Projects
Rethinking the decline-thesis: the diminishing position of woman in an urban context during the late middle ages KU Leuven
In my PhD project, titled Dismantling the Borders, I have compared women's labour opportunities in Brabant and Biscay in the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Since the 1980s, scholars have debated differences in women's economic positions between premodern northern and southern Europe. Scholars arguing for such differences have often explained them based on diverging legal frameworks and family structures in the two regions. ...
A multi-method investigation of the urban impact on precipitation Ghent University
Our planet is highly urbanised and cities impact the atmosphere. This impact is not limited to increased temperatures, but studies also show an impact on precipitation. On average an increase in precipitation is found over and downwind of cities. Given that climate change leads to an increased frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation, it is important to clarify this urban impact on precipitation. Due to the nonlinearity of the ...
Enhancing urban democracy through commons-based coproduction arrangements: a three-case comparative study (COMMOCRACY). University of Antwerp
Urban Experience in the Third Reich: A Topopoetic Analysis of German-Jewish Autobiographical Literature from Breslau University of Antwerp
Architectures of Caring Encounters with Street Homelessness in Everyday Urban Spaces KU Leuven
In the last forty years the ascent of the neoliberal urban regime, marked by the impairment of formalized social security frameworks and privatization of risks, has fostered the subordination of urban social life to the rationalities of self-reliance and competition. As a result of this market-driven transformation, city dwellers have found themselves devoid of social protection assured by state-based social solidarity and increasingly ...
The church in the middle. An inquiry into the urban parish and parish church in the Southern Low Countries (ca. 1450-1700) Ghent University
The aim of this project is to analyse the meaning of the urban parish and the urban parish church in the Southern Low Countries between ca. 1450 and 1700. The focus will be on the archives generated by the institutions themselves.
Measuring job quality of urban gig workers in Brussels. Construction of an empirical research instrument. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
that aim to be more flexible and cost-efficient, by creating online
platforms that match supply and demand. These platforms do not
operate as traditional employers, but instead hire large numbers of
independent contractors, who perform demarcated tasks for a
defined time. In this flexible, (skills-)demanding, fast-changing labour
...
Comparing technology cultures in urban DR Congo (1960-present): Kinshasa, Kikwit and Lubumbashi. KU Leuven
Plumbing the City. The regulation of sanitary installers in urban Europe (1850-1940) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
improving the hygienic conditions in many European cities,
intervening both in the provision of public utilities of water supply and
sewage and in the construction of private sanitary installations. In
contrast to ample business-historical studies on the relation between
the state and distribution companies, it is unclear how sanitary
...