Projects
The politics of time at the ASM-LSM interface in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo Ghent University
Advanced economies strongly depend on imports of metallic minerals such as tantalum, niobium, cobalt, gold, tungsten and copper. Although these minerals are mainly produced through large-scale mining (LSM), a substantial part of the world’s mineral production also originates from artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). As a result of the spectacular growth in emerging economies like China and India, recent years have witnessed an ...
The multidimensional impact of rural and urban electrification: economic development, security and conservation? Follow-up research in Eastern Congo. University of Antwerp
The multidimensional impact of rural and urban electrification: economic development, security and conservation? Evidence from Eastern Congo. University of Antwerp
Otherworldly Powers? Narrative Functions of the Supernatural in Flemish and Congolese Literature before and after Congo’s Independence (1945-1975) Ghent University
Between 1945 and 1975, magical powers, curses and transcendent visions played a decisive role in Flemish literature about Congo, shaping the narrative and evoking different worldviews. Impossible phenomena in science fiction or fantastic literature have similar functions, but, unlike these genres, the supernatural elements in the Flemish literature about Congo have a religious undertone. This is explained by the strong missionary presence of ...
Waking Prithviraj: the subversive poetics of the past in North Indian historical literature Ghent University
Complementing and challenging a dominant historiographical and socio-political mode of textual analysis, this project offers a first and much-needed literary/aesthetic reappraisal of an important Sanskrit historical epic poem, Jayanaka’s long-neglected Pṛthvīrājavijaya “Prithviraj’s Victory” (1192-3). This epic stands at the beginning of a long and ongoing tradition of heroic and unheroic retellings about the (in)famous North Indian king ...
Horizontal Inequalities and Food Riots in Africa. KU Leuven
In recent years, protest events in a range of African countries have attracted widespread interest and public debate. The sharp increase in world food prices in 2007 and 2008, for example, was associated with the occurrence of a wave of food riots on the continent. In a number of countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, protests erupted against high costs of living and frequently escalated into ...
Understanding virtual reality through ongoing embodied imagining. University of Antwerp
Do the EU and relevant national legal frameworks provide for a fair allocation of data control and responsibility in the context of precision medicine? A case study of clinical trials KU Leuven
Clinical research relies on patient participation and the use and (re-)use of sensitive personal data. Moreover, several types of research are heavily dependent on exchange of data between countries (e.g., precision medicine trials), and all health research would benefit from greater, meaningful cross-border collaborations, as shown during the COVID-19 crisis. However, the current legal system for the conduct of cross-border research in the ...
Provably preserving software security properties against layer-below attacks KU Leuven
Our modern society increasingly relies upon computing devices for its proper functioning. With their increased presence, the number of interactions between different software components also increases. To secure this interaction and contain the impact of bug exploits (both malicious and accidental in nature), some form of security primitive to enforce the interface between different components is required.
In this dissertation, we ...