Projects
Consumer revolution and changes in household consumption in probate inventories in Northwestern Germany (16.-19. c.). University of Antwerp
The rise of mass consumption in Belgium (1945-1989): the social and political construction of affluence. Ghent University
This project highlights mass consumption in the Keynesian welfare state as the outcome of negotiations. Three types of social movements are investigated: the Association des Consommateurs, the co-operative movement and new social movements such as Anders Gaan Leven. By looking at institutional structures, discourses and actions, these intermediaries between citizen and state are put in a new perspective, thereby re-evaluating the first era of ...
As good as old: second-hand consumption and the dawn of modernity, ca. 1750-ca. 1870. University of Antwerp
Exotic Substances in Early Modern Consumer Culture: Global Trade, Knowledge Production and Consumption in Germany (ExTraConKnow). University of Antwerp
Salt of the north. An interdisciplinary study of Roman salt production, distribution and consumption in the civitas Menapiorum Ghent University
Researchers concur that salt constituted a crucial part of the Gallo-Roman economy and in the civitas Menapiorum especially. Yet, curiously, little is known of the production process, the distribution to consumers and how salt affected the overall economic development of the region. This project aims to analyse these research questions through a multidisciplinary approach.
Made in North Africa. Production and Consumption of African Red Slip Ware in Late Antiquity Ghent University
The dissertation focuses on the issues, where and for whom African Red Slip Ware was made. It is based on the representative African tableware collection of the Dutch archaeologist Salomonson. By applying fabric analysis, the samples with archaeologically secured provenances are used to determine the origin of African tableware from selected Mediterranean consumption sites and thus allowing for economic reconstructions.
Nonparametric analysis of collective consumption and production behaviour: methodological advances and applications. KU Leuven
Transformations in animal husbandry and consumption patterns at the fringes of the Roman Empire. A zooarchaeological study of selected Roman sites in the civitas Menapiorum and Nerviorum (1st century BC- 4th century AD). Ghent University
This research is a zooarchaeological study executed on animal remains from Gallo-Roman sites with diverse socio-economic functions (rural, administrative, military) spread over multiple landscape components in Flanders. Through interdisciplinary research patterns in the relationship between food and social status and how the absorption in the Roman empire has influenced animal husbandry in farthest corners of the Imperium.
Children as change makers in a household’s sustainable food consumption. Exploring how in-store marketing interventions targeting children can affect sustainable food literacy, -attitudes and - choices in children and their parents. Ghent University
Stimulating consumers towards more sustainable food consumption (consumption activities which provide for the needs of the current generation while preserving the needs of future generations) is becoming increasingly important for governmental and academic actors and the food industry. For retailers, it can become a path to economic growth, because providing sustainable food options can lead to positive consumer responses. Reaching children ...