Projects
Ottoman Waqfs in the Balkans: Colonization, Power, and Belonging (1450-1650) Ghent University
This research project delves into the impact of Ottoman waqfs in the Balkans between 1450 and 1650, specifically focusing on colonization, power dynamics, and community relations. Through an interdisciplinary approach and the analysis of an extensive range of primary and secondary sources, the study investigates the effectiveness of pious endowments in the processes of Islamization and Turkification in the frontier regions. It also examines ...
Belonging in Translation: The Audiovisual Transfer of Latinidad Ghent University
In recent years, the rhetoric toward immigrants has become increasingly hostile in Western countries. In defiance of this political climate, there has been a surge of online audio/visual platforms (podcasts, YouTube channels, Facebook groups, etc.) where immigrants come together to highlight their ethnic identity. For example, during Donald Trump's presidency (2016-2020), there was a noticeable increase in the U.S. in podcasts about ...
Homecoming: returnees’ memories and belonging negotiation in Ukraine. Ghent University
The research aims to deepen the understanding of
how female migrants returning to Ukraine negotiate their belonging.
Starting with historical narratives and collective memories in Ukraine as an important context of return, it further explores the influence of nation-building on gender roles, and the impact on discourses surrounding motherhood and migration in Ukraine, to understand how belonging is pursued and ...
Deradicalizing the city. Policy assemblage, security and the question of belonging in Brussels. KU Leuven
Affirmative action in view of raising the number of persons belonging to ethnic minorities in the Belgian private sector, especially in highlevel positions. Hasselt University
Language rights, policies and practices in linguistically diverse societies: are current legal orders addressing the needs and concerns of persons belonging to language minorities as well as those of the administration? University of Antwerp
The few or the many: Evolution, predictors, and drivers of host specificity in African parasitic flatworms belonging to Cichlidogyrus (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) Hasselt University
The impact of mining-induced displacement and resettlement on the dynamics of belonging among displaced people in Katanga (DR Congo) Ghent University
When transnational mining corporations start up a large-scale mining project, they often decide to dispossess, relocate and resettle (some of) the people living in their mining concession, so that they can move ahead with their mining operations in an undisturbed manner. This research project seeks to examine the impact of this involuntary displacement on people's sense of feeling at home. The project wants to examine which strategies ...
Réécriture and ideology in the chronicles belonging to the Middle Dutch ‘Excellente Cronike van Vlaenderen’ tradition Ghent University
The Excellente Cronike van Vlaenderen is one of the most important, and rather complex, late medieval vernacular manuscript traditions. The aim of this research is to consider how different manuscript versions of the Excellente Cronike show a process of rewriting, and how they reflect specific ideological discursive and narrative strategies which are linked to the socio-political and cultural constellations in late medieval Flanders.