Letter from the Editor 8
Executive Editor Anya-Milana Sulaver explains the theme and stories for Issue 08 of Peeps Magazine.
A Talk About Palestine & Israel
Dr. Sa’ed Atshan curates a panel to talk about context and lived experience of Israeli apartheid.
What Gets Inside
Anthropologist Elizabeth Roberts shares stories from her research in the smelliest and most staunchly independent neighbourhood in Mexico City.
The Language of Dispossession
Indigenous scholar Anne Spice writes of her research while part of the camp at the Wet’Suwet’en defence standoffs.
Culture Research World Affairs
Colonizing Banaba
“It Is What It Is”: Trauma as Context in Argentina-2
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Peeps 07 Play List
Music from around the world that examines cultural trauma
Peeps 07 Reading List
A comprehensive list of world literature that examines the issue of cultural trauma curated by the senior editors at Peeps.
Peeps 07 Media List
A list of the best films covering the topic of cultural trauma curated by the senior editors at Peeps.
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What There Is To Fear: World Building with Colombian Refugees in Ecuador
Lisa Stevenson explores fear, world-building and the Colombian-Ecuadorian border.
The Stories They Tell Themselves: What Trump’s Base Believes
Trump’s base, Evangelical Christian science fiction, Trump and what went down at Capitol Hill.
“It Is What It Is”: Trauma as Context in Argentina
Cultural trauma as context in this ethnographic reflection on Argentina past and present.
Issue 7 Letter from the Editor
Executive Editor Anya-Milana Sulaver introduces Issue 7, Cultural Trauma to readers
Talking Across Difference with Virtual Reality
Polish-born Canadian VR filmmaker Joanne-Aska Popinska talks to Peeps about the inspiration for her ambitious VR project sharing the stories of women who have had abortions. Her hope is to create a space of safe engagement for people who might otherwise not understand the complexities and challenges involved in making the decision to practice their reproductive rights.
The Lockdown Diaries
Scenarios of Change
Futurist Sanjay Khanna explores how global industry leaders think about and weigh the consequences of stability and profit.
The Truth Equation
A look at the ways in which white evangelical Christians see what makes “truth” differently through an examination of their contemporary fiction.
Letter from the Editor 06
The Middle Classes Won’t Take Us to a Democratic Paradise
A deep look at transnational class and democracy, past and present, asking how we can understand the role of the middle class in democracy, in the United States as well as the countries to which it has exported a Western democratic framework.
Letter from the Editor 05
Publisher Anya-Milana Sulaver discusses the goals, joys and challenges of producing Issue 5 of Peeps.
Five Movements of Mothering
Drs. Susannah Clement and Gordon Waitt discuss how the paths we make to walk determine the ways we engage with our world and with each other.
Stories from the Road
Dr. Dimitris Dalakoglou on how the road to post-socialism was, literally, paved in Southern Albania.
Coming of Age on Wheels
Dr. Daniel Albero Santacreu writes about coming of age in Mallorca — on the road.
Moving in Stillness
Researcher Simon Roberts shares his thoughts on the benefits of running to thought.
Social and Cultural Experts Bust Social Media Myths #1: The truth about Shari’a Law and women’s rights
Shari’a Law and Women’s Rights: it may be different than you think!
Afrofuturism Answers Back to Afro-pessimism
Dr. Mich Nyawalo shares how Arofuturism, a powerful art movement that identifies innovative spaces of power and opportunity, has evolved as a response to afropessimism, a limiting and reductive narrative. He examines how Afrofuturism has become a sophisticated aesthetic through the award-winning work of Wanuri Kahiu and her film Pumzi.
Issue 4 Letter from the Editor
Editorial introduction to Peeps 4 .
What to do with the Present
The toys we give our children shape the way they live in the world. How can we be better in our choices so that we can all do better?
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.
Un-Settling the City
The Peeps team interviewed filmmaker Lisa Jackson about her VR film Biidaaban, Indigenous futurism, and how to imagine life in a city reclaimed by nature.
Stories to Build a World By
Measurement of the success of international interventions in vulnerable places using standardized statistics across communities has proven disastrous to many international development and humanitarian aid efforts. Dr. Millar makes a case for using insights from the stories of the communities affected to determine the success, failure, or even whether the proposed measures would help would increase effectiveness of the measures and improve results.
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!
Because We Haven’t Left
The photography of Jennifer Karady in the series Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Making with Magic
Autoethnography, Art Practice and the Participation of Other-Than-Humans in Witchbody, by Sabrina Scott.
Debating Leviathan
Peeps’ editorial team debates Leviathan, by Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab.
The Writing on the Wall
Art, ethnography, and community voice in LA’s Little Tokyo Historic District.
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.
Spy vs Ethnographer
What happened to me when on stage, at a gathering of my ethnographic peers, where I was accused of being a spy.
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.
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.
Bricolage in a Can
The story of one research team’s journey into the brand culture of alcoholic energy drinks.
Soothe-sayers and Storytellers
Metaphor plays an enormous role in either the efficacy or failure of narrative in healing.
The Changing Face of Valentine’s Day
In a world where the notions of relationships and companionship are in flux, Megan Melissa Machamer looks at the ways Valentines celebrations are changing.
Portraits of the Post-Mao Generation
The first generation to ostensibly “only know of China’s rise in fame and fortune,” faces the more humble realities of the post-Mao generation in China.
Why I Love Female Superheroes
The moment my eyes caught the keyring hanging on the wall I just had to have it – a female superhero on my keychain.
Authentic Storytelling
An interview with Cynthia Wade, award winning documentary and commercial director known for intimate and gripping storytelling.
On the Fall and Rise of Hands
Unraveling our ties to technology to remember the art of making things.
Mindful of the Mosaic
How ethnic festivals benefit individuals and communities; for the whole community including everyone from recent migrants, to third generation community members.
The Long and the Short of It
An examination of the landscape of racism and grief in Baltimore in the face of violence sparked by the death of Freddie Gray.
The Promise of Big Data
There is something almost ethnographic about the way that big data recedes into the background and quietly collects data about our lived experience.
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.
Making the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange
Anthropologist Megan Melissa Machamer shares the trick to great social science research.
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.
Marking Territory in the infinite
The theoretical interplanetary politics of a universal flag designed on Earth are explored by Tylor R. Genoese, an anthropologist interested in outer space.
In Defense of Bias
Everyone and everything has inherent bias- but that is a good thing, as long as it is recognized. Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman tells us why.
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.
A Conversation with Barry Lord
As the energy sources that made our world changed, people’s identities also had to adjust to the values that each energy brought with it.
My Share of the Sharing Economy
A cultural analyst reflects on her experience as an AirBNB host.
Observations of an Observer
When shooting ethnographic photography I use my education and experience as a photojournalist. Here’s how.
Cosmopolitan Moments
Colin Shafer’s ambition to photograph someone born in every country of the world who now lives in Toronto.
Hong Kong, Democracy and Cultural Myths
Myths provide a sense of purpose in a complex world, and fundamentally, hope for the future. These are the myths of Hong Kong.
A Taste of the Road
Bruno Moynie pursued that romantic fantasy of life on the road, in the American south, and shares his food with us.
Going Native: The Art of Ethnographic Filmmaking
To Bruno Moynié, ethnographic filmmaking is the art of immersion, the ability to accept and be accepted by the people you are filming.