Projects
Shame and sustainability in fashion: A new integrated perspective on the role of shame in the industrial fashion system and in the formation of fashion’s communities of honor in the 21st century KU Leuven
Fashion revolves around shame. The evocation of time shame, the unpleasant feeling of being outmoded, is central to fashion. This project analyzes time shame as the basis of the emotional regimes of today's industrial fashion system by studying how this emotion aids the fashion industry in creating boundaries between industry and consumers, and between groups of consumers. The 21st century witnessed the rise of ‘fashion's honor communities’ ...
Queer sounds: The function and meaning of music in the formation and evolution of an LGBT subculture in the city of Antwerp (1960-2010). University of Antwerp
Understanding the development of business culture in India: a contemporary history analysis of the content and the impact of Business education KU Leuven
Management and business schools constitute a dense cross-border network of knowledge institutes that are responsible for training significant parts of populations. The theories, tools and methods taught at management schools have been diffused on a large scale and have impregnated different levels of social organisation. Management schools have played a significant role in the legitimation of new knowledges that are co-productive to the ...
Belgian art of the long eighties transitioning from the regional to the international: Aspects of the Ghent art scene, 1976-1992. Ghent University
This project focuses on the Ghent art world of the 1980s, an understudied part of art history. During this period, there was a clear motive towards placing Belgian art on the map. An international narrative became increasingly dominant in catalogues, the popular press and politics, becoming a societal phenomenon. Ghent played a decisive role in this process, for example by establishing the first Belgian museum for contemporary art, with Jan ...
Networking in the past: the role of social capital in the success of the neoclassical painter and educator François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869) in nascent Belgium Ghent University
Networking is important, also for an artist in the 19th century. François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869), director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles and a neoclassical artist, developed an impressive social network in nascent Belgium. Despite the knowledge we have of Navez’s paintings and his role in supporting the development of a newly forming nation-state through his role as director at the Brussels Academy, we have little knowledge on ...
Between the borders and the spirits: A historical political ecology of water from the perspective of a Himalayan village community KU Leuven
Mountain communities are today bearing the brunt of the adverse socio-economic and environmental impacts of human induced climate change, including the erratic and decreasing water supply caused by receding glaciers. Besides their on-going response to climate change, economists, anthropologists, and environmentalists have been studying mountain communities as models of how to sustainably manage natural resources with minimal intervention by ...
From biographical disruption to biographical construction of a hybrid identity: a qualitative study of the impact of antiretroviral treatment on the life of HIV/AIDS-patients in South Africa. University of Antwerp
The role of European cultural institutions in the circulation of European cinema and the development of Chilean film culture (1955-1989) (ECICH). University of Antwerp
Choreographies of Precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin. KU Leuven
In her influential article on “Cultural Entrepreneurialism: On the changing Relationship between the Arts, Culture and Employment” (2003), Andrea Ellmeier observes that in the post-Fordist work regime, artists, along with all creative workers, have become entrepreneurial individuals who work anywhere and anytime in exchange for low wages or immaterial income. In that context, Isabell Lorey introduces the idea that precarization can be defined ...