Projects
Putting the social investment state to the test. Assessing the impact of Dutch and Belgian policy adjustments on poverty and social inequality. University of Antwerp
Stratification and social inequality in Italy and Lugdunum. A comparative qualitative epigraphic analysis of the class structure, power relations and social struggle between municipal status groups during the Principate. Ghent University
Romans meticulously described their social position, but modern researchers often use general categories treating humiliores as an undifferentiated 'class'. We want to investigate 'status groups' from local Italian municipalities and the relationships between them and compare them with material from Lugdunum. How are power relations, competition and violence connected with 'class' and hierarchy? We will use concepts from P. Bourdieu.
How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025) Ghent University
INEQKILL focuses on a crucial dimension of inequality in society, the disparity in death, coined ‘ultimate inequality’. The COVID-19 pandemic has incited renewed interest into infectious diseases as potential drivers of social and spatial mortality inequalities, alongside life-style disease (cardiovascular diseases and cancer)and external causes of death. The project aims at generating new knowledge and insights into the origin and ...
How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
inequality’. The COVID-19 pandemic has incited renewed interest into infectious diseases as potential drivers
of social and spatial mortality inequalities, alongside life-style disease (cardiovascular diseases and cancer)
and external causes of death. The project aims at generating new knowledge and insights into the ...
Civil Society, Organised Labour & Social Inequality in Advanced Democracies. University of Antwerp
Beauty and Inequality Physical Appearance, Symbolic Boundaries and Social Dis/advantage in Five Global Cities KU Leuven
How does physical beauty contribute to social inequality? This innovative, multi-disciplinary compara- tive project aims to build a comprehensive new theory that explains how evaluations of physical appear- ance work, and how they re/produce durable inequalities in today’s media-saturated, service-based, consumer societies. It hypothesizes that 1. in contemporary societies beauty has become an important form of capital, for all genders, ...