Marian Stuiver

Marian Stuiver (1971) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.

Stuiver wrote her PhD in Rural Sociology at Wageningen University and Research Centre in 2008. Her dissertation – entitled Regime Change and Storylines, a sociological analysis of manure practices in contemporary Dutch dairy farming – contributes to a better understanding of the current transition the modern manure regime in the dairy sector is in. The topic of research is situated at the cross-section of two societal developments: the changing role of agriculture, and changing views on and practices of knowledge production. The research focuses on the practices where different actors experiment with finding alternatives to the manure regime, and how these practices are embedded in wider structures and developments. The central role of epistemological dimensions of niche formation and regime change is recognized.

Her current post-doctoral research called Democracy in risk society, the production of political identities in conflicts about mobile phone health risks (funded by NWO) focuses on the emergence of political identities in conflicts about health risks of mobile phone technology. It is a qualitative comparative study in which the emergence of the issue, the development of social movements and the identities of politically involved and non involved citizens is analysed. The research contributes to understanding how conflicts in democratic participation develop.