'Development' is increasingly considered a complex and multifarious issue, which stands in need of re-conceptualisation. The Master programme of Cultures and Development Studies (CADES) is rooted in anthropology and seeks to provide a profound interdisciplinary, intercultural and cultures-sensitive approach and understanding of development, open to other cultures' knowledge systems and plural ethical orientations.
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Public Things, Politics, and the Infrastructures of Bare Life at the City's Edge
IARA PhD Seminar by Brenda Chalfin - May 4th 2012
Prof. Brenda CHALFIN (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Miami) will give a guest lecture on
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New Publication: Architectures of Belonging
Inhabiting Worlds in Rural West-Africa
What is a house? What is dwelling? How can a house be a body? What is “being modern” in ...
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6-16 January
The BTC has announced its 2012 call for candidates for the Belgian government's junior programme. The programme offers young graduates (EEU members) the opportunity to work in projects/programmes in one of the 18 partner countries of the Belgian Technical Cooperation, guided by the BTC project...
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Arjun Appadurai joins Filip De Boeck for debate in Leuven
Professor Arjun Appadurai is a widely acclaimed anthropologist and one of the world’s most prominent thinkers on globalization, public culture and urban studies. On Tueday 22 November he will join professor Filip De Boeck for a debate on ‘The speculative city: Cases from Mumbai and...
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2011 debates series on Cities in Development online
Cities in the South are very often depicted as problematic or even pathological entities marked by lack, decay, scarcity and marginalisation, by increasing poverty and de-industrialisation, by violence and breakdown, or by an increasing lack of space and an ever-growing demographic density. Al...
