Rietveld Sandberg Research
Hanneke Stuit (photo: Elize Zorgman)
Hanneke Stuit (photo: Elize Zorgman)
Hanneke Stuit

Hanneke Stuit is associate professor of literary and cultural analysis at University of Amsterdam, and affiliated to Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA). She works on cultural imaginations of the prison and on the intersections between carcerality and the rural in South Africa and the Netherlands.

She is the author of Reimagining the Rural: Pastoral Entrapment and Dis-enclosure in South Africa (forthcoming). Previously, she edited the special issue Dutch Domestic Colonisation: From Rural Idyll to Prison Museum (2020), and recently co-edited the volumes Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care (2023) and Carceral Worlds: Legacies, Textures and Futures (2024).

Art & Spatial Praxis – The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024. Plot(ting) emerges as a publishing platform showcasing art, research, and spatial practices. Currently it harbors contributions by Flavia Pinheiro, Giulia Damiani, Francisca Khamis & Maia Gattás Vargas, Neeltje ten Westenend & Hanneke Stuit, Mariana Balvanera, Patricia de Vries, Amelia Groom, and Liza Prins. Here you can read in brief about the different contributions. Read more on the plotting website: plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl