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Joost Jongerden is a development sociologist by training with a PhD in social sciences. His research and teaching covers three fields: rural development studies, technology studies and conflict studies. Though at face value very different areas of study, these share with each other that they have all become intrinsic features of contemporary social life – and are, at the same time, created by it. A fundamental assertion of this work is that modern society's concern with space and technology is closely related to issues of governance and identity construction. He published several articles and books and presented various papers on the organization of space, technology and the production of identities.