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Diversity

Real Smart Cities are not user-friendly

The European debate on Smart Cities should focus less on “user-friendliness” and more on open access and engaging citizens in the complex political issues involved in the creation of technologies and cities.

Dorien Zandbergen • 18-12-2013

Digitalisation

Notes on Utopia: An Exhibition

'Utopia, Visions of a New World' is the current exhibition in De Lankenhal Museum. An Utopia is often defined as an ideal that comes to break with the past to move towards the future. What’s new then about this particular Utopia in exhibit?

Andrea Cerda-Pereira • 16-12-2013

Diversity

Nelson Mandela and the politics of mourning

Nelson Mandela has died at the respectable age of 95. But his political life is far from over: he will become a powerful ancestor.

Erik Bähre • 09-12-2013

Sustainability

Carrying a talisman: a valid fieldwork method

Some fieldwork encounters radically change our perspective. However, it often seems that such encounters depend more on a dose of good luck than on careful planning. My research as well took a radically different turn after one such lucky rendezvous.

Marlous van den Akker • 02-12-2013

Diversity

14.8%

Before the millenium the Netherlands had one of the lowest percentages of female full professors in the world. What has changed since then and what does it tell us about gender equality in academia?

Henrike Florusbosch • 27-11-2013

Digitalisation

Anthropology Rocks – On the Fair Use of YouTube (and Jimi Hendrix)

YouTube’s copyright policy refers to “fair use” of the material available at their website. But are we, academics, allowed to use material retrieved from YouTube for the documentation and teaching of Africa’s intangible heritage?

Jan Jansen • 19-11-2013

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Real Smart Cities are not user-friendly

Notes on Utopia: An Exhibition

Nelson Mandela and the politics of mourning

Carrying a talisman: a valid fieldwork method

14.8%

Anthropology Rocks – On the Fair Use of YouTube (and Jimi Hendrix)