by Peter Speetjens | 26/08/2025 | Brazil
De metalen watertoren op stelten is van mijlenver zichtbaar. Weer en wind hebben het Fordlogo helemaal doen vervagen. Maar wanneer de boot na zes uur varen vanuit Santarém op de oever van de rivier Tapajós afstevent, laten de felrode letters op de enorme loods er geen...
by Peter Speetjens | 07/08/2025 | Brazil
Having lived in Guyana for more than a decade, Dutch botanist Hans ter Steege spends his time these days mostly on home soil. Yet his heart and mind very much remain among the trees of the tropics, which he considers his “personal pet plants.” A professor of community...
by Peter Speetjens | 09/05/2024 | Brazil, South America
A professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Roosevelt has been dubbed the “matriarch” of archaeology in the Amazon Basin. In a career spanning some 40 years, she helped accomplish a radical shift in the way we perceive past and present in the...
by Peter Speetjens | 09/05/2024 | Brazil
Streets lie deserted. Gardens have overgrown homes. Doors and windows are bricked up. The Bebedouro neighborhood in Maceió, in Brazil’s northeastern coastal state of Alagoas, is a shadow of its former self. And soon not even that. Every building there is numbered. As...
by Peter Speetjens | 09/05/2024 | Middle East
Een oud stuk, opnieuw actueel. De strijd om het Midden-Oosten woedt sinds 11 september 2001 in toenemende mate aan Amerikaanse universiteiten. Pro-Israëlische groeperingen zijn er uitermate actief. Van hen komen de campagnes om andersdenkende als Norman Finkelstein...
