Myanmar anthropologists dismissed
By Maaike Matelski – In this picture, anthropology students from Yangon University show the ‘three fingers salute’ for democracy. Students and university …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Mijn Griekse vrienden van de Gouden Dageraad
Graffiti in Corfu stad: ‘Gouden Dageraad’ veranderd in ‘Gouden Eieren’ door slechts een aantal streepjes aan te brengen. Een bekende manier om …
Wind Energy
By Alexander Dunlap Wind Energy is undoubtedly my favorite of all the energy systems, which retains an immense potential for ecological sustainability. …
Rennen voor Erdoǧan, Gülen of Atatürk? De politisering van de Istanbul Marathon 2016
Door Heleen van der Linden Sport verbindt. Toch? Ook als het aan de Nederlandse politiek ligt klopt …
Cuban imaginations of the future
Door Caroline van Slobbe Havana is full of small businesses. The most common entrepreneurs are ladies who sell cupcakes and cookies …
Stable Instability: renewed turmoil in Ethiopia (part 2)
Qilinto prison burning, Addis Ababa 3 September 2016. Opposition voices state that not the fire but the prison guards killed more than …
Colombia between hope and fear
by Lieke Prins When I initially left my house in Amsterdam to live in Colombia for three months I had planned to …
The Political Agency of Refugees
by Matea Curcovic Westendorp Dr. Cindy Horst is an anthropologist located in Oslo, Norway where she works as a senior researcher at …
Keulen: een goed begin?
“Unser Feminismus ist antirassistisch – Reclaim feminism” (12 maart 2016, Keulen) © strassenstriche.net, via creative commons Door Marina de Regt en Reinhilde …
Oekraïne, nationalisme en (anti)democratie: stem niet op 6 april!
Door Thijl Sunier Op 6 april mogen we in een referendum stemmen over een associatieverdrag van de EU met Oekraïne. Ik ben …
Waarheid leidt niet automatisch tot gerechtigheid
People carry a picture of late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero in San Salvador. Romero was assasinated after denouncing violations of human rights …