Projects
SRP (Zwaartepunt): Crossing borders: crime, culture and controle Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Shaping Social Commitment. Architecture and Intellectuality in the 1970s and '80s KU Leuven
The overall research question that guides this dissertation, together with that of my colleague Elke Couchez, revolves around the formative years of architectural theory in Flanders. What conditions allowed architectural theory to mature into a self-aware and recognized discipline in the 1980s and 1990s?
To this aim, the notion of ‘architectural theory’ is broadened to that of ‘architecture intellectuality’, which simply refers to ...
Radical Tender Sound. Exploring the Critical Potential ofTenderness Through Hysteric Sound Art. KU Leuven
Negotiating solidarity. The shared history and heritage of Belgian civil society and postwar Muslim migration KU Leuven
This project, intertwining historical and anthropological approaches, critically analyzes and evaluates the interactions of multifaceted postwar Flemish/Belgian civil society with the country's Muslim communities of Moroccan and Turkish descent. An in-depth understanding of the multifold exchanges emerging since the 1960s between the country’s social movements and organizations, NGOs, religious institutes… and the growing communities of ...
Bottom-up geopolitics: Everyday geopolitics during the Channel Islands fishing row KU Leuven
While media coverage often focuses on large geopolitical events, geopolitics are part of everyday life and are received, articulated and altered through seemingly mundane activities. Despite bringing attention to geopolitical processes operating outside of international relations, the field of critical geopolitics has not yet fully incorporated mundane knowledge into the core of its discourse. Consequently, there is limited attention to the ...
An Introductory Guide to the Concept of Trauma for Routledge’s New Critical Idiom Series Ghent University
The book will provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma, explore how trauma functions in literary and cultural studies, identify and explain important issues and tensions in the study of trauma as a cultural phenomenon, and outline and assess recent critiques and revisions of cultural trauma research.
Constructing Age For Young Readers University of Antwerp
Living (at) Home. On Older People’s making of Home and Dignity KU Leuven
In Belgium, as elsewhere, the proportion of older people among the population steadily increases. This demographic evolution gives rise to a lot of discussions, in particular in relation to eldercare and its expenditures. How should societies handle the question of eldercare? Across Europe and North America, the dominant answer is the ageing-in-place paradigm. This paradigm meets the wishes of most older people, who overwhelmingly express the ...
Theorizing contemporary higher education: investigating study practices KU Leuven
This research is aimed at the development of a theoretical account of higher education today. The main concern is the question what it means to study today. This happens, more specifically, from a praxeological perspective, i.e. from an investigation into the meaning of study practices. This happens furthermore against the background of a post-disciplinary and domain-oriented approach. The objective of the project is to come to a precise and ...