Original publishing date: Mar 16, 2021

As research assistant on this project, Manon Klarenaar performs a central role in helping the project members, all from different disciplinary backgrounds, answer the project’s research questions. Specifically, she reviews and synthesizes the literature on the topic and conducts semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in the contexts of the hospital, the workplace and the neighbourhood. A recent graduate of the MA Anthropology and Development Studies (Radboud, July 2020), Manon is interested in issues of gender and sexual diversity, inclusion and inequality. For her thesis, she completed a three-month ethnographic study among Dutch female amateur football players. In so doing, she was able to demonstrate the importance of an inclusive football club for female football players, and outline what it takes to create an inclusive, free and open space for this purpose. Moreover, and as she will show in a forthcoming article, Manon is acutely aware of the subtleties and ambivalences of the ways in which female amateur football players define and are defined by hegemonic narratives.