Projects
Beyond self-help: Patient organisations, health activism and representations of disease in Belgium since 1940 KU Leuven
Coinciding with the development of the welfare state, patients increasingly united in patient organisations to cope collectively with their disease. These new organisations assumed more extensive medical and social roles beyond self-help within communities of patients than is often acknowledged. This project enlarges the scope by taking into account the broader functions such organisations fulfilled in acting against healthcare and ...
The sound of educational reform: Disability, special education and the history of reform pedagogy from 1880 till 1940 KU Leuven
The research project will examine to what and how did international progressive educational ideals – and in particular the work of Decroly and Montessori – impact on Belgian special education for persons with sensorial disabilities in between 1880 and 1940. This will be answered by investigating the following subquestions: first, to what extent did, and if so how, reform pedagogical ideals – and in particular the work of Maria Montessori and ...
The sound of educational reform: Disability, special education and the history of reform pedagogy from 1880 till 1940 KU Leuven
The Forced Exile of Women to the Peripheries of Legal Practice among the Asante (Ghana) Under the British Colonial Empire, ca. 1890 - 1940 KU Leuven
Recent scholarship has acknowledged the destructive impact of imperialism upon pre-colonial discourses of law. However, what remains absent is greater visibility for the consistent deconstruction of gendered law practices that happened through the imposition of masculinization and male-dominated societal expectations by the colonizer in the context of the British Empire. Serving as a case study in this regard, this doctorate looks at female ...