In the media
-
Anthropologist Radhika Gupta in Dutch media (NOS) on India-Pakistan border ceremony16 May 2025
Despite the political tensions between India and Pakistan, there is a ceremony every evening to close the Attari-Wagah border crossing. Anthropologist...
-
Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg in KlimaatHelpdesk on relevance of Indigenous knowledge in tackling the climate crisis15 May 2025
Indigenous knowledge, and the knowledge of other local groups, plays a crucial role in tackling climate change. This knowledge provides local insights...
-
Anthropologist Sander Hölsgens in Leidsch Dagblad on how skateboarding is changing the city10 April 2025
Sander Hölsgens is a skater and anthropologist. He has been skating since he was 11 years old and has been conducting research on skateboarding, the c...
-
Anthropologist Erik de Maaker in Dutch newspaper on ‘isolated communities'09 April 2025
A recent arrest of an American tourist who left a can of coke on North Sentinel Island has once again drawn attention to one of 'the world's most isol...
-
Jasmijn Rana Explores Cultural Norms in Running on 'Everyday Runners' Podcast14 January 2025
Episodes 40 and 42 of the podcast Everyday Runners by Andy Fuller and Reading Sideways Press, feature a conversation with Jasmijn Rana, Assistant Prof...
-
IPBES: Positive outcomes for people and nature are feasible, but we must act now20 December 2024
Changes to halt further biodiversity loss are more urgent than ever and feasible, says IPBES, the United Nations biodiversity panel. In two reports re...
-
Erik Bähre on Dutch radio about the last wild Indian10 September 2024
An extraordinary encounter took place in 1911. American scientists discovered the last 'wild' Indian, from the Yahi tribe, who had lived in total isol...
-
Marja Spierenburg in podcast Rethinking Rights and Resources for the Green Transformation.28 June 2024
In the first episode of the podcast series, Andrei Marin, Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, interviews Marja Spierenbu...
-
Sander Hölsgens in NRC about the online game The Elder Scrolls Online10 April 2024
Sander Hölsgens is Assistant Professor, anthropologist and the editor of Gamer.nl. In NRC he talks about his favourite moments in the online game The ...
-
The skate-friendly city01 March 2024
In cities like Leeds, Seoul and Malmö, a museum park is a place for unintentional creativity, unsolicited interventions and unorganised sport. Dutch c...
-
Jasmijn Rana on women's football and emancipation in Morocco20 December 2023
On 15 December 2023, Trouw published a report highlighting women's football in Morocco as a symbol of emancipation. The article looks at the role of w...
-
John Boy in NRC on the paradoxes of Generation Z08 May 2023
In this NRC article, sociologist John Boy together with Martijn Lampert and Lonneke van den Berg discuss the three biggest paradoxes of Generation Z: ...
-
Annemarie Samuels in podcast 'Boldcast' about the evolution of libraries02 May 2023
Episode 5 of BOLDcast, the podcast of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities, discusses the evolution of libraries from simple lending points...
-
Spierenburg in NRC on the neoliberal system in South Africa22 March 2023
Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg talks in the Dutch newspaper NRC about the neoliberal system and how it has to change in order to solve the energy cr...
-
Former CADS PhD student MacDonald on climate change in Dutch tv show13 February 2023
Stacey MacDonald, former CADS PhD student, is working as advisor for World Wide Fund for Nature in Bonaire. In the Dutch tv-programme 'NOS Amalia and ...