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Do maps make geography? Part 2: Post-Katrina New Orleans, post-foreclosure Cleveland and neoliberal urbanism KU Leuven
A map indicating declining or shrinking neighborhoods may lead to the withholding of not only city services, but also mortgage loans. Maps used in these strategies have a performative function: they are either used to prescribe decline or they have the effect of furthering decline by marking neighborhoods as places “where houses have little or no value”, that are “dying”, “to be depopulated” or “distressed”. In addition to the two cases ...
Do maps make geography? Part 1: Redlining, planned shrinkage, and the places of decline KU Leuven
Maps are not only representations of the world, they also have the ability to change the way we think about and act upon places depicted in those maps. This paper argues that maps may have descriptive as well as prescriptive and performative qualities, meaning that mapping contributes to the making of geography. Then, in a way, the map becomes the vehicle to study power/knowledge re/production in action. I do this by looking at the ideology ...
Characterization of microbial communities in floral nectar and assessing their impact on nectar chemistry and performance of biological control agents of pest insects. KU Leuven
Biological control exploiting natural enemies such as predatory insects (i.e. insects feeding upon other insects) and parasitoids (i.e. insects that lay eggs on or in other insects, eventually killing them) has become increasingly important in insect pest management. However, success of biological control involving predators and parasitoids largely depends on carbohydrate food availability, because most of these biocontrol agents depend in their ...