Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
S. Kloppenburg
S. (Sanneke) Kloppenburg
Afdeling Sociologie en Antropologie University of Amsterdam


Kloveniersburgwal 48
1012 CX Amsterdam

http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.kloppenburg/
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Research interests

  • Mobilities and borders
  • Airports
  • Globalisation
  • Technologies
  • Indonesia/Asia

 

PhD project

In my PhD research I explore the mobility regimes that organise, regulate, and sort transnational mobilities at airports. I did case studies of mobility regimes at airports in The Netherlands and Indonesia by looking at the way particular groupsof travelers move through the airport (a. o. Indonesian migrant workers, travelers on ‘risk flights’, and members of fast border passage programs).

Airports are fascinating research sites for a study of the politics of mobilities and borders. Empirically, the airport can show us how mobilities are produced and regulated and how borders are not fixed in time and space. Theoretically and methodologically the airport is interesting because it is at the same time a node for mobility, and a border in a globalising world. My theoretical departure points are the interfaces between mobilities studies and border studies, in particular around the themes of differential mobility and the sorting function of borders. I attempt to move beyond a dichotomy of movement and non-movement and stress different capacities for, and meanings and experiences of mobility.

Background

I studied International Development Studies at Wageningen University (BSc and MSc) and specialised in environmental policy and sociology of mobilities. My interest in mobilities and borders began with my MSc thesis on theories of mobilities and in- and exclusions.

After my graduation I worked as a junior researcher at Maastricht University on a project about how so-called ‘hypermobile’ people use transport- and communication technologies to manage their everyday mobility.  

In 2007 I started my PhD research at the AISSR at University of Amsterdam. At the AISSR I coordinate the Asia PhD club.

I am also a memberofthe task force ofthe Cosmobilities Network, a European network of mobilities researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds



Cosmobilities Network

Publications

Peters, Peter, Sanneke Kloppenburg, and Sally Wyatt (2010) Co-ordinating Passages: Understanding the Resources Needed for Everyday Mobility. Mobilities 5 (3), pp 349 – 368.