Projects
Boundaries Across Borders: A Comparative Cultural Sociology of the Millennial Professional-Managerial Class in Canada, Belgium, and the United States KU Leuven
The project aims to produce a comparative cultural sociological study of the millennial professional-managerial class in Canada, Belgium, and the U.S. More specifically, I will conduct interviews with professionals and managers based in Toronto, Brussels, and New York City – three “global cities,” with a reputation of attracting young expressivist cosmopolitans – in order to identify:
(1) The types, prevalence, and strength of the ...
Towards a cultural sociology of sustainable citizenship: Understanding different ways of crafting sustainable citizenship through cultural repertoires. University of Antwerp
Towards a Sociology of Hope: Transition Narratives and Interaction Rituals in the Climate Justice Movement. University of Antwerp
Women's employment and divorce: untangling causes and consequences University of Antwerp
Women's employment and divorce: untangling causes and consequences. University of Antwerp
Network for comparative research on innovative detention policies and practices Vrije Universiteit Brussel
research focuses on prisons and other detention facilities such as forensic hospitals. They all study
detention facilities from a different perspective: penology, law, social psychology, architecture,
anthropology and sociology. In addition, they are located in different regions: Belgium (Flanders, Wallonia
and ...
In-between Identities: generation 1.5 in Moroccan immigrants’ literature in Spain Ghent University
In recent years, migration has become one of the defining features and preoccupations of European societies and a prominent literary theme. During the 1970s and 1980s, Spain experienced a wave of Moroccan migration that peaked at the beginning of the 1990s. Representations of Moroccan immigrants in Spanish media and literature have tended to be negative, shaped by a long history of tension between the two countries going back to al-Andalus, ...
In-between Identities: generation 1.5 in Moroccan immigrants' literature in Spain. University of Antwerp
Institutional individualism: A study of socialization in contemporary individualistic culture KU Leuven
This proposal introduces a cultural sociological view on individualism grounded in the well-established sociological tradition of the later Durkheim (1898), Parsons (2007), Bell (1979), Bellah (1985), Meyer (2010) etc. In contrast with individualization theories (Beck & Beck-Gernsheim 2002; Giddens 1999; Bauman 2001; 2004) claiming that society is losing ground to the autonomous individual, this approach does not present an atomistic view ...