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Mirjam de Bruijn (Research anthropologist)

Mirjam de Bruijn is an anthropologist whose work has a clearly interdisciplinary character with a preference for contemporary history and cultural studies. She focuses on the interrelationship between agency, marginality, mobility, communication and technology. Mirjam is an Africanist with a focus on West and Central Africa. She did, and does, extensive (qualitative) fieldwork in Cameroon, Chad and Mali. Her specific fields of interest are: nomadism, youth and children, social (in)security, poverty, marginality/ social and economic exclusion, violence, slavery, human rights, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

Understanding the Congo-crisis: a cooperation with Sapin Makengele (Global and Colonial History)

For this project, the artist Sapin Makengele produced a large drawing of his…


by Mirjam de Bruijn (Anthropologist), Sapin Makengele (Artist), Meike de Goede (Lecturer, Historian)

Croquemort: A biographical journey in the context of Chad

A co-creative anthropological journey describing the biography in context of…


by Mirjam de Bruijn (Anthropologist), Sjoerd Sijsma (Film maker & Photographer), Didier Lalaye (Slam poet & Medical Doctor), Lucia Ragazzi (Editor)

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