Bas Dikmans
(he/him)
BACKGROUND
Bas Dikmans started his PhD in 2021 within the CIVEX project: “Exclusion from civic engagement of a diverse older population: Features, experiences and policy implications”. His research focuses on civic engagement of older persons in two disadvantaged neighborhoods in Brussels, the Brabantwijk neighborhood and Cureghem.
He holds a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and an Advanced Master in Cultures and Development Sciences (CADES) from the KU Leuven. Bas combines his background as a cultural anthropologist with his PhD in Adult Educational Sciences into an interdisciplinary whole. He currently represents the Vrije Universiteit Brussel within the working group ‘Gekleurde Wijsheid’ in Brussels, which was established to unite different socio-cultural organisations and welfare organisations around a shared interest in the world of older adults.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
- Dikmans, B. et al. (2024). Rethinking Life Stories in the Context of Civic Engagement: The Life Diagram and Its Potential for Ageing and Childhood Research. In: A. Wanka, T. Freutel-Funke, S. Adresen, F. Oswald, Linking Ages: A Dialogue between Childhood and Ageing Research. London, UK: Routledge.
- Dikmans, B. (2021). Social Media in Urban Surinam: An Ethnography on Christian Adolescents and their Cell Phones in Latour, Paramaribo. Urbanities.
- Dikmans, B. (2020). Everyday Racism," "White Innocence," and Postcolonial Society: A Deeper Look into the Dutch Cultural Archive. Journal of Critical Race Inquiry.
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RESEARCH EXPERTISE
- Disadvantaged neighbourhoods
- Civic engagement
- Social inclusion and exclusion
- Social media
- Postcolonialism
- Interviews based on the life course and life diagrams
- Ethnographic techniques
- Co-creative techniques
GET IN TOUCH
Email: bas.dikmans@vub.be
Telephone: + 32 474 10 56 29