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Het gevaar van angst. Hypochonderen in Fukushima (Tinkebell)

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Inge van de Ven

11/12/2018

8 minutes to read

In 'Het gevaar van Angst. Hypochonderen' in Fukushima gebruikt kunstenares Tinkebell het in 2011 door de kernramp getroffen Japanse gebied als haar persoonlijke speeltuin

Don't know what acceleration means? Then ''Overheating' is mandatory reading (Overheating - Thomas Hylland Eriksen)

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Jan Blommaert

01/06/2017

6 minutes to read

In his new book 'Overheating', Thomas Hylland Eriksen offers a mountain of information and even more food for thought, and it does so in a text that can be read at lightning pace.

Wat is Populisme? (Jan-Werner Müller)

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Jan Blommaert

15/05/2017

14 minutes to read

Wat is populisme? is een boek dat zich vlot laat lezen, maar dat analytisch niet zwaar weegt.

Gender, power and political speech. Women and language in the 2015 UK General Election (Deborah Cameron & Sylvia Shaw)

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Piia Varis

08/03/2017

4 minutes to read

Gender, Power and Political Speech is not only important but enjoyable reading, says Piia Varis.

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Cathy O'Neil)

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Piia Varis

09/01/2017

4 minutes to read

Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) by Cathy O'Neil makes a very compelling case for people to start asking more questions and demand more transparency regarding algorithmic models that are being used to regulate so many aspects of their lives.

When the law comes out of the barrel of the gun (Graham Denyer Willis)

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Paul Mutsaers

26/10/2016

5 minutes to read

The book is a product of intense ethnographic labor that took place in São Paulo, that Brazilian megacity where crime and violence run rampant and where routinized killing takes place involving police and an organized crime groups

The conservative turn in Linguistic Landscape Studies (Shohamy & Ben-Rafael)

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Jan Blommaert

29/08/2016

14 minutes to read

The very first issue of a new academic journal called Linguistic Landscape (vol 1/1-2, 2015, John Benjamins) contains much to be concerned about. It proposes a self-stereotyped scope to a vibrant field with great potential.