consumer Culture, 22(3), 615-634.

  Andriessen, T., Morrow, O., & Van der Horst, H. (2022). Murky moralities: performing markets in a charitable food aid organization. Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(3), 293-309.

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  Less stress and poverty, more experienced health and participation (ZonMw), exploring the way in which stigma and shame shape experiences of people in poverty through multimethod research including biographic interviews, focus groups and observation.

  Selected output: 

  Infographic Emoties bij Armoede

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  Transition Towards a Sustainable Food System (NWA, NWO), exploring potential transition pathways with stakeholders through, among others, futuring methods. 

  Selected output: 

  House, J., Brons, A., Wertheim-Heck, S., & van der Horst, H. (2023). What is culturally appropriate food consumption? A systematic literature review exploring six conceptual themes and their implications for sustainable food system transformation. Agriculture and Human Values, 1-20.

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  Impact of social policies on health: What works, for whom and under what circumstances (ZonMw), Using a realist approach to understand how health can be protected and advanced in social assistance and debt policies

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  Tipping the Balance in Dietary Change (NWO) Exploring healthy and sustainable food environments and their 'aftereffects'. This includes societal backlash. 

  Selected output: 

  van der Horst, H. M., Michielsen, Y. J. E., & House, J. A. (2023). No protein transition without societal acceptance: two reasons why the protein transition has not accelerated yet. In Our future proteins (pp. 501-507). VU University Press.

  Michielsen, Y. J., & van der Horst, H. M. (2022). Backlash against meat curtailment policies in online discourse: Populism as a missing link. Appetite, 171, 105931.

   

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  Towards a data-driven dashboard to support a socially-just transition to circular agriculture (CUCO), exploring the potential role of farm data with stakeholders in a way that supports a socially just transition in agriculture.

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  Meer dan Handig, The impact of technical aids on the everyday lives of users  (ZonMW)

  Selected output:  

  Hoogsteyns, M., & van der Horst, H. M. (2016). Voorbij verbergen of vieren. In Disability Studies in de Lage Landen (pp. 111-129). Garant Uitgevers.

  Hoogsteyns, M., & van der Horst, H. (2015). How to live with a taboo instead of ‘breaking it’. Alternative empowerment strategies of people with incontinence. Health Sociology Review, 24(1), 38-47.

  Hoogsteyns, M., & Van Der Horst, H. (2013). Wearing the arm (or not). Reconceptualising notions of in-and exclusion in Disability Studies. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 15(1), 58-69.

  Van der Horst, H., & Hoogsteyns, M. (2014). Disability, family and technical aids: a study of how disabling/enabling experiences come about in hybrid family relations. Disability & Society, 29(5), 821-833.

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  The social dynamics of smart grids: On households, information flows & sustainable energy transitions

  Selected output: 

  Naus, J., & van der Horst, H. M. (2017). Accomplishing information and change in a smart grid pilot: Linking domestic practices with policy interventions. Environment and Planning C: Politics and space, 35(3), 379-396.

  Naus, J., Spaargaren, G., van Vliet, B. J., & Van der Horst, H. M. (2014). Smart grids, information flows and emerging domestic energy practices. Energy Policy, 68, 436-446.

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  Migration and material culture (NWO) 

  Selected output

  Van Der Horst, H., & Messing, J. (2006). “It's not Dutch to close the curtains”: visual struggles on the threshold between public and private in a multi-ethnic Dutch neighborhood. Home Cultures, 3(1), 21-37.

  Van der Horst, H. (2010). Dwellings in transnational lives: A biographical perspective on ‘Turkish-Dutch’houses in Turkey. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36(7), 1175-1192.

   

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  Transforming the Normal towards Sustainable Future Food Consumption

  Transforming the Normal towards Sustainable Future Food Consumption - WUR Project Transforming the Normal towards Sustainable Future Food Consumption...
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  Citizen engagement in the development of local food environment policy

  Obesity rates in the Netherlands have tripled in the last forty years with a current 51% of people being overweight and 16% obese. Over the years, the...
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  Rethinking the place of meat in religious traditions through ritual intervention 

  Rethinking the place of meat in religious traditions through ritual intervention  - WUR Project Rethinking the place of meat in religious...
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  Transition to a sustainable food system

  Transition to a sustainable food system - WUR Project Transition to a sustainable food system Current production and consumption of food have come at...
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  Impact of social policies on health: What works, for whom and under what circumstances?

  Health inequality is rooted in inequality in vital resources for health, including financial resources, a supportive informal network, a stable living...
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  Tipping the Balance in Dietary Change

  Current food environments are characterised by a wide availability of unhealthy and highly processed foods, promoting unhealthy and unsustainable...
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  Smart Energy Systems & Emerging Domestic Energy Practices

  This PhD project examines the ways in which householders shape - and are shaped by - smart energy systems.