mw. dr. F.M. (Fenne) Pinkster

Onderwijsactiviteiten / Teaching activities 2017-2018:

• Bachelor: Inleiding Sociale Geografie, Basisspecialisatie Stadsgeografie
• Master Human Geography: Advanced Urban Geographies
• Research Master Urban Studies: thesis supervision and urban labs
• Research Master Social Sciences: supervision indivual reading course
• Voorzitter Opleidingscommisie Bachelor Sociale Geografie en Planologie
• Head of the Educational Programme Committee for the Master programs in Human Geography and Urban and Regional Planning

Scriptiebegeleiding / Thesis supervision

Ben je geinteresserd in het schrijven van een Bachelor of Master scripie  op een stadsgeografisch thema, kijk dan even hieronder naar de lijst met onderwerpen die binnen mijn onderzoeksexpertise vallen.

Are you interested in writing a thesis in the field of Urban Geography, please have a look at the list below of topics I have supervised in the past.

• gemengde wijken als plek van ontmoeting | living together in mixed neighbourhoods
• buurtbinding & sociale cohesie | place attachment, territoral belonging & social cohesion
• domeinvorming in de stad | place-claiming & territoriality
• bewonerservaringen van buurtverandering, gentrification & achteruitgang| lived experiences of neighbourhood change, gentrification & downgrading
• stedelijke vernieuwing & sociaal mengingsbeleid | urban restructuring & social mix projects
• buurtreputaties | imaginative geographies & territorial stigmatization
• buurtkeuze en verhuismobiliteit | neighbourhood choice & residential mobility
• tijdruimtelijk gedrag & dagelijkse routines in de stad | everyday geographies,  timespace routines & mobility practices
• gebruik en beleving openbare ruimte | everyday use and lived experience of public space
• stedelijk toerisme | urban tourism

Enkele voorbeelden van begeleide scripties | some examples of recent thesis supervision:

• Annefleur Noom (2016) Resident experiences of territorial stigmatization in Amsterdam and Brussels (RMUS)
• Marijn Ferier (2016) Belonging and use of space in migrant neighborhoods in NYC and Amsterdam (RMUS)
• Rosa de Jong (2017) Consuming diversity or living diversity: middle classes in renewal areas in Glasgow and Rotterdam (RMUS)
• Bachelor thesis project on Living together apart in the city, in collaboration with R&D (Planning department, Amsterdam)
• Thamon Blokland (2017) Evaluating favela painting projects in Port-au-prince, Haiti  (MA Human Geography)
• Brian Hinton (2017) Fragmented sense of home amongst young homeless people in Birmingham (MA Human Geography)
• Wesel Brocken (2017) Protests against urban tourism in Amsterdam (MA Human Geography)
• Janne Hogervorst (2017) Experiences of social mix in an affluent neighbourhood in Haarlem (MA Human Geography)
• Brady Rall (in progress) Everyday mobilities of young migrants in Boston and Amsterdam (RMUS)
• Jessica Warren (in progress) Mailing practices as neighbouring occassion (RMSS)
• Kamma Winther Kestner (in progress) Lived experiences of informal housing arrangements (RMUS)

Research interests

My research interests include a wide range of questions about the meaning of neighborhoods for residents, exploring how residents' everyday routines become embedded  in the neighborhood in which they live (or not!); how the neighborhood enables or limits their opportunities to improve their lives, and how - when neighborhood forms a meaningful place to residents - it is then acted upon. I have studied these questions in different types of neighborhoods (from low income neighborhoods to the Amsterdam canal belt) and for different groups of residents, using both qualitative and quantitative methods to provide insight in a variety of themes, including:

• emotional/affective geographies, focusing on place attachment and belonging, but also feelings of estrangement and loss in relation to place, whereby I interpret belonging not as a given or fixed, but as a process which may change over time. In particular, I have recently become interested in the everyday experiences of processes of spatial change that trigger feelings of discontent and territorial responses;
• everyday practices & timespace routines, examining the ways in which residents' lives are embedded in the neighbourhood and the wider city, how residents strategically manage their exposure to their environment, the barriers they encounter in navigating the city and the way in which social inequalities become manifest in the spatiality of everyday life;
• politics of place, with a particular focus on neighborhoods as informal territories  (despite the fact that most urban neighborhoods are relatively heterogeneous in the Dutch context). This includes questions relating to unequal power relations in informal and formal processes of place-making in terms of the degree to which different meanings of place are acknowledged and accommodated;
• 'living with difference', investigating how residents in mixed neighborhoods and housing projects experience and respond to living in close proximity to 'others' and studying under which conditions social mix programs can contribute to positive experiences of diversity;
• lived experiences of urban marginality, studying how residents in deprived urban areas experience, negotiate and cope with the marginalized context in which they live. This also includes research on processes of territorial stigmatization and the way in which residents of stigmatized urban areas themselves ascribe alternative meanings to their neighbourhood.

Research in progress

• Developing a research project on the lived experience of urban marginality and territorial stigmatization in Amsterdam Bijlmer;
• Finalizing a research paper with colleague Richard Ronald and Oana Druta on the Dutch case study of intergenerational support for home-making practices of young adults, as part of the ERC-project HOUWEL;
• Collaboraring with colleague Willem Boterman in a research project on supergentrification and new gentrifiers in the Amsterdam Canal Belt;

PhD Supervision

- Annalies Teernstra (2009-2014) Processes of neighborhood upgrading and downgrading, copromotor

- Myrte Hoekstra (2013-2017) Governing diversity and experiencing difference, copromotor

- Doske van der Wilk (2014-2017) Gentrifying public space, daily supervisor

- Robin-Jan van Duijne (2017-) Peri-urbanization in India, co-promotor

En verder...

• maak ik me regelmatig druk over het gebrek aan nuance in het publie debat over arme wijken en de misleidende en stigmatiserende labels die daarin gebruikt worden;
• en klim ik dan ook wel eens in de pen, zie bijvoorbeeld mijn reactie op het stuk Afrowijk in de Groene Amsterdammer (naar mijn mening het zoveelste voorbeeld was van Bijlmer bashing), mijn  kritische reactie op de term 'moslimwijken' in de Trouw en op de radio bij het programma CritiX  van FunX en een recent opiniestuk in het Parool met collega Wouter van Gent over onvrede van bewoners in Amsterdamse tuindorpen, mede op basis van mijn onderzoek in Betondorp.
• ben ik af en toe actief op twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/FenneGeo ;
• schreef ik onlangs een blog over toerisme op de Wallen (zie link hieronder)
• scoorde ik ooit een ikje bij de NRC;
• kom ik als werkende moeder altijd tijd tekort.