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Demobilising Mindsets: Ideas and Ideology after War. A Case Study on Rwandan FDLR Rebels. University of Antwerp

Kristof Titeca
Development processes, actors and policies
Since 2001 several thousand Rwandan FDLR rebels (Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda), active in the east of the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo), have been demobilised and repatriated to Rwanda. The FDLR rebels that emerged in the year 2000 from the Hutu refugee community in DRC are known to foster a strong "Hutu" ideology, rooted in the ideational tradition of pre-genocide Rwanda. It revolves around ethnic antagonism and ...

Demobilising Mindsets: Ideas and Ideology after War. A Case Study on Rwandan FDLR Rebels. University of Antwerp

Development processes, actors and policies
Since 2001 several thousand Rwandan FDLR rebels (Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda), active in the east of the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo), have been demobilised and repatriated to Rwanda. The FDLR rebels that emerged in the year 2000 from the Hutu refugee community in DRC are known to foster a strong "Hutu" ideology, rooted in the ideational tradition of pre-genocide Rwanda. It revolves around ethnic antagonism and ...

The life and thought of northern prehistoric hunter-gatherers: ethnographical and ethnoarchaeological theory and analysis of the behavioral and material expression of the relationship between ideology and ecology Ghent University

Philippe Crombé
Department of Archaeology

The research proposal consists of the application of the new anthropological paradigm to the study of northern European prehistoric hunter-gatherers with specific focus on the relationship between ecology - the reality of the world in which human beings must survive - and ideology - the human cognition and perception of that world. The new anthropological paradigm sees ecology and ideology as dynamic and dialectic entities, whose relationship ...

Analysis of the components of U+2018legal cultureU+2019 and the role of ideology : a French U+2013 American comparison. Ghent University

Dirk Heirbaut
Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law, Department of Legal theory and legal history

Research question : To what extent does a historically developped system of representations determine the law and the way it is interpreted? To what extent can differences between the American and French legal systems be linked to this historical-ideological dimension. To what extent is law the outcome of a dialectic between the text (statutory and/or case-law) and the cultural-ideological context?

Buddhist Ideology and Propaganda in the Indic Northwest: A Study in Avadana Literature Ghent University

Ann Heirman
Department of Languages and Cultures

Proceeding from the maxim that 'nothing can be understood apart from context', this research projects seeks to do that which is rarely done in the study of Buddhist literature. It advances an ambitious methodology to establish nexus between archaeological, art-historical, epigraphic and textual sources in the Indic Northwest (eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan) around the turn of the Common Era. Focusing on a genre of Buddhist narrative termed ...

The scientification of the bureau. Science, technology and ideology at the office in belgium, the Netherlands and France (1918-1968). KU Leuven

Johan Tollebeek
Cultural History since 1750, Leuven
In this research project, the scientification of office labor between 1918 and 1968 will be focused upon. Although the social formation of a specific workforce at the office (the employee) has been studied in depth, the remarkable scientification of office labor itself still needs to be fully grasped. In this research project, processes of rationalization that are sometimes believed to be confined to industrial contexts, will be studied within ...

Jesuit Ideology, the Counter-Reformation and the Spiritual Madrigals of Philippe de Monte (1521-1603) KU Leuven

David Burn
Musicology, Leuven

The genre of the spiritual madrigal reached a height of popularity in the final decades of the 16th century. With its combination of philosophical and spiritual poetry, and the music-expressive power of the secular madrigal, it flourished in Counter-Reformist contexts as a medium for introducing sacred elements into the daily life. The Fleming Philippe de Monte (1521-1603) was not only one of the most significant and prolific composers of his ...

Gender, politics and ideology in medieval historiographical sources. Politicising the discourse of femininities and masculinities in the Flandria Generosa chronicles (1164-1531). Ghent University

Jan Dumolyn
Department of History

This project deals with the gendered representation of the Flemish male and female rulers in the Flandria Generosa chronicles (1164-1531). The main research question is how these gendered narratives were constructed, rewritten and adapted over time to their intended audiences. The aim of this research is to analyse the changing use of this gendered language as a political instrument, but moreover, to relate this to altering medieval notions ...

A future for the hermeneutical turn in theology? A historiacal- and systematic-theological investigation of the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009) and its contemporary reception. KU Leuven

Lieven Boeve
Research Unit of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions, Research Unit of Pastoral and Empirical Theology, Research Unit of History of Church and Theology
The work of Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009) marks the transition from a pre-modern (neo-Thomist) to a late-modern (hermeneutical) theology. The aim of this project is both historical-theological and systematic-theological: (a) it intends to carefully trace the hermeneutical turn in Schillebeeckxs work; (b) followed by an investigation into the contemporary relevance of his theology. A duality which characterises Schillebeeckxs approach will ...