Projects
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
Understanding urban protest in a context of war: an ethnographic analysis of ‘urban political terrains’ in Eastern DRC Ghent University
"First we go viral, then we sway the public": How Protest Affects Public Opinion in the Hybrid Media System. University of Antwerp
Boy, that escalated quickly: protest and the contagious nature of scope expansion. University of Antwerp
The Political Agenda-Setting Power of Protest. A Comparative Analysis in Five European Countries. University of Antwerp
Tracing the Roots of Resistance: Critical Communities and the Protest against Genetically Modified Organisms in Belgium, The Netherlands and France Ghent University
Understanding urban protest in a context of war: An ethnographic analysis of ‘urban political terrains’ in Eastern DRC. Ghent University
Tracing the Roots of Resistance: Critical Communities and the Protest against Genetically Modified Organisms in Belgium, The Netherlands and France Ghent University
The aim of this project is to uncover the historical roots of the anti-GMO movement in Belgium, The Netherlands and France. By using archival sources and oral history, this research hopes to explain how in the eighties, a “critical community” of thinkers and activists succeeded in mobilizing a vast network of NGO’s opposed to the genetic modification of crops.