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Research output per year
I am an anthropologist driven by a simple but urgent conviction: that the world needs knowledge that is as entangled, plural and committed as the crises we face. My work sits at the intersection of organization studies, anthropology, political ecology, and post-humanism, and it is guided by a belief that understanding how communities organize under climate change, neoliberal pressure, and postcolonial inequality requires more than detached observation. It requires solidarity, creativity, and a willingness to work across boundaries.
My research moves along three interconnected streams: resilience, hydrofeminism, and multispecies cooperation. I ask how communities, ecosystems, and non-human actors co-organize, co-produce, and co-create knowledge when the ground shifts beneath them and the climate is acceleratingly changing. Much of this work is rooted in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Lombok, Indonesia, where my doctoral dissertation Harvesting Uncertainty traces climate perceptions, agrarian struggle, and the collision of local knowledge with global economic forces. At the same time, I am increasingly working closer to home: on latent civic networks in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, on water justice and alternative organizing in Europe, and on what bees, biogas, and ecofeminist communities can teach us about alternative ways of organizing society and community.
I publish in journals such as the Journal of Rural Studies, South East Asia Research, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and I have several pieces currently under review on hydrofeminism and decolonial organizing. But academic publishing is one part of how I want my work to matter, I collaborate with SW/SL, Ru Pare, East West Seed, and a range of civic and art-based organizations, and I co-edit enclimores.org as a platform for engaged climate and migration scholarship. I am co-founder of the Environmental and Climate Mobilities and Resilience Hub, and I write, make magazines, and work with artists, because I believe research communication and impact need more than one vessel.
In my teaching at the Department of Organization Sciences, I try to do the same thing I do in my research: connect theory to the texture of real life and make space for students to think seriously about the world they are inheriting. I coordinate the thesis trajectory in the B&O bachelor programme, supervise master students in COM, part of the OLC of BCO, and am actively involved in curriculum innovation.
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Anthropology, PhD, Harvesting Uncertainty. Rural Lives in Conjuncture: Climate Perceptions, Neoliberalism, and Agrarian Struggle in Lombok, Indonesia
1 Sept 2020 → 19 Jan 2026
Award Date: 19 Jan 2026
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Master, From Ashes to Fire: The Possibilities of the Phoenix Effect in Post-Disaster Lombok, Indonesia, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1 Sept 2018 → 1 Sept 2019
Award Date: 1 Sept 2019
Social Work, Bachelor, Verborgen eenzaamheid onder westerse ouderen in Jeruzalem, Julianapark en omgeving Frankendael, Hogeschool van Amsterdam
1 Sept 2014 → 1 Sept 2018
Award Date: 1 Sept 2018
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD-Thesis - Research and graduation internal
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review › Professional
Larruina, R. (Project Researcher), Koopman, J. (Project Researcher), Vrabiescu, I. (Project Researcher) & van Gemert, E. (Project Researcher)
30/06/25 → …
Project: Research
Wels, H. (Project Researcher), Clark, N. E. (Project Researcher), Vrabiescu, I. (Principal Investigator), Horvath, A. (Project Researcher) & Koopman, J. (Project Researcher)
1/10/23 → 31/08/27
Project: Research
Koopman, J. (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Other event › Societal
Koopman, J. (Organiser) & Larruina, R. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Other event › Academic
Koopman, J. (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
3/02/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
6/01/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities