Projects
Perceptions of the Self and the Other in contemporary Burundi. The salience of ethnicity in everyday interactions in a post-transition context University of Antwerp
The Ethnic Groups in the Fourth Gospel: A Historical-Literary and Social-Scientific Reading of the Dynamics of Identification and Representation Within a Contested Ethnicity KU Leuven
This project seeks to understand who the ᾽Ιουδαῖοι are and how they relate and negotiate their ethnic borders with the Ἕλληνες, Σαμαρῖται, ῾Ρωμαῖοι, and Γαλιλαῖοι as found in the Gospel of John. Applying a historical-critical approach on selected Johannine texts, it attempts to explain the dynamics of self-designation and border-crossing vis-à-vis some related literature (both biblical and extra-biblical) and studies of ethnic groups in the ...
SRP (Groeiers): Gendering ethnicity & ethnicizing gender in politics & policy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Intersections and identifications in media use: ethnicity, sexuality and generations. University of Antwerp
Negotiating Group Identities Along Ethnicity and Religion. Case: On- and Offline Networks in The Low Countries. KU Leuven
At a time when ethnic inter-group attitudes are changing, uneven integration of (and within) ethnic cultural minorities in general and Muslims in particular into the socioeconomic life of European host countries and conflicting values are becoming increasingly important, fuelling antagonism between majority and minority groups. This research aims to increase our understanding of how Muslim ethnic-cultural minorities share knowledge, values ...
Ethnicity, partisanship,Economic Evaluations and Electoral Choices in Tanzania Ghent University
This study is a multivariate empirical assessment of the influences of ethnicity partisanship and economic evaluations on electoral choiches in Tanzania. It answers the questions: To what extent does ethnicity form the base of support of presidential candidates? To what extent does partisan attachment inform choice of a presidential candidate? And, how significant economic performance is in informing presidential choiches?
Negotiating Group Identities Along Ethnicity and Religion. Case: On- ande Networks in The Low Countries and The UK. KU Leuven
This research project, based on the combination of content and social network analyses, intends to lay the groundwork for further analyses of other country and language contexts, expanding to Muslim or other ethnic-cultural minority groups in Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe.