Publications
Reshuffling city life: spatial and functional dynamics of urban activity in Tokyo during COVID-19 KU Leuven
Te bad of niet te bad KU Leuven
The Power of Emergence: The Effects of Bottom-Up Decision-Making in Resource Exploitation Strategies on Community Sustainability in Iron Age to Hellenistic Anatolia KU Leuven
All human societies need energy and resources in order to sustain themselves. Individual decisions on how to meet these needs necessarily impact on the possibilities of other nearby actors to meet their own. The range of exploitation possibilities thus becomes limited by the proximity to others in tandem with the (re)generative capacity of the local landscape. In this paper, we present results from SAGAscape, an agent-based model of resource ...
Wastewater treatment on chongming eco-island: The Cultural Politics of Hydro-Social Territory-Making KU Leuven
The introduction of rural domestic wastewater treatment (WWT) installations is part of a grand scheme to realise China’s 'ecological civilisation' on Chongming in the Yangtze Delta region. Taking a cultural approach to hydrosocial territoriality, this article examines why this seemingly well-intended welfare intervention is rejected by rural islanders. The introduction of WWT does not only imply an upgrading of rural services, but is also seen ...
Milieuongelijkheid en milieurechtvaardigheid KU Leuven
In het tweede decennium van de 21e eeuw krijgen milieubewegingen in België steeds meer aandacht voor sociale ongelijkheden. ‘Milieurechtvaardigheid’ en ‘milieuongelijkheid’ zijn termen die steeds vaker opduiken in politieke conflicten. Daarom is het goed om even stil te staan bij hun betekenis en achtergrond. Milieurechtvaardigheid kent, als eis van sociale bewegingen, een rijke geschiedenis, eerst in Noord-Amerika en vervolgens elders in de ...
Tell it like it is. Discoveries from a new survey of the Northern Jordanian plateau KU Leuven
This article presents the results of a joint Finnish-Jordanian survey project that focuses on investigating the interrelations of the imperial heartlands and the Levantine region in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. We used historical satellite images to identify potential sites on the northern Jordanian plateau, after which they were systematically investigated by archaeological survey. Of the sites discovered, the fortified site of Tell al-Assara ...
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures KU Leuven
Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are ignored. This paper treats drip irrigation as a socio-material assemblage and discusses the social and institutional changes triggered by the introduction of drip irrigation infrastructure in Ağlasun, a rural town located in the southwest of Turkey. Through an ...
Magical practices? A non-normative Roman imperial cremation at Sagalassos KU Leuven
Many thousands of burials have been excavated from across the Roman world, documenting a variety of funerary practices and rites. Individual burials, however, sometimes stand out for their atypical characteristics. The authors report the discovery of a cremation burial from ancient Sagalassos that differs from contemporaneous funerary deposits. In this specific context, the cremated human remains were not retrieved but buried in situ, surrounded ...