Projects
Psychological coping with the legacies of collective violence: A multi-site qualitative exploration on the interacting role of coping within social, community and family relationships after political violence in Perú KU Leuven
In the aftermath of a prolonged internal armed conflict (1980-2000), Perú continues to face complex challenges in addressing the legacy of human rights abuses. Nearly 4 decades after, scholars continue documenting the transgenerational sequelae that still pervades the life of the victims, their relatives, and their communities. However, victims have initiated coping strategies and mobilized communal trajectories in searching for justice. This ...
Urban youth gangs in Goma and Kisangani: the role of violence in subject formation Ghent University
Globally violent conflict becomes increasingly urban. This makes a deep and grounded understanding of urban violence a pressing concern. The present project aims to contribute to this endeavour, focussing upon gang violence in Goma and Kisangani (DR Congo). To complement and go beyond the ‘bad governance leads to urban crime and violence’ perspective, the current project aims to analyse gang violence within larger postcolonial relations of ...
Remembering trauma in between disclosure and silencing: A multiple case study with Kurdish refugee families in Belgium KU Leuven
Research on the psychosocial sequelae of collective violence and forced displacement increasingly investigates the potentially harmful impact of these disruptive life experiences on relational dynamics within refugee families. Meanwhile, studies explore how intra-family processes may constitute protective sources in reversing the adverse impact of traumatization and reconstructing life in exile. In this regard, trauma communication has been ...
Platform Wars: Technology, Politics and Law on the Automated Battlefield. University of Antwerp
Adolescent Autocracies: Pro-government student groups in resurging authoritarian regimes. Ghent University
Students and universities have traditionally been considered bastions of (democratic) resistance. For decades, scholars across the world have examined political student movements and their role in democratic transitions. A significant body of literature focused on student activism during the ‘third wave’ of democratisation. At the same time, there has been an emerging debate on the resurgence of authoritarian and autocratic regimes in ...