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, C. (2024). Challenging Silencing in Stigmatized Neighborhoods Through Collaborative Knowledge Production (Vol. 12). Cogitatio Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.21703

• Wilopo, C., & Dijkema, C. (2024). Unpacking Silencing to Make Black Lives Matter: Ethnographies of Racism in Public Space (Vol. 12). Cogitatio Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.21704

• Dijkema, C., & Djontu, H. M. (2023). Geographies of peace in the wake of non-war violence in the city: Agir pour la Paix in a marginalised neighbourhood in France (Vol. 11, Issue 4). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20129

• Dijkema, C. (2022). Being black but not Black? Diasporic identities in France, across the Atlantic, and across the Mediterranean (Vol. 77, Issue 4). Copernicus. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19251

• Dijkema, C. (2022). Creating space for agonism: making room for subalternised voices in peace research (Vol. 22, Issue 5). Taylor and Francis Online. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19252

• Dijkema, C. (2022). Revendiquer sa juste place : des musulmanes de quartiers marginalisés se déclarent citoyennes (Issue 17). Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, UMR LAVUE 7218, Laboratoire Mosaïques. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19255

• Dijkema, C. (2021). What is urban about urban violence in France? Violence in marginalised neighbourhoods as body politics (Issue 59). Lo Squaderno. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19253

• De Backer, M., Dijkema, C., & Hörschelmann, K. (2019). Preface: The Everyday Politics of Public Space (Vol. 22, Issue 3). SAGE. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19256

• Dijkema, C. (2019). “If You Can’t Hear Me, I Will Show You”: Insurgent Claims to Public Space in a Marginalized Social Housing Neighborhood in France (Vol. 22, Issue 3). Sage. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20130

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• Dijkema, C., & Cohen, M. (2023). Madame Ruetabaga’s Prefigurative Politics at the Urban Fringes of Grenoble (H. Gülen, C. Sungur, & A. Yeşilyurt, Eds.). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.21694

• Gatelier, K., Dijkema, C., & Djontu, H. M. (2017). Transformation de conflit: Retrouver une capacité d’action face à la violence (Vol. 208). Editions Charles Leopold Mayer. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20132

• 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, C., & Cohen, M. (2023). Madame Ruetabaga’s Prefigurative Politics at the Urban Fringes of Grenoble (H. Gülen, C. Sungur, & A. Yeşilyurt, Eds.). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.21694

• Dijkema, C., & Mühlemann, T. (2024). “Wohnen ist mehr als nur irgendwo ein Zuhause zu haben.” Gassmann. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.21463

• Dijkema, C. (2023). Espoirs enchaînés: cinq femmes exilées racontent leur expérience de la paix et leurs ressentis (M. Cohen & K. Gatelier, Eds.; Issue 7). modus operandi. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.21464

• 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