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To befoul one's own nest? Joris Luyendijk and the impossibility of journalism in the Middle-East University of Antwerp
Children in Public or 'Public Children': An Alternative to Constructing One's Own Life KU Leuven Ghent University
This article arises from the thoughts of Hannah Arendt, and more especially from her idea that the essence of education is the renewal of the world. That idea forms the backdrop to a consideration of the current interest in education as the construction of one's own life. I argue that the will to construct one's own life is not a natural, biological given, but a product of a 'biopolitical machine'. In the first part of the article I challenge ...
Carrying the Seeds of One's Own Failure? Implementing Gender Mainstreaming in Policy Practices. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Making a room of one’s own : place, space, and literary performance in sixteenth-century Bruges Ghent University
The privacy of having a language of one’s own : Slavic regional standard projects and minority agendas online Ghent University
Flights of Memory: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Limits of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism KU Leuven
While Teju Cole's 2011 novel Open City has been received as an exemplary cosmopolitan performance, a careful reading of the novel's engagement with memories of suffering and of its evocations of aesthetic experiences shows that it interrogates rather than affirms an aesthetic cosmopolitan program. Through its use of a flat, nearly affectless tone, it renders visible the inability of contemporary calls for aesthetic and memorial cosmopolitan ...