De oorzaak van de studentenprotesten
Foto van bezetting afgelopen week in Amsterdam
Door gastauteur Max van Lingen (m.m.v. Donya Alinejad)
De boodschap van de studenten die de afgelopen week collegezalen in Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Utrecht en Amsterdam bezetten was helder: 1) Schaf de studiefinanciering niet af, want daarmee schaadt je de toegankelijkheid van het hoger onderwijs, 2) Investeer in de kwaliteit van het hoger onderwijs, want dat is goed voor de samenleving. (meer…)
Categorieën: De Lage Landen
getagged: activisme, Amsterdam, CDA, financial crisis, onderwijs, protest, studenten, universiteit, verzet
Detail of Sakawa calendar
By Marleen de Witte
In the streets and homes of Accra, the impact of the global financial crisis appears slow. Analysts say this is due to the weak integration of the largely informal local economy with the global financial market. But this is not to say that people do not experience financial crisis. (meer…)
Categorieën: English posts · Muziek/Kunst & Media · Regio Afrika
getagged: Ghana, Marleen de Witte, financial crisis, sakawa, Accra, credit crisis, internet fraud, money magic
Brazilian miner shows gold in the pan
By Marjo de Theije
At the end of the summer of 2009 the price of gold passed the barrier of 1000 US$ an ounce for the second time since the financial crisis started. Early November it passed the 1100 US$ barrier and outlooks say the limit is not in view. I immediately think: “Good News,” 
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Categorieën: English posts · Globalisering & Ontwikkeling · Regio Amerika's
getagged: financial crisis, gold, Marjo de Theije, Suriname
Photo by Archerten
Door Ton Salman “Hesitating at the doorstep — the impact of the global economic and financial crisis in Bolivia”
Financial and economic crises as the one currently haunting us, inevitably affect the whole world — we are too interconnected for anyone to escape its impact. The way the crisis lands in various countries and regions, however, differs considerably.
Take Bolivia. As a reminder: since early 2006 Bolivia is governed by its first indigenous president, Evo Morales. He attempts to pull through economic reforms, to strengthen the country’s sovereignty vis-à-vis external agents, and pursues reforms in favor of the Bolivian poor. In his political discourse he combines an ideological (‘socialist’) with an ethnic vocabulary, accusing the West of a history of exploitation of the South, and additionally charging Western political and economic models of being instigated by greed, by obsession for accumulation and expansion, and of neglect of the environment and the depletion of natural resources. The crisis, in his view, is a leaf out of one’s own book. This does, nevertheless, leave the question open: will the crisis hurt in Bolivia?
Categorieën: English posts · Globalisering & Ontwikkeling · Politiek & Burgerschap · Regio Amerika's
getagged: Bolivia,, Ton Salman, financial crisis, Evo Morales;, informal economy;
By Julliete Koning
From the point of view of Indonesia, the current crisis is merely one in a series. To illustrate this, I will reflect on the Asian Financial crisis of 1997 and the subsequent crises that ‘hit’ Indonesia up until the eve of the present global crisis.
Categorieën: English posts · Globalisering & Ontwikkeling · Politiek & Burgerschap · Regio Azie
getagged: financial crisis, Indo, Indonesië, Pentecostalism
Street selling in The Gambia (by red hand records)
By Kim Knibbe What do a window washer at a cross-roads in a metropole who starts washing your window unasked, an old lady from a village in Africa who visits her son in the big city to ask for financial support, a beggar and a pickpocket have in common? According to the anthropologist James Ferguson, they are all involved in what he calls improvisational distributive labour. Ferguson said this during the seminar The Financial Crisis: views from anthropology, which was held at our department last week.
Categorieën: English posts · Globalisering & Ontwikkeling · Ondernemerschap & Organisaties · Politiek & Burgerschap · Regio Afrika
getagged: anthropology, Anton Hemerijck, basic income grant, BIG, credit crunch, crisis, financial crisis, Howard Stein, james ferguson, Kim Knibbe, South Africa
By Chris Madden (with permission)
Tijo Salverda explains what the financial sector can learn from a former colonial elite.
Hedge fund managers, the City and Wall Street’s top bankers, regulators and politicians involved in reshaping the financial markets, should take a look at the tropics. They can learn a great deal from the former white colonial elite of Mauritius.
Categorieën: English posts · Ondernemerschap & Organisaties · Regio Afrika · Regio Amerika's · Regio Europa
getagged: colonialism, Crunch, elite, financial crisis, financiers, Franco-Mauritians, managers, Mauritius, the City, Tijo Salverda
Beeld van alles-schlumpf's
This coming Thursday the faculty of social sciences at VU University Amsterdam will host a seminar on the financial crisis with lectures by James Ferguson, Howard Stein and Anton Hemerijck and views from the field contributed by various anthropologists at VU university. (meer…)
Categorieën: English posts · Globalisering & Ontwikkeling · Politiek & Burgerschap · Regio Afrika · Regio Amerika's · Regio Azie · Regio Europa · Regio Midden Oosten & Noord-Afrika
getagged: anthropology, financial crisis, global south, james ferguson, neoliberalism, Vrije Universiteit, VU university
