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Door Inge Zwart Op 1 juli 1863 besloot Nederland het tot slaaf maken van personen bij wet te verbieden. Die dag wordt in Amsterdam gevierd met het Keti Koti-festival in het Oosterpark en de Bigi Spikri optocht ernaartoe. Ik ben er voor het eerst bij.
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By Herbert Ploegman As Dimitris Dalakoglou argued in his inaugural speech “Anthropology and Infrastructures. From the State to the Commons”, on the 13th of June, “our humanity and our human lives” are truly at stake in the events unfolding at the borders of Europe. He referred in particular to the people trying to cross the Mediterranean while facing extreme risks of drowning, but also to the modified forms of governance in Southern European countries over the years that we understand as crisis.
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By Thijl Sunier The day after the attacks in Paris, the French President François Hollande declared war to Islamic State. In the Netherlands, Prime Minister Mark Rutte also declared that ‘we are now at war’. Not with Islam, he added.
What bewilders me is that these declarations suggest that we are only now dragged into a conflict we supposedly have no part in. Baffling and indeed cynical. The Taliban, al Qaeda and Islamic State are monsters that the West and Russia have co-created in a decades-long struggle for power, influence and resources. This war has already started a long time ago at the cost of many thousands of innocent victims primarily in the region itself and the West has been involved in this right from the beginning.
16 CommentsDoor Christel de Bruijn Je bent 16 jaar en al je vriendinnetjes willen op zaterdagavond de stad in om te dansen en te drinken. Na je eindexamen verhuist iedereen naar een studentenstad om daar op zichzelf te gaan wonen. Ze worden verliefd en gaan trouwen. Maar niet voor ieder meisje is dit van-zelfsprekend. Ook niet als je geboren en getogen bent in Nederland.
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Door Aalt Smienk Waarom lezen en horen we in media vaak ‘moslimterrorisme’ en minder vaak islamterrorisme’ of ‘terroristische moslims’. En wat betekent deze keuze van de zendende partijen voor het debat over de positie van moslims in de Nederlandse samenleving? Aalt Smienk, promovendus verbonden aan de afdeling Sociale en Culturele Antropologie, doet onderzoek naar de beeldvorming over minderheidsgroepen in de Nederlandse pers.
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Jan Abbink. April-May 2015: Ethiopian Israelis come out en masse onto the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, the three largest cities of Israel, following a filmed incident of police abuse of an Ethiopian Israeli man. The short recording goes viral and evokes the anger of recognition among most of the ca. 135,000 Ethiopian Jews in the country. On 30 April, they protest in the thousands and demand ‘an end to discrimination, racist incidents, discrimination and inferior socio-economic position’. Some of the happenings turn into clashes with the police. In Tel Aviv, on 3 May, dozens of people get injured, and many arrested in the second demonstration. These are some of the largest protests of recent years in Israel.
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