Projects
BOF Sabbatical 2019-2020 - Paolo Favero. University of Antwerp
Alternative pathways towards educational success? A qualitative-ethnographic approach to educational initiatives undertaken by socially vulnerable communities in Flanders University of Antwerp
The life and thought of northern prehistoric hunter-gatherers: ethnographical and ethnoarchaeological theory and analysis of the behavioral and material expression of the relationship between ideology and ecology Ghent University
The research proposal consists of the application of the new anthropological paradigm to the study of northern European prehistoric hunter-gatherers with specific focus on the relationship between ecology - the reality of the world in which human beings must survive - and ideology - the human cognition and perception of that world. The new anthropological paradigm sees ecology and ideology as dynamic and dialectic entities, whose relationship ...
Cybersecurity and Citizenship: Struggles on the Digital Frontiers of Democracy KU Leuven
Translating the news: an ethnographically supported linguistic pragmatic study of the role and nature of translation in the Flemish newsroom. University of Antwerp
To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space. University of Antwerp
Outsourcing family visa processes: the role of non-state actors in migration border management. University of Antwerp
Conservation and/or extraction? Exploring the links between indigenous people and the environment in eastern DRCongo. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Karel Arnaut: Cultures of externalisation: daily practices and changing normativities of what is ‘beyond’ KU Leuven
Externalisation is rapidly becoming recognized as the pivotal issue at the heart of the most important concerns of our times: (a) climate change/the anthropocene, (b) inclusion/diversity, and (c) migration/globalised labour. Externalisation consists in relegating vital functions of your lifeworld to zones considered outside of it, marginal or less valuable. Among those vital functions the regeneration of natural resources (mineral, living or ...