Projects
The diaspora kino-eye: A multi-methodological research project on diaspora film policies and representations in Flanders (2002-2021) Ghent University
Over the last decades a major upswing of diaspora cinema in Europe took place. In Flanders, this flux of diaspora filmmaking is specifically relevant as cross-cultural identities have assumed a prominent role in contemporary cinematic narratives. The importance of diaspora cinema is that it is considered to be one of those symbolic sites of struggles within a multicultural society that can help in the deconstruction of Eurocentric and ...
The diaspora kino-eye: A multi-methodological research project on diaspora film policies and representations in Flanders (2002-2021). University of Antwerp
The diaspora kino-eye: A multi-methodological research project on diaspora film policies and representations in Flanders (2002-2021). University of Antwerp
Cinema and diaspora. A comparative study of diaspora film cultures in Antwerp: Indian, North African, Turkish and Jewish cinema. Ghent University
This projects aims at researching diaspora film cultures of etnic minorities in Belgium. Using a case study (Antwerp) Indian, North African, Turkish and Jewish film cultures are analysed and compared. A structural analysis (distribution and exploitation) are combined with audience studies. Especially the way these film cultures are part of the construction of a cultural identity are stressed in this research.
Translation and diaspora. The system of literary translations in Russian émigré journals (1919-1939). Ghent University
Diasporic communities are often characterized as being 'in-between'. Having to navigate between their own culture and that of their hosts, they have to rely on different types of cultural mediation, with constant (re)negotiation between home country – host – diaspora. The diasporic periodical is a site where such mediation becomes visible. Driven by digitalization, research on periodicals is gaining scholarly interest, but the function ...
Thinking past pride, creating beside shame: “hshouma” in visual artists's works from the Moroccan diaspora in Belgium and France. KU Leuven
“Hshem!” (“be ashamed!”) is a recurring keyword in traditional Moroccan education, it is an advice, a limit socially and politically well implemented in Moroccan society. The proposed project is particularly timely as, over the past ten years, the themes of shame and national identity have been central in Moroccan diasporic cinema and photography in Europe. An important wave of these diasporic artists has adopted visual arts to expose the ...
Genocide Commemoration in the Rwandan Diaspora Ghent University
Following the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, a significant Rwandan diaspora has become established in Europe. The genocide continues to hold a central place in the collective memory of these diasporic communities. This project seeks to build an understanding of the commemorative practices taking place among Rwandan communities in the diaspora, asking how living in exile impacts on cultural responses to the genocide, how these ...
Diaspora Communities in Transitional Justice. Analysing truth seeking measures with a case study on Argentina. KU Leuven
Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the present proposal aims to investigate the role of diaspora communities in transitional justice (hereinafter TJ) processes in order to contribute to a better understanding of the underexplored relationship between TJ and forced displacement. The first aim of the study is to examine the place of diaspora specifically in truth –seeking measures: how and to what extent these measures, particularly those ...
The rhythm of revolting aesthetics. A participatory action research in the audiovisual arts of Maghrebi diaspora in Brussels Ghent University
By engaging with self-affirming autonomous, but too often omitted forms of authorship in the audio-visual arts of Maghrebi diaspora in Brussels, the proposed research challenges the limits of visual anthropology as a field of study. Pursuing the aesthetic turn in political science and postcolonial studies and the decolonial turn in aesthetic theory, it proposes to analyze the rhythm of revolting aesthetics, or the various ways audio-visual ...