Biography:

Pam H. Zuurbier got his PhD in Social, Behavioral and Spatial Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He worked as a lecturer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, before moving to Paramaribo to the Faculty of Social Science at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname, where he builds his career for more than 15 years. In his current employment he teaches Research Methods and Organizational Psychology. His main research interests include subjectivation in Narrative and Organizational Psychology for analyzing network systems, with attention to cultural subjectivation. Specific topics of interest are reading-against-the-grain, religion and subjectivation, emancipating marginalized groups, performative spaces and modelling decentralized selves.

Research:

• Intergenerational transmission and change of religious parenting: an explorative study of Christian- and Winti-based maternal parenting and coping across three generations of Afro-Surinamese families in Paramaribo, Suriname (dissertation)
• Culture Sensitivity: Guidelines for Qualitative Research
• Contemporary Look at Parenting Beliefs and Practices and Childhood Outcomes in Caribbean Cultural Communities
• Research in Scarcity: The impact of poverty on psychological wellbeing
• Free Women in the Eighteen Century in Suriname: A Historic Review of the (Re)creation of Agency in terms of Freedom, Equivalence and Possession in a Dutch Colonial era (dissertation)

Publications:

https://scholar.google.citations/Pam H. Zuurbier

Nominations: 

2023 Lie-A-Ling, H.J., Zuurbier, P.H., Roopnarine, J.L., & Lindauer, R.L Culture Sensitivity: Guidelines for Qualitative Research. Pedagogische Studien 20(1).

Contact details:

pamsuriname@hotmail.com;
pam.zuurbier@uvs.edu;
pamkwalitatief@gmail.com
+597 8602644