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Curriculum Vitae

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Last name

Nauta

First name(s)

Wiebe, Werner

Title(s)

Dr. Ir. ing.

Year of birth

1964

Sex

Male

Marital status

Married

Contact details

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASoS)
University of Maastricht
Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands

T          +31 (0)43 3883292/3319
            +31 (0)43 3630649

F          +31 (0)43 3884917

E          w.nauta@philosphy.unimaas.nl
 

Current position

Assistant Professor Sociology of Development
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASoS)
University of Maastricht
 

Relevant previous positions

2004-2006 Lecturer Sociology of Development in Minor Globalization and Diversity and  European Studies at the FASoS, University of Maastricht;

2002-2004  Lecturer/tutor European Studies at the Faculty of Arts & Culture, Maastricht University;

2001-2002 Researcher Quality of Life in the Roermond Neighbourhood ‘t Roermondse Veld (contract researcher at Qualirma: the Faculty of Arts & Culture, Maastricht University).
 

Current research

HIV/AIDS and poverty in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. With a particular interest in the role of NGOs and state-civil society relations and the impact of poverty and severe deprivation.
 

Collaboration

Civil Society and Private Health Initiatives versus Public Health Initiatives in the Field of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: a matter of synergy or fragmentation?

The partners in this second phase of an ongoing research cooperation are:

Fort Hare University:
o
       Department of Sociology
o
       Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research

Rhodes University:
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       Department of Sociology
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       The Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE)
 

Training

1996-2001 PhD research Sociology of Development into the changing role of land sector NGOs in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. PhD position at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (including 1 ½ yrs of fieldwork in South Africa);

1989-1993 MA (with distinction) Rural Development Sociology at the International Agricultural University Wageningen, thesis: Beyond Black and White; the transcultural experience of western expatriates in developing countries;

1984-1989 BSc Tropical Plant Production at the International Agricultural College Deventer.
 

Relevant other functions

Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Africa Studies Centre in Leiden.
 

Publications

Nauta, W.W. (2008). The Politics of Transferring and Managing Land in the ‘New’ South Africa. In G. Blundo and P. Lemeur (eds.), The Governance of Daily Life in Africa: Ethnographic Explorations of Public and Collective Services (pp. 241-278). Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.

Nauta, W.W. (2006).
‘Ethnographic Research In a Non-Governmental Organization : revealing strategic translations’ in Development Brokers and Translators : the ethnography of aid and agencies. Bloomfield : Kumarian Press.

Nauta, W.W. (2004). ‘A Moral Critique of Fieldwork’, in O. Salemink, A. van Harskamp and A. Kumar Giri (ed.) The Development of Religion/the Religion of Development, Delft: Eburon Press, International distribution: Chicago University Press.

Nauta, W.W. (2004). The Implications of Freedom: the changing role of land sector NGOs in a transforming South Africa, Münster: Lit Verlag.

Nauta, W.W. (2003). ‘How to Transfer and Manage a Public Resource?’, in Everyday Governance of Land in Africa, APAD Bulletin no. 22, Münster: Lit Verlag.

R. Gabriëls and W.W. Nauta (2002). Voorbij de Overhangende Tak en de losliggende Tegel: een onderzoek naar de kwaliteit van leven in het Roermondse Veld, Maastricht: Qualirma, Universiteit Maastricht.

Nauta, W.W. (2001). The Implications of Freedom: the changing role of land sector NGOs in a transforming South Africa, Amsterdam: dissertation de Vrije Universiteit.
 

Initiatives and Funding Acquisition

1.      MUNDO Stimuleringsfonds Grant for establishing academic cooperation with South Africa: € 29 948;

2.      SANPAD pre-proposal workshop grant 2006;

3.      Setting up network for academic and civil society cooperation in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa;

4.      Establishment Qualirma (Quality of Life Research Maastricht);

5.      Establishment JAB! (Jong Antropologisch Beraad aan Vrije Universiteit).
 

Foreign Languages

                  English           French             German

Spoken      Excellent          Average            Good

Reading     Excellent          Average            Good

Written      Excellent          Poor                 Average/Poor

 Furthermore I speak a little isiXhosa
 

Secondary School

1977-1979       Praedinius Gymnasium Groningen

1979-1982       International School Lusaka, Zambia             Diploma: British O'Level

1982-1984       Noordelijk Avond College Groningen        Diploma: Atheneum