Projects
PLEDGE : Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
for European democracies and their governance. PLEDGE interprets political grievances as emotional signals of disaffection, frustration
and insecurities that can develop into either anti- or prodemocratic outcomes. By engaging in collaborative research design and
implementation involving ...
Europe, Covid Politics and the (Un)Expected Surge of Nationalistic Narratives KU Leuven
In the face of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the unity of the European Union, at least at the beginning of the crisis, started to
crumble. The initial policies and the later vaccine-related management of the pandemic showed the role nationalism plays in the
context of public health responses to emergencies, including evacuations and quarantines, travel and socio-cultural constraints. While
many scholars have started to ...
G-EPIC : Gender Empowerment through Politics In Classrooms. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
ambition and political self-efficacy is the most persistent and most difficult to tackle across Western democracies. The situation when
looking across the intersect of gender, social class and ethnicity becomes even more grave. These differences have been shown to begin
in the school and ...
Conflictual Democracy: Urban politics, gender and local governance in post-revolution Tunisia Ghent University
The Arab Spring in 2011 refers to a series of pro-democracy uprisings spread across several largely Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The EU-funded ConflictualDemocracy project will take stock of today’s situation. Focusing on Tunisia, it will study how conflictual democracy is consolidated locally, where the state meets the street, the space of contestation. The project will explore post-revolution Tunisia through urban ...
Anti-populist discourse in European politics and media Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Accelerating Clinical Translation. Charting the Politics of Translation in the European Union KU Leuven
In the post–genomic era, innovation policies in biomedicine are increasingly being driven by the notion that constant advancements in biological knowledge fail to materialize into tangible therapeutic outcomes. Discursively framed in terms of a “gap” between “bench” and “bedside” in need of urgent “bridging”, this representation of the shortcomings of biomedical innovation has propelled growing efforts tailored towards the clinical ...
Understanding contemporary interest group politics: mobilization and strategies in multi-layered systems (iBias). University of Antwerp
The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate II: historiography, political order and state formation in fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria. Ghent University
MMS-II pursues the hypothesis that de Mamluk sultanate was a cultural product constructed in the interaction between state formation and historiography. MMS-II follows up from the ERC-project MMS' focus on the social production of power networks in the Syro-Egyptian sultanate between the 1410s and 1460s, but it does so by directing the themes of political history and Arabic historiography towards entirely new, unexplored horizons. Current ...
Towards a sustainable wellbeing economy: integrated policies and transformative indicators Ghent University
Growth at all costs does not make for a successful economy. Success should not be measured by gross domestic product (GDP) only. The EU-funded ToBe project will look beyond GDP to build an understanding of a sustainable well-being economy by developing integrated policies and transformative indicators. To contribute to the theoretical and empirical knowledge in the field of sustainability transformation, the project will bring together ...