Projects
Sound and Decolonized Knowledge: the Radio Composer as Ethnographer KU Leuven
In the international field of radio art, artists increasingly use research-based documentary strategies to address social, political and cultural realities of subaltern groups in their works. They perform sound-based ethnographic and historiographic research in various sites, combining the resulting recordings, interviews and archival materials with electroacoustic composition into hybrid pieces, that often closely engage with academic ...
School platformization: An ethnographic inquiry into policy, pedagogy, and practice KU Leuven
The purpose of this research project is to develop an empirical understanding of how platformization affects school education. Referred to as school platformization, this process emphasizes the localized and context-specific integration of digital platforms within schools, reshaping possibilities in school education and co-determining what is considered educationally relevant. School platformization signifies the increasing ...
Re-conceptualising the Right to Housing: Ethnographic research on new housing initiatives in Brussels and Antwerp KU Leuven
Based on the increasing commodification of the social housing market and the consequences this has carried for the affordability and security of housing for underprivileged residents, the wider research project this PhD is embedded in intends to (1) study the extent to which the right to housing for underprivileged residents is reclaimed in new housing strategies and through social housing activism as well as (2) the extent to which this ...
When climate change enters domestic life: Ethnographic study of gender and U+201CgreenU+201D reproductive labour. Ghent University
The urgency and severity of the environmental crisis are leading a growing number of people to adopt eco-friendly practices. However, a trip to the package-free store or tending a vegetable garden requires some adjustments in the household. The goal of this project is to understand how environmental concerns and practices both impact and are mediated by reproductive labour and its gender dynamics in everyday family life. Reproductive labour ...
Understanding urban protest in a context of war: An ethnographic analysis of ‘urban political terrains’ in Eastern DRC Ghent University
This research project offers a theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of the complex forms of urban political resistance, activism and protest in the war-torn region Congo. This will be operationalized by an ethnographic study in three cities in Eastern DRC.
From the Peripheries of the Wired World: An ethnographic study of everyday digital visual practices in Havana (Cuba) and New Delhi (India). University of Antwerp
Brusseling language, bustling friction. An ethnographic analysis of linguistic hybridity and purity at a Brussels secondary school. University of Antwerp
Unequal Partners? An Ethnographic Study of Christian-Muslim Couples in The Netherlands KU Leuven
How do Christian-Muslim couples negotiate their material and ritual practices, and what does this reveal about the cultural archive of Dutch society, specifically concerning the normative “secularized” Christian assumptions and the dominant and privileged white Dutch identity with its connotations to nationalism, citizenship, and full societal belonging? By probing how a normative “modern” (and Christianized) distinction between “good ...