Sinds duidelijk is dat Koerdische organisaties een belangrijke rol spelen in de internationale strijd tegen IS, groeit de kritiek op de behandeling van de Koerden door internationale politieke actoren. Hoogleraar antropologie Martin van Bruinessen legt in een artikel in het Algemeen Dagblad uit hoe de geografische ligging van de Koerden – verspreid over Turkije, Syrië, Iran […]
Sam Geijer studied Cultural Anthropology and Developement Sociology and is an entrepreneur engaging in topics related to social exclusion, (adapted) sports, mega sports events, crime and Latin America. In this blog he shares his insights on the Brazilian prison system. The violent riots that rocked the Brazilian prison system in January 2017 shocked the country and even […]
The Violence and Utopian Promise of Total Bureaucratization Graeber, D. 2015. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. New York: Melville House Publishing. Between March and April Dutch citizens engage in the complex national ritual of digitized forms, receipts, documents and endless letters that are lost, retrieved, sent back, […]