Alexander Chaplin
Project
How CouchSurfing’s attempts to overcome one-dimensional forms of ‘othering’ work out in practice, theorizing how hosts and guests who meet in person – and in ‘everyday’ settings like the home – rework second-hand information (e.g. media images) about each other through a travel network that seeks to authenticate a cosmopolitan view on (cultural) diversity.
Adane Kebede Gebeyehu
Project
My doctoral project is focused on the adaptive responses of Omo Valley communities to growing insecurity with the climate variability and political-ecological changes, in Ethiopia.
Jesse Jonkman
Project
My research explores the socio-territorial frictions that pervade informal gold mining in the Chocó, Colombia.
Erik van Ommering
Project
The dual nature of education in contexts of violent conflict: a classroom-based analysis of the violence inducing and -averting capacities of primary schools in Lebanon
Carole Rabemanantsoa
Project
The Mining-conservation nexus: New regimes of ‘’sustainable development ‘’ in Madagascar
Mehmet Sahin
Project
The Golden Generation: Islam, Inspiration, Ethical techniques of binding within the Gülen Movement