Claske Dijkema
Biographic Data
| ID | 1280130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claske Dijkema |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claske |
| FAMILY NAME | Dijkema |
| SIGNATURE | DIJKEMA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bern University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7967-2691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When French Means White
Racist mechanisms in France deny racialised citizens recognition as French citizens, even more so when they live in marginalised social housing neighbourhoods. The question of who is considered French, which is framed in this paper as a question of citizenship, is informed by embodied everyday experiences of inequality. Even if the racialised inhabitants of marginalised neighbourhoods have formal political rights, they do not feel that they count…
Peace in Motion
People who flee areas of armed conflict and other forms of violence do not automatically find peace upon leaving. Their lived experiences often involve continued violence across different stages and locations of forced migration, challenging conventional notions of what peace entails. Traditionally, peace is conceptualized in relation to armed violence and specific geographic areas within nation-states where such violence occurs. This article dra…
Challenging Silencing in Stigmatized Neighborhoods Through Collaborative Knowledge Production
Researchers are always potential traitors when they represent what they see or hear. This is of particular concern in the case of people in subaltern positions, who lack the power to challenge possible misrepresentations. This article deals with an old dilemma in critical social science: How to use language when research objects are silenced through dynamics of domination? Is it possible for research to create space for marginalized people to spe…
Unpacking Silencing to Make Black Lives Matter
This article focuses on the debates surrounding decolonisation and antiracism in the wake of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in Switzerland. They sparked new discussions within Swiss institutions, particularly city governments, about racism, colonialism, and physical changes to the material environment for which activists have advocated. Based on an empirical example in Zurich, the article examines the dynamics of (un)silencing when city go…
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of 'Non-war' Violence
Peace is often represented as a matter of time, as a political state that happens after war. This special issue contests this linear and binary view by giving an account of being and thinking between the boundaries of peace and war. It challenges mainstream ideas, political discourses, and collective imaginaries about the location of violence, peace, and peacebuilding. It does so by providing empirical and theoretical arguments as to why Peace an…
Geographies of peace in the wake of non-war violence in the city
Research on violently contested cities has focused on cities in the global South and on civil war contexts. This article makes the case for broadening this empirical scope to cities in non-war contexts, which are considered 'at peace' but where politicians regularly declare war on e.g. drugs and terrorism. Experiences of violence, such as riots, youth violence and the aftermaths of terrorist attacks in a marginalised social housing neighbourhood …
Being black but not Black? Diasporic identities in France, across the Atlantic, and across the Mediterranean
Through the concept of the Black Mediterranean, Camilla Hawthorne explores the ways in which the plantation and slavery are productive ways to think about the politics of Blackness in Europe and in Italy (2021, 2022). Which promises does this work hold for a European debate on Black Geographies and how does it extend or speak to decolonial and post-colonial debates? My engagement with the questions around the politics of Blackness shifts the geog…
Creating space for agonism
How can researchers do more than ‘do no harm’ and have a positive impact in the contexts in which they intervene? These are classic questions of PAR, which also apply to peace research. How can research practice contribute to peace? There is an intimate relationship between power, violence and silence. Hence, working with subalternised voices, subject to epistemic violence, poses a methodological challenge for social sciences in which words are d…
Preface
While in the past two decades a rich literature has emerged about the politics of public space, many of these theoretical works and empirical studies consider public space interactions and behaviors against the backdrop of deliberative or representative politics. In this special issue, to which this article is the preface, we offer some reflections on how the everyday and the micro-level can be sites of political expression, leading inevitably to…
If You Can’t Hear Me, I Will Show You”
This article is concerned with public space as a place of contestation, of confrontation, and insurgency. It situates these everyday forms of confrontation in France’s postcolonial history, arguing that the occupation of communal spaces by groups of youths should be understood as part of a larger conflict about the place that those called “of immigrant origin” can occupy in French society. The article seeks to explain why youths involved in the u…
Creating space for agonism
How can researchers do more than ‘do no harm’ and have a positive impact in the contexts in which they intervene? These are classic questions of PAR, which also apply to peace research. How can research practice contribute to peace? There is an intimate relationship between power, violence and silence. Hence, working with subalternised voices, subject to epistemic violence, poses a methodological challenge for social sciences in which words are d…
If You Can’t Hear Me, I Will Show You”
This article is concerned with public space as a place of contestation, of confrontation, and insurgency. It situates these everyday forms of confrontation in France’s postcolonial history, arguing that the occupation of communal spaces by groups of youths should be understood as part of a larger conflict about the place that those called “of immigrant origin” can occupy in French society. The article seeks to explain why youths involved in the u…
Geographies of peace in the wake of non-war violence in the city
Research on violently contested cities has focused on cities in the global South and on civil war contexts. This article makes the case for broadening this empirical scope to cities in non-war contexts, which are considered 'at peace' but where politicians regularly declare war on e.g. drugs and terrorism. Experiences of violence, such as riots, youth violence and the aftermaths of terrorist attacks in a marginalised social housing neighbourhood …
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of 'Non-war' Violence
Peace is often represented as a matter of time, as a political state that happens after war. This special issue contests this linear and binary view by giving an account of being and thinking between the boundaries of peace and war. It challenges mainstream ideas, political discourses, and collective imaginaries about the location of violence, peace, and peacebuilding. It does so by providing empirical and theoretical arguments as to why Peace an…
If You Can’t Hear Me, I Will Show You”
This article is concerned with public space as a place of contestation, of confrontation, and insurgency. It situates these everyday forms of confrontation in France’s postcolonial history, arguing that the occupation of communal spaces by groups of youths should be understood as part of a larger conflict about the place that those called “of immigrant origin” can occupy in French society. The article seeks to explain why youths involved in the u…
Preface
While in the past two decades a rich literature has emerged about the politics of public space, many of these theoretical works and empirical studies consider public space interactions and behaviors against the backdrop of deliberative or representative politics. In this special issue, to which this article is the preface, we offer some reflections on how the everyday and the micro-level can be sites of political expression, leading inevitably to…
Being black but not Black? Diasporic identities in France, across the Atlantic, and across the Mediterranean
Through the concept of the Black Mediterranean, Camilla Hawthorne explores the ways in which the plantation and slavery are productive ways to think about the politics of Blackness in Europe and in Italy (2021, 2022). Which promises does this work hold for a European debate on Black Geographies and how does it extend or speak to decolonial and post-colonial debates? My engagement with the questions around the politics of Blackness shifts the geog…
Creating space for agonism
How can researchers do more than ‘do no harm’ and have a positive impact in the contexts in which they intervene? These are classic questions of PAR, which also apply to peace research. How can research practice contribute to peace? There is an intimate relationship between power, violence and silence. Hence, working with subalternised voices, subject to epistemic violence, poses a methodological challenge for social sciences in which words are d…
Geographies of peace in the wake of non-war violence in the city
Research on violently contested cities has focused on cities in the global South and on civil war contexts. This article makes the case for broadening this empirical scope to cities in non-war contexts, which are considered 'at peace' but where politicians regularly declare war on e.g. drugs and terrorism. Experiences of violence, such as riots, youth violence and the aftermaths of terrorist attacks in a marginalised social housing neighbourhood …
Challenging Silencing in Stigmatized Neighborhoods Through Collaborative Knowledge Production
Researchers are always potential traitors when they represent what they see or hear. This is of particular concern in the case of people in subaltern positions, who lack the power to challenge possible misrepresentations. This article deals with an old dilemma in critical social science: How to use language when research objects are silenced through dynamics of domination? Is it possible for research to create space for marginalized people to spe…
Unpacking Silencing to Make Black Lives Matter
This article focuses on the debates surrounding decolonisation and antiracism in the wake of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in Switzerland. They sparked new discussions within Swiss institutions, particularly city governments, about racism, colonialism, and physical changes to the material environment for which activists have advocated. Based on an empirical example in Zurich, the article examines the dynamics of (un)silencing when city go…
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of 'Non-war' Violence
Peace is often represented as a matter of time, as a political state that happens after war. This special issue contests this linear and binary view by giving an account of being and thinking between the boundaries of peace and war. It challenges mainstream ideas, political discourses, and collective imaginaries about the location of violence, peace, and peacebuilding. It does so by providing empirical and theoretical arguments as to why Peace an…
Peace in Motion
People who flee areas of armed conflict and other forms of violence do not automatically find peace upon leaving. Their lived experiences often involve continued violence across different stages and locations of forced migration, challenging conventional notions of what peace entails. Traditionally, peace is conceptualized in relation to armed violence and specific geographic areas within nation-states where such violence occurs. This article dra…
When French Means White
Racist mechanisms in France deny racialised citizens recognition as French citizens, even more so when they live in marginalised social housing neighbourhoods. The question of who is considered French, which is framed in this paper as a question of citizenship, is informed by embodied everyday experiences of inequality. Even if the racialised inhabitants of marginalised neighbourhoods have formal political rights, they do not feel that they count…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Public space (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works)