Projects
Workshop for Decolonisation of Education and Research Ghent University
The Holy See negotiating decolonization (1945–1958) KU Leuven
This research project focuses on the role of the Catholic Church in the decolonization of the French Empire in Central Africa and the Belgian Congo. More specifically, it focuses on the construction of Catholic elites, from the 1940s to the 1960s. Through a selection of politico-religious trajectories of African and European clerics, this research shows how the issue of Africanization and politicization of the clergy shaped interactions ...
The Decolonization of the Roman Catholic Church in the DRC / Zaire, 1960s-2000s KU Leuven
While political, economic, military and demographic aspects of the decolonization of Belgian Congo have been studied thoroughly, our knowledge of the postolonial developments in the Roman Catholic Church in Congo remains limited to specific topics (e.g., the massacres of missionaries in the 1960s) or general narratives (e.g., inculturation and dialogue). This research project wants to examine how the Church decolonized in the first decades of ...
The Decolonization of the Roman Catholic Church in the DRC / Zaire KU Leuven
Understanding settler-Indigenous negotiations: how Indigenous decolonization movements provoke political change in Canada. Ghent University
The goal of this project is to provide an understanding of the negotiation that takes place between Indigenous forms of political agency and settler state structures in Canada. Indigenous decolonial activists often perceive themselves as largely antithetical to and operating independently from the settler state structures they challenge. This project, however, starts from the assumption that Indigenous activists and settler state structures ...
Learning Network on Decolonization – Faculty of Political and Social Sciences Ghent University
The Learning Network on Decolonisation of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences aims to initiate activities to decolonize education, research and services to students and staff. The network brings together students and staff from the different departments and programs at PSW, to colearn and co-create knowledge and practices to help reform both the curricula and teaching and research practices, as well as student and staff policies at ...
Tracks for the decolonization of the Belgian development cooperation. University of Antwerp
Decolonization discourses and practices in the Society of Jesus: Belgian and Congolese Jesuits in the DRC, 1960-2000 KU Leuven
This project researches how the Society of Jesus adapted to the new situation of the independent republic of Congo (Zaire) by analyzing Jesuit discourses (e.g. allocutions, homilies, internal debates, publications and arts) and practices (e.g. hierarchies, training, behaviors and experiences) between 1960 and 2000. It will work with archival materials (the Flemish and Walloon Belgian Jesuits at KADOC, the Jesuit Curia in Rome, the Provincial ...