Marianne Maeckelbergh - PaDC
PaDC: Property and Democratic Citizenship
Description of the PI
She obtained her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex, UK in 2008 after obtaining her MA in Social Anthropology of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In February 2008, she became Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. From 2014-2016 she was visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley on a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship. And for short periods of time in 2017 and 2018 she was also visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In 2015 she received the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) Aspasia grant through which she expanded her multi-sited ethnographic research on political engagement and democratic citizenship as Associate Professor, and later, Full Professor at Leiden University.
Currently, she is the Principle Investigator on the “Property and Democratic Citizenship” project funded by the European Research Council which uses conflicts over property to explore how various property regimes impact people's experiences of citizenship across five democratic countries (Greece, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, and the US). Her other research interests include anthropological approaches to personhood, agency, urban transformation, media and digital technology.
She is the author of The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy (Pluto Press, 2009) and co-producer of the globaluprisings.org film series.
Description of the project
This research provides the opportunity to rethink the role of property within democracy based on extensive empirical data about how moral assumptions combine with particular ways of regulating and marketing property to exacerbate, alleviate or create inequalities within contemporary experiences of democratic citizenship.
The full research team is as follows:
Principal Investigator:
- Marianne Maeckelbergh (US case study);
four PhD researchers:
- Aleksandra Hall (UK case study),
- Marta Ill-Raga (Spain case study),
- Theodoros Karyotis (Greek case study),
- Seppe Malfait (Netherlands case study);
two postdoctoral researchers:
- Carlos Delclós (Comparative research, based at the Autonomous University of Barcelona)
- Christina Sakali (cross-case comparative research).
Contact
Publications: orcid