Projects
| Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATA-MIG) | is focused on the need for a caring approach to big data and for the socio-technical challenges it entails. More specifically, it aims at supporting interdisciplinary research into the ways that the technological materialities inherent to the datafication of migration and border control may, on account of their black-boxed design, reproduce patterns of inclusion and exclusion that have already severely affected society. DATAMIG will foster the formation of an inclusive, self-expanding network that integrates the various disciplines contributing to the field of Science and Technology Studies into the study of migration and borders.
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| Digital Crossroads in China: Chinese Women Negotiating Migration, Urbanization, and Digitization | 'Digital Crossroads in China: Chinese Women Negotiating Migration, Urbanization, and Digitization', is a Chinese Scholarship Council project focusing on the intersection of gig workers, gender, migration, and digital media.
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| Digging Against the Grain: The Political Moment of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, 1984-85 | This studies the solidarity group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), which was active during the 1984-85 miners' strike in the UK. On the one hand, it analyzes the political composition of LGSM against the backdrop of processes of fragmentation and recomposition of the British left under Thatcherism. On the other hand, it reconstructs the links between LGSM and other women's, lesbian, and black groups during the strike. The overall goal is to identify the 'political moment' of LGSM as a unique entry point for a genealogy of the shifting relations between neoliberalism, the left, and the intersecting politics of class, sexuality, race, and gender.
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| Ecologies of Violence: Affirmations of life at the frontiers of survival | In 2012, the United Nations declared that the Gaza strip will be 鈥渦nlivable鈥 by 2020. How is life upheld in a state of unlivability? The research explores the politics of life and living at the boundaries with death (both human and environmental) in conditions of war and settler colonialism, focusing on Palestine. The research looks at the ways in which myriad ways in which reproduction (biological, social, and environmental) persevere in spite of the necropolitical death-worlds of Israeli settler colonialism.
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| EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender in Transnational Perspective) | Based upon a truly interdisciplinary gendered approach to knowledge production, offers a new and innovative quality of PhD training characterised by synergy between research, training, and supervision.
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| Fair digital asylum | Migration management is increasingly digitised and datafied. In the Netherlands, digital opportunities have been embraced for identity screening of applicants. However, the Athene pilot project 鈥 which aimed to automate digital assessment of copies of mobile devices to improve identification of asylum seekers, as well as to detect indicators of terrorism and human smuggling 鈥 has been put to a stop in November 2021 when it was found to be in breach with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). reconstructs the Athene pilot as a starting point to scrutinize digital identification of asylum seekers in the Netherlands
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| Horizon 2022 Consortium 鈥楻e-wiring: Realising Girls鈥 and Women's Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment' | The aim of the project is to properly identify the structural root causes of 'gendered' (gender-blind or gender-neutral) power hierarchies in European countries and elsewhere, and 鈥 through transformative research 鈥 to 鈥榬e-wire鈥 institutions in order to prevent and reverse existing gender inequalities.
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| Imagining More-than-Human Communities (Strategic Alliance TUe, 乐鱼后台, WUR, UMC) | What can we do to feel more in touch with the natural world? Is technology a barrier, or can it help us communicate and feel empathy with other species? Could technology help foster a sense of community between humans and nonhumans? If so, what might such a more-than-human community look like鈥攐r feel like, smell like, etc.? Whom would it include? And who decides? This project sets out to imagine a more equitable community of humans and nonhumans and to make it a reality in our everyday lives.
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| Kaleidoscopic Archives: A Cultural and Intersectional History of the Gay and Lesbian Left in the Netherlands in the 1970s and 1980s | This project reconstructs and studies the archives of the Dutch gay and lesbian left of the 1970s and 1980s, investigating what cultural practices, forms of political organizing, and theoretical analysis did different groups deploy in order to combine sexual politics and socialism. The project fills in a significant gap in Dutch LGBTQ+ historiograpghy and expands current debates in Queer Studies on the European and North American gay and lesbian left by adopting a Dutch perspective. The research is carried out by PhD candidate Fleur Renkema under the supervision of Gianmaria Colpani (PI and co-promotor, Media and Culture Studies), Marijke Huisman (co-promotor, History and Art History), and Sandra Ponzanesi (first promotor, Media and Culture Studies).
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| Race et culture | This aims at exploring the conceptualisation of notions of 鈥渞ace鈥 and 鈥渃ulture鈥 in the domain of philosophy (history of philosophy, epistemology, political philosophy, aesthetics) at the intersection with critical race theories, postcolonial and decolonial studies.
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| Raisons pratiques | The engages with the legacy of Kantian criticism and German idealism in contemporary practical and political philosophy. It specifically aims at investigating debates on norms and normativity, rationality, and universality.
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| Reparations in the Global South | Reparations in the Global South. This project aims to establish a collaboration between 乐鱼后台 and Universit茅 Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar (Senegal) around the topic of postcolonial reparations.
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| Tackling the Polycrisis: Intersections of Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Colonialism (CPC) as barrier to Sustainability and Justice | Global challenges cannot be seen in isolation; they cross-affect each other and what we are dealing with is a polycrisis. From that starting point, the Incubator team proposes to focus on three socio-economic, cultural-symbolic vectors that continue to drive and uphold the polycrisis: (racial) capitalism, patriarchy, and (neo)colonialism (CPC). The challenge the project wants to tackle is (a) how can these interlocking systems of socio-economic and cultural-symbolic power come into view as intersecting and (b) what obstacles hinder effecting (policy or behavioral) change beyond CPC? The incubator thus reverses the question of sustainability: what makes CPC so 鈥榮ustainable鈥 as a system?
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| The Becoming Literate in a Digital Age project. Adapting Reading Education in the Netherlands | The Becoming Literate in a Digital Age project investigates whether (digital) education that strengthens reading comprehension as well as reading behaviour, taking into account both threats and opportunities of online reading, can lead to improvement.
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| To Cancel or Not to Cancel? Exploring Decolonial Strategies for Repairing Cultural Heritage | This project wants to investigate the meaning and uses of canceling practices across antiracist and decolonial movements, focusing specifically on canceling as a reparative strategy, aimed at repairing the past and its persistent consequences in the present. In its various forms 鈥渞eparative canceling鈥 reflects an attempt to redress symbols, arts, knowledge, and cultural habits that are considered harmful and unjust, as they perpetuate the legacy of colonial history. This research explores how reparative canceling of cultural heritage is performed within antiracist and decolonial activism aiming to redress historical injustices in both postcolonial and post-imperial societies.
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| Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament | This critically investigates the role of VR (Virtual Reality) for humanitarian appeals by asking how and to what extent humanitarian VR can function as an empathy machine, bridging the distance between viewers and mediated others. It researches the impact of VR for humanitarian appeals, in particular concerning issues around migration and refugees.
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| Voix de la col猫re et de l鈥檈spoir: Recherche action participative sur les strat茅gies narratives virtuelles et ethnographiques adopt茅es par les jeunes musulmanes et musulmans au Canada, en Europe et au Maghreb | This project aims to develop, implement and evaluate Models of intervention that are culturally sensitive and sufficiently adapted to the reality of young Muslims living in Canada Europe, and the Maghreb, to enable them to express and manage, in a constructive fashion their experiences of anger and hope.
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| Whose Ocean? | This interdisciplinary project brings together scholars from various fields and disciplines across Utrecht University (funded by Pathways to Sustainability). The ocean is crucial to life and climate, but its voice is barely heard in (international) law and policy decisions. While the UN explicitly speaks about 鈥渙ur ocean鈥, it is completely unclear who the 鈥渙ur鈥 refers to. Does the ocean belong to humanity? To states? Or does the ocean belong to itself? To the organisms (non-human animals, plants, and microbes) that live in it and/or to the materialities that make the ocean (water, rocks, elements)?
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