“It Is What It Is”: Trauma as Context in Argentina
Cultural trauma as context in this ethnographic reflection on Argentina past and present.
Editors’ Note
Introducing Peeps Issue 01 – The Modern Protagonist.
Orbiting the Imaginary
What images come to mind when you think of a future that includes human beings living in outer space?
Not Wanted on the Rue Saint-Denis
Gentrification in Paris faces off against a historic street that has served as the heart of the city’s sex trade.
Medellín, The Smart City
The story of a city recovering from conflict and finding its voice with the help of media technology.
Shakespeares in the Ghetto
How digital technology has allowed hip-hop, an American art form. to flourish in New Belgrade, Serbia.
Introducing Peeps Magazine Issue 02: Crossing Thresholds
Editorial for Peeps Issue 02 – Crossing Thresholds.
Winning and Losing in Modern China
Investigating the elusive Chinese dream through the Diaosi, self-identified losers on the Chinese internet.
Shifting the Global Conversation on Refugees
Global media attention on refugees produces complex responses from countries—those which host these refugees, and those which refuse.
Peeps Magazine Through Academic Eyes
The University of Toronto Anthropology profs Drs. Leslie Carlin and Simon Coleman to provide us with some constructive feedback and their thoughts.
‘Design Thinking’ is Changing the Way We Approach Problems ↗
University Affairs / 01.13.2016
Design Thinking is Changing the Way We Approach Problems: Why researchers in various disciplines are using the principles of design to solve problems big and small
Authentic Storytelling
An interview with Cynthia Wade, award winning documentary and commercial director known for intimate and gripping storytelling.
Sound Advice
Our brains appear to come equipped with an inclination to use the individual phonemes contained in names to make sense of unfamiliar words.
Breaking the Princess Complex
As a filmmaker and an anthropologist, I am always looking for films that explore popular topics from an unlikely point of view. George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is such a film.
Changing the Shape of Fashion
How fashion standards are shifting to make room for the plus-size segment of the market it used to shun.
Mobile Disruption: The Rise of Mobile Phone Technology in India
With 930 million mobile phone subscribers and growing India is easily one of the world’s largest and fastest growing mobile markets.
Cosmopolitan Moments
Colin Shafer’s ambition to photograph someone born in every country of the world who now lives in Toronto.