Projects
Black Yarns: A Decolonial Research into the History of Black Women's Fashion & Jewellery. Design Practices in France (1939-1966). University of Antwerp
Belgian missionaries and faith-based development work in Ranchi, India. Colonial legacy and present-day relevance. KU Leuven
Legal consciousness and the international legal personality of company-states in colonial Africa. KU Leuven
Unlike states, corporations – like private individuals – are not considered as full subjects of public international law and therefore only possess derivative or functional legal personality. However, the focus on the state as the primary legal person in public international law is of relatively modern origins. For centuries, European sovereigns outsourced the task of overseas empire-building to chartered companies, such as the Dutch or ...
A Critique of Colonial Reason Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Making and Unmaking of a Colonial Cattle Frontier. Capitalism, Science and Empire in Madagascar, 1870s-1970s Ghent University
Using the lens of the cattle frontier in Madagascar in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this project explores the transformation of livestock production, pastoralist societies, imperial economies and animal landscapes in colonial and postcolonial Africa. It builds on the concept of commodity frontiers, moving sites of capitalist commodity production and extraction, to disentangle the complex interplay between global capitalism, ...
Transnationalism in the production of medical knowledge in and concerning the Congo during the colonial period Ghent University
Focusing on sleeping sickness research regarding the Congo (1899-1960), this project investigates the importance of cross-border scientific exchanges and interactions, including those between the Belgian metropole and her colony as well as those between the Belgium/Congo axis and other metropoles, colonies, and intergovernmental institutions, in the production of tropical medical knowledge.
Books from the Low Countries in Colonial Colombia and Bolivia KU Leuven
The contribution of prints to the European expansion and the globalisation of the Early Modern world can hardly be overestimated. The knowledge of other continents circulated in Europe almost exclusively in the shape of printed books and engravings. On the other side, the printed book was the medium by excellence by which European knowledge was taken to the most remote parts of the earth. Printing houses in the Southern Netherlands played an ...
The Social and Economic History of Central Africa: Beyond Capitalism and Colonialism. University of Antwerp
Borderland(s) in motion: Borders, mobility and history in the Lake Kivu region Ghent University
Historical research on and about the border between Rwanda and the DRC (ca. 1880-1962)