by Sophie Leegwater – A few minutes before 4:30 pm on a Monday afternoon in early January 2024, I hop into the yellow cab that takes me to Adrenalina Studio, one of the pole dance…
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By Marina de Regt – For a month, I have been in Cairo as a visiting fellow at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute. I am here to finish a number of publications and to do preliminary research…
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By Yuli Ykitai – I have been drinking tea without sugar for as long as I can remember. According to family legend, it all began during the time we still lived in the USSR. During…
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By Beth Bento – The day began with the high stakes of a long-awaited interview. After nearly a month in Altamira, Pará, I finally felt more connected to the land and to the women involved…
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By Marina de Regt – This morning three beautiful pictures of the Sahara showed up on my phone, sent by Ahmed, who I met a few weeks ago while making a desert trip in Algeria.…
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By Romy de Vos – “Look, a piece of slate from the roof,” I say to my hostess Iris*, as I hold out a thin plate of darkish-grey material for her to see. “Nope,” she…
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By Maaike Matelski – This year marks the 15th anniversary of my first visit to Myanmar to do research on civil society under authoritarian rule. Since that time the country has gone through military dictatorship,…
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by Yannick van Druijten – When Matús first called Petržalka a ‘concrete jungle’, I laughed. At that moment I had not fully understood what he meant. Matús had explained to me that people would get…
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Door Luka Hendrickx. Begin september fiets ik voor het eerst sinds ik het veldwerk voor mijn scriptieonderzoek afrondde de Polder weer binnen. Daarmee wordt in België de streek ten noorden van Antwerpen bedoeld, waar de…
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