Projects
Caught in the Crossfire. A Study of the Quality of Political Debate on Democratic Legitimacy KU Leuven
Homo-erotic desires, emergent sexualities and dissident masculinities:a queer perspective on the political economy of sex in Kisangani. KU Leuven
Back with a vengeance? Khoisan indigeneity as a political resource in South Africa’s settler-colonial present Ghent University
The Khoisan are fast asserting themselves in post-apartheid South Africa after experiencing centuries of assimilation and dispossession. They reject their racial classification as ‘Coloured’ and claim indigeneity to fight their ongoing marginalization. Indigeneity increasingly competes with race as a political resource as the Bantu-speaking ‘Black’ majority calls for expedited land reform and decolonization. Those invested in minority ...
Understanding the political economy of Congo's civil service remunerations and recruitment system. University of Antwerp
A Philosophical Investigation of Political Anxiety KU Leuven
Special Research Fund Professorship in political ethnography Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Subaltern history as political culture: campesinos in Montes de MarÃa, 1960-2010 KU Leuven
This research project seeks to improve our understanding of political engagement among Latin American peasants, building upon a case study on Montes de MarÃa (Colombia), 1960-2010. Social mobilisation by people with few chances of political representativeness has been a prominent research subject, not the least for the fields of social history, Latin America studies and peasant studies. In fact, the relevance of the case will be revised from ...
Role of religion in political decision making Ghent University
My research asks why and how does religion and culture play a role in the political decision
making in the South-east Nigeria and in other Multicultural parts of the world like, Flemish,
Belgium and Toronto, Canada.
The purpose or my research is twofold. Firstly, to explore the overall changes in political
decision-making, and why they are influenced by the role religion plays as a whole. This is ...
The European Political Foundations’ activities and organisational forms: A Comparative Analysis KU Leuven
The European Political Foundations (EPFs) as quite a new phenomenon in the European political arena, have originally been established to carry on numerous tasks. Their mission as defined by the Regulation was to “underpin and complement the activities of the political parties by undertaking a range of activities that contribute to the debate on European public policy issues and European integration, including by acting as catalysts for new ...