Projects
The state's obligation tot protect economic and social rights against violations by transnational corporations: health litigation in a context of resource extraction. University of Antwerp
The state's obligation to protect economic and social rights against violations by transnational corporations: health litigation in a context of resource extraction. Ghent University
Transnational corporations (TNCs) are in principle not directly bound by human rights norms, but states are obliged to protect the rights of their citizens against violations by TNCs. However, as developing countries want to maintain an attractive investment climate, they do not appropriately regulate the activities of TNCs. The project analyzes whether the obligation to protect can be enforced through litigation.
The state's obligation tot protect economic and social rights against violations by transnational corporations: health litigation in a context of resource extraction. University of Antwerp
The construction of social classification schemata: occupational statistics in Belgium, Great-Britain and the United States. Ghent University
Since the nineteenth century, both Europeans and Americans have become "calculating people". The rise and evolution of the administrative statistics in three countries is studied by means of sociological and epistimological methods. The statistics inform us about both the social realities they strive to measure and the constructs which organize that measuring.
CONVERGE - European welfare states are converging towards a single European social model? University of Antwerp
The crisis and reorientation of European welfare states since the 1970s: what consequences for income distribution, financial poverty and social exclusion? University of Antwerp
Achieving inclusion through renovation: learning from the afterlife of social housing transformation in post-war estates of Flanders and Brussels KU Leuven
Often built as innovative models, post-war social housing estates increasingly require renovation. Although the latter has been recently earmarked as a “high social impact” investment, it remains a complex process. One of its challenges is the sectorial treatment of social and spatial issues, even in the case of complex urban regeneration schemes. Participation, going from mere consultation to sophisticated co-creation, has become more common ...
Achieving inclusion through renovation: learning from the afterlife of social housing transformation in the post-war estates of Flanders and Brussels KU Leuven
From Welfare to Care Urbanism. Moving from Ethnography to Projective Scenarios in Héliport and Brigittines High-rise Social Housing Estates, Brussels KU Leuven
The political imperative of residents’ participation infiltrates the ongoing renovation of post-war housing estates and their surroundings in Brussels. While these participatory processes and results are questionable, residents’ lived experience of place is rarely used as leverage. Critically evaluating current social housing renovation strategies, the research wonders: Which spatial scenarios can be identified from residents’ inhabitation ...