New Year = New Project
Not quite... well yes and no... my extended project on Islam in Britain is continuing to be a work in progress... it has been a bumpy ride and a difficult one to do... one of the things is that each time there are new issues that arise and which are interesting to do... all of them which could be a project themselves... but slowly slowly... I decided a while back the project would be a book project and Julia Hieber has kindly accepted to write the essays... I first met Julia when I was 9... we both went to primary school in Brussels, she then moved to Munich and we lost touch until a couple of years ago when I got an email out of the blue in which she told me that she at Oxford doing a PhD on Muslim immigration and integration... At the time I had just finished my internship at Magnum and was writing the proposal for the Arts Council... I am now ready to submit the work and am planning to apply for more funds from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation...
Muslim family during evening prayers after breaking their fast during the month of Ramadhan
Terrorist suspect
For the moment things have been put a bit on the back-burner... I started a PhD at the University of Manchester in september and will be working in the Ecuadorian rainforest investigating the link between socio-economic factors and the environment in Kitchwa communities... the whole region is very rich in oil and there is a big socio-environmental dilemma of oil extraction, social deprivation and environmental degradation... this is my new project, which I actually started in 2006... I will hopefully be collaborating with the department of visual anthropology at the University to do some multimedia work...
Colonist community of San Carlos, Orellana 2008
Migrant workers from Otavalo playing volleyball in Coca, Orellan 2008
I have just spent three weeks in Ecuador organizing my field work which is due to start in July. I have mainly visited people at various NGO´s and Research Institutes as well as visiting a series of communities. the frontier town of el Coca will my research hub and contact the outside world since I will be spending most of time in the Jungle... I hope this self-imposed exile will encourage me to keep this blog updated... let´s see what happens... watch this space...
Not quite... well yes and no... my extended project on Islam in Britain is continuing to be a work in progress... it has been a bumpy ride and a difficult one to do... one of the things is that each time there are new issues that arise and which are interesting to do... all of them which could be a project themselves... but slowly slowly... I decided a while back the project would be a book project and Julia Hieber has kindly accepted to write the essays... I first met Julia when I was 9... we both went to primary school in Brussels, she then moved to Munich and we lost touch until a couple of years ago when I got an email out of the blue in which she told me that she at Oxford doing a PhD on Muslim immigration and integration... At the time I had just finished my internship at Magnum and was writing the proposal for the Arts Council... I am now ready to submit the work and am planning to apply for more funds from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation...
Muslim family during evening prayers after breaking their fast during the month of Ramadhan
Terrorist suspect
For the moment things have been put a bit on the back-burner... I started a PhD at the University of Manchester in september and will be working in the Ecuadorian rainforest investigating the link between socio-economic factors and the environment in Kitchwa communities... the whole region is very rich in oil and there is a big socio-environmental dilemma of oil extraction, social deprivation and environmental degradation... this is my new project, which I actually started in 2006... I will hopefully be collaborating with the department of visual anthropology at the University to do some multimedia work...
Colonist community of San Carlos, Orellana 2008
Migrant workers from Otavalo playing volleyball in Coca, Orellan 2008
I have just spent three weeks in Ecuador organizing my field work which is due to start in July. I have mainly visited people at various NGO´s and Research Institutes as well as visiting a series of communities. the frontier town of el Coca will my research hub and contact the outside world since I will be spending most of time in the Jungle... I hope this self-imposed exile will encourage me to keep this blog updated... let´s see what happens... watch this space...
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