Spectres articulate those voices that history has tried to repress. A sociolinguistics of the spectre should, according to Ana Deumert, foreground those voices.
Het lijkt een hobby van opiniemakers om zonder kennis van zaken te fulmineren tegen het literatuuronderwijs, moderne letterkundigen of de literatuurwetenschap. Fake news met een enorme impact op het imago van de Neerlandistiek, aldus Sander Bax.
The CV is a crucial genre of autobiography. The way it has to be practiced amounts to identity asset management. And the latter is becoming a format of truth, also affecting online dating.
How authentic are we really? The increase of digital influencers and the pressure on users to reach a certain following or look a certain way before posting a photo, questions the idea of online authenticity.
With growing sense of negativity and 'othering' of Islam in political sphere, in this article I take the story of a Dutch Muslim convert to explore religious and social factors attributed to his change.
How has Marine Le Pen been using her feminine side? And what can we learn from FEMEN's protests against Le Pen, and more specifically against her feminism?
Class is a slippery slope, it seems. At least the way it is perceived, embodied, and practiced in the U.S., where I was born and spent most of my life.
'Vajacials', wasp nests, and glitter are only some of the numerous vaginal trends out there. It seems like there is a never-ending need to change and enhance the female body and what does that say about the way in which women are perceived?
March first was #diggitday, on which we conducted an experiment regarding Facebook's guidelines for publishers. This is a critical research report of our findings.
Among global far-right white supremacists South-Africa emerges as a place where white people are believed to be persecuted. Ana Deumert questions this myth.
As is the case with most politicians nowadays, Marine Le Pen is active on social media platforms. This article zooms in on the message she tries to bring across with her social media usage.
Dating apps enable people to do things they have never done before. It are truly global products, but they only work because they are embedded in local (sub)cultural practices.
