Sandra J.T.M. Evers Email & Phone Number

Sandra J.T.M. Evers Ph.D. is associate professor and senior researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam. She specialises in Africa, Canada and the South West Indian Ocean (Madagascar, the Seychelles and Mauritius) and Europe. Her research concerns indigenous studies, media & mediation, anthropology of children & youth, history and globalization, inequality, poverty, international development, natural resource management, “land grabs”, ethnicity and race, othering and empathy, human and children’s rights, applied & engaged scholarship.In this regard, she directs two Research Programmes: (1) “Development as a Trojan Horse? Large-scale Land Deals in Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Senegal and Uganda.”  (2) “Mediation and Intermedial Dialogue: Children’s Rights, Globalization, Empathy and Othering.”Dr Evers is chair of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA): www.anthropologyofchildren.netSandra Evers is appointed as ambassador for childhood of the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI, http://www.acei.org/ ). The Ambassadors for Childhood program enlists leading children's experts and advocates in encouraging all organizations to consider children in their decision-making. Ambassadors secure commitments from individuals, organizations, and businesses to engage in activities of their choice that support childhood.The ACEI has consultative status with the United NationsFor more see: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/sjtm-evers

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