Tim van de Meerendonk
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. T. van de Meerendonk
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6760
- t.van.de.meerendonk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9209-8732
Tim van de Meerendonk is a PhD researcher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University. His research examines the impact of agricultural insurance on agrarian relationships in Maharashtra, India. His project is part of the ERC funded project Moralising misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance and is realized through an affiliation with the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi.
Tim has previously worked as an asylum determination officer for the Dutch Immigration Services. He completed his research master in Cultural Anthropology in 2015 (cum laude, Utrecht University).
Awards
2015 Best Student Award CASTOR (Utrecht University)
Lecturer
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Meerendonk T. van de (5 March 2024), Claiming crisis: an ethnography on agricultural insurance, rural distress and the everyday moralities of quantification in India (Dissertatie. Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Grasseni C., Bähre E. & Maaker E. de.
- Littlejohn A.L., Boy J.D., De Musso F., Grasseni C., Kanters C.L., Luning S.W.J., Meerendonk T. van de, Minter T., Ochigame R.K. & Spierenburg M.J. (2022), Remodeling environments: anthropological perspectives on the limits of computational models.
- Meerendonk T. van de (2020), Claiming crisis: narratives of tension and insurance in rural India, Contemporary South Asia 28(3): 362-373.
- Van de Meerendonk T., ‘No cash, friend. Digital India.’ 48 hours in the Indian cashless economy. Leiden Anthropology Blog. [blog entry].