Projects
Renting a house in Seoul: Predatory homeownership as an outcome of neoliberal housing policies in Seoul. Could urban housing stocks be managed as “commons”? KU Leuven
The proper housing provision in times of fast urbanization has been a challenging issue for many cities worldwide. Cities have managed formal or informal resources to accommodate the influx of the population, which has also contributed to the economic growth of the cities. Although scholars and policymakers have emphasized the criticality of housing policies ensuring housing rights, many empirical studies conducted in modern cities show that ...
Deradicalising the city. Understanding the impact of urban security policies on notions of connectedness, (in)security and belonging KU Leuven
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 ...
Essays on the Economics of Energy and Urban Policies KU Leuven
The issues that come along with energy use and urbanisation are ever-changing. Policymakers therefore implement novel policy responses of which their effectiveness and consequences are not yet clear. However, policy interventions affect us all in our daily life and can greatly influence our wellbeing. It is thus of the utmost importance to acquire information through experience in order to improve policymaking. This dissertation provides such ...
Urban ecosystem services: while plants do their job, do policies do theirs? Hasselt University
The dynamics of language policies in two urban secondary schools in post-monolingual Flanders Ghent University
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 students’ 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
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
The development or the circular economy can be described as a “sociotechnical imaginary”, 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 “the circular city”, which actors and choices become dominant in that process, and how this ...
Contention. Urban petitions and communal politics in late medieval Europe KU Leuven
Sharp tongues. Contentious speech and urban politics in the late medieval Low Countries KU Leuven
This project offers an innovative perspective on medieval insurgency. An in-depth analysis of the 'illicit speech' of commoners will reveal whether the role of urban commoners in sustaining and spreading contentious beliefs was an essential one. Instead of considering protestors as violent rebels whose collective actions were harmful to political progress, as scholarship has often done in the past, this project sees citizens as creative ...