Projects
The Persuasive Power of Protest. An Experimental Study of the Effect of Protest Coverage on Citizens and Political Elites. University of Antwerp
Provocative Protest. How protest sparks debate and expands the scope of conflict (PROVOKE). University of Antwerp
Rebooting protest policing? Understanding technology-informed protest management practices by command post operators KU Leuven
The use of internet sources by protesters has several implications for public order policing, as mobilisations scale up more quickly and the crowds are more likely to take the form of non-hierarchical structures and unstable relations (Tarafdar & Ray, 2021). Partly in response to these changes, the police have adopted technologies to try and ‘reboot’ their public order policing: CCTV, body-worn cameras, drones, facial recognition ...
Mechanisms of Protest. The Micro-Level Foundations of Individual Protest Participation. University of Antwerp
Aesthetic regimes, social characteristics of visual artists, and cultural consecration: A diachronic sociological analysis of artists’ subsidies between 1965 and 1999 in Flanders Ghent University
We offer a historical-sociological analysis that looks into how characteristics of art and artists are associated with receiving state support. Using visual artists’ applications for subsidies between 1965 and 1999 we can relate social characteristics of artists and aesthetic dimensions of their work to subsidies and frame these relationships historically in the political and artistic context.