Dastan Abdali

Leiden University

Dastan Abdali is an anthropologist who ethnographically researches the societal impact of Hip Hop culture in the Netherlands. He is currently a PhD candidate at Leiden University involved with the research program Re/Presenting Europe. He focuses on the creative practices of practitioners, and how these affect their wider surroundings and sensibilities that they take on in other areas of their lives. He is also a rapper and producer, and is currently the managing editor of Conflict and Society (Berghahn).