By Sara Niva – It’s a Wednesday afternoon and I’m walking home from the gym with a successful workout in my pocket and a pleased smile on my face. I check my phone, see a…
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Door Minke Wiersma – Wanneer de tijd op 14:20 springt op het digitale klokje op mijn nachtkastje, weet ik dat het tijd is voor mijn favoriete moment van de dag. De zon bereikt dan precies…
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by Nancy Hakizimana – April is the month that holds so much for me. My father was born on the seventh, I followed on the twelfth, five days later, and for years we shared the…
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By Romy de Vos and William Arfman – Friday the 28 th of November 2025. “Feel your feet on the ground. Look each other in the eyes. Give each other a hug. We’re here again!”…
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By Romy de Vos and William Arfman – Friday the 28th of November 2025. As we approach the ritual site, the waxing gibbous moon casts a faint reflection of light over the dark forest on the…
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By Maaike Matelski, Eva van Roekel and Htet Hlaing Win – On 3 January 2026, the United States carried out a military intervention on Venezuelan soil, abducting President Maduro and bringing him to the US to stand…
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By Igor Von Rosenberg – At the start of 2025, I came to Fiambalá to study how the local population of this small town of approximately five thousand inhabitants in the Northwest of Argentina, experiences…
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By Gijs Koopman – Paired with the failure to explain to my grandmother what it exactly is, I still wonder why I really chose anthropology. But when I think about what I learned from it…
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By Sverre Beijne – It is a sunny autumn day when I visit the park for the first time. As I enter, I see a small sandy path that creeps between two low fences. There…
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By Elena Liberati – Debates on the commons have become increasingly central to analyses of grassroots struggles around mobility and borders in Europe. In the context of the EU border regime, the concept offers a…
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