mining

Digitalisation

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 + 1 other • 22-03-2018

Diversity

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 • 19-08-2015

Diversity

Whose land is it anyway?

Property is not just a legal term that states who owns what. Discussions on property reveal a bigger picture, in which not only the law but history and oral tradition take part as well.

• 30-10-2014

Sustainability

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 • 03-09-2013

Blogs

Footage of Failure: Multimodality in Practice

Resource wars and Public Anthropology

Whose land is it anyway?

Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers