Projects
Dakar-Bamako: Waiting for a train ride back to the future KU Leuven
Charline is a PhD candidate and Early Stage Researcher (ESR), part of the multi-disciplinary research project in the Anthropology of Human Security in Africa (Anthusia) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. She is interested in the anthropology of infrastructure and labour, trade unions and logistics, as well as security and borders.
Her current research focuses on the past and future ...
International judicial politics: EU and US responses to WTO litigation. University of Antwerp
EU decision-making with regard to international negotiations in first pillar domains: a comparative principal-agent analysis. KU Leuven
The Rhetoric of Hunger and Plenty: Agro-Food Policy in Belgium, 1919-1958 KU Leuven
For centuries, people depended on local or regional markets for their food supply. From the late nineteenth century onwards, global agricultural production, international trade in food products, and the food industry grew rapidly. The European governments had to drastically adapt their agro-food policy to the challenges of this globalizing market.
How did Belgium, a small and densely populated country that was particularly sensitive to ...
Global Governance and the European Union: Future Trends and Scenarios KU Leuven
GLOBE will approach the issues identified in the call focusing on global problems, which has been defined as strategic priorities in the 2016 EU Global Strategy: trade and development, security and the politics of climate change. We will include also the challenges of migration and global finance as additional areas, which go even beyond the call. The strength of our consortium lies in first-class academic expertise, as composed by top-level ...
(De-)politicization strategies in the European Union: An Actor-Centered Comparative Study of Public Discourse on EU Policies KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis conceptualizes what an act of (de-)politicization in the public sphere looks like and shows how this can be detected empirically through a claim-level (de-)politicization index – the first of its kind in the field. This approach is applied to a database of EU policy evaluations (claims), in the media of six Member States (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Denmark). The aim is to explore avenues which theoretically ...
Consolidate and scale up socio-environmentally sustainable, accessible and short food chains in the EU. University of Antwerp
Land entrepreneurship and the challenges of housing development: contribution of public and private actors in rapid urban development in the peri-urban areas of Lubumbashi Hasselt University
Valorisation of the Tervuren xylarium for rainforest ecology: investigation of wood collections to underpin REDD+ and other new mechnisms for tropical forest conservation Meise Botanic Garden
Indeed, the tropical forests and the Congo Basin rainforests ...