Dr. Irene Van Oorschot

Biography

Irene van Oorschot has an extensive academic career marked by a strong focus on knowledge production and ethnographic research methods. Her research spans various subjects within the contexts of science and technology studies, decolonial ecology, and feminist scholarship. She was a Marie Curie scholar in the Life Science Society Lab at KU Leuven (2021-2022) and is currently leading an NWO-funded Veni project exploring resilience imaginaries in environmental management practices with a specific focus on forests and forest-society relations, challenging the common acceptance of neoliberal governmentality. In her Sense of Change project, funded by a Rotterdam NGO, she investigates the role of the body and senses in how urban dwellers experience and make sense of global warming in their everyday lives. Her contributions to the fields of science and technology studies, especially in relation to forensics and race, inform her audience on the mobilization and contestation of forensic knowledges. She has published widely in notable journals and edited volumes, contributing to conversations at the intersection of migration law, anthropology, sociology, and socio-legal studies.

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