Guest written pieces on topical issues from across the world.
“Nous travaillons à inscrire nos histoires personnelles et singulières dans l’universalité.” … More Black voices matter #2: “Nous travaillons à élargir les espaces du possible”, entretien avec les deux hosts du Podcast Sans Nom
Scroll down for the English translation of the introduction. ERIF inaugure la série #blackvoicesmatter avec le guest post écrit par Nicky Lars, rappeur et beatmaker Noir français, auteur de l’album Musica Negra. Dans ce texte réflexif, poétique et engagé, Nicky Lars rend compte de la vague d’émotions et de pensées qui l’assaillent en ce moment exceptionnel … More Black voices matter #1: “Combien d’entre nous” par Nicky Lars
The 2020 ERIF Sinterklaas Brand & Product Study is out NOW! NEDERLANDS | FRANÇAIS | DEUTSCH *** We publish this report during a period of intense and global socio-political unrest regarding the continuous state sanctioned and worldwide violence towards people of African descent. Major protests erupted across the US in response to numerous recent killings … More Identity crisis as part of a new beginning?
by Jeff Makana From 2011 to 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland I undertook a project on the invisibility of immigrants in conjunction with Espace Mozaik, an association working with immigrants and survivors of torture. There, I interviewed immigrants from different backgrounds on the barriers to integration in Switzerland. Below follows a reflection on the issue of … More Living in Limbo: the disintegration and psychiatrization of immigrants of African descent in Switzerland
Nederlands | Français | Deutsch The European Race and Imagery Foundation’s (ERIF) annual Brand & Product report charts the evolution and relevance of the (Zwarte) Piet character, alongside the development of discussions on race, racism and inclusion, specific to the Netherlands. Our fourth report, providing coverage of the 2018-2019 discussion, can be downloaded via our … More Sinterklaas Brand & Product report 2019: Smudged Cheeks and Middle Fingers
“”Stop silencing black voices”, we wanted to say.” guest post by Archana Ramanujam *Excerpts of this blog post are featured in ERIF’s 2018 Sinterklaas Brand & Product Study. In 2017, the number of anti-Zwarte Piet demonstrations in the Netherlands burgeoned. There was the attempted demonstration at the national intocht in Dokkum [1] in the northern … More Against Zwarte Piet in 2017: A Personal Account
Nederlands | Français | Deutsch The European Race and Imagery Foundation’s (ERIF) annual Sinterklaas Brand & Product study is a sociological market research report, which seeks to analyse longitudinal data concerning the ongoing and evolving usage of the Zwarte Piet character by major supermarket chains and brands across the Netherlands. This year titled: Seeing through … More Sinterklaas Brand & Product study 2018: Seeing Through the Soot
We are happy to announce the publication of our Sinterklaas Brand & Product Study 2017! The second edition of this report continues to trace the evolutions of the debates around the character of Zwarte Piet as part of the Dutch festival Sinterklaas, by monitoring the protests taking place against the character, as well as its … More Sinterklaas Brand & Product Study 2017
Blogging #RTGII by Leah Cowan One of the first Saturday sessions at Returning the Gaze II: Stories of Resistance was led by Mohamed Wa Baile (a playwright, scholar and activist with Allianz gegen Racial Profiling) and Gloria Holwerda (the artist behind the A Sint You Want intervention, and the founder of INARG: the InterNational Anti-Racism … More Strategies for Action: speaking out & taking space!
In October 2015, the ERIF team began fieldwork for a research project on the Sinterklaas festival in the Netherlands. We wanted to assess how prevalent the character of Zwarte Piet is in Dutch advertising leading up to the popular winter festival and by doing so, set benchmark for future comparison as the celebration undergoes continued … More ERIF Sinterklaas Brand & Product Study: Locating Zwarte Piet
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