Dr. Claske Dijkema

• Research

• Teaching

• Sociologist and geographer specialised in conflicts and empowerment in urban spaces

• Participation and Power

• Post-colonial Migration

• Participatory action research

• MA Changing Societies, University of Basel (CH)

• MA Critical Urbanisms, University of Basel (CH)

• MA International Development Studies, University of Grenoble-Alpes (FR)

• MA Coopération internationale et Communication interlangues, University of Grenoble-Alpes (FR)

• MA Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck (AT)

• Theories for Understanding Changing Societies

• Methods for Analysing Changing Societies

• Research Colloquium Changing Societies

• Decolonising Swiss urban landscapes

• Analyse de conflit et transformation

• Géopolitique des conflits

• Social Cohesion and Conflict Management

• Spaces of participation

• Postcolonial and subaltern studies

• Peace and conflict in urban spaces

• Empowerment and resistance

• Spaces of refuge

• 2000-2023 Senior Researcher swisspeace
• 2021-2023 Part-time Lecturer University of Basel
• 2017-2018 Research Assistant SciencePo Grenoble
• 2006-2019 Coordinator Modus operandi
• 2004-2006 Junior Researcher Ecole de la Paix
• 2001-2004 Program Officer The Network University
• 2000-2001 Project assistant African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)

• 2015-2021 PhD in Human Geography University of Grenoble-Alpes
• 1996-2000 MA in Sociology University of Amsterdam
• 1994-1995 BA in Sociology University of Amsterdam
• 1998-1999 Exchange year University of California Berkeley

• URPEACE - The peace-building agency of stigmatized civilian actors in European cities dealing with the consequences of terrorist violence

• Trêve – Rencontres de géopolitique critique, Initiatives of Excellence framework 2019, UGA

• UNIPOP – Université Populaire, le passé colonial au présent, Initiatives of Excellence framework 2018, UGA

• Violence en ville, comprendre et agir. Analyse des conflits du quotidien dans l'espace public à Villeneuve, Grenoble

• Dijkema, Claske (2024). Challenging Silencing in Stigmatized Neighborhoods Through Collaborative Knowledge Production Social Inclusion, 12 Cogitatio Press 10.17645/si.7706 <http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.7706>

• Wilopo, Claudia; Dijkema, Claske (2024). Unpacking Silencing to Make Black Lives Matter: Ethnographies of Racism in Public Space Social Inclusion, 12, pp. 1-16. Cogitatio Press 10.17645/si.7841 <http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.7841>

• Dijkema, Claske; Djontu, Herrick Mouafo (2023). Geographies of peace in the wake of non-war violence in the city: Agir pour la Paix in a marginalised neighbourhood in France Peacebuilding, 11(4), pp. 463-481. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/21647259.2023.2236412 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2023.2236412>

• Dijkema, Claske (2022). Being black but not Black? Diasporic identities in France, across the Atlantic, and across the Mediterranean Geographica Helvetica, 77(4), pp. 499-504. Copernicus 10.5194/gh-77-499-2022 <http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-499-2022>

• Dijkema, Claske (2022). Creating space for agonism: making room for subalternised voices in peace research Conflict, Security & Development, 22(5), pp. 475-494. Taylor and Francis Online 10.1080/14678802.2022.2122697 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2022.2122697>

• Dijkema, Claske (2022). Claiming space, when Muslim women of marginalised social housing neighbourhoods declare themselves citizens Justice spatiale - Spatial justice(17), pp. 1-19. Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, UMR LAVUE 7218, Laboratoire Mosaïques

• Dijkema, Claske (2021). What is urban about urban violence in France? Violence in marginalised neighbourhoods as body politics Lo Squaderno Explorations in Space and Society(59), pp. 17-20. Lo Squaderno

• De Backer, Mattias; Dijkema, Claske; Hörschelmann, Kathrin (2019). Preface: The Everyday Politics of Public Space Space and Culture, 22(3), pp. 240-249. SAGE 10.1177/1206331219830080 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331219830080>

• Dijkema, Claske (2019). “If You Can’t Hear Me, I Will Show You”: Insurgent Claims to Public Space in a Marginalized Social Housing Neighborhood in France Space and Culture, 22(3), pp. 250-262. Sage 10.1177/1206331218794607 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218794607>

• Dijkema, Claske (2021). Subaltern in France: A decolonial exploration of voice, violence and racism in marginalized social housing neighborhoods in Grenoble (France) (Unpublished). (Dissertation, Unversité de Grenoble-Alpes, Geography)

• Dijkema, Claske; Cohen, Morgane (2023). Madame Ruetabaga’s Prefigurative Politics at the Urban Fringes of Grenoble In: Gülen, Hande; Sungur, Ceyda; Yeşilyurt, Adem (eds.) At the Frontiers of Everyday Life. The Urban Book Series (pp. 119-133). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-46580-2_8 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46580-2_8>

• Gatelier, Karine; Dijkema, Claske; Djontu, Herrick Mouafo (2017). Transformation de conflit: Retrouver une capacité d’action face à la violence DD: Vol. 208. Paris: Editions Charles Leopold Mayer

• Dijkema, Claske; Gatelier, Karine; Samson, Ivan; Tercinet, Josiane (eds.) (2011). Rethinking the foundations of the State, an analysis of post-crisis situations Brussels: Bruylant

• Dijkema, Claske; Cohen, Morgane (2023). Madame Ruetabaga’s Prefigurative Politics at the Urban Fringes of Grenoble In: Gülen, Hande; Sungur, Ceyda; Yeşilyurt, Adem (eds.) At the Frontiers of Everyday Life. The Urban Book Series (pp. 119-133). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-46580-2_8 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46580-2_8>

• Dijkema, Claske; Mühlemann, Theresia (22 February 2024). "Wohnen ist mehr als nur irgendwo ein Zuhause zu haben" Bieler Tagblatt: Raus!: Das Ausgehmagazin fürs Seeland, p. 7. Gassmann

• Dijkema, Claske (2023). Espoirs enchaînés: cinq femmes exilées racontent leur expérience de la paix et leurs ressentis In: Cohen, Morgane; Gatelier, Karine (eds.) La paix ! cahier des 7es rencontres de géopolitique critique (pp. 12-14). Grenoble: modus operandi

• American Association of Geographers

• Royal Geographic Society

Nominated in the categories Strong Foundations and Modern Scholarship

PACTE nominated the thesis "Subaltern in France – A Decolonial Exploration of Voice, Violence and Racism in Marginalized Social Housing Neighborhoods in Grenoble" for the Award.

The European Commission - DG Research awarded the follwoship for the project URPEACE, Geographies of peace in the wake of violence in the city.

• German - Professional working proficiency
• French - Full professional proficiency
• English - Full professional proficiency
• Dutch - Native or bilingual proficiency