The weaponisation of earthquake relief efforts in post-coup Myanmar
By Maaike Matelski – Four years after the military coup of February 2021, Myanmar was hit by a massive earthquake on 28 March 2025. While the earthquake may…
Tag: Politiek & Burgerschap
Watching both ways
by Emma van der Tak – “I saw that you have written for newspapers before,” Albert remarks as the waitress puts down our coffee. While I did so…
Documenting displacement
By Maaike Matelski – This year marks the 15th anniversary of my first visit to Myanmar to do research on civil society under authoritarian rule. Since that time…
Mensen monitoren
Door Ton Salman – Onlangs, op 25 november 2024, is in de Tweede Kamer een motie aangenomen waarin de regering wordt verzocht “om gegevens over culturele en religieuze…
Revisiting a (child) hood
By Robert Cornelis – It’s one of the first warm days in May, and I am slightly thrown off by how lush and green my birthplace appears. In…
PVV monsterzege: gevaar voor de multiculturele samenleving, of bewijs van haar succes?
door Eva Koemar – Toen ik de dag na de verkiezingen op de VU kwam, hoorde ik veel bezorgde geluiden over de ‘monsterzege’ van de PVV. De uitslag…
Values, affect, and feminism in the Brazilian elections
By Thiago Pinto Barbosa. 156 million Brazilians were called to vote on the last Sunday of October. It was the second round of the presidential elections: Brazilians had…
De omgekeerde wereld van carnaval ten tijde van Omikron. Een stopmotion van Esther Teelen.
Door Esther Teelen “Ik maak een stopmotion waarin ik mijn veldwerkervaringen verwerk”, dacht ik direct bij het beluisteren van een discussie over het Nederlandse coronabeleid. In de langetermijnaa…
Unearthing a Fragile Root of Democracy
By Pia K. R. Beiermann, second-year student of CADS This Saturday I wake up slowly, a bit later than usual. Still in a morning fogginess best described as…
The Noise of Russian Silence
By Ekaterina Thor, second-year Bachelor student of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Opening our daily news feed on the 24th of February, most of probably needed a second…
Myanmar anthropologists dismissed
By Maaike Matelski – In this picture, anthropology students from Yangon University show the ‘three fingers salute’ for democracy. Students and university staff across Myanmar have been protesti…
Military coup in Myanmar: back to square one?
In the early morning of 1 February, the day that a newly elected government was supposed to convene, Myanmar’s military staged a coup, taking government leaders captive and…
In the meantime on the other side of the world…
By Marina de Regt While we were all busy watching the US elections in the first week of November, an armed conflict broke out on the other side…
Webinar: Ethnographic encounters with morality, crisis and extractivism in Venezuela
The complex humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has caused more than five million Venezuelans to flee their country. In turn, Venezuelans that stay have developed multiple subsistence strategies, rangin…
Corona choices
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…
On the Brink of a Pandemic; “World, jiāyóu”
WRITTEN BY JOP KOOPMAN The city of Wuhan, ground zero of the coronavirus, is 6 six days under lockdown when residents take to WeChat and start to suggest…
Bolivia – terwijl het stof nog niet is opgetrokken
door Ton Salman De mensen in het land demonstreren, vloeken, vechten, tieren en vieren. President Morales, reeds veertien jaar aan de macht, trad gisteren, zondag 10 november 2019,…
Mass protests in Ecuador: what news media don’t report
By Caroline van Slobbe This week, I have experienced the specific scent and feel of teargas for the first time. It is in first instance itchy, as if…
De CEU countdown is begonnen #OccupyKossuth
door Georgette Veerhuis Het is alweer bijna twee jaar geleden dat ik meeliep met een enorme protestmars in Boedapest, waar zo’n 80,000 man op af kwam, om te…
Spreading Sacrifice Areas in Anthropology
By Alexander Dunlap Confronting a room of ‘Revolutionary Communists’ and Marxists about their desire for industrialism in 1980, Russell Means took the time to explain the uncomfortable reality…
From supporting migrants to protesting for change
By Lysanne Vrooman Almost half a year ago, on the 25th of March 2017, it was the sixtieth anniversary of the treaty of Rome.…
The dilemma’s of public anthropology. Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
What is the role of the university in the public square? By Matthias Teeuwen On Earth Day last Saturday thousands of scientists in hundreds of cities worldwide took…
Dreamocracy: vluchtelingen als expert-docenten op middelbare scholen
Door Freek Colombijn. Mijn ouders waren tieners toen de Tweede Wereldoorlog uitbrak en in de twintig toen Nederland bevrijd werd. Ze hebben aan den lijve ondervonden hoe het is…
Shifting realities – #IstandwithCEU
Solidarity during the protest in support of CEU and academic freedom on 2 April 2017. (Photo courtesy of Index.hu) By Georgette Veerhuis A few weeks ago I was…