Projects
Female networking in early modern Aalst: 'hidden' social capital? University of Antwerp
The eastern urban periphery of Sagalassos. A chronological, functional and socio-economic study of an under-studied ancient urban phenomenon. KU Leuven
Human qualities. Repertoires of evaluation and the objectification of product quality in the early modern Low Countries (case: table ware industry). University of Antwerp
Between local autonomy and national migration policy: Dealing with 'foreigners' in Antwerp and Brussels, 1750-1914. University of Antwerp
Beyond the retail revolution? Shopping culture and city landscape, Brussels 1830-1914. KU Leuven
This book is about the history of the Brussels shopping landscape during the nineteenth century. Although the increasing commercialization of the nineteenth-century urban landscape has long been a topos in historiography, the entirety and diversity of shopping spaces has not yet been the object of thorough research. For decades, historians of retail and shopping have mostly been concerned with ‘modern’ forms of retail, such as the ...
Staging the past - postmodern public space in Brussels and Istanbul. KU Leuven
This dissertation proposes to apply Henri Lefebvres approach of the production of space to the analysis of public space. A thus historically informed socio-economic analysis of public space does prevent research from falling into the trap of orientalism, rehearsing only the age-old argument that public space in the so-called Orient did not exist due to a lack of democracy, the
lack of women moving in public space, the dominance of Islam ...
Disability and the Great War: the re-education of disabled soldiers in Belgium, 1914-1940. KU Leuven
Variability and plural identities in the early Imperial architecture of the Roman East. Development of a methodology for the contextual analysis of public architecture. KU Leuven
Understanding Outsourcing Relations in the Automobile Industry. KU Leuven
Outsourcing---the practice of contracting out certain stages of production to external suppliers---is an increasingly important feature of the globalized economy. This dissertation studies outsourcing relationships in the automotive industry to refine understanding of the theory of the firm. It is composed of three essays, each covering a different question on the structure of outsourcing relationships. The first essay investigates the ...