Sofie Carpaij is a junior researcher in the Governance and Inclusive Development (GID) research group at the University of Amsterdam, working in the Urban Blue Justice project, a collaboration between GID and Urban Planning. With a background in architectural design, she studies urban flooding, blue justice and (post)colonial planning. Her current research focuses on Paramaribo, Suriname, where she combines historical and policy analysis with qualitative fieldwork to examine how drainage infrastructures and planning decisions relate to everyday experiences of urban flooding and patterns of (in)equality.
