The urge to forget: collective amnesia as a byproduct of the Westgate Mall attacks On Saturday 21 September the Westgate Mall in Nairobi was taken over by militants. They killed and injured a shocking number of visitors and occupied the building for days. Kenya fought back by emphasizing the unity and solidarity among its citizens. Marlous van den Akker • October 02, 2013 • 2 comments
The peculiar case of (non) creativity Creativity is one of the buzzwords everyone seems to be after - individuals, businesses, education institutions and even states. Some seem to succeed better than others. But is that really the case? What are our views on what is creative and what is not? Zane Kripe • September 10, 2013 • 2 comments
A war of images We live in a world of images, more than ever before. That statement is still often heard, but we can doubt its historical correctness. Pieter ter Keurs • September 09, 2013
Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers My recent start of new fieldwork in Suriname and French Guiana raises interesting questions about ‘entering the field’. How is it that the process of negotiating access to people and places is in itself a major source of knowledge about power relations? Sabine Luning • September 03, 2013
Walking and protesting in Brasília Protests in Brazil are heating up preparations for the football World Cup. These demonstrations and other ways of using the streets of Brasília emphasize that the future did not turn out to be as utopian and rich as imagined before. Erik Bähre • July 15, 2013 • 4 comments
Liberating visual methods New adventures have appeared in the field of Anthropology. ‘Liberating!’ students say. Social theory and fieldwork combine in new ways, thanks to contemporary audiovisual practices. A glimpse into a few experiences. Janine Prins • July 04, 2013
Data confessions of the quantified self 'Quantified Selfers' are people who spend a lot of their time tracking, measuring and counting physical, mental and emotional aspects of their 'selves'. Critics refer to them as narcissistic 'datasexuals'. Dorien Zandbergen offers another explanation. Dorien Zandbergen • July 01, 2013
Glamour ladies Rethinking modernity by studying 20th century Asian divas. Bart Barendregt • June 25, 2013
National imagination in two Dutch commercials Print capitalism has played a crucial role in the making of nations in modern times. However, it is a technology which has drastically changed. By looking at two to recent Dutch commercials I would like to show how. Andrea Cerda-Pereira • June 17, 2013
