Marga ter Maat (M.J.A.)
Marga is a PhD candidate at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute.
Her research, part of the ERC project Food ChariTIES, focuses on the field of charitable food provision and explores the relationships between food charities, clients, and local authorities. By studying how food support systems evolve and how the urban poor navigate these systems to survive, she aims to contribute to a better understanding of how food support systems shape and are shaped by people in poverty.
Expertises
My academic disciplines include sociology, social and political theory, and qualitative research methods. Specifically, my field of study is urban poverty and charitable food provision, within which I focus on survival strategies, poverty governance, and bureaucratic practices, and which I study through ethnography. I have previously conducted ethnographic research on digital commons.