M De Wilde
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 43054 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M De Wilde |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | De Wilde |
| ASSINATURA | DE WILDE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8695-6406 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A good drainage economy
For centuries, peatlands in the Netherlands have been valued by draining water, shaping a drainage economy. Through drainage, a specific carbon relation, that of carbon-reacting-with-oxygen, enabled turf production and dairy farming. Yet, this carbon relation also resulted in peat oxidation, causing carbon dioxide emissions. In this article, we focus on carbon and trace how its relations become the object of intervention in a carbon market arrang…
We are Part of Nature
In this article, we pursue a route for understanding the decentralisation of wastewater treatment that moves away from thinking in terms of individual responsibility and technical determinism and mobilises the analytical lens of care to articulate more-than-human relationality as an organising principle of governing environmental infrastructures. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Dutch Flevopolder, we focus on the mundane practices of hand…
Knowing with Microalgae
In this article, we present a case study of an experimental set up of a microalgae-based wastewater treatment prototype in an ecovillage requiring many maintenance operations to function. Taking our cue from maintenance and repair studies, we focus on the embodied engagements by which caring for wastewater unfolds. We examine how aquatic ecologists, environmental engineers and villagers use their senses as instruments of inquiry when handling was…
Gender and the heat pump transition
Decarbonisation in moderate and cold climates is reliant on the replacement of existing heating technologies with electric heat pumps. Heat pumps work differently from incumbent technologies, including in how they are controlled, their distribution of heat around the home and their space requirements. Despite evidence that domestic practices and interests associated with women played an important role in previous heating transitions, policy and r…
The European Commission’s Green Deal is an opportunity to rethink harmful practices of research and innovation policy
The European Union’s Green Deal and associated policies, aspiring to long-term environmental sustainability, now require economic activities to ‘do no significant harm’ to EU environmental objectives. The way the European Commission is enacting the do no significant harm principle relies on quantitative tools that try to identify harm and adjudicate its significance. A reliance on established technical approaches to assessing such questions ignor…
Rats claiming rights? More-than-human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam
The anthropology of citizenship has sought to understand citizenship beyond formal-legal definitions, including a focus on how those who are legally without citizenship rights also engage in everyday acts of political claims-making. While this emphasis on the enactment of citizenship has expanded our understanding of who counts as a political being, it has also been obviously human centered. Might we also understand animals' acts, their presence …
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living
Growing awareness of environmental issues and their relation to consumption patterns has given rise to calls for sustainable consumption across the globe. In this article, we focus on the zero waste lifestyle movement, which targets high-consumption households in the Global North as a site of change for phasing out waste in global supply chains. Our article is concerned with asking how gender and household sustainability are mutually constituted …
A Heat Pump Needs a Bit of Care
As part of current energy transitions in the Global North, households have begun adopting renewable energy technologies, such as heat pumps and solar power systems, in significant numbers. These changes give rise to the following question: how are technology and gender configured when new technologies enter everyday life? Based upon ethnographic fieldwork on interactions between households, technologies, and technicians and interviews with sales …
Cultivating food or cultivating citizens? On the governance and potential of community gardens in Amsterdam
A renaissance of community gardening is unfolding on a global urban scale. Scholars have analysed community gardening projects as empowering, contested or controlled spaces depending on the local governance networks in which, or despite of which, they emerge. Focusing on the political-economic context in which gardening activities emerge in Amsterdam, we present community gardens as places where the neoliberal localisation of the city unfolds. Ba…
A care-infused market tale
Issues of maintenance offer exceptional opportunities for advancing our understanding of how market-driven innovation can meet societal objectives for energy transitions. In this article, I present a case study of ongoing attempts by two spin-outs and one start-up to stabilise innovative socio-technical agencements – ‘customer journeys’ – designed to catalyse economic exchange of certain singular goods – energy retrofit products – in the Netherla…
The sustainable housing question
Trust is critical for facilitating energy transitions in both general and market exchange, and most particularly in consumer engagement. However, little research has been done to demonstrate how trust is established and how it influences the decision-making process of important change agents in energy transitions. On the basis of 40 in-depth interviews with homeowners who adopted a domestic low-carbon retrofit measure, this paper distinguishes th…
Home is Where the Habit of the Heart is
Dutch neighborhood policy is increasingly, and quite literally, addressing the habits of the heart—residents’ values, emotions, and intimate relationships—to encourage what we may call “affective citizenship.” Central to this governmental strategy is the creation of communities as spheres of belonging. This article focuses on neighborhoods as potential spaces of belonging and the role that “feeling at home” plays in residents’ community participa…
The material practices of quantification
The use of indicators and indexes in social policy, as part of evidence-based policy, is understood by governmentality scholars as ‘techniques of governance’. However, we know very little about how the process of quantification is enacted in the material practices that constitute social policy itself. In this article we focus on a particular quantified object: the ‘Normal Amsterdam Level’ (NAP), used in an Amsterdam Neighbourhood Policy programme…
Engineering community spirit
Over the past two decades, communitarian criticisms of the lack of public engagement and a sense of local belonging have inspired extensive debates across Western Europe on how best to govern deprived urban neighbourhoods. One governmental strategy has been to engineer neighbourhood communities as localised, collective spheres of belonging. In this article, we show how ‘governing through affect’ has been part of Dutch neighbourhood policy since t…
Flexible relations, frail contacts and failing demands
This paper explores the way community groups, central to new systems of local governance, are related to local institutions and how those relations influence them. We draw from two theoretical approaches – behavioural and institutional – that offer different answers to the question: what makes community groups thrive? Based on an analysis of 386 community groups in the Netherlands, we distinguish four types of groups: feather light, cooperative, …
The Other Side of the Mountains
Museums, much as individual scholars, bring a certain perspective to their recounting of history. The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, is no exception. Strolling the grounds high above beautiful Blue Mountain Lake, visitors contemplate and enjoy scrupulously preserved guide boats, rustic furniture, and displays of camp life. With a few notable exceptions, the museum provides an amiable and reassuring view of the region as a back…
The sustainable housing question
Trust is critical for facilitating energy transitions in both general and market exchange, and most particularly in consumer engagement. However, little research has been done to demonstrate how trust is established and how it influences the decision-making process of important change agents in energy transitions. On the basis of 40 in-depth interviews with homeowners who adopted a domestic low-carbon retrofit measure, this paper distinguishes th…
Engineering community spirit
Over the past two decades, communitarian criticisms of the lack of public engagement and a sense of local belonging have inspired extensive debates across Western Europe on how best to govern deprived urban neighbourhoods. One governmental strategy has been to engineer neighbourhood communities as localised, collective spheres of belonging. In this article, we show how ‘governing through affect’ has been part of Dutch neighbourhood policy since t…
Home is Where the Habit of the Heart is
Dutch neighborhood policy is increasingly, and quite literally, addressing the habits of the heart—residents’ values, emotions, and intimate relationships—to encourage what we may call “affective citizenship.” Central to this governmental strategy is the creation of communities as spheres of belonging. This article focuses on neighborhoods as potential spaces of belonging and the role that “feeling at home” plays in residents’ community participa…
Flexible relations, frail contacts and failing demands
This paper explores the way community groups, central to new systems of local governance, are related to local institutions and how those relations influence them. We draw from two theoretical approaches – behavioural and institutional – that offer different answers to the question: what makes community groups thrive? Based on an analysis of 386 community groups in the Netherlands, we distinguish four types of groups: feather light, cooperative, …
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living
Growing awareness of environmental issues and their relation to consumption patterns has given rise to calls for sustainable consumption across the globe. In this article, we focus on the zero waste lifestyle movement, which targets high-consumption households in the Global North as a site of change for phasing out waste in global supply chains. Our article is concerned with asking how gender and household sustainability are mutually constituted …
The material practices of quantification
The use of indicators and indexes in social policy, as part of evidence-based policy, is understood by governmentality scholars as ‘techniques of governance’. However, we know very little about how the process of quantification is enacted in the material practices that constitute social policy itself. In this article we focus on a particular quantified object: the ‘Normal Amsterdam Level’ (NAP), used in an Amsterdam Neighbourhood Policy programme…
Rats claiming rights? More-than-human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam
The anthropology of citizenship has sought to understand citizenship beyond formal-legal definitions, including a focus on how those who are legally without citizenship rights also engage in everyday acts of political claims-making. While this emphasis on the enactment of citizenship has expanded our understanding of who counts as a political being, it has also been obviously human centered. Might we also understand animals' acts, their presence …
A Heat Pump Needs a Bit of Care
As part of current energy transitions in the Global North, households have begun adopting renewable energy technologies, such as heat pumps and solar power systems, in significant numbers. These changes give rise to the following question: how are technology and gender configured when new technologies enter everyday life? Based upon ethnographic fieldwork on interactions between households, technologies, and technicians and interviews with sales …
A care-infused market tale
Issues of maintenance offer exceptional opportunities for advancing our understanding of how market-driven innovation can meet societal objectives for energy transitions. In this article, I present a case study of ongoing attempts by two spin-outs and one start-up to stabilise innovative socio-technical agencements – ‘customer journeys’ – designed to catalyse economic exchange of certain singular goods – energy retrofit products – in the Netherla…
We are Part of Nature
In this article, we pursue a route for understanding the decentralisation of wastewater treatment that moves away from thinking in terms of individual responsibility and technical determinism and mobilises the analytical lens of care to articulate more-than-human relationality as an organising principle of governing environmental infrastructures. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Dutch Flevopolder, we focus on the mundane practices of hand…
The European Commission’s Green Deal is an opportunity to rethink harmful practices of research and innovation policy
The European Union’s Green Deal and associated policies, aspiring to long-term environmental sustainability, now require economic activities to ‘do no significant harm’ to EU environmental objectives. The way the European Commission is enacting the do no significant harm principle relies on quantitative tools that try to identify harm and adjudicate its significance. A reliance on established technical approaches to assessing such questions ignor…
The Other Side of the Mountains
Museums, much as individual scholars, bring a certain perspective to their recounting of history. The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, is no exception. Strolling the grounds high above beautiful Blue Mountain Lake, visitors contemplate and enjoy scrupulously preserved guide boats, rustic furniture, and displays of camp life. With a few notable exceptions, the museum provides an amiable and reassuring view of the region as a back…
Flexible relations, frail contacts and failing demands
This paper explores the way community groups, central to new systems of local governance, are related to local institutions and how those relations influence them. We draw from two theoretical approaches – behavioural and institutional – that offer different answers to the question: what makes community groups thrive? Based on an analysis of 386 community groups in the Netherlands, we distinguish four types of groups: feather light, cooperative, …
Home is Where the Habit of the Heart is
Dutch neighborhood policy is increasingly, and quite literally, addressing the habits of the heart—residents’ values, emotions, and intimate relationships—to encourage what we may call “affective citizenship.” Central to this governmental strategy is the creation of communities as spheres of belonging. This article focuses on neighborhoods as potential spaces of belonging and the role that “feeling at home” plays in residents’ community participa…
The material practices of quantification
The use of indicators and indexes in social policy, as part of evidence-based policy, is understood by governmentality scholars as ‘techniques of governance’. However, we know very little about how the process of quantification is enacted in the material practices that constitute social policy itself. In this article we focus on a particular quantified object: the ‘Normal Amsterdam Level’ (NAP), used in an Amsterdam Neighbourhood Policy programme…
Engineering community spirit
Over the past two decades, communitarian criticisms of the lack of public engagement and a sense of local belonging have inspired extensive debates across Western Europe on how best to govern deprived urban neighbourhoods. One governmental strategy has been to engineer neighbourhood communities as localised, collective spheres of belonging. In this article, we show how ‘governing through affect’ has been part of Dutch neighbourhood policy since t…
The sustainable housing question
Trust is critical for facilitating energy transitions in both general and market exchange, and most particularly in consumer engagement. However, little research has been done to demonstrate how trust is established and how it influences the decision-making process of important change agents in energy transitions. On the basis of 40 in-depth interviews with homeowners who adopted a domestic low-carbon retrofit measure, this paper distinguishes th…
Cultivating food or cultivating citizens? On the governance and potential of community gardens in Amsterdam
A renaissance of community gardening is unfolding on a global urban scale. Scholars have analysed community gardening projects as empowering, contested or controlled spaces depending on the local governance networks in which, or despite of which, they emerge. Focusing on the political-economic context in which gardening activities emerge in Amsterdam, we present community gardens as places where the neoliberal localisation of the city unfolds. Ba…
A care-infused market tale
Issues of maintenance offer exceptional opportunities for advancing our understanding of how market-driven innovation can meet societal objectives for energy transitions. In this article, I present a case study of ongoing attempts by two spin-outs and one start-up to stabilise innovative socio-technical agencements – ‘customer journeys’ – designed to catalyse economic exchange of certain singular goods – energy retrofit products – in the Netherla…
A Heat Pump Needs a Bit of Care
As part of current energy transitions in the Global North, households have begun adopting renewable energy technologies, such as heat pumps and solar power systems, in significant numbers. These changes give rise to the following question: how are technology and gender configured when new technologies enter everyday life? Based upon ethnographic fieldwork on interactions between households, technologies, and technicians and interviews with sales …
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living
Growing awareness of environmental issues and their relation to consumption patterns has given rise to calls for sustainable consumption across the globe. In this article, we focus on the zero waste lifestyle movement, which targets high-consumption households in the Global North as a site of change for phasing out waste in global supply chains. Our article is concerned with asking how gender and household sustainability are mutually constituted …
Gender and the heat pump transition
Decarbonisation in moderate and cold climates is reliant on the replacement of existing heating technologies with electric heat pumps. Heat pumps work differently from incumbent technologies, including in how they are controlled, their distribution of heat around the home and their space requirements. Despite evidence that domestic practices and interests associated with women played an important role in previous heating transitions, policy and r…
The European Commission’s Green Deal is an opportunity to rethink harmful practices of research and innovation policy
The European Union’s Green Deal and associated policies, aspiring to long-term environmental sustainability, now require economic activities to ‘do no significant harm’ to EU environmental objectives. The way the European Commission is enacting the do no significant harm principle relies on quantitative tools that try to identify harm and adjudicate its significance. A reliance on established technical approaches to assessing such questions ignor…
Rats claiming rights? More-than-human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam
The anthropology of citizenship has sought to understand citizenship beyond formal-legal definitions, including a focus on how those who are legally without citizenship rights also engage in everyday acts of political claims-making. While this emphasis on the enactment of citizenship has expanded our understanding of who counts as a political being, it has also been obviously human centered. Might we also understand animals' acts, their presence …
Knowing with Microalgae
In this article, we present a case study of an experimental set up of a microalgae-based wastewater treatment prototype in an ecovillage requiring many maintenance operations to function. Taking our cue from maintenance and repair studies, we focus on the embodied engagements by which caring for wastewater unfolds. We examine how aquatic ecologists, environmental engineers and villagers use their senses as instruments of inquiry when handling was…
We are Part of Nature
In this article, we pursue a route for understanding the decentralisation of wastewater treatment that moves away from thinking in terms of individual responsibility and technical determinism and mobilises the analytical lens of care to articulate more-than-human relationality as an organising principle of governing environmental infrastructures. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Dutch Flevopolder, we focus on the mundane practices of hand…
A good drainage economy
For centuries, peatlands in the Netherlands have been valued by draining water, shaping a drainage economy. Through drainage, a specific carbon relation, that of carbon-reacting-with-oxygen, enabled turf production and dairy farming. Yet, this carbon relation also resulted in peat oxidation, causing carbon dioxide emissions. In this article, we focus on carbon and trace how its relations become the object of intervention in a carbon market arrang…
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