About us

ETNOFOOR is an anthropological journal that explores current trends in anthropology and scrutinizes its margins. The journal invites debates on new developments and those that enrich the nature of ethnographic praxis. In addition to publishing more traditional-style articles that display conceptual rigour and ethnographic depth, ETNOFOOR also offers an experimental and creative space for contributions that do not fit conventional scientific harnesses, such as photo essays and fictional narratives. All contributions are peer-reviewed.

ETNOFOOR is published twice a year and each issue focuses on a specific theme, such as Freedom, Security, Borders, or Friendship. These themes focus on contemporary trends in the discipline and are chosen by the editors. Each theme is announced through a regular Call for Papers, thereby inviting authors to submit their innovative and thought-provoking ideas. In addition to the various contributions, each issue includes an ‘In Conversation’ and a theme-related book review. For ‘In Conversation’, the editors invite an expert in the field to explicitly engage with the previous issue, to generate a ‘conversation thread’ between authors and other thematic experts.

Each issue is produced as hard copy and is also available digitally through Jstor and Ebsco. For more information about subscriptions and purchases, see under ‘ISSUES’.

We can be contacted through e-mail: editors[at]etnofoor.nl.

Editorial board

Else Vogel

Else Vogel

Else Vogel is an assistant professor at the department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Currently studying veterinarians in the Dutch livestock production, her work focuses on values in health care practices, human-animal relations, subjectivity and biopolitics.

Jesse Jonkman

Jesse Jonkman

Jesse Jonkman is a political and environmental anthropologist. He is assistant professor at the Department of Organization Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His work explores issues of resource extraction, ecology, infrastructure, and governance, with a specific geographic focus on Colombia.

Eva van Roekel

Eva van Roekel

Eva van Roekel is assistant professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research and teaching expertise are violence, morality, human rights and natural resources in Venezuela and Argentina. She is also an independent filmmaker and co-founder of the storytelling platform DoKumento.

Gijs Cremers

Gijs Cremers

Gijs Cremers is an assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. His current research interests include human-environment interactions, geo-imaginaries, infrastructures, and the intersection of politics and geology in the context of volcanic landscapes. His regional focus is Latin America, specifically Guatemala and the Peruvian Andes.

Nikki Mulder

Nikki Mulder

Nikki Mulder is a PhD candidate and teacher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. Her dissertation ‘Financing Afterlives’ examines how racial inequality shapes the consumption and use of life insurance policies in New Orleans, USA. She has previously worked as a journalist in Suriname and as a policy officer at NWO, the Dutch Research Council.

Lex Kuiper

Lex Kuiper

Lex Kuiper is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. His research deals with hopelessness, boredom and the experience of time among participants in a methadone maintenance programme in Indonesia.

Vinzenz Baumer Escobar

Vinzenz Baumer Escobar

Vinzenz Baumer Escobar is a postdoc on the ERC-project PORTS at the department of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. He examines the (re-)configuration of the port of Rotterdam in light of the energy transition. His research is situated at the crossroads of political and economic anthropology, with a focus on work, sovereignty, energy politics, and the commons.

Annemiek Prins

Annemiek Prins

Annemiek Prins is an urban anthropologist who works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her work engages with the unequal distribution of mobility, connectivity, and circulation in urban areas. Previously, she carried out research on cycle-rickshaw mobilities and infrastructural mega-projects in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In her current postdoc position, she works on the commoning of accessibility in the urban outskirts of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area as part of the COMMON_ACCESS project.

Author guidelines

Authors should double-space the entire document, including an abstract, notes and references (as an e-mail attachment) in Word to: editors@etnofoor.nl.

All articles should have a maximum word count of 8,000 words. This includes all references and footnotes. Use clear document names that include your surname. State your e-mail address at the end of the text (before the Notes). © Copyright belongs to ETNOFOOR. Permission for reproduction or reprint is usually granted if requested in advance. Please carefully follow the instructions below.

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References

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  • Following notes at the end of the article. Always indicate a list of literature as References.
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  • Ensure that the list is in alphabetical order and with multiple references per author, start with the most recent publication.
  • Use a colon between the title and sub-title.
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Book
Trocki, Carl A.
1979 Prince of Pirates: The Temenggongs and the Development of Johor and Singapore 1784-1885. Singapore: Singapore University Press.

Publication with more than one author
Abrahamsen, Rita and Michael C. Williams.
2011 Security Beyond the State: Private Security in International Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited volume
Pugh, Michael (ed.)
1994 Maritime Security and Peacekeeping: A Framework for United Nations Operations. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Article in journal
Ellen, Eric
1989 Contemporary Piracy. Californian Western International Law Journal 21(1): 123-128.

Article in edited volume
Scott, David
1994 Piracy, Terrorism, and Crime at Sea. In: P.T. Haydon and A.L. Griffiths (eds.), Maritime Security and Conflict Resolution at Sea in the Post-Cold War Era. Halifax: Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University. Pp. 22-39.

More than one publication by an author
Chalk, Peter
1998a Low Intensity Conflict in Southeast Asia: Piracy, Drug Trafficking and Political Terrorism. Conflict Studies 1(1): 1-36.
1998b Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 21(2): 87-112.
1997 Gray Area Phenomena in Southeast Asia: Piracy, Drug Trafficking and Political Terrorism. Canberra: SDSC.

Translated work
Levi-Strauss, Claude
1973 The Savage Mind (translated by John and Doreen Weightman). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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