Projects
Reconsidering the Adaptive Capacity of Asion Settlements. Disaster Resilient Urbanism in Interaction with Humanitarion Responses. KU Leuven
Recent international policies stress the need to (A) build more sustainable and resilient in order to decrease urban disasters that follow natural hazards and to (B) transcend the humanitarian-development divide [1]. Acknowledging that urban emergencies are increasing, a holistic framework for urban disaster resilience to respond to and prepare for disaster is indispensible (Global Alliance for Urban Crises, 2016a). Urbanism as key discipline ...
Analysis of the moral responsibility and its antropological foundations in the thought of Max Scheler and Karol Wojtyla: reconstruction and revaluation Ghent University
In the thought of both Max Scheler and Karol Wojtyla the concept of moral responsibility and its justification plays a crucial role. In my study I would like to examine to what extend a plea for moral responisibility within the framework of "global justice" and "global ethics" can be founded on the insights of both Scheler and Wojtyla and h ow these insights can be useful as a rejection of moral indifference and passivity.
The Claim to Universality in Husserl's Phenomenology: Eidetic, Transcendental and Historical Investigations KU Leuven
The theme of universality has been approached in different ways throughout the history of philosophy, and yet this engagement has never been more alive: from feminist and postcolonial debates to issues on realism, there have been productive discussions around it. Nevertheless, it is surprising that in these analyses there has been so far no display of an original and rigorous contribution based on Husserl's phenomenological explorations. This ...
ZAP Jakob De Roover Ghent University
A BOF-ZAP-mandate holder receives an appointment or appointment as a member of the Independent Academic Personnel with mainly research assignment. The wage costs are charged to the resources of the BOF.
Leaving Europe, Navigating Access: Status Migration, Traveling Habitus, and Racial Capital in Euro-Maghrebi Mobilities to the United Arab Emirates KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis is an ethnographic study that examines the emigration motives and social itineraries of second-generation Euro-Maghrebis who resettle to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) using a qualitative methodology. It focuses in particular on tertiary-educated EU citizens born and raised in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, who had at least one parent born in Morocco, Algeria or Tunisia, and who were themselves either ...
Re-membering "strange compositions": a visual anthropological inquiry with Flemish elderly with dementia into inclusive trajectories and rhizomatic narrativity. KU Leuven
There is a space for people with dementia in contemporary society. Their personhood in despite of the disease is recognized, the quality of care has considerably increased and we can relate to them by sharing stories: stories about who they once were, before the dementia. Looking through a personhood lens, we re-member them: as the embodiment of a rich life story and as citizens of our community. A person with dementia, however, apart ...
Innovation amidst digitalization, climate change, and environmental degradation. Anthropological research in and with communities in Africa. KU Leuven
In the next 5 years, I ambition to develop fundamental and action-oriented (ādecolonialā) research on technology & innovation from a predominantly anthropological perspective. Anthropologists are best positioned to explore what kind of technological innovations people desire, and which technological novelties are easier integrated in peopleās everyday lifeworlds in order to obtain āthe good lifeā. In the formulation of my research agenda, ...
Redistribution, subjectivity, and the virtual: A view from the south KU Leuven
Africa is increasingly perceived as the site of an unprecedented digital revolution, alternately described as either propelling the continent into a new era of growth and prosperity or drawing it into new frontiers of exploitation and neo-colonial domination. Bringing into conversation and contributing to recent debates in economic anthropology on sharing and redistribution with the emerging scholarship in African digital anthropology on ...
A Soldierās Experience for Societyās Peace: Combat Veterans and Post-Conflict Resolution in Southeast Europe KU Leuven
At its core, this research pursues two questions. First, how do former combatants embrace the identity of āveteranā, maintain veteran-oriented organizations, and connect internationally after the battlefields have gone silent? Second, how might mapping and understanding cross-border veteran relationships influence current or new approaches to peace and stability between former battlefield foes? Answering these questions brings into ...