Biography
Irene van Oorschot is an assistant professor at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Her current research focus is on practices of climate adaptation and mitigation in everyday life and within environmental management practices specifically. Her recent Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (KU Leuven) investigated the circulation of the promissory notion of 'ecological resilience' in national and supranational policy, while her current Veni (Dutch Research Council) ethnographically explores how this notion of 'resilience' is practiced by front-line environmental managers. She is interested in particular in the way the reality of climate change is shifting practices of ecological valuing, and is generative of new knowledges as well as uncertainties. Informed by Science and Technology Studies and the environmental humanities, she examines how 'resilience' in an age of climate crisis is generative of novel modes of caring for the environments. In a similar vein she was the PI on a one-year research project 'Sensing Change' (funded by the NGO Rotterdams Weerwoord), which explored how Rotterdam citizens sense, and make sense of, climate change in their everyday lives.
Previously, she has worked on a variety of topics, focusing specifically on the everyday production and mobilization of knowledges and judgments. Her recent monograph with Cambridge University Press, The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice (2021) offers an ethnographically based and conceptually rich account of legal practices and sociological knowledges. She has also published on the production of (genetic) difference in forensics and law for journals such as BioSocieties and Social & Legal Studies.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- vanoorschot@essb.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Sophie van Balen & Irene van Oorschot (2023) - Weathering the Modern Tempest
- Irene van Oorschot & Sophie van Balen (2023) - Sensing change, changing sense: Exploring Sensational Epistemologies for Transdisciplinary Practice
- Jess Bier, Jiska Engelbert, Zouhair Hammana, Vatan Huzeir, Irene van Oorschot, Willem Schinkel & Rogier van Reekum (2022) - ‘Het CvB kiest voor geweld tegen studenten: wat leert dat ons?’ - Erasmus Magazine - [link]
- Sophie van Balen & Irene van Oorschot (2022) - Exposure to the urban climate: Attunement, weathering, and atmospheric care - [link]
- Irene van Oorschot & Amade M’charek (2021) - Keeping race at bay: familial DNA research, the ‘Turkish Community,’ and the pragmatics of multiple collectives in investigative practice - BioSocieties, 16 (4), 553-573 - doi: 10.1057/s41292-021-00246-4 - [link]
- Irene van Oorschot (2021) - The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice - doi: 10.1017/9781108859981
- Irene van Oorschot (2020) - Culture, Milieu, Phenotype: Articulating Race in Judicial Sense-making Practices - Social and Legal Studies, 29 (6), 790-811 - doi: 10.1177/0964663920907992 - [link]
- Willem Schinkel, Marguerite van den Berg, S Bracke, Irene van Oorschot, Rogier van Reekum & Jess Bier (2020) - Academici zijn geen ‘vitale beroepsgroep’ - Science Guide - [link]
- Virginie Servant-Miklos & Irene van Oorschot (2020) - Collaboration, reflection and imagination: Re-thinking assessment in pbl education for sustainability - [link]
- Rogier van Reekum, Marguerite van den Berg, Irene van Oorschot, Willem Schinkel, Jess Bier & S Bracke (2020) - Zonder plan geen serieus universitair onderwijs in september - Science Guide - [link]
- Sophie van Balen & Irene van Oorschot (2023) - Everyday Ingenuities
- Irene Oorschot & Willem Schinkel (2015) - Het dossier als grensobject: Allo- en autoreferentie in het strafrecht
- Irene Oorschot (2014) - Case Files in Action: Folding and Unfolding Practices in Legal Truth-finding
- Irene Oorschot (2014) - Ironie als Situatie: Saint Orlan's Lichaamskunst
- Irene Oorschot (2014) - Sociologie (Journal)
- Irene Oorschot (2013) - 'Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?' Feministische Kennis- en Wetenschapskritiek
Post-Colonial Theory
- Level
- Level 300
- Year Level
- Level 300
- Year
- 2020
- Course Code
- EUC-HUM309
The Climate Crisis
- Level
- Level 200
- Year Level
- Level 200
- Year
- 2020
- Course Code
- EUC-INT210
Basestone Research & Writing Project
- Level
- Year 1
- Year Level
- Year 1
- Year
- 2020
- Course Code
- EUC-ACC111
Scientific Practice
- Level
- Year 1
- Year Level
- Year 1
- Year
- 2020
- Course Code
- EUC-ACC110