Speckmann Prize winner 2014: Re-framing economics through local community action Economic change is often seen as being controlled by policy-makers and big business only. However, in the ongoing aftermath of the 2007/08 economic crisis an increasing number of people are implementing new economic practices in their own localities. Florence Scialom • February 17, 2014 • 9 comments
January: Fieldwork Month January is traditionally known as the leatherworking month or wolf month, but I spent this January involved in the anthropological tradition of fieldwork, by supervising four groups of students carrying out field research on De Veluwe. Henrike Florusbosch • February 06, 2014
A fictive birthday with real debts In Cape Town, the members of Zolani Club get together to celebrate the birthday of one of their members. The birthday is not real, but the debts are. Erik Bähre • January 22, 2014
May you lose weight, stop drinking, and pay off your debts! Or should I say - Happy New Year!? New Year’s greetings for those celebrating it and some musings about the genre of New Year’s resolutions: what do they tell us about the future and the present? Zane Kripe • January 20, 2014
Filming autism Various visual anthropologists work in healthcare. Why is that? I found out when I started following my brother with a camera, the moment he was diagnosed with autism at age 42. Janine Prins • December 20, 2013
Real Smart Cities are not user-friendly The European debate on Smart Cities should focus less on “user-friendliness” and more on open access and engaging citizens in the complex political issues involved in the creation of technologies and cities. Dorien Zandbergen • December 18, 2013
Notes on Utopia: An Exhibition 'Utopia, Visions of a New World' is the current exhibition in De Lankenhal Museum. An Utopia is often defined as an ideal that comes to break with the past to move towards the future. What’s new then about this particular Utopia in exhibit? Andrea Cerda-Pereira • December 16, 2013
Nelson Mandela and the politics of mourning Nelson Mandela has died at the respectable age of 95. But his political life is far from over: he will become a powerful ancestor. Erik Bähre • December 09, 2013 • 1 comment
Carrying a talisman: a valid fieldwork method Some fieldwork encounters radically change our perspective. However, it often seems that such encounters depend more on a dose of good luck than on careful planning. My research as well took a radically different turn after one such lucky rendezvous. Marlous van den Akker • December 02, 2013
