Letter from the Editor 8
Executive Editor Anya-Milana Sulaver explains the theme and stories for Issue 08 of Peeps Magazine.
Letter from the Editor 05
Publisher Anya-Milana Sulaver discusses the goals, joys and challenges of producing Issue 5 of Peeps.
Issue 4 Letter from the Editor
Editorial introduction to Peeps 4 .
Innovating for a Sustainable Future
An oral history of the unprecedented transformation of the UAE from agrarian and nomadic communities to the world’s most ambitious economy based on the development of sustainable energy.
Between People and Architecture
A photo essay examining the relationship between architecture and the people who live in it.
Research Mixology
Airbnb’s Director of Research shares how he mixes research methods to enable unique and exciting real-world experiences for the platform’s users.
Being Together with Strangers
The ways residents of post-apartheid Johannesburg confront social inequalities in shared spaces.
Issue 3 of Peeps
Welcome to Issue 03 of Peeps Magazine. We’re back and better than ever!
Aidnography Reviews Peeps 01
A review of Peeps magazine by Aidnography.
Editors’ Note
Introducing Peeps Issue 01 – The Modern Protagonist.
Art and the City
An urban anthropologist examines how the public engages with Situated Cinema.
Orbiting the Imaginary
What images come to mind when you think of a future that includes human beings living in outer space?
On the Origins of the Bathroom Lineup
Why the lines for women’s washrooms are always longer than men’s.
The Rights of the Whanganui River
How the Maori of the Whanganui River obtained legal recognition of the river as a living being.
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.
Welcome to the Cyber Village
How Indonesia’s RT 36 Taman Kampoeng (or Kampoeng Garden) became Kampoeng Cyber.
Syntax in the City
An urban design expert explains the science behind the signs and symbols of cities.
The Fantasy of Rick’s Café
What we think we know about Casablanca, one of the most iconic cities in popular culture.
Tech in Cuba: The Rhetoric and the Reality
Reflections on the role of politics and infrastructure in Cuba’s technological development.
Of Treasures and Trinkets
Revealing the politics and fragmented histories behind the Cameroonian Grassfields museums.
The Daughters of Reykjavik are on YouTube
Why one women’s hip hop group is challenging gender, music and communication norms in Iceland.
A Storied Commute
The stories we tell ourselves and others while unplugged on our daily commutes.
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.
The Human Element at Microsoft
Speaking with Microsoft’s Sam Ladner about what it means to be a sociologist at the world’s biggest software company.
The Game of School
A satirical look at what students are learning in American higher education.
How to Bank in Kimbe
A young anthropologist explores the development of banking culture in Papua New Guinea.
Word on the Street
Perspectives from people around the world on the role of technology in their lives.
The Extraordinary Dakinis
A conversation with Rima Fujita on female strength in Buddhism, and the ethnographic power of art.
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.
Mobile Autonomy
How the mobile revolution is challenging traditional gender roles in India.
Beyond the Disease
Unveiling how the struggle for identity can become a matter of life or death for young men living with hemophilia.
On Being Part of the Conversation on Culture
A piece on the approach to telling stories of culture and context at Peeps.
On Placemaking
Placemaking. It’s been called everything from a buzzword to a movement. It even comes in varieties like “creative.” But what is it? What makes it such a hot topic?
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.
A Study in Contrasts
Peeps spoke with photojournalist Marko Drobnjakovic about contrast and photographing the cover story for the first issue of Peeps Magazine.