This project interrogates different visions of the future that guide local (dis)engagement with international law. How are futures imagined in international law locally? And who imagines or gets to imagine these futures?

By 2050, the European Union (EU) will demand more than ninety times more rare earth elements for digital technologies and renewable energy infrastructure than today. Nearly all those materials will be mined outside ...

In contemporary societies, children have become important ‘nodes’ of desire with assisted reproductive technologies (ART)–such as in vitro fertilisation, (trans)national gamete donation and surrogacy–increasingly ...

The Decolonial Futures of Audiovisual Archives and Archiving research project, led by Asli Özgen, Giovanna Fossati, and Jamil Fiorino-Habib, seeks to reimagine archival practices in film museums and audiovisual ...

This collaborative research project, undertaken by the Faculty of Social Behavioural Sciences and the Faculty of Law, will conduct a preliminary study on the case of the Boegoebaai Port Project focusing on climate ...

This project explores a community-centered approach to restitute colonial heritage housed at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). A team of UvA researchers is working with the Jaap Kunst collection, named after a Dutch ...

The borders of the European Union have been identified as some of the deadliest, with thousands of migrants losing their lives while fleeing the legacies of colonial violence in Africa and neo-colonial military ...

For decades, public debates on migration to Western Europe have been characterized by discourses of ‘The Great Replacement’ and ‘attacks on our values’. In these discourses, narratives about Islam and Muslims play a ...

As we approach the end of the century, Africa's population is poised to represent 40% of the global populace. Unfortunately, Western narratives often portray Africa's population growth narrowly, predominantly focused ...