Department of Business Humanities and Law

My research revolves around the question as to how we might organise our urban economies and societies more justly and sustainably. I am interested in how capitalist political-economic structures and neoliberal governance condition possibilities for transformative social change in the city, as well as in the ways that social actors within and outside of the local state organise collectively to overcome these barriers. I consider how alternative visions of the economy come to materialise in urban contexts and how such processes are shaped by existing intersecting inequalities.

In my PhD project, I have studied efforts of urban activists and local state actors in Amsterdam to transform the urban economy through ideas of the circular economy and the Doughnut Economy. My research approach is qualitative and interdisciplinary, as I draw from my background in economics and philosophy, as well as urban geography and critical sociology.