Projects
Wine, villa landscapes and cities: the impact of Roman colonialism on the central Adriatic coastal regions of Italy Ghent University
This project aims to disentangle the complex relationship between Roman colonialism, elite investment in wine production and commerce, and the urban and rural landscape changes which these developments brought about. The research is confined to the territories of the Roman colonies on the central Adriatic coast and to the Republican phases of the Romanization of this part of Italy (3rd-1st centuries BC).
Wine, villa landscapes and cities: the impact of Roman colonialism on the central Adriatic coastal regions of Italy Ghent University
Today wine in Italy is so much a part of the country’ culture, its economy and the way of life. This
goes back to Antiquity when first Greeks and Etruscans strongly promoted the product as colonists
and traders, and later when Rome modeled the whole peninsula, and after that the Western World,
to its image and lifestyle. Under Roman dominion wine became crucially important to the global
economy. Its ...
Practices of displacement: adoption and foster care of biracial children during and after Belgian colonialism. University of Antwerp
Fabric of life. The infrastructure of settler colonialism in Palestine Ghent University
Taking stock from literature on urban studies, settler colonialism and political economy, the dissertation looks at the histories and geographies of infrastructure networks (electricity and roads) to explore spatial modalities of settler colonialism and uneven development in Palestine. In particular it studies how infrastructures are co-produced and governed and how they advance political and socioe-conomic segregation and inequality in ...
Secularism, colonialism and the Enlightenment: European toleration and the rise of fundamentalism in South Asia Ghent University
Research hypotheses: the proposed research will build on three hypotheses that resulted from earlier research on the development of the liberal model of secularism and toleration: (1) The basic structure of this model fails to be neutral with regard to all religions, because it is conceptually dependent upon a Protestant framework, namely, the theology of Christian liberty and its U+2018two kingdomsU+2019.(2) The policy of religious ...
An Archaeology of Comparative Colonialism: material culture, institutions, and cultural change in Malta, c. AD 1530–1910 Ghent University
The project aims to produce a novel, material culture-led narrative of daily life in Malta, AD 1530-1910. Archaeological analyses of artefacts and space shall be integrated with archival evidence to produce a social interpretation, which shall be viewed through the prisms of colonial institutions and identity formation. The project culminates in a diachronic comparison of colonialism under three ruling groups.
Paperwork: Modernism and Bureaucracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1884-1966 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
paperwork, from account books in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness (1899) and school certificates in Wole Soyinka’s The
Interpreters (1966) to Mary Kingsley’s tattered travel permits. While
often overlooked in scholarship, these functional documents
constituted the way individuals first encountered the relentlessly
bureaucratic machine of ...
Speculative and Creative Methodologies for Historical Counter-Narratives: Spatial Archive, Scenographic Practice and Fictioning Hasselt University
Urban landscapes of colonial/postcolonial health care. Towards a spatial mapping of the performance of hospital infrastructure in Kinshasa, Mbandaka and Kisangani (DR Congo) from past to present (1920-2014) Ghent University
A substantial literature already exists on the intricate relationship between medical science and colonialism: scholars have looked at the historical development of medical science as well as the way in which medicine was entangled in colonial policies. Yet little attention has been given so far to the physical infrastructure of health care, even though during colonial times impressive hospital complexes have been built that, notwithstanding ...