Projects
Building HIV competent households: A sustainable answer to HIV prevention and treatment challenges in South Africa. University of Antwerp
From biographical disruption to biographical construction of a hybrid identity: a qualitative study of the impact of antiretroviral treatment on the life of HIV/AIDS-patients in South Africa. University of Antwerp
Households in mental health care: an experimental study on the role of the household in the care for people with a severe mental illness in South Africa. University of Antwerp
Masks, Puppets and Performance Objects as Tools of Critique, REsistance and Agency in South Africa; Developing a Situational, Embodied and Postdramatic Approach for Dealing with the Cultural Trauma of Apartheid Ghent University
Dance studies showed how folk dance, mass choreographies and sports events served the
modern state’s bio-politics and developed a spectacle of nationhood. A supra-ethnic national
‘Yugoslavian’ identity was performed beyond religious, ethnic, cultural or gender differences
and this provided the basis for an antagonism between the so-called ‘communist East’ and the
‘capitalist West’. After WWII, Europe embarked on a ...
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 ...
Reference data-driven metabolomics to study the molecular composition of South African foods. University of Antwerp
Deliberative public engagement on heritable human genome editing: South African & Flemish young adults Ghent University
Via the method of ‘virtual deliberative public engagement’ we can gain insight into the public opinion
on highly complex matters such as heritable human genome editing. In a previous study in the South
African (SA) context, participants in culturally mixed groups who engaged critically with policy
questions on this topic based their arguments on shared values enshrined by the South African
Constitution. However, since ...
Reception of John’s Gospel in North Africa (c. 325-533) Augustine of Hippo’s In Iohannis euangelium tractatus and Contemporary North African Sermons KU Leuven
This project seeks to recontextualize an early 5th-century work of Augustine of Hippo, In Iohannis euangelium tractatus (AD 405-420s), by examining African patristic Latin sermons on the Gospel of John. Our team investigates how these 124 ‘tractates’ of Augustine contributed to continuous North African tradition of preaching on John between ca. 325-533. We promote use of evidence from his other sermones, tractates, and enarrationes – as well ...