Mandy de Wilde
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. M. de Wilde
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- m.de.wilde@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8695-6406
Mandy de Wilde is a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. The core question driving her work is how ecological sustainability plays out in local practices, and the situated harms as well as the opportunities that emerge from it.
Research
Mandy has worked on projects about the adoption of renewable energy technologies in households across Dutch regions, environmental governance of decentralised wastewater infrastructure in the Flevopolder and Noord-Brabant, and waste management as part of green movements and sustainable cities, in Amsterdam and Leiden. Drawing on environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, and political ecology, she explores local practices, to do with energy, water and waste, and connects these to global challenges and academic debates concerning gender equity, responsible consumption and production, and multispecies justice. As sustainability challenges are complex, engaging with the many experts and stakeholders involved has been integral to her work.
Fellowships
Next to lecturing in Leiden, she also works as a postdoc at the Anthropology Department at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining Leiden, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh (2019), and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University & Research (2016 – 2018) and the Centre on Research on Environmental and Social Change at the University of Antwerp (2015). She has also been a visiting fellow at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University Berlin (2013), the DEMAND Centre at Lancaster University (2017) and the Energy, Environment, and Sustainability Research Group at the University of Edinburgh (2018). She received her PhD-education at the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research (2015). Her dissertation connected an ethnography of everyday life in a neighbourhood to literature about the role of affects in the construction of citizenship.
Multispecies reading group
Mandy organises a bimonthly multispecies reading group, please contact Mandy if you would like to participate.
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Bondt H. de, Wilde M. de & Jaffe R. (2023), Rats claiming rights?: More-than-human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam, Political and Legal Anthropology Review : 1-15.
- Crawley J., Wade F. & Wilde M. de (2023), Gender and the heat pump transition, Buildings and Cities 4(1): 948 (964).
- Smits F. & Wilde M. de (2023), ‘We are part of nature’: caring for Wastewater in an infrastructural experiment in the Flevopolder, Ethnos : .
- Wilde M. de & Parry S. (2022), Feminised concern or feminist care? : Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living, the sociological review 70(3): 526-546.
- Wilde M. de (2021), “A Heat Pump Needs a Bit of Care”: on maintainability and repairing gender–technology relations, Science, Technology, {&} Human Values 46(6): 1261-1285.
- Franssen T.P. & Wilde M. de (2021), A clean energy future isn’t set in stone, Nature Geoscience 14: 636-637.
- Wilde M. de (2020), A care-infused market tale: on (not) maintaining relationships of trust in energy retrofit products, J CULT ECON-UK 13(5): 561-578.
- No authors listed (2016), Engineering community spirit: the pre-figurative politics of affective citizenship in Dutch local governance, .
- No authors listed (2014), Flexible relations, frail contacts and failing demands: How community groups and local institutions interact in local governance in the Netherlands, Urban Studies.