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Towards the Emergence of Urban Asylum Regimes: Policies, Approaches and Consequences of the Reception of Refugees in European and US American Cities Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Geography

Forced migration is a global phenomenon, which is politically regulated on supranational and national levels. However, it is the city where the arrival, accommodation and integration of refugees predominantly take place. Whereas current research explores the failures of nation-states to address the needs of refugees and to provide solutions to the challenges of housing and integration, there is a lack of scholarship on how urban policies will be ...

Deradicalising the city. Understanding the impact of urban security policies on notions of connectedness, (in)security and belonging KU Leuven

Nadia Fadil

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Geography and Tourism

This research focuses on the everyday impact of the reconfiguration of urban policy making and security through the lens of deradicalization. The main questions are: How do civil society and local residents relate to these policy changes? How do these policies of deradicalization and the experience of being surveilled impact upon notions of trust, connectedness, (in)security, and belonging? Firstly, I aim to understand the role and engagement ...

Urban ecosystem services: while plants do their job, do policies do theirs? Hasselt University

Jaco VANGRONSVELD

Environmental Economics, Centre for Government and Law, Environmental Biology

Despite our increased understanding of issues such as biodiversity loss and air pollution, trends are still negative, implying that new approaches are needed. Multi-actor governance refers to decision making processes by which the use of common goods and services are decided upon by a broad range of stakeholders and societal actors, operating with the state. The governance of ecosystem services faces various challenges due to the specificities ...

The dynamics of language policies in two urban secondary schools in post-monolingual Flanders Ghent University

Piet Van Avermaet

Department of Linguistics

The aim of the proposed research project is to explore the localised ways in which teachers, students and school management staffs handle, negotiate and navigate migrant-background studentsU+2019 multilingual repertoires in a post-monolingual societal condition. Ethnographic research using a variety of qualitative methods will be conducted in two matched urban secondary schools
which contrast in their pursued language policies.

Renewable Energy SOlutions for URban communities based on Circular Economy policies and Dc backbones Ghent University

Jan Desmet

Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering

CHALLENGE The increase of renewable energy goes hand in hand with a higher demand for materials like lithium, aluminium and copper. Reports urge for an energy transition with energy systems that are more sustainable, based on circular economy strategies. SOLUTION The aim of RE/SOURCED is to design and demonstrate a circular mid-scale and self-sufficient energy system in an urban environment. The site consists of (social) family houses, ...

From urban waste to circular cities: the socio-technical politics of urban transitions. Ghent University

Erik Paredis

Department of Political Sciences

The development or the circular economy can be described as a U+201Csociotechnical imaginaryU+201D, a collective reimagining of social order, reflected in the design of scientific and technological projects and the political goals and strategies that accompany them. This project has the ambition to investigate in several cities how this imaginary takes shape in U+201Cthe circular cityU+201D, which actors and choices become dominant in that ...

Contention. Urban petitions and communal politics in late medieval Europe KU Leuven

Jelle Haemers

Medieval History, Leuven

This project offers an innovative perspective on medieval insurgency. Instead of considering protestors as rebels inclined to violence, as scholarship has often done in the past, this project sees them as creative voices calling for change and good governance from the authorities. For far too long the history of protest in preindustrial Europe and the Middle East has been a violent narrative that dismissed the collective actions of citizens as ...

Migration and the Politics of Urban Citizenship: Contrasting Configurations of Power. University of Antwerp

Stijn Oosterlynck

Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

This research project analyzes how post-war migrants are conceived as citizens in urban settings. It compares four Belgian cities (Ghent, Antwerp, Liège, Charleroi) over two different time periods (1974-1993; 1993-2012). The first goal of the research is to shed light on the range of prevailing citizenship definitions. Do they conceive citizenship as a formal status, with substantive entitlements attached to it, or is citizenship more commonly ...

Migration and the Politics of Urban Citizenship: a Comparative Analysis of Four Belgian Cities (1974-2012). University of Antwerp