Dr Inge Boudewijn

Inge's interests include gender and large-scale resource extraction, women’s activism, and volunteering. She is committed to qualitative research conducted through feminist and creative methodologies, and is interested in decolonising research. She is currently involved in two research projects exploring different aspects of these main research interests:

• 'RECLAMA: Harnessing Afro-Ecuadorian Women's Heritage'. This project works with Afro-Ecuadorian women in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, aiming to create spaces for collective, creative reflection on their identity, as a means of valuing culturally specific narratives, practices, memories, and heritage, while harnessing these for equitable development in the context of large-scale resource extraction, marginalisation and violence. Aiming to approach this project in a decolonial way, this research is conducted with colleagues in Ecuador (USFQ and Mujeres de Asfalto) and funded by British Academy/GCRF.
•  ‘Volunteering Together: Blending knowledge and skills for development’. Working to develop creative, participatory approaches and methods with VSO country offices and local researchers in Tanzania, Uganda and Nepal, we ask how different types of volunteers working together creates better development outcomes.

Inge is in the process of publishing articles based on her PhD work, concluded in 2019. Here, she critically analysed women’s interactions with, and connections to, landscape, place, and mining projects, in the aftermath of socio-environmental protest in the Peruvian Andes. This work included over seven months of fieldwork in Cajamarca, Peru, where she conducted participant observation, oral history interviews and participatory mapping exercises. Alongside her PhD, she was involved as a research assistant in three different research projects, in Peru, Chile and the UK, which allowed her to further explore her interests in notions of belonging in place, the gendered impacts of natural resource extraction, and visual research methods, notably photography.

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• Harnessing intangible heritage in the context of socio-environmental injustices: Afro-Ecuadorian women’s narratives of territories in resistance, Boudewijn, I., Bone, J., Jenkins, K., Zaragocin, S. 15 Jun 2026, In: International Journal of Heritage Studies
• Afro-Ecuadorian Women, Territory, and Natural Resource Extraction in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Boudewijn, I., Francis Bone, J., Jenkins, K., Zaragocin, S. 1 Oct 2024, In: Progress in Development Studies
• Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas, Zaragocin, S., Francis Bone, J., Boudewijn, I., Jenkins, K. 1 May 2024, In: Global Discourse: An interdisciplinary journal of current affairs
• Gender, Large-scale Resource Extraction, and Environmental Inequality in Latin America, Boudewijn, I., Jenkins, K. 8 Jun 2023, Handbook of Inequality and the Environment, Edward Elgar
• Mapping Mining’s Temporal Disruptions: Understanding Peruvian Women’s Experiences of Place-attachment in Changing Landscapes, Boudewijn, I. 3 Oct 2023, In: Gender, Place, and Culture
• Decolonising Oral History: A Conversation, Francis, H., Boudewijn, I., Carcelén-Estrada, A., Francis Bone, J., Jenkins, K., Zaragocin, S. Mar 2021, In: History
• Descolonizando la historia oral: una conversación, Francis, H., Boudewijn, I., Carcelén-Estrada, A., Francis Bone, J., Jenkins, K., Zaragocin, S. Mar 2021, In: History
• Whose Development? How Women Living Near the Yanacocha Mine, Peru, Envision Potential Futures, Boudewijn, I. 1 Apr 2021, In: Bulletin of Latin American Research
• Negotiating access, ethics and agendas: Using participatory photography with women anti-mining activists in Peru, Jenkins, K., Boudewijn, I. Sep 2020, In: Women's Studies International Forum
• Negotiating belonging and place: an exploration of mestiza women’s everyday resistance in Cajamarca, Peru., Boudewijn, I. Mar 2020, In: Human Geography

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• Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2022

• Sociology PhD September 16 2019
• Life Sciences MSc September 12 2012
• Life Sciences BSc August 31 2010