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Elective egg freezing and women's emancipation Ghent University
Routes to emancipation in East Africa Ghent University
Slaves, ex-slaves, and their descendants have taken multiple and complex routes toward emancipation in East Africa. Their experiences varied regionally, with status contests most clearly traceable in those areas where slavery had been most concentrated, especially on the coast. As scholars have established, the legal abolition of slavery did not lead directly to emancipation in East Africa, but it contributed to the quick erosion of ...
The Project of Property as Emancipation. A Community Land Trust in Brussels KU Leuven
On the background of growing privatisation of resources, of the incapacity of both private and public forms of arrangements to protect them, other forms of governing the resources and building welfare are emerging. This dissertation questions the emancipatory role of property under the current circumstances: under which conditions can property be emancipatory? My hypothesis is that the different ways of owning currently being experimented by ...
Paradigms of design and deep readings. The creative emancipation of critical building analysis KU Leuven
Women's emancipation, but what about men? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Universal Fetishism? Emancipation and Race in Magnus Hirschfeld’s 1930 Sexological Visual Atlas KU Leuven
The German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was both an important advocate for the public acceptance of sexual variety as well as one of the first and most influential theorizers in the field of “deviant” sexual identities and behaviors. This paper engages with the intriguing kaleidoscopic visual exposition of Hirschfeld’s sexological worldview in the visual atlas or Bilderteil (1930), part of his magnum opus Geschlechtskunde. On the ...
The Emancipation of Animals Will Not Be Built On Racism Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The past decades Europe witnessed the politicization of ritual slaughter according to Jewish and Islamic rites. While a law banning ritual slaughter comes into effect in September 2019 in Flanders and Wallonia, the Brussels Capital Region is still enmeshed in heated discussions. The debate is generally depicted as a struggle between religious freedom and animal rights, obfuscating the possible entanglements with racialization. This chapter ...
Revisiting Rancière’s Concept of Intellectual Emancipation in Vocational Educational and Training Practices KU Leuven
The paper discusses the emancipatory potential of Uruguayan Vocational Educational and Training (VET) practices, usually associated with job discourses, skills and training. In doing so, we revisit Rancière’s work concerning intellectual emancipation to provide us with a guide to connect with the phenomena studied, as a lens to look at and to problematize emancipation in concrete practices on a heuristic level.Thus, the paper is ...
A Theory of Insurgent Citizenship: Democratic Action Between Emancipation and Transformation KU Leuven
The premise of this project is the observation that classical accounts of citizenship - focusing on citizenship as a status or habitus - fail to take note of political actors that appropriate the language of citizenship outside of the dominant institutions of citizenship. This is why this project will take cue from Étienne Balibar and Engin Isin: according to these philosophers, we should stop thinking of citizenship as a status that is (or is ...