Work, precarisation, feminism, informal organization, improvisation, gender and the state: these are some of my research themes and topics in teaching. I usually work from a feminist perspective and recently published work with others about the Dutch Benefits Scandal and the colonial roots of the welfare state, about improvisation in the pandemic and about chemical waste and Rachel Carson. With a team, I work on research (Dutch Research Council) on informal organizing and activism: how people find everyday solutions for climate calamity, for worsening living conditions and poverty. 

I write for different audiences and publish both academic work and essays in public forums regularly, for instance in NRC (a Dutch daily newspaper). 

My most recent book is ‘Kwetsbaar - politieke mogelijkheden’ (2025) a book of essays on precariousness, vulnerability and solidarity. 

With others, I launched and write newsletters for The Office for Feminist Love Letters. (we are bilingual, NL/ EN)

In 2021, I published Werk is geen oplossing , ‘Work is not a solution’ with Amsterdam University Press: a book on work, precarisation and the politics of refusal.

Previous to working at Utrecht University, I held positions at the University of Amsterdam (2008-2022), Erasmus University in Rotterdam and visiting positions at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY, in 2007 and 2010) and the Georg Simmel Zentrum at Humboldt University in Berlin (in 2011). In 2019, I was embedded researcher with Het Nieuwe Instituut: Institute for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture. In 2021, I was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, NIAS.