Tanja Hendriks
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. T.D. Hendriks
- Telephone
- 070 8009500
- t.d.hendriks@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8471-8874
Tanja Hendriks is an assistant professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and a research affiliate with the African Studies Centre Leiden. With a background in cultural anthropology, development studies and African Studies, her ethnographic research focuses on state bureaucracies and humanitarianism in contexts of disaster. Her empirical focus is on Malawi and her new research project 'Taking a Risk on Disasters' examines future-oriented forms of disaster governance.
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Drengk D., Hendriks T.D., Verbuyst R.A.R.L. & Wels H. (Eds.) (2025), Remembering research realities: celebrating the research master’s African studies, Leiden university. African Studies Collection no. 86. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL).
- Foden G.W. & Hendriks T.D. (20 February 2025), Dis/Counting disasters: The dangers of disaster data. RADIX: Radical Interpretations of Disasters. [blog entry].
- Hendriks T.D. (2025) Forecasts: a story of weather and finance at the edge of disaster. Review of: Caroline E. Schuster with iillustrations by E. Bernardou & D. Bueno., Forecasts: a story of weather and finance at the edge of disaster: University of Toronto Press. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists) 33(1): 125-126.
- Hendriks T.D. (2024), Data, disasters and disquietude in ethnography: learning by trial and error how to behave like a civil servant in Malawi, Journal of Organizational Ethnography 13(3): .
- Hendriks T.D. (2024), Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis, Journal of Southern African Studies 50(5): 763 (779).
- Farrell Sam Hendriks Tanja D. (2024), Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State, Journal of Southern African Studies 50(5): 707-723.
- Hendriks T.D. (19 July 2023), Regen als zegen en als zorg: praten over het weer in Malawi. Stemmen van Afrika. [blog entry].
- Hendriks T.D. (2023), Niets zo veranderlijk als het weer: menselijke veiligheid in tijden van klimaat-verandering. Leuven: SWAY (KU Leuven), : .
- Hendriks T.D. (2022), How civil servants make the office work: desks and duties at a district council in Malawi, Etnofoor 34(1): 35 (52).
- Hendriks T.D. (2022), A State of Relief: Feelings, Affect and Emotions in Instantiating the Malawi State in Disaster Relief, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 40(2): 21 (35).
- HendriksT.D. (2022) Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi. Review of: Luke Messac, No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care. Journal of Southern African Studies 48(2): 427-428.
- Hendriks T.D., Verbuyst R.A.R.L. & Kaag M.M.A. (2022), Fraught with friction: inclusive development for informal workers in urban Ghana, European Journal of Development Research 34(5): 2305-2323.
- Money D.J. & Hendriks T.D. Foudraine J.B. (29 August 2022), Getting things ‘write’: constructive criticism, confidence and community in the Southern Africa writing group. ASCL Africanist Blog. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). [blog entry].
- Hendriks T.D. (2020) Cooking Data: Culture & Politics in an African Research World. Review of: C. Biruk, Cooking Data: Culture & Politics in an African Research World. Africa Spectrum 56(1): 122-124.
- Hendriks T.D. Reis Ria Sostakova Marketa Berckmoes Lidewyde H (2019), Violence and Vulnerability: Children’s Strategies and the Logic of Violence in Burundi, Children & Society 34: 31-45.
- Hendriks T.D. Boersma F.K. (2019), Bringing the state back in to humanitarian crises response: Disaster governance and challenging collaborations in the 2015 Malawi flood response, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 40: 101262 (101262).
- Hendriks T.D. (2017), "Home is always home" : (former) street youth in Blantyre, Malawi, and the fluidity of constructing home. African Studies Collection no. 69. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL).
- Hendriks T.D., Straatjongeren kunnen ook een thuis hebben. Werelddoeners. Amsterdam: Stichting OneWorld. [blog entry].
- Hendriks T.D., Roots & Routes: wat voormalig straatkinderen ons leren over ‘thuis’. Cultuur & Samenleving (De Focus). [blog entry].
- Hendriks T.D. (2017), Das städtische Afrika im Foku : Zu Gast am Afrika-Kongress in Basel, Afrika-bulletin (107): 12-13.
- Hendriks T.D. (2017), Collaboration and competition: market queens, trade unions and collective action of informal workers in Ghana’s Makola Market, Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements 9(2): 162-187.
- Hendriks T.D. (2016), "Home is always home" : (former) street youth in Blantyre, Malawi, and the fluidity of constructing home. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL).