Projects
Diversity and Inequalities through the Prism of Resistance: An Institutional Ethnography KU Leuven
My research focuses on the study of everyday practices, the way they are structured by various power relations, and the endogenous solutions that emerge in each context. I analyze power, exclusion and emerging solutions by putting into dialogue two streams of research: Resistance Studies (RS) and Feminist Research, in particular Institutional Ethnography (IE). RS focusses on the study of marginalized groups and individuals that are ...
The Interchange Between Democratic Institutions and the Globalisation of the Economy KU Leuven
Following World War II, globalisation and market liberalisation triggered a period of unprecedented growth. Recently, these trends appear to reverse, whereby globalisation and corporations started to pose challenges for liberal democracy, social cohesion and environmental sustainability. DemoTrans is an impact-driven research project that will provide theoretically and empirically robust recommendations on how to reinvigorate democratic ...
Worldmaking in Radical Environmental Movements: Juxtaposing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Resistance. Ghent University
Ethnographers concerned with Indigenous thought have called for the radical acceptance of other ontologies. This move—which echoes the increasing acceptance amongst philosophers of science that different and multiple worlds might coexist—has been referred to as “the ontological turn.” Combining the ontological turn in anthropology with the world-ecological approach to capitalism and the counter-hegemonic theory of Antonio Gramsci, this ...
CoCreation 2021: ADZHIS: Aide a domicile zorg aan huis inclusi(ef)ve a Schaerbeek Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tracks for the decolonisation of the Belgian development cooperation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Saharan Visions of Jesus. Poetics of Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions KU Leuven
My project aims to study the connections between Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions, the Saharan pastoral minorities (Tuareg, Berabish, Chaanba, Kunta) in Mali and in Niger and the post-conflict situation in Sahel through the unusual prism of oral poetry. The various Christian churches use television, radio, the mobile phone and the internet to spread their messages and thus increase their congregations. As a result, an impressive ...
Transformative Heritage: politics, peacebuilding and digital restitution of cultural heritage in contemporary Northeast DR Congo (AFRISURGE). University of Antwerp
Inequality, History and the Caucasian Slave Trade, 1395-1792 Ghent University
Throughout the medieval and early modern periods, a vast network of forced migration was operating in Eurasia, which at times equalled the African slave trade in size. A particularly important part of this system was the Caucasian slave trade, in which young men and women from the Caucasus Mountains were sold in the Italian Republics, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, and Iran. The effects of this trade were far-reaching: for example, the use of the ...