Projects
Civil society in late medieval and early modern Mechelen. The development and function of urban club life, 1400-1800 University of Antwerp
Civil Society, Organised Labour & Social Inequality in Advanced Democracies. University of Antwerp
Why Looking South? European Civil Society Towards Southern European Dictatorships in a Globalizing World (1950s-early 1970s). KU Leuven
Universalism vs. particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations. Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch between cooperation and competition (1978-2008). University of Antwerp
Succesfully mainstreaming gender in Eu development cooperation and the role of the EU, the partner country and civil society. a best and worst ases analysis. Ghent University
The research seeks to which factors contribute to successful gender mainstreaming of EU development aid by analysing best and worst-case practices. The first hypothesis focuses on factors related to the preferences and intrests of the EU; the second hypothesis concentrates on internal political and goverance factors in the partner wountry; and the third hypothesis expolres the role of civil society.
Universalism vs. particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations. Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch between cooperation and competition (1978-2008). University of Antwerp
Penal politics, the state, civil society and the market: examining the origin, scale and breadth of privatisation across the criminal justice systems in Belgium and France. Ghent University
Over the past decades, neo-liberal ‘minimal state’ governments have increasingly looked towards private enterprise and market-oriented penal reforms for solutions to a wide range of criminal justice issues. These developments have attracted much scholarly attention in the Anglosphere. However, so far few comprehensive criminological studies have empirically and theoretically addressed the more recent and undeniable drive towards privatisation ...
Constructing the moral and political (ir)responsibilities towards Syrian and Afghan refugees. A sociological discourse analysis on how Belgian media, the public, civil society and policy have responded to refugee demands. University of Antwerp
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Recently, the classic idea of civil society seems outdated, as citizens increasingly participate in hybrid contexts that mingle roles and rationalities of civil society, state, market, and private life.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).