PhD Theses
Dissertations 2018 << 2009
Completed dissertations under (co) supervision of the Sociology of Development and Change Group (since 2009).
2019
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Environmental governance in Bhutan : ecotourism, environmentality and cosmological subjectivities
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): B. Büscher, co-promotor(en): R. Fletcher. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463950121 - p. -
Peasant maize cultivation as an assemblage: an analysis of socio-cultural dynamics of maize cultivation in western Kenya
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): H. van Dijk, co-promotor(en): P. Hebinck. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463439985 - p. -
Conflict, disaster and changing gender roles in Nepal: women’s everyday experiences
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): D.J.M. Hilhorst, co-promotor(en): G. van der Haar; L. Campbell. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463433891 - p. -
Oil palms in the rice field : An ethnography of large-scale land acquisition foroil palm plantation development in West Kalimantan
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): J.W.M. van Dijk, co-promotor(en): D. Roth; F.M. Köhne. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463434065 - p. -
Urbanizing flows : growing water insecurity in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): J.W.M. van Dijk, co-promotor(en): D. Roth; D. Joshi. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463951180 - p.
2018
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Mapuche political dissent in the context of neoliberal governance: the recuperation of ancestral land as a process of indigenous emancipation in Arauco Province, Chile
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): B.E. Büscher, co-promotor(en): P.A. de Vries. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463433846 - p. -
Exploring the earthquake and tsunami subculture in Greater Concepción, Chile: a cultural analysis of communities’ response to 27F
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): G.E. Frerks, co-promotor(en): J.F. Warner. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463433723 - p. -
Enactment of ‘community’ in community based natural resources management in Zambezi Region, Namibia
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): H. van Dijk, co-promotor(en): P. Hebinck. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463438582 - p. -
Going for the dough : Engaging governmental funds in the Ciénega de Zacapu, Mexico
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): L.E. Visser, co-promotor(en): G.M. Verschoor. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463438292 - p.
2017
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Amphibious anthropology : engaging with maritime worlds in Indonesia
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Gerard Verschoor. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463430654 - p. -
Creating common ground : The role of Indigenous Peoples’ sacred natural sites in conservation practice, management and policy
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): L.E. Visser, co-promotor(en): G.M. Verschoor. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463436496 - p. -
Feeding Dar es Salaam: a symbiotic food system perspective
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): J.S.C. Wiskerke, co-promotor(en): P.G.M. Hebinck. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463432061 - p. -
Navigating obstacles, opportunities and reforms: women’s lives and livelihoods in artisanal mining communities in eastern DRC
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): D.J.M. Hilhorst, co-promotor(en): G. van der Haar; J.G.R. Cuvelier. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463431996 - p. -
Planned development interventions and contested development in the Casamance Region, Senegal: an enquiry into the ongoing struggles for autonomy and progres by the Casamance peasantry
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): J.D. van der Ploeg, co-promotor(en): P.G.M. Hebinck. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463436779 - p. -
Bringing in the floods : a comparative study on controlled flooding in the Dutch, Bangladesh and Vietnamese deltas
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): J.P.M. Tatenhove, co-promotor(en): J.F. Warner; P. Wester. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463437035 - p.
2016
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Under the lens of embeddedness : socio-cultural perspective on home-grown school feeding in Ghana
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Han Wiskerke, co-promotor(en): Paul Hebinck; D. Millar. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462577800 - p. -
On the edge of fluidity: international cooperation in turbulent times
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Han Wiskerke, co-promotor(en): Alberto Arce. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462579033 - p. -
The tree under which you sit : district-level management and leadership in maternal and newborn health policy implementation in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Han van Dijk; I.A. Agyepong. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462576742 - p. -
Frontline health worker motivation in the provision of maternal and neonatal health care in Ghana
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Han van Dijk; I.A. Agyepong, co-promotor(en): G.J.E. Gerrits. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462578937 - p. -
Answering the "Call of the Mountain" : co-creating sustainability through networks of change in Colombia
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Arjen Wals, co-promotor(en): Gerard Verschoor. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462577251 - p.
2015
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Community based fish culture in the public and private floodplains of Bangladesh
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): M.M. Dey. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462574533 - p. -
People, soil and manioc interactions in the upper Amazon region
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Paul Struik, co-promotor(en): Tjeerd-Jan Stomph; Gerard Verschoor. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462573222 - p. -
A social analysis of contested fishing practices in Lake Victoria
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Han van Dijk, co-promotor(en): Paul Hebinck; R. Mwaipopo. - Wageningen : s.n. - ISBN 9789462572478 - p. -
Contesting control : land and forest in the struggle for Loita Maasai self-government in Kenya
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Han van Dijk, co-promotor(en): S.W.J. Luning. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462572720 - p.
2014
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Color green for dollars: constraints and limitations for establising Chamaedorea palm firms in Veracruz, Mexico
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Gerard Verschoor. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462570207 - p. -
Networks and knowledge at the interface: governing the coast of East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Simon Bush; P.M. Laksono. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789461739292 - p. -
Las concesiones forestales comunitaris de Guatemala: de territorios en disputa a territorialidades ensambladas
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Georg Frerks, co-promotor(en): Alberto Arce. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789461738486 - p. -
"The bullets sound like music to my ears" : socialization of child soldiers within African rebel groups
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Thea Hilhorst, co-promotor(en): S.G. Gates; Gemma van der Haar. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789461737700 - p.
2013
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Improving the quality of crude palm oil: transdisciplinary research on artisanal processing in Kwabibirem District, Ghana
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser; M.K. Abekoe, co-promotor(en): Tjeerd-Jan Stomph; O. Sakyi-Dawson. - Wageningen : Wageningen UR - ISBN 9789461737588 - p. -
Farmers on the move : mobility, access to land and conflict in Central and South Mali
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Han van Dijk, co-promotor(en): M.M.A. Kaag. - Wageningen : Wageningen UR - ISBN 9789461737205 - p. -
Landscapes of deracialization : power, brokerage and place-making on a South African frontier
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Jandouwe van der Ploeg, co-promotor(en): Paul Hebinck. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461737311 - p. -
Shaping multiple Ajijics and development : a Mexican town in the context of the international retirement migration
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Alberto Arce. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461736772 - p. -
Farmer cooperatives as intermediaries for agricultural and rural development in China
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Cees Leeuwis; Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Y. Song. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461736352 - p. -
Entangled realities and the underlife of a total institution : an ethnography of correctional centres for juvenile and young offenders in Accra, Ghana
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Roy Gigengack. - S.L. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461735126 - p. -
Forest fights in Haripur, Northwest Pakistan
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Paul Hebinck. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461734556 - p.
2012
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Facing frontiers : everyday practice of state-building in South Sudan
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Han van Dijk, co-promotor(en): T. Raeymaekers. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461733955 - p. -
Global and local governance of shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Arthur Mol; Han van Dijk, co-promotor(en): Simon Bush. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461733764 - p. -
Shrimp fisheries and aquaculture : making a living in the coastal frontier of Berau, Indonesia
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): A.S. Sidik. - [S.l. : S.n. - ISBN 9789461732866 - p. -
Forest rights : the micro-politics of decentralisation and forest tenure reform in tribal India
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Bas Arts; Han van Dijk. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461732736 - p. -
Affective foodscapes in an economy of passion : repetition, opposition and adaptation in Mexican restaurants in Amsterdam, Madrid and San Francisco
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Gerard Verschoor; K. Lindström. - [S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461732828 - p. -
Resilience and livelihood dynamics of shrimp farmers and fishers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser; Han van Dijk, co-promotor(en): L. XuanSinh. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789461732170 - p.
2011
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The purification of aid : an ethnography of Dutch partnership policy and (broken) dreams of development
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Monique Nuijten. - [S.l.] : S.n. - ISBN 9789461731050 - p. -
Making milpa, making life in La Mera Selva: a testimony of how Tzeltal peasants perform maize cultivation practices in the Lacandon Jungle, Mexico
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Gerard Verschoor; Conny Almekinders. - [S.l.] : S.n. - ISBN 9789085859772 - p. -
Mallas y flujos : acción colectiva, cambio social, quinua y desarrollo regional indígena en los Andes Bolivianos
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Alberto Arce. - [S.l.] : S.n. - ISBN 9789085859604 - p. -
The other side of migration in rural Nepal: sociocultural transformation and the women left behind
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Anke Niehof, co-promotor(en): Leontine Visser. - [S.l.] : S.n. - ISBN 9789461730329 - p. -
'Acompañarnos contentos con la familia' : unidad, diferencia y conflicto entre los Nükak (Amazonia colombiana)
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Georg Frerks, co-promotor(en): Pieter de Vries; Gerard Verschoor. - [S.l.] : S.n. - ISBN 9789085859475 - p. -
"En momentos difíciles nosotros somos un pueblo" Haciendo política en la mixteca de Oaxaca: un estudio sobre el ritual, la pasión y el poder
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Georg Frerks, co-promotor(en): Monique Nuijten; Pieter de Vries. - [S.l.] : S.n. - ISBN 9789461731067 - p. -
Farmers, institutions and land conservation : institutional economic analysis of bench terraces in the highlands of Rwanda
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Erwin Bulte, co-promotor(en): Paul Hebinck. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789085859307 - p. -
The accidental city : violence, economy and humanitarianism in Kakuma refugee camp Kenya
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Thea Hilhorst. - [S.l.] : S.n. - ISBN 9789085858591 - p. -
Behind the Scene : the enactments of human sexuality in Tehuantepec, Mexico
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Gerard Verschoor. - [S.l. : S.n. - ISBN 9789085858072 - p.
2010
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Peasants, potatoes and pesticides : heterogentiy in the context of agricultural modernization in the Highland Andes of Ecuador
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Jandouwe van der Ploeg, co-promotor(en): Paul Hebinck; D. Cole. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789085858102 - p. -
Fresh fruit and vegetables: a world of multiple interactions : the case of the Buenos Aires Central Wholesale Market (BACWM)
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Han Wiskerke, co-promotor(en): Alberto Arce. - S.l. : s.n. - ISBN 9789085858140 -
Gender, AIDS and food security : culture and vulnerability in rural Côte d'Ivoire
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser; Anke Niehof. - [S.l. : S.n. - ISBN 9789085857891 - p. -
The role of multiple institutions in the management of micro spring forests in Ukerewe, Tanzania
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Freerk Wiersum; G.C. Kajembe. - [S.l. : S.n. - ISBN 9789085856795 - p. -
Petén: ¿la última frontera? : la construcción social de una región
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Jandouwe van der Ploeg, co-promotor(en): Alberto Arce. - [S.l.] : S.n. - ISBN 9789085853831 - p. -
Milking drylands : gender networks, pastoral markets and food security in stateless Somalia
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Jandouwe van der Ploeg, co-promotor(en): Paul Hebinck. - [S.L. : S.n. - ISBN 9789085855460 - p.
2009
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The social life of regions : salmon farming and the regionalization of development in Chilean Patagonia
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Leontine Visser, co-promotor(en): Alberto Arce. - [S.l. : S.n. - ISBN 9789085854319 - p. -
Constuccion social de comuninad y migración en Usibamba : un estudio sobre el impacto de los procesos de globalización en los Andes centrales del Perú
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Jandouwe van der Ploeg, co-promotor(en): Pieter de Vries. - [S.l.] : S.n. - ISBN 9789085049197 - p. -
Multiple territories in dispute : water policies, participation and Mapuce indigenous rights in Patagonia, Argentina
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Linden Vincent; N.E. Long. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789085853862 - p. -
In fear of abandonment : slum life, community leaders and politics in Recife, Brazil
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Th. Blom Hansen, co-promotor(en): Monique Nuijten; Pieter de Vries. - [S.l. : S.n. - ISBN 9789085852971 - p.