Projects
Current title: Political emancipation through language and cultural education. Critical pedagogical research into the rhetoric of cultural literacy mediated by cultural institutions and cultural policy at the Flemish, Belgian and European level. Ghent University
This research conducts 3 integrated research tracks to investigate cultural literacy projects - issued at the Flemish, Belgian and European policy level: (1) conceptual study into cultural literacy; (2) a crosssectional analysis of the rhetoric of political emancipation in cultural policies; (3) field research inquiring
how cultural institutions (theatres, libraries, museums, …) translate emancipatory cultural knowledge, defined at ...
Closing the gap a little ... Social emancipation through school life Ghent University
Closing the gap a little ... social emancipation be via school life Schools and classes in all respects increasingly diverse. The challenges to work gedifferenteerder are therefore increasing. In this project the aim is to get the critical success factors of effective and differentiated work efficiently after. In addition, it is intended to permanently anchor the insights gained from this project. Flemish Government - Ministry of Education
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 ...
Male feminism: the participation of men in womenU+2019s emancipation movements in Belgium, France and the Netherlands (1960-1990). Ghent University
The present study aims to investigate if Belgian, French and Dutch feminist groups of the 1960s, 70s and 80s set up coalitions with men with regard to mobilization for the legalisation of abortion and contraception, the critique of power relations and labor divisions within marriage and the prevention of violence against women. Both oral and written sources will be used (interviews, archives, feminist press and literature).
Cross-cultural comparative study of processes of emancipation of deaf communities in Sweden, Flanders and Cameroon Ghent University
This project tends to compare identity dynamics (see Pinxten, Verstraete & Longman, 2004) in different deaf
communities in an effort to provide a critical perspective on the cultural construction of the notions of deaf
culture and deaf identity currently being used in deaf studies. On a practical level, worldwide and especially in
developing countries, there is a strong need for deaf people to achieve their human, ...
The emancipatory elasticity of islam: the relation between divine authority, cultural authenticity, and human emancipation in the political discourse of Egyptian muslim intellectuals Ghent University
My doctoral dissertation encompasses an inquiry into the current politicization of Islam, through the study of the role of authority, authenticity, and emancipation in the contemporary discourse of Muslim intellectuals in Egypt. I disclose theh political-semiotic process, a phenomenon which turns traditional, religious signs into vehicles for modern meanings, such as human rights, secularisation, democracy, and emancipation.