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Dr. Sabine Luning is Associate Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University

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PortCityFutures in Rotterdam: Conversations on the Waterfront

This blog recounts the making of a series of small films portraying conversations between the authors at different sites in Rotterdam. The conversations are exemplary of PCF collaborative work on societal issues and future making in this port city region.

Sabine Luning, Carola Hein and Paul van de Laar • February 09, 2021

Cultural Anthropology, Infrastructures and Envisioning Futures

Port City Regions are global hubs which invite anthropologists, planners, geographers, and architects to rethink disciplinary foundations, interdisciplinary collaborations and future-making, as Sabine Luning, Andrew Littlejohn, and Carola Hein explain.

Sabine Luning, Andrew Littlejohn and Carola Hein • November 18, 2020

Co-labouring for Sustainability: the value of transdisciplinary collaboration between mining actors, artists and researchers

Co-labouring in research projects generates new perspectives and creates shared experiences and moments of enjoyment. Reporting on a recent workshop in Ghana, Robert Pijpers and Sabine Luning show how co-labouring both bridges and reveals inequalities inherent in research practices.

Robert Pijpers and Sabine Luning • May 20, 2020

Footage of Failure: Multimodality in Practice

Failure is an unavoidable aspect of the ethnographic enterprise. And yet, failure should not be seen as a dead end. In the context of the FR&T program, we piloted a multimodal research collaboration that required embracing failure as a reoccurring theme.

Sabine Luning and Mark Westmoreland • March 22, 2018

Resource wars and Public Anthropology

Extraction of subterranean wealth is a hot issue in the Netherlands, and elsewhere. How do we anthropologists contribute to the field of research and the public debate on mineral and gas extraction?

Sabine Luning • August 19, 2015 • 3 comments

Revolutionary times in Burkina Faso

Two and a half weeks ago a popular uprising ousted Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré after 27 years of power. It raises the question that many African societies face: Are there alternatives and who can give hope to the young generation?

Sabine Luning • November 17, 2014 • 4 comments

Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers

My recent start of new fieldwork in Suriname and French Guiana raises interesting questions about ‘entering the field’. How is it that the process of negotiating access to people and places is in itself a major source of knowledge about power relations?

Sabine Luning • September 03, 2013