Projects
The Political Ecology of Human-Wildlife Conflict Management in Western Uganda Ghent University
This thesis examines how conservation conflicts were created and became entrenched in two national parks in Uganda. It assesses colonial conservation policies of dispossession by primitive accumulation and the continuity of these policies by the post-colonial state and international conservation NGOs. In the thesis I show that conservation conflicts are the result of resistance by local communities against the hegemony of colonial ...
Political representation and democratic agency. KU Leuven
Hannah Arendt and the politics of remembrance. A dialogue between Arendt and Memory Studies. University of Antwerp
The multi-levelled politics of national refugee policies: A case study of Uganda. University of Antwerp
Agenda setting in the networked public sphere. The role of social media in public debate during elections Ghent University
This project investigates the impact of social media on public debate during elections by examining (1) how political elites use social media for online election campaigning; (2) how social media affect the communication flows and (power) relationships between politicians, journalists and citizens and (3) how social media influence the traditional news media agenda, and vice versa.
A New Agenda for Banking Reform KU Leuven
The dramatic events of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 have led to the largest reform of global banking regulation since the 1946 Bretton Woods agreement. The primary focus of these reforms has been to prevent disruptive banking failures. But, to what extent have the post-crisis banking reforms succeeded in making the financial system more just? The aim of the proposed project is to put forward a critical justicebased account of ...
Preparing a new research agenda on 'the lived Anthropocene' KU Leuven
Integrated methodology for action-oriented regional development - implementation research agenda countryside Ghent University
This project is located at the intersection of previous assumptions. We want to use existing theoretical frameworks of rural sociology to develop a methodology that assists users in determining an action-oriented strategy for area-based rural development. The acronym refers to it IMAGO Integrated Methodology for Actionable area development. This methodology should local actors, with different policy actors, allow to come to concrete actions ...