Today's parliamentary democracy has a long history. During the Ancien Regime, representative institutions known as "Estates," "Diet", "Riksdag", "Parliament" or "Cortes" existed in many European countries. They were the counterparts ...read more
Crisis communication research has resulted in a set of evidence-based guidelines that describe how an organization should communicate with the public during a crisis. As such, organizations are recommended to ...read more
This research explores the core question of anthropology since its very outset: what does it mean to be human? It investigates how intellectuals in Arab countries have addressed the common ...read more
The political economies of the states of Southeast Europe after the Second World War were shaped by the doctrine of development. In the long term and from a global perspective, ...read more
Before the large scale use of fossil coal, charcoal was the most important fuel for many (proto)industrial activities, and I particular for the production of iron. Charcoal was produced in ...read more
This project analyzes the interactions between religion and cultural heritage in twentieth century Japan as a venue to investigate the legacy of imperialism in the construction of modern ideas and ...read more
This research project concerns the formation of Buddhist deity-invoking ritual practices in medieval China, focusing primarily on 7th–10th-century manuscripts and cave murals that have been discovered in the region of ...read more
This project focuses on the Ghent art world of the 1980s, an understudied part of art history. During this period, there was a clear motive towards placing Belgian art on ...read more
We live in a world that seems to have largely lost faith in politics and in the dialectic of history . While experienced differently depending on geographical location and socio-political ...read more
Video games have a reputation of being overly violent, sexist, and stereotyping. These connotations are the result of dominant hegemonic practices in the game industry, and while they are certainly ...read more