Researcher biography
Doortje is a PhD candidate in social and cultural studies of Human Movement. Her PhD research is an ethnographic research project on women in social yacht racing in Australia. She explores the opportunities, challenges, and limitations of sailing as a way to escape everyday life. She considers gender dynamics, technologies and relations with local coastal environments to create a deeper understanding of women’s experiences in leisure practices.
Before doing her PhD project, she has done a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology, and a Master of Science in Social Science at the University of Amsterdam. Her Master thesis detailed the social complexities around seal rehabilitation in the Netherlands, where issues around animal welfare, ecological population management and protection of marine World Heritage spaces were in friction.
Researcher interests
- Relationships between people and oceans
- Ethnographic methods
Project title
Navigating gendered oceanic environments: Women’s experiences of coastal club sailing in Australia.
Advisors
Projects
Benham, Claudia and Hoerst, Doortje (2024). What role do social-ecological factors play in ecological grief?: Insights from a global scoping review. Journal of Environmental Psychology 93 102184 102184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102184
Hoerst, Doortje (2024). Rehabilitate or euthanize? Biopolitics and care in seal conservation. Death's social and material meaning beyond the human. Edited by Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker, and Philip R. Olson. Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press.131-142.https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529230161.ch009
Hörst, Doortje (2021). Caring for seals and the Wadden Sea: multispecies entanglements in seal rehabilitation. Maritime Studies 20 (3) 305-316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-021-00235-0
Hörst, Doortje (2019). Review: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. By Donna J. Haraway. Duke University Press, 2016. Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities 4 (1) 82-85. https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.51