dr. I (Irene) van Oorschot

Biography

Spanning a variety of subjects and research contexts, my academic career is characterized by an enduring interest in knowledge production and valuing practices, and a strong focus on ethnographic research methods. I am inspired and informed by science and technology studies, decolonial ecology, and feminist scholarship.

Forests and Climate Crisis

As a Marie Curie scholar at the Life Science and Society Lab (KU Leuven, 2021-2022) and during my NWO-funded Veni project (2022-2025), I explored how imaginaries of resilience to future stressors and shocks are reshaping environmental management practices, focusing specifically on forests and forest-society relations. While often approached as an unquestioned good or condemned as ‘neoliberal governmentality’, I am interested in how resilience invites new ways of knowing, managing, and governing environments and human-nature relationships, and in the uncertainties, speculations, and anticipations that characterize future-oriented forest work. Together with J. Asselin (University of Lethbridge) and A. Konczal (Wageningen University) I coordinate FORAGE: The Forest Anthropology Working Group on Europe and Beyond that brings together anthropologists, ethnographers, and social scientists across disciplines who engage in forest-related research.

Climate Change and Urban Life: The Role of the Body

As a PI on the Can You Sense Change project (2021-2022), funded by the Rotterdam NGO Rotterdams Weerwoord, I developed an approach to climate change that engages the role of the body and the senses and examines how and where urban dwellers in Rotterdam encounter and make sense of global warming in their everyday life. The concept of climatic care practices developed in the Sociological Review has allowed  my team and I to bring into view emerging improvisations and practices of care that people develop to mitigate their exposure to weather extremes, while our work also repositions climate change in the present in Environment and Planning C

Forensics, Race, and Law

As a postdoctoral researcher, I studied how biological markers of difference inform and shape the production, mobilization, and contestation of forensic knowledges, specifically in Court settings. Drawing on science and technology studies of forensics, genetics, and race, my contributions have appeared The Palgrave Handbook for the Anthropology of Technology, the Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory, Biosocieties, and in Social Studies of Science

Legal Practice and Documents

As PhD researcher, I  explored how judges make sense of cases - and role played in these practices by material objects, specifically of case files. Resulting in the cum laude defense of my dissertation in 2018 and the publication of The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice by Cambridge University Press in 2021, my work continues to inform conversations in migration law, the anthropology and sociology of law, and socio-legal studies and has appeared in The Journal of Law & Society, Environment and Planning CSocial & Legal Studies, Symbolic Interaction, as well as in various edited collections. 

Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Assistant professor | Science Public Issues and Imaginaries
Email
vanoorschot@essb.eur.nl

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Work

  • Jeff Handmaker, Isabel Awad Cherit, Layal Chaker, Irene van Oorschot, Federica Violi & Rima Rassi (2024) - Gaza and Lebanon: One year on(going) (Participant)
    Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event Academic
  • Isabel Awad Cherit, Irene van Oorschot, Jeff Handmaker & Gabriele Helfert (2024) - Towers of Ivory and Steel: Scrutinising our university's complicities and possibilities (Organiser)
    Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event Popular
  • Sophie van Balen & Irene van Oorschot (2023) - Everyday Ingenuities (Participant)
    Activiteit: Attending an event Academic
  • Irene Oorschot & Willem Schinkel (2015) - Het dossier als grensobject: Allo- en autoreferentie in het strafrecht (Speaker)
    Activiteit: Oral presentation Academic
  • Irene Oorschot (2014) - Case Files in Action: Folding and Unfolding Practices in Legal Truth-finding (Speaker)
    Activiteit: Oral presentation Academic
  • Irene Oorschot (2014) - Ironie als Situatie: Saint Orlan's Lichaamskunst (Speaker)
    Activiteit: Oral presentation Popular
  • Irene Oorschot (2014) - Sociologie (Journal) (Editor)
    Activiteit: Publication Peer-review Academic
  • Irene Oorschot (2013) - 'Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?' Feministische Kennis- en Wetenschapskritiek (Speaker)
    Activiteit: Oral presentation Academic

3.2 Sociologische vraagstukken 6

Year
2024
Course Code
ESSB-S3020

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