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PhD Anthropology University of Amsterdam
Masters Anthropology University of Amsterdam
Bachelors Anthropology University of Amsterdam

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According to Wikipedia, Rivke Jaffe is a Dutch anthropologist by background, as of 2016 appointed professor of Urban Geography at the University of Amsterdam. Career Jaffe studied Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, where she also wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on urban environmental problems and community involvement in Kingston, under the supervision of Peter Nas. Together with later fieldwork in Jamaica as well as Curaçao her dissertation formed the basis for the monograph Concrete Jungles. After writing her dissertation Jaffe held positions as postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and lecturer at Leiden University and University of the West Indies. From 2012 she worked as assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, where she was appointed associate professor in 2013. Over her career Jaffe has been awarded various research grants, including an NWO VENI grant for the research project Between the Street and the State: Crime and Citizenship in Kingston, Jamaica, a NWO VIDI and Aspasia grant for a five-year research project on The Politics of Security: The Impacts of Public-Private Security Assemblages on Governance and Citizenship, and an ERC Starting grant for the five-year research project Transforming Citizenship through Hybrid Governance: The Impacts of Public-Private Security Assemblages. She is web editor and editorial board member of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, co-editor of the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and editorial board member of American Anthropologist.

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The hybrid state: Crime and citizenship in urban Jamaica (2013) (121)
Save the World in a Week: Volunteer Tourism, Development and Difference (2011) (86)
Citizenship agendas in and beyond the nation-state: (en)countering framings of the good citizen (2015) (76)
Talkin' 'bout the Ghetto: Popular Culture and Urban Imaginaries of Immobility (2012) (71)
Theorizing Slum Tourism: Performing, Negotiating and Transforming Inequality (2012) (69)
Informal Waste Management (2004) (67)
INFORMAL WASTE MANAGEMENT Shifting the focus from problem to potential (2004) (53)
Hybrid Governance Arrangements (2016) (38)
Criminal dons and extralegal security privatization in downtown Kingston, Jamaica (2012) (36)
From Maroons to dons: Sovereignty, violence and law in Jamaica (2015) (36)
Concrete Jungles: Urban Pollution and the Politics of Difference in the Caribbean (2016) (33)
The Myth of Formality in the Global North: Informality‐as‐Innovation in Dutch Governance (2019) (32)
Introducing Urban Anthropology (2015) (32)
The Popular Culture of Illegality: Crime and the Politics of Aesthetics in Urban Jamaica (2012) (29)
Mobilities and Mobilizations of the Urban Poor (2012) (24)
Between ballots and bullets: elections and citizenship in and beyond the nation-state (2015) (21)
What does poverty feel like? Urban inequality and the politics of sensation (2019) (15)
Normalizing urban inequality: cinematic imaginaries of difference in postcolonial Amsterdam (2017) (15)
Framing Indonesian realities : essays in symbolic anthropology in honour of Reimar Schefold (2003) (14)
Introduction: The Political Materiality of Cities (2020) (14)
Introduction: Cultural and Material Forms of Urban Pollution (2010) (11)
Introduction – Neoliberalism and urban space in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012) (11)
The Caribbean City (2008) (9)
Latin American and Caribbean Urban Development (2015) (9)
Ital Chic: Rastafari, Resistance, and the Politics of Consumption in Jamaica (2010) (8)
Crime and Insurgent Citizenship: Extra-state rule and belonging in urban Jamaica (2012) (8)
The streets of Jakarta : Fear, trust and amnesia in urban development (2003) (8)
Speculative Policing (2019) (7)
Cities and the political imagination (2018) (7)
Bipolar antagonism and multipolar coexistence: framing difference and shaping fear in two Caribbean cities (2012) (6)
"Police as the new don"? An assessment of post-Dudus policing strategies in Jamaica (2015) (6)
Urban blight in the Caribbean: city, environment and culture in Curaçao and Jamaica (2001) (6)
Surinamese Maroons as reggae artistes: music, marginality and urban space (2010) (6)
Hip‐hop and Urban Studies (2014) (5)
Community Policing Goes South: Policy Mobilities and New Geographies of Criminological Theory (2018) (5)
¿Una lucha por corazones y mentes? Percepciones ciudadanas y actores de gobernanza formales e irregulares en la Jamaica urbana / A battle for hearts and minds? Citizens’ perceptions of formal and irregular governance actors in urban Jamaica (2016) (5)
‘Throw Word’: Graffiti, Space and Power in Kingston, Jamaica (2012) (5)
Toward an Anthropology of the Caribbean State (2014) (5)
Hegemonic dissolution in Suriname? Recent challenges to pluralist politics' (2011) (5)
Citizenship agendas in and beyond the nation-state (2018) (4)
A rejuvenated approach to urban development and inequality: Young people's perceptions and experiences in Rio de Janeiro (2015) (4)
Conflicting Environments : Negotiating Social and Ecological Vulnerabilities in Urban Jamaica and Curaçao (2009) (4)
Brokers and Tours: Selling Urban Poverty and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean (2019) (4)
The Caribbean city: an introduction (2008) (4)
Plural Security Provision in Beirut (2015) (3)
Participation : Citizenship, Democracy and Responsibilization (2014) (3)
Kingston: violence and resilience (2015) (3)
The Paradoxes of Eco-Chic (2020) (3)
Writing around violence: Representing organized crime in Kingston, Jamaica (2019) (3)
New roots: Jamaican ontologies of blackness from Africa to the ghetto (2014) (2)
Most Wanted : The Popular Culture of Illegality (2019) (2)
Old Boys and Badmen: Private Security in (Post)Colonial Jamaica (2019) (2)
A Conversation with Gloria Wekker (2018) (2)
Crime watch: mediating belonging and the politics of place in inner-city Jamaica (2014) (2)
Security and technology (2018) (2)
Security Encounters: Negotiating Authority and Citizenship during the Tivoli “Incursion” (2018) (1)
Mobilities and Mobilizations of the Urban Poor RIVKE JAFFE , CHRISTIEN KLAUFUS and FREEK COLOMBIJN (2012) (1)
Notes on the State of Chronic : Democracy and Difference after Dudus (review essay) (2011) (1)
Security technology, urban prototyping, and the politics of failure (2023) (1)
‘Race’ and inequality in postcolonial urban settings Examples from Peru, Jamaica, and Indonesia (2009) (1)
Sagacité:: On Celebrity and Criminality in Côte d'Ivoire, 1987-2017 (2019) (1)
Fragmented cities in the Caribbean; violent crime and sociospatial cohesion in Jamaica and Curaçao (2005) (1)
Introduction: Representing Crime, Violence and Jamaica (2019) (1)
Space, ethnicity and capital in reterritorialised Puerto Rican neighbourhoods (2006) (1)
Chapter 2 Theorizing Governance (2015) (1)
Decolonising the Colonial City: Urbanisation and Stratification in Kingston, Jamaica - by Colin Clarke (2008) (1)
A view from the concrete jungle: diverging enviromentalisms in the urban caribbean (2008) (1)
Review Essay : Tourism, Sexuality and Power in the Spanish Caribbean (2010) (0)
Caribbean Cities in Comparative Perspective (2016) (0)
Dirt, Disease, and Difference in Victorian Jamaica: The Politics of Sanitary Reform in the Milroy Report of 1852 (2018) (0)
[Review of: E.D. Arias, D.M. Goldstein (2010) Violent democracies in Latin America] (2013) (0)
Brian Meeks, Envisioning Caribbean Futures (2011) (0)
Slum Tourism in the Americas: Commodifying Urban Poverty and Violence (2014) (0)
Visual culture and criminal iconization in Kingston, Jamaica: a photo-essay (2013) (0)
Urban Ecology (2018) (0)
As lion rule the jungle, so man rule the earth : Perceptions of nature and the environment in two Caribbean cities (2008) (0)
Colonial Landscapes of Paradise and Pollution (2016) (0)
Social life in public space (2015) (0)
“Real Bushinengué”: Guianese Maroon Music in Transition (2018) (0)
Securing the city: challenges to human rights (2014) (0)
Rats and Sewers: Urban Modernity Beyond the Human (2022) (0)
Crime and Insurgent Citizenship: Extra-state rule and belonging in urban Jamaica (2012) (0)
Unnatural causes: green environmentalism, urban pollution and social justice in the Caribbean (2013) (0)
5. Security Aesthetics and Political Community Formation in Kingston, Jamaica (2020) (0)
Where and When Is Crisis? (2021) (0)
Singing Security: Representations of State and Non-State Protection in Jamaican Popular Music (2017) (0)
New Roots Jamaican Ontologies of Blackness fromAfrica to the Ghetto WayneModest (2014) (0)
Heroic scripts (2021) (0)
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State (2022) (0)
Imagining Infrastructure in Urban Jamaica (2021) (0)
Representing crime, violence and Jamaica in visual art: An interview with Michael Elliott (2020) (0)
Securing logistics hubs : the role of private security (2015) (0)
Morgan, Marcyliena. 2002. Language, discourse and power in African American culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiv + 181 pp. Hb.: £45.00. ISBN: 0 521 80671 2. Pb.: £16.99. ISBN: 0 521 00149 8 (2005) (0)
Hybrid Governance Arrangements (2016) (0)

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