Projects
The paradox of Belgian inequality studies: Belgium less unequal than others? KU Leuven
Context
Inequality and poverty remain high on the agenda. The IMF has labelled inequality as the ‘defining challenge’ of our time because it signals a lack of income mobility and opportunity, and because it has important consequences for growth and macroeconomic stability, and carries a risk of concentrating decision making in the hands of a few. In the last fifteen years also the OECD has gathered ‘a significant body of evidence on ...
The paradox of Belgian Inequality studies: Belgium less unequal than others (BE-PARADIS). University of Antwerp
Problematising Advantage: �Privilege, Inequality & White Identity in Post-Colonial South Africa KU Leuven
Inequality in volunteering: Investigating access to volunteering and job segregation in volunteering through an organizational field approach Ghent University
This project examines, through an organizational perspective, how access to volunteering and task/job allocation in volunteering are unequally divided, hence reproduce social inequality through volunteering. Through unique, representative survey data on volunteering in Belgium, combined with
a qualitative analysis of organizational fields, it is examined how this differs between different volunteering sectors.
Inequality, History and the Caucasian Slave Trade, 1395-1792 Ghent University
Throughout the medieval and early modern periods, a vast network of forced migration was operating in Eurasia, which at times equalled the African slave trade in size. A particularly important part of this system was the Caucasian slave trade, in which young men and women from the Caucasus Mountains were sold in the Italian Republics, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, and Iran. The effects of this trade were far-reaching: for example, the use of the ...
Using institutional household accounts and the insights they provide to understand the consumption patterns, the standard of living and consumption inequality in early modern Delft. University of Antwerp
The transforming housing inequality undergoing the shantytown renewal movement in urban China, a case study of Nanjing KU Leuven
Housing inequality has been a tough issue all over wide in the trend of neoliberalism and globalization. In urban China, in order to alleviate the housing situation of the urban poor in shantytowns, an official movement called 'shantytown renewal' has been implemented since 2010. About 26 million housing has been renewed from 2010 to 2015, another 20 million is expected to be renewed from 2015 to 2020. As a whole, the housing quality of ...