Projects
UGent Human Rights Research Network Ghent University
The consortium brings together Ghent University researchers working on human rights. It furthers interdisciplinary collaboration in human rights research (goal 1). In this manner it aims to increase excellent human rights research at Ghent University (goal 2), and to advance the societal impact of this research (goal 3), in close collaboration with societal stakeholders.
Himalayan Urbanism: Questions of ecological, economic and ethnographic identities (The case of depopulation in Uttarakhand) KU Leuven
The Himalayas are undergoing drastic transformations. The increasing modernisation and economic reform in the Himalayan communities has resulted in a newly imposed urban-rural dichotomy. While traditional rural settlements struggles with regards to livelihoods, declining socio-cultural practices and eventual depopulation, contemporary urban areas are places of economic and industrial growth. Urbanity is a relatively new notion in the ...
Living with water in the Mekong delta. Investigating the transformation of indigenous knowledges in the search for future water urbanism KU Leuven
My research will investigate these issues of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, through the practices and discourses of urbanism / ecology, planning / development and nature / culture. It will consist of systematic research of the transformative interactions, the sectioning and overlaying, of human habitation of land, water and vegetation – three spatially interconnected ecological features. The Bassac River’s islands and estuaries are chosen for their ...
Fekadu Beyene Aleka: LIAS fellow for May 2022 project on societal aspects of climate change KU Leuven
Green With Grey KU Leuven
The Green With Gray (GWG) project is aimed at setting up test sites at strategic locations during the next 3 years (March 2019-February 2021) that can serve as a prototype for the softening of industrial areas in the provinces of Antwerp and Flemish Brabant. GWG wants to contribute to 2 main goals of the Strategic Vision Policy Plan Spatial Planning Flanders (Strategic objective 5: Robust open space), namely a 20% reduction of the paved area ...