Simone Wetering, van de Photo by Sofie van Esch
  • Warandelaan 2, Montesquieu Building, room M 519

    5037 AB Tilburg

    Netherlands

20202024

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Research interests

Simone van de Wetering works as a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Public Law and Governance. Throughout her work, Simone has specialized in questions of identity, inequality and (urban) policy and in ethnographic research methods. These topics and methods were also central to her PhD research at Tilburg University: an ethnographic study of participatory governance approaches in marginalized neighborhoods in the Netherlands and France. In 2024, she defended her PhD dissertation: Beyond promise or problem: How state and citizens interact in participatory governance for urban marginality'. She currently works on a 'hybrid' ethnographic study of state-citizen conflict dynamics in the digital Anthropocene.

Her research is published in Local Government Studies, Urban Research & Practice, and Geoforum.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • inequality
  • identity
  • urban policy
  • everyday politics
  • citizen participation
  • state-citizen relationship

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