Projects
Climate and environmental history of East Africa since the origin of modern humans: recovering a continuous 250.000-year lake sediment sequence from Lake Challa near Mt. Kilimanjaro Ghent University
The research infrastructure that is the subject of this proposal are the lake-sediment cores from Lake Challa to be recovered by ICDP project DeepCHALLA, and which represent a globally unique resource for reconstructing the climate and environmental history of East Africa over the past ~250,000 years. Our specific aim is to retrieve continuous sediment sequences (as cores drilled in consecutive 3-m sections) from 3 sites within Lake Challa, ...
New ideas, new identities? The constitutional foundations and the development of the political offence in Belgium (1831-2010). KU Leuven
Democracy Extended or Imperilled by Technology? How British, Canadian, and Australian parliamentarians’ changing conceptions of the past and future transformed television regulation, 1950-1980 KU Leuven
Politics today faces pressure to regulate digital technologies that threaten democracy. However, the urgency for politicians worldwide to regulate media is not new, as communication has always constituted the backbone of democracy. This project investigates how politicians’ changing engagement with the past and future of communication technology affected their regulation of television. It compares debate interventions and voting records of ...
Investigation of the construction of integrating world views Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(1) The construction of a model of the world: research ...
Constitutional principles on outsourcing law-making power to non-democratically legitimized actors in European states University of Antwerp
Constitutional principles on outsourcing law-making power to nondemocratically legitimized actors in European states. University of Antwerp
From the past to the future: A contemporary reflection on the temporal aspects of sovereignty in the philosophy of Benjamin Constant KU Leuven
There seems to be a gap between the commonsensical appreciation of sovereignty and its institutional reality. A sovereign people is supposed to have full legal and political power over itself, yet this collective sovereignty is most often institutionalized in the form of a constitutional and representative democracy. This means that legal and political power are constrained by binding constitutional rights and rules and that decisions are ...
Paperwork: Modernism and Bureaucracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1884-1966 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
paperwork, from account books in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness (1899) and school certificates in Wole Soyinka’s The
Interpreters (1966) to Mary Kingsley’s tattered travel permits. While
often overlooked in scholarship, these functional documents
constituted the way individuals first encountered the relentlessly
bureaucratic machine of ...