Willem Boterman

In my academic work I am driven by curiosity and societal engagement. Urgent, complex issues are at the heart of my scholarship. In my work I disentangle issues of spatial inequalities, social class and politics, integrating policy analysis, interviews and statistical analysis. Trained as an urban geographer and political scientist, I collaborate nationally and internationally with scholars, across disciplinary boundaries of human geography, political science, sociology, complexity sciences and policy studies. My projects focus on the intersections of social class, gender, politics, and space, through the lens of consumption, education and housing. These themes are also at the centre of my teaching. In the course Food Geographies we draw on food as a lens to discuss core debates in human geography. My ERC-consolidator project PROTEINSCAPES: the political geography of meat and dairy connects several of these themes.