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
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 ...
What explains socio-economic differences in health behaviour? Vaccination of children. University of Antwerp
What explains socio-economic differences in health behaviour? Vaccination of children. University of Antwerp
Governing Postgenomic Life: wearable devices and the practices of policymaking and regulation KU Leuven
This dissertation on “infrastructuring Digital Health Technologies” draws on science and technology, Foucauldian, and socio-legal studies to examine the attempts to govern ‘medical’ digital health technologies – encompassing wearables, big data platforms, Electronic Health Records, Artificial Intelligence, and mhealth - within EU and US health-policymaking practices. By investigating the way these technologies have been contested within ...
Container ports as local-global legal actors: a comparative socio-legal analysis of five of the largest container ports in the world at the time of pandemic, climatic, and social challenges. University of Antwerp
Family reunification of Turkish migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands: Comparing rights perceptions and strategies in light of evolving policies. Ghent University
What do Turkish migrants think of family reunification procedures? Which strategies do they employ to be joined by their family members? How do they cope with changing policies? Classical legal research on family reunification does not take migrants’ perspectives into account, whereas in sociological research, laws and policies play only a marginal role. This socio-legal study adopts the perspective of the migrant ‘users’ of laws and ...