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Confidence In The Criminal Justice System: Does Experience Count? KU Leuven
Public confidence in the Criminal Justice System has been found to be relatively low compared to public confidence in many other institutions. This lack of confidence has been attributed, in part, to low public understanding of how the courts work. Greater experience with the justice system is often suggested as a way to increase confidence in its fairness, efficiency and effectiveness. In this article, therefore, we first explore the ...
Tiny Moments of Experimentation: Kairos in the Liminal Space Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A concert performance of music seems, at first sight, a non-experimental, well-prepared activity requiring considerable technical and instrumental skill, background knowledge of context and composition, rehearsal, and interpretational fidelity to a tradition. However, small gaps--possibilities for experimentation--emerge in the elaboration, preparation, and performance of a musician's act, in the background of the musician's world of highly ...
A Popular-Theological Anthropology of Bayani: Liminal Unity of Overseas Filipino Workers in their Expression of Love as Sacrifice KU Leuven
The article conceptualizes a popular-theological anthropology of bayani (hero/patriot) in the context of Overseas Filipino Workers’ (OFWs) sacrifices and difficulties abroad. It shows the parallelism between Filipino popular religiosity (e.g. Hesus Nazareno and Santo Entierro) based on the pasyon narrative and the Filipino labor migrant experiences of their vulnerabilities brought by practical paradoxes to give love to their left-behind families ...
Protecting Victims of Disappearances Committed by Organised Criminal Groups: State Responsibility in International Human Rights Law and the Experiences of Human Rights Practitioners in Mexico. KU Leuven
In this thesis, I explore the protective capacity of International Human Rights Law (IHRL) vis-à-vis victims of disappearances committed by organised criminal groups (OCG), and their relatives. To do so, I combine doctrinal legal research with qualitative research on the particular situation of disappearances in the context of the so-called 'war on drugs' in Mexico and the experiences of human rights practitioners engaged with this topic. My ...
Crime and order, criminal justice experiences et desistance Ghent University
Dative experiencers with nominal predicates in Romanian : a synchronic and diachronic study Ghent University
Using Liminality and Subjunctivity to Better Understand How Patients With Cancer Experience Uncertainty Throughout Their Illness Trajectory KU Leuven
Uncertainty is a central theme in the illness experiences of older cancer patients throughout their illness trajectory. Mishel's popular theory on uncertainty during illness approaches uncertainty as an outcome and is characterized by the patient's inability to find meaning in illness events. This study used the concepts of liminality and subjunctivity to explore uncertainty throughout the illness trajectory of cancer patients. We interviewed 18 ...
Men, mines and masculinities: the lives and practices of artisanal miners in Lwambo (Katanga province, DR Congo) KU Leuven
This dissertation deals with the phenomenon of artisanal mining in Katanga, the southeast province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the course of the past decade, thousands of people have moved to the Katangese mining areas with the aim of finding new sources of income and developing new strategies to be able to cope with the continuing economic depression in their country. Making use of simple tools such as shovels and pickaxes, ...