Projects
Borderland nobility: between France and the Netherlands (1470-1660). KU Leuven
Politeness strategies in service encounters. A cross-linguistic study in Flanders, Wallonia and France. University of Antwerp
THE IMPACT OF DEPOPULATION ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN EUROPE. A PILOT STUDY INÂ FRANCE, CZECH REPUBLIC AND POLAND. KU Leuven
The scientification of the bureau. Science, technology and ideology at the office in belgium, the Netherlands and France (1918-1968). KU Leuven
Sedimentation and deformation in a wrench tectonic context. The Lower Palaeozoic Plougastel Formation: the key to a better understanding of Variscan geodynamics in the Central Armorican domain, Brittany, France. KU Leuven
Friendship across divides. A literary exploration of friendship and equality in seventeenth-century France Ghent University
All subjects ‘of whatever state or quality’ should ‘live together peacefully as friends’: the Edict of Nantes (1598) not only establishes religious tolerance, it calls for friendship among non-peers. Correspondences and treatises on friendship show how social interaction in absolutist France was profoundly changing: new court and salon societies bring together men and women, king and subordinates, moralists and libertines. Yet, literary ...
The differential impact of real estate financialization on the political economies of Germany and France KU Leuven
Following the Global Recession of 2007-2008, the financialization of real estate has become a well studied research topic in advanced, capitalist societies and emerging economies. Yet, since financialization is a variegated and path-dependent process, local and national varieties between real estate financialization persist. This research project focuses on the financialization of real estate in Germany and France, two Continental European ...
Mayors and legitimacy in WW I. The mayor as feeder, protector and representative in occupied and liberated Belgium and France (1914-1921). Ghent University
This research project focuses on the role of mayors in occupied and liberated Belgium and France (1914-1921), a topic largely ignored by historiography. As a mediator between different social groups and other powerbrokers (notably the occupier) the mayor is a highly suitable figure to research the changing relationships of power caused by the occupation during WW I. This is even more relevant, because the importance of the local governmental ...
Policy Interventions for the Private Rental Sector in Chinese Megacities based on Empirical Studies from the Netherlands, Germany, and France KU Leuven
A well-operating private rental housing market is a necessity for postindustrial economies worldwide, particularly for residents in megacities. However, financialized housing markets led to increasing difficulties to realize housing property ownership for both the local young generation and newcomers which we called ‘Generation rent’. Taking Shanghai as an example, a 60 square meters apartment downtown is worth approximately ninety-eight ...