Sustainability · Diversity When eco chic meets halal Islam has always been a lifestyle of ethical choices, but how is a new blend of halal and green consumption practices to contribute to debates on sustainable development? Bart Barendregt • 22-04-2013
Diversity Economy as pseudo-nature: what’s the problem? Economists make a mistake when they make us belief that the economy is a natural force. Economy is not nature. There is no economy outside of human relations, except maybe for monkeys grooming each other. Economy is society and culture. Erik Bähre • 22-04-2013
Diversity Exposing the interface: the critical future of (cyborg) anthropology Should ditigal research by anthropologists, or <i>cyborg anthropology</i>, be made available as a corporate market research technique? Or should it make explicit how our “predictions” for the future normalize political and corporate interests? Dorien Zandbergen • 22-04-2013
Digitalisation Moving heritage: a political issue We are inclined to 'sacralize' heritage, as if the importance of certain objects has always been seen and recognized and has always been beyond discussion. But meanings attributed to certain objects have always been subject to change. Pieter ter Keurs • 22-04-2013
Digitalisation Intercultural love in Lovina Masterstudent Cecile Schimmel is doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Her research is on intercultural love relationships, her location Lovina Beach, northern Bali. She applies Visual Ethnography as a method. A report from the field by a visiting lecturer. Janine Prins • 15-04-2013
Diversity Kidzania: object lessons for children in consumer societies Kidzania is a multinational chain offering educational entertainment to children around the world. It is set up in a sort of theme park that recreates city life on a child’s scale. Is this ‘edutainment’ or ‘advertainment’? Andrea Cerda-Pereira • 15-04-2013
