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Narrative Research Roundtable
September 25: 12-1:30pm
Truland 550
As part of our mission to anchor research on narrative processes in conflict dynamics within and across the faculty and students at S-CAR, the Center for the Study of Narrative and Conflict Resolution is launching lunchtime Narrative Research Roundtables. We are providing a space for individuals to present their research in progress to colleagues for feedback. This opportunity for scholarly exchange is open to the entire community. If you are working on a paper using Narrative approaches and would like to practice presenting your work and opening it to discussion, or you are interested in joining the session, please contact Alison Castel [email protected].
Roundtable Dates: October 16, November 12
Social-Spatial Narrative: A framework to understand urban conflict.
Nanke Verloo MSc
PhD Candidate
University of Amsterdam
Visiting scholar, Center for the Study of Narrative and Conflict Resolution
Summary:
Urban conflicts can function as a lens to understand the everyday experience of broad social processes such as migration, marginalisation, gentrification, etc. The urban neighbourhood is where residents, policy-makers, and professionals negotiate these changes, not in the abstract, but in everyday life. This makes the neighbourhood the first place in which changes will be contested, but it also makes the neighbourhood the place in which ambitions for inclusive, responsive, and deliberative governance can be realized. The case study, however, reveals how practices of policy-practitioners and professionals exclude residents from taking part in the public debate. Although unintended, a group of residents get’s marginalised through the process of urban development. The framework of a Social-Spatial Narrative provides a way of engaging into the ethnographic details of urban conflict. The framework brings together contradicting narratives and analyses how relationships change through the discursive performance of language and the use of places.
Biography:
Nanke Verloo is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, department of political science. She specializes in the study of urban anthropology. Her training is in anthropology and public policy. She did a master in Conflict Resolution and Governance at the International School for Humanities and Social Science at the University of Amsterdam. For her master thesis, she conducted ethnographic fieldwork in rural and urban Morocco, looking for the connection between return migration and grassroots civil society.
She conducts her PhD research in the context of the research project 'Buurten, Spanningen en Conflicten', a cooperation of the Amsterdam Centre for Conflictstudies (ACS), AISSR, NICIS institute and the G4. In the context of this research she facilitates training for civil servants in local governments to transform conflicts in moments of opportunity by developing skills for reflection, narrative development, and negotiation. She teaches in the minor conflict studies and the department of political science at the University of Amsterdam.