Projects
What are we buying into?: A holistic empirical analysis of the production, circulation and reception of discourses on ethical consumption, with a focus on de-politicisation. University of Antwerp
The Truth in the Tooth: Reconstructing and Comparing Human Life Histories in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
within the archaeological field. Their application to human remains
has revolutionised our understanding of the diets and migration
patterns of past populations, especially those dating to the European
Mesolithic and Neolithic, where no written record is available.
However, methodologies are confined to certain limiting parameters.
Most ...
Product quality and governance in the making of the consumer society: selling meat in late- and post-corporative Brussels (1770- 1860) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Recent approaches emphasize the role of governance in providing
the necessary context for a consumer society to take shape. This study contributes to this debate by examining the regulation of a highly degradable, insecure, and potentially dangerous commodity such as meat in the 1770-1860 period of rapid economic, political and urban transition. Examining governance ...
Atrial septal defect: evaluation of the therapeutic approach in Belgium through a national database of congenital heart disease. KU Leuven
The textile industry in Roman Egypt Vrije Universiteit Brussel
VR for Social Change? The efficacy and acceptance of VR experiences for prosocial purposes. University of Antwerp
''For happy is he who speaks to listening ears’: writing and reading paraenetic poetry in Late Byzantium (1204-1453)'. Ghent University
This research project aims to investigate medieval Greek paraenetic poetry in the Palaiologan Period (1204-1453), through an in-depth study of its socio-cultural and literary relevance, its readers, and its connection to monastic and non-monastic environments. It seeks to understand its Sitz im Leben and the transformative potential of such literature in late Byzantine ethical and moral thought. This project will be the first to create a ...
When climate change enters domestic life: Ethnographic study of gender and U+201CgreenU+201D reproductive labour. Ghent University
The urgency and severity of the environmental crisis are leading a growing number of people to adopt eco-friendly practices. However, a trip to the package-free store or tending a vegetable garden requires some adjustments in the household. The goal of this project is to understand how environmental concerns and practices both impact and are mediated by reproductive labour and its gender dynamics in everyday family life. Reproductive labour ...
Reassembling civil society: Participation as a hybrid collective. Ghent University
Recently, the classic idea of civil society seems outdated, as citizens increasingly participate in hybrid contexts that mingle roles and rationalities of civil society, state, market, and private life. To understand this new condition, this research project will develop a new conceptual framework and take an innovative methodological approach, looking at hybrid participation in a supermarket (consumer activism).