Projects
A people that does not remember its past has no future': the governmental historical and identity narrative in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (1982 to 2019). Vrije Universiteit Brussel
During the last decades, instrumentalization of the past and identity formation have become an integral aspect of much domestic and international policy-making in Eastern ...
From denial to insurgency: The PKK and the (re)construction of Kurdish identity Ghent University
This study aims at understanding the 30-year long struggle of the Kurdish national movement in Turkey. In this sense, it examines the evolution of the PKK from an insurgent movement to a transnational social movement organization as well the emergence of Kurdish identiy politics as outcome of this movement. This research will be at junction of three areas: (ethno)-nationalism, social movements and identity politcs.
Streams of music, identity and diversity: A qualitative study of identity-related practices on music streaming services Ghent University
This qualitative research project explores, identifies and interprets contemporary identity-related practices that music streaming services and their users engage in to mediate LGBTQ and diasporic identities, LGBTQ and diasporic identity politics, and LGBTQ and diasporic music cultures.
Critical Archives of Ordinariness: Vernacular Moving Image Practices and Migrant Identity in Polish Chicago KU Leuven
This project explores home movies and related oral histories of Polish Chicago before the digital era (1960s–2000s) to challenge and broaden our understanding of evolving migrant and diaspora identities. Following critical archive studies’ call to empower communities underrepresented in historiography by developing and interrogating archival collections, the project juxtaposes home movies – “ordinary” motion pictures created for family and ...
Interrogating Islamic Roads to Conviviality: Ethical and Religious Practices of Tolerance in Relation to Identity among Muslim Minorities in Belgium Ghent University
This project examines conviviality as an everyday practice of bridging religious and cultural difference from the perspective of Muslim minorities in Belgium living in the cities of Brussels, Antwerp and Liège. It examines the modalities in which Islamic frames of reference and ethical sensibilities are mobilized by individuals when striving for harmonious convivial living together across religious difference. First, the project compares ...
L'Ancienne Belgique. Museums, archaeology, and the creation of national identity in Belgium (1870-1940). University of Antwerp
Functional analysis of key molecules that control the molecular identity and preserve the health of the articular chondrocytes KU Leuven
Romantic Silence: Voice and Identity in British Poetry, 1789-1850 KU Leuven
Streams of music, identity and diversity: A qualitative study of identity-related practices on music streaming services Ghent University
This qualitative research project explores, identifies and interprets contemporary identity-related practices that music streaming services and their users engage in to mediate LGBTQ and diasporic identities, LGBTQ and diasporic identity politics, and LGBTQ and diasporic music cultures.