Projects
How politics becomes news and news becomes politics. A comparative study among political journalists and politicians in Switzerland and the Netherlands. University of Antwerp
Pride as a political emotion. Taking pride and the politics of recognition beyond the confines of identity politics. University of Antwerp
Global IP law and local politics: The political economy of African seed business law KU Leuven
The World Trade Organisation has promoted Western-styled intellectual property (IP) norms around the world. This IP-related endeavours can be seen as part of a global move in the direction of less state and more private entrepreneurship. Whereas some ‘orthodox’ development scholars have welcomed the turn towards market institutions in development policy, other ‘critical’ development scholars have argued that Western IP norms are ill-suited to ...
Data for Development: Exploring the politics and poetics of citizen-generated data in social impact businesses in Brazil. University of Antwerp
Peace and discipline. A study in political theory on peace education in international politics: the North-Atlantic region (1945-2007). University of Antwerp
Image Media, propaganda and politics. An investigation into Nazi film policy in Belgium and Europe, followed by a theoretical and interdisciplinary research on the significance of propaganda through visual media. Ghent University
Ideology of Heritage, Museum, Cultural Politics, and Construction of National Identity in Finland and Japan. University of Antwerp
Between European Values, Contestation and Survival: the Changing Law and Politics of a Geopolitical European Union (CHANGE) KU Leuven
The present research project “Between European Values, Contestation and Survival: the Changing Law and Politics of Geo-Political Europe” (CHANGE) investigates the relationship between the ever stronger geostrategic and geopolitical orientation of the European Union (EU or Union) on the one hand, and the effects thereof on law and politics in the multi-level governance of the EU on the other hand. The project starts from the assumption that a ...
Rural materialism and peripheral rebels: Re-thinking peasantry and politics in conflict-areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ghent University
Over the past two decades, the literature on armed groups in the DRC has portrayed the peasantry as either an accomplice or a victim of violent conflict. Rooted in an armed group-focussed approach, the victim and the accomplice bias have contributed to erasing the peasantry as a political actor in the DRC. Its political importance has been ignored within peace-building, demobilisation and rural development programmes, which explains part of ...