Dealing with the Dutch Elections
by Freek Colombijn – Few people will have missed the fact that the PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid, Party for Freedom) has been the big winner of the…
by Freek Colombijn – Few people will have missed the fact that the PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid, Party for Freedom) has been the big winner of the…
By Freek Colombijn, Marina de Regt and Marjo de Theije – In the run-up to Keti Koti, the annual commemoration of the formal abolishment of slavery in Suriname…
By Ewa Strzelecka and Marina de Regt. This June will be remembered as a month of celebrating Yemeni studies and dialogue in the Netherlands. The so-called forgotten war…
By Fridus Steijlen – There are things in daily life that seem to always continue without notice. For me, one of them is going to the hairdresser, more…
By Barbara van Male. A freelance journalist, a UX-researcher, a policy advisor in radicalisation, a researcher in water management, and a senior officer at an NGO walk into…
by Jo Püst – This is the story of Samira the Snail. Together with various other animals and plants, she lives in a small village near the forest.…
YES to far more sensible gun-purchase background checks and restrictions. YES to more comprehensive mental health treatment options. Credit: pikisuperstar via www.freepik.c…
By Barbara Arisi and Jean Segata In order to celebrate the mes de los muertos (month of the dead), we write this obituary. We pay homage to one…
by Rachma L Putri “I think, as long as I remember, I never felt happy about my life. There is always too much burden in my life” said…
By Qusai Khwes I opened my eyes; waking up to my back hurting a bit, and my feet a lot. The day before, I spent more than fifteen…
By Marina de Regt. “Marina, if I die, will you then forgive me for all the trouble that I caused you?” my Yemeni friend Aicha wrote me ten…
By Marina de Regt For years, humanitarian organisations in Jordan and Lebanon have been concerned about the increasing number of “child marriages” among Syrian refugees. While early marriages…
Jochem Kootstra is onderzoeker, copywriter en programma-maker (om maar een greep uit zijn bezigheden te geven) en bekijkt technologie door een antropologische bril. Door deze bril ziet hij…
On the website of Zuiderlicht (one of the organizations I researched): the angle and scenery of this picture implies that the wind turbine rises up from nature itself.…
From a distance we watch as desperation grows and in awe we witness how people attempt to build new shelters on harsh concrete, prepare food on windy sidewalks…
“… a deadly pestilence is in our town, strikes us and spares not, and the house of Cadmus is emptied of its people while Black Death grows rich…
While the rich industrial countries are simply readjusting their national budgets amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the fiscal options for the middle-to-low income countries seem to be strictly limited.…
These comments were originally prepared for the “COVID-19 and Anthropology: Disease, Social Justice, and Well Being” Webinar hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Section on…
WRITTEN BY FREEK COLOMBIJN Rumours, new societal practices, new state policies and self-imposed restrictions by organizations spread as fast as the Corona virus itself. It is almost certain…
Door Menno van den Bosch Nog nooit was er zo’n overvloed aan nieuws en informatie beschikbaar. Die overvloed verzadigt ons niet, maar maakt juist dat steeds meer mensen…
Door Marina de Regt In het Volkskrant magazine van afgelopen zaterdag 26 januari j.l. doet journaliste Ana van Es verslag van haar bezoek…
By Marina de Regt. “Hodeidah is empty, Marina, there is no one there anymore”, says Noura to me this morning, in a short telephone conversation that is repeatedly…
By Marina de Regt. The aim of my Talma Lecture, which I gave on 12 January at VU University Amsterdam, was to discuss the implications of the war…