Evelien Tonkens
Chair Citizenship and Humanisation of the Public Sector
Universiteit voor Humanistiek
Supervisor: Akofa Boglo (ESR 12)
Co-supervisor: Chloé Roegiers (Mayeux) (ESR 13)
Evelien Tonkens is sociologist and full professor of Citizenship and Humanization of the Public Sector at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands since 2014. Since 2019, she is also Academic director of the Graduate School of the UHS and Director of Research of the UHS.
Between 2005 and 2014, she was professor of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam. From 2002 to 2005, she was a Member of the Dutch Parliament for the Green Left. She was also a (bi)weekly columnist for the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant from 2005 to 2012. She holds a PhD in social sciences from Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on changing ideals and practices of citizenship against the background of developments in democracy, globalization, meritocracy and the welfare state.
She wrote many articles and (co-)edited several Dutch and English books and themed issues, including:
The culturalization of citizenship. Belonging and polarization in a globalising world. Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. (ed. with Jan Willem Duyvendak and Peter Geschiere)
Crafting Citizenship. Understanding tensions in multi-ethnic societies Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (with Menno Hurenkamp and Jan Willem Duyvendak)
Welfare state reform, recognition and emotional labour. Themed section of Social Policy and Society, 2013. (ed. with Ellen Grootegoed and Jan Willem Duyvendak)
Participation, responsibility and choice: summoning the active citizen in western European welfare states, Amsterdam University Press, 2011 (ed. with Janet Newman).
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