Projects
Community-based legitimacy for advocacy organizations
Project
How do community members value the activities of their advocacy partners? Which sections of local communities are reached through these activities, which voices gain prominence, and who may be left out? As advocacy organizations increasingly intend to shift power to Southern partners, questions about community interactions and local power relations regain relevance.
This toolkit zooms in on experiences on the local community level and community members’ relations with advocacy organizations that are based in regional capitals as well as in the Global North.
Client
Maaike has an interdisciplinary background in social sciences with a focus on anthropology, human rights and rights-based development.
Her research focuses on social and political activism at various levels: community, regional and (trans)national. She particularly looks at issues of voice, representation and legitimacy within rights-based advocacy.
Maaike Matelski
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit
Artist
Till was born on Valentines Day 1991 in Berlin, Germany. Since then he spent a lot of time drawing comics and studied first at the University of Arts in Berlin, then at the University of the West of England in Bristol. He is the author of 4 books which have been translated into a number of different languages. My first two books Tuff Ladies: 24 Remarkable Women of History and Dur*e*s à cuire present the lives of 110 interesting historical figures whilst his second book “Something in the Water” is a scientific adventure story that he wrote and drew for ERC Comics. The story deals with crystallography and the origins of life. His fourth book is a coming of age story capturing the everyday life of a German teenager. He won the first prize at the Ligatura Pitching and the second prize at the Fumetto Comics competition.
