Nanke Verloo
Associate Professor of Urban Politics and Planning, University of Amsterdam
Governance
Connecting my background in Anthropology and Political Science, I study the interactions between citizens and the state to rethink how cities could be governed, planned and lived more just and democratic. I study how planners, politicians, professionals and citizens engaging in conflicts can turn these interactions into productive opportunities for equitable change.
In my recent research project, subsidised by the VENI grant of the Dutch Research Council, I studied how formal and informal practices of citizen participation relate to each other and how the cities of Bogota, Colombia and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, seek to innovate their ambitions for citizen inclusion in Urban development processes. Besides my teaching and research in the Amsterdam Planning School of the UvA, I am editor in Chief of the Dutch journal Policy and Society, and I am Dean of a post-graduate program for urban professionals ‘Metropool’ at the Dutch School of Public Policy in The Hague.
RESEARCH FOCUS
Planning conflicts, participatory governance, public encounters, (in)formality, local democracy, ethnography, narrative analyses, action research
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Positions & roles
Dean of Metropool, Dutch School of Public Policy in The Hague.
Editor in Chief, Beleid en Maatschappij
External advisory committee member Raad voor de Leefomgeving en Infrastructuur (RLI)
Teaching
I teach qualitative methodologies and planning theories that help students to better understand the conflicts that emerge when citizens shape cities from the bottom up, and local governments govern and plan top-down.
Courses
Research Methods 2
Introduction to Planning
Research Abroad: Bogota, Colombia
