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 also affiliated 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).
- 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. (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).