Projects
The politics of afterlives: Martyrs, sovereignty and the making of Kurdish political community Ghent University
How do dead people shape politics? In the Middle East and beyond, the dead recurrently stand at the heart of political contestations over sovereign power, whether they are celebrated or condemned, exalted or disowned, worshipped or mutilated. This research aims to explain this tenacity of the dead by interrogating political power not only as a question of disciplining life or inflicting death, but also as a question of governing afterlives. ...
Popular street politics and political modernization. From a linear to a layered perspective on regimes and repertoires: Antwerp (Belgium), ca. 1880-1940. Ghent University
This research project examines how street politics changed or persisted in times of political modernization. By enabling a micropolitical approach in a long-term study, the traditional linear perspective on modernization can be challenged. Instead, this project aspires to study the diverse ways (repertoires) in which different social groups in the city did politics (regimes) through a layered street perspective.
The political economy of the trade-climate nexus in the European Union: Under which conditions does the EU use trade instruments at the service of climate policies? Ghent University
We want to characterize and explain the EU’s stance in the trade-climate nexus from a political science perspective. The reasons for (not) taking certain decisions about trade measures to fight climate change will be studied, through analysing and comparing six cases. We will collect data mainly via interviews and primary sources, and use process tracing as our research method.
Keeping women out of politics? The (in)direct impact of violence against women in politics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
problem. Since female politicians are not only targeted based on their political role, but because of
their gender as well, scholars argue to study VAWIP as a distinctive issue. Most research looking into
the problem, focusses on countries in conflict settings with low levels of female politicians. In these
environments, ...
ESF - ECRP - The Politics of Attention: West European politics in times of change. University of Antwerp
Gender, politics and ideology in medieval historiographical sources. Politicising the discourse of femininities and masculinities in the Flandria Generosa chronicles (1164-1531). Ghent University
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 ...
The politics of hidden urbanisation in the D.R. Congo Ghent University
This project sets out to investigate ‘hidden’ forms of urbanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in order to achieve a better understanding of the profoundly political character of rapid urbanisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Several of Congo’s provinces experience the unplanned mushrooming of new small towns in areas that have been predominantly rural, a process that has received only limited academic and policy attention. From a ...
Is the Future Ours? Exploring Literature and Politics in Contemporary Mexican Fiction Through the Bildungsroman KU Leuven
This project aims to make an important contribution to the study of contemporary Latin American literature by challenging the idea that it has turned away from politics. The generations of writers born in the 1960s and 1970s have been described as apolitical because of their focus on individuals who are often passive or self-centered, and because of their rejection of former, more politicized literary models. In contrast, I will show how ...