Projects
Data for Development: Exploring the politics and poetics of citizen-generated data in social impact businesses in Brazil. University of Antwerp
The role of social memory processes in community formation during the Roman Imperial Period (25 BC - c. 300 AD) in Pisidia (SW-Anatolia) KU Leuven
The main questions this project answers revolve around what it meant for Pisidian social groups (SW Asia Minor) to be part of the Roman Empire in terms of actual impact, and how they used social memory processes to (re)negotiate their existence within this dynamic world. In chapter 1, we demonstrate the negative impact of modern social memory processes on our understanding of Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Pisidia by deconstructing the ...
Meat, Men & Masculinites: How the (non) consumption of meat relates to personal, interpersonal, and cultural communication, focusing on connections between "meat", "men" and "masculinity". University of Antwerp
Understanding the development of business culture in India: a contemporary history analysis of the content and the impact of Business education KU Leuven
Management and business schools constitute a dense cross-border network of knowledge institutes that are responsible for training significant parts of populations. The theories, tools and methods taught at management schools have been diffused on a large scale and have impregnated different levels of social organisation. Management schools have played a significant role in the legitimation of new knowledges that are co-productive to the ...
The reception of Scandinavian Literature in the Netherlands and Flanders 1860-1940. A comparative Analysis of the role of Networks and the Impact of the Ethnolinguistic Discourse. Ghent University
This research aims at mapping and analyzing the networks of Dutch and Flemish cultural transmitters who, between 1860 and 1940, had a particular interest in Scandinavian literature. The analysis is based on a model of Social Network Analysis that is designed specifically for cultural transfer. A contrastive Dutch-Flemish perspective makes it possible to bring up language ideology abd the ethnolinguistic discourse.
Informational Citizenship: Toward a Global Ethnography of Practices and Infrastructures of Datafication in the Global South (InfoCitizen). University of Antwerp
Informational Citizenship: Toward a Global Ethnography of Practices and Infrastructures of Datafication in the Global South (InfoCitizen). University of Antwerp
The role of entrepreneurs' temporal perspectives in the emergence of entrepreneurial opportunities Ghent University
Opportunities are at the very heart of entrepreneurship and are subject to a fierce debate on
whether they are made (created) or found (discovered). The goal of the proposed research is to
gain a profound theoretical understanding on the role of entrepreneurs’ temporal perspectives in
the emergence of entrepreneurial opportunities. Temporal perspectives can be understood as the
various ways in how individuals perceive ...
Coexistence, Conflict and Calamity: Entangled Worlds of Hinduism and Islam in the Heart of India Ghent University
The resurgence of identity politics in India has deeply polarised public discourse between a fundamental clash of cultures and a liberal, pluralistic view of society. Behind the present deadlock is a long, complex history of encounters between Hindu and Muslim civilisations mediated by their monuments. In the 11th-12th centuries, the expanding frontiers of the Islamic world overlapped with the culturally-charged landscape of temple Hinduism, ...