Projects
MEXICAN NON-FICTION: ANALYSIS OF URGENT NARRATIVES OF THE CONTEMPORARY CRÓNICA AND STUDY OF THE RECEPTION AND TRANSLATION OF THE WORKS OF CHRONICLERS JUAN VILLORO AND FERNANDA MELCHOR KU Leuven
Over the last 30 years, Mexico has been experiencing social phenomena and natural disasters that have placed an international focus on its internal situation. These events are recounted by many Mexican writers who rework and reshape each issue from their different perspectives to create a unique product named crónica. The crónica is a hybrid literary product that combines essay and reportage, and it is arguably one of the least studied ...
Challenging Crossroads: A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Intersections of Race, Gender, Class, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Ensuing Discursive Counterreactions in Female Apartheid Narratives Ghent University
Between 1948 and 1994, the National Party installed the apartheid regime in South Africa, based on the communicating vessels of racism and sexism, which permeated the entire country and its inhabitants. Its discriminatory effects were not only tangible for darker skinned people, but also for women, people of the lower class, ethnic minority groups and persons with a sexual orientation diverging from the heteronormative ideal. When two or more ...
Surfacing the submarine myth. An intermedial, myth-critical and cultural-critical analysis of submarine narratives KU Leuven
This project will critically examine the neglected genre of submarine fiction (in literary and visual media) in order to shed new light on the entanglement of political and cultural imaginaries. As soon as the submarine was first introduced as a weapon of war, it became the object of mystification, not in the least because of its unique ability to remain invisible under water and attack out of the blue. Fiction has contributed to what can be ...
Surfacing the submarine myth. An intermedial, myth-critical and cultural-critical analysis of submarine narratives KU Leuven
Victims’ narratives of the Chilean military dictatorship: has justice been done? An analysis of victim participation, needs and perceptions of justice in the aftermath of the dictatorship. Ghent University
Although Chile is currently democratic, the effects of the military dictatorship are still present in society. This research analyses the ways in which victims of the dictatorship (1973-1990), participated in and perceived the post-1990 justice process. How were they involved? What were their expectations, needs and experiences? In order to answer these questions, a literature review, document analysis of truth commissions and court cases, ...
Narratives of truth in Cassirer and Heidegger: A philosophical analysis of the 'post-truth era' KU Leuven
While many agree that the Western world has recently entered a 'post-truth era', the causes and implications of this phenomenon are still subject of a fierce debate. Over the last year, commentators from various fields have aptly described the politics of developing and disseminating post-truth claims, the journalistic deontology for covering post-truth claims, and the human psychology of the public processing post-truth claims. Yet, such ...
Human and Non-human Interaction in Oral Narratives: Ecocritical analyses of Oromo Fables Ghent University
This project approaches Oromo oral fables from Ethiopia from different ecocritical perspectives. In particular, we aim to critically question the notions of anthropomorphism and limitrophes through analyses of the interaction between human and non-human characters. Fables offer a unique opportunity to do so, and the study can be an important contribution to debates on Oromo oral literature, ecocritical analysis and zoopoetics.
Negotiating the making of new types of parents, families, and family relations: an empirically informed normative analysis Ghent University
Connection websites, speed dating events and advertisements offer new ways of family creation for people looking for donor sperm or eggs or for co-parents for their future children. Users of these media make their own arrangements concerning conception and upbringing of children and can come to many different arrangements. This study will provide insight into the structure of these new families and the different types of co-parents that are ...
Negotiating the making of new types of families, parents and family relations: a normative and empirical analysis Ghent University
Alternative modes for family creation, e.g. connection websites for people searching gametes or co-parents, offer stakeholders the opportunity to set new conditions and make their own arrangements concerning conception and upbringing. This study will uncover the stakeholders’ moral reasoning (e.g. criteria for parenthood) and the moral structure of these new families, and
develop new concepts of parenthood with related ...