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standplaatswereld , January 17th, 2022
Door Zoë Tjon A Ten. “Geinig, ik zal nooit weten wat die mensen hier doen, waar ze zich mee bezig houden, wat hun interesses zijn, hoe ze praten…
standplaatswereld , December 31st, 2021
It has been 70 years since a life-size Father Christmas doll was burned in Dijon in protest against the “paganization” of Christmas. A year later, Claude Lévi-Strauss published…
standplaatswereld , December 13th, 2021
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…
standplaatswereld , December 2nd, 2021
In the picture above, you see me reading along with Hebrew psalms and prayers during a synagogue (shul) service on simchat torah. Simchat torah is a festive day…
standplaatswereld , July 30th, 2021
This past academic year we have continued with our regular content featuring anthropological analyses of current events (the pandemic and the assassination of Peter R. de Vries, for…
standplaatswereld , May 7th, 2021
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…
standplaatswereld , April 30th, 2021
Over the course of my studies I have received a lot of advice on how to best go about writing my thesis. In this blog, I have curated…
standplaatswereld , April 15th, 2021
By Matthias Teeuwen The Vrije Universiteit originally had a strong confessional commitment to the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and I have always wondered how anthropology meshed with…
standplaatswereld , March 24th, 2021
Door Peter Versteeg Veranderen, verandering – waarom willen we dat eigenlijk? Weten we werkelijk waarom we soms ons leven om willen gooien of zijn onze motieven ten diepste…
standplaatswereld , February 9th, 2021
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…
standplaatswereld , February 4th, 2021
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…
standplaatswereld , January 29th, 2021
Image from a Dutch high school history book. Photo by author. By Sientje Trip When browsing one of the history books of the high school I researched I…
standplaatswereld , January 27th, 2021
by Anne and Freek Colombijn The Corona lockdown has forced schools and universities to switch to online teaching. While we recognize the often justified complaints voiced by many…
standplaatswereld , January 13th, 2021
by Yatou Sallah I have long been intrigued by the anthropological framing of Africans in the context of postcolonialism. As scholars and theorists in the field attempt to…
standplaatswereld , December 17th, 2020
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…
standplaatswereld , December 11th, 2020
Dit artikel staat ook op www.meerdanbabipangang.nl Als Taiwanees geadopteerde ben ik opgegroeid in een liefdevolle familie en is mij altijd verteld dat ondanks dat onze huid verschilt in…
standplaatswereld , November 23rd, 2020
In this episode, Puck de Boer talks to Haiyue (or Fiona, her English name) Shan, a PhD student at the Sociology department of VU University. From a holistic,…
standplaatswereld , November 12th, 2020
In this episode, Puck de Boer talks with Aleeha Ali, who studied sociology in Pakistan, did a research master’s in anthropology in the UK and is currently a…
standplaatswereld , October 16th, 2020
Standplaats Wereld is expanding with a new component. We will continue to marvel you with our stories, but from now on, we will also explore them in the…
standplaatswereld , October 5th, 2020
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…
standplaatswereld , October 1st, 2020
By Salma Bel Lahdab El Hommad Hatidze Muratova, a fiftyish-year-old Turkish speaking woman, accompanied by her old mother and her precious bees, lives in the middle of a…
standplaatswereld , September 25th, 2020
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….
standplaatswereld , September 16th, 2020
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…