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The coronavirus means that my research on a sailing cargo ship is lasting a lot longer than I bargained for.
We are doing well. We are all safe, sound, and healthy aboard the Avontuur.
I will soon join the schooner Avontuur in her mission to reduce carbon emissions from cargo transport to zero.
With so much pressure to publish, when will we ever have time to read and reflect?
This edited extract of the new book, Global Cultural Economy, explores how understanding context and history can help us change the lives of artists and cultural workers for the better.
Carbon emissions from international air travel show no sign of abating. In the absence of a tax on jet fuel, are sail boats the best way to travel the world sustainably?
The arts helped shine a light on issues in the past, and now in the 21st century, it could help define global ecological citizenship.
The political economy of music distribution goes unchecked. Despite increased digital revenues, also across Africa, music markets remain characterised by bottlenecks between musicians and audiences.
The debate about the controversial Saint Nicholas character, considered racist by many, is a symptom of deeper divisions in Dutch society.
Ghana, like many other countries, tries to eliminate media piracy. But what does this mean for distributors working in the margins of the formal economy? And, more fundamentally, what does this means for the tension between copyright and cultural rights?
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