Political contention over food scarcity during World War I gave rise to the “Profiteering Acts”. In doing so, stately actors tried to preserve their monopoly of punishment by integrating popular anger towards ...read more
In 1992 I carried out fieldwork in Central Kenya, collecting Gikuyu oral narratives and discussing their historical relations to gender-identity and morality with the performers. Eventually this resulted in my ...read more
Between 1996 and 2002 I was involved in a postdoctoral project on Angola, studying the life histories of refugees living in Namibia as they recounted how political legitimacy had been ...read more
This short-term project evaluates Zanzu.be, the multilingual website (14 languages) of Sensoa vzw, the Flemish expertise center for sexual health. The website offers comprehensive basic information for new entrants, asylum ...read more
My current research involves an ethnographic analysis of women's agency (in Dutch 'vrouwenkracht') in a broad arena of spirituality practices through to coaching and personal growth, in Belgium, the Netherlands, ...read more
SHIP is an ”Internationalisation in the Humanities project” aimed at a comparative history of health and disease in European port cities, 1850-1950. Port cities in the past acted as ‘gateways ...read more
COURAGE (Cultural opposition. Understanding the cultural heritage of dissent in the former socialist countries) is a three-year international research project funded by Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and ...read more
This research project is a joined effort of the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren and Ghent University, committed to mapping human occupation and land use from the Late Iron Age to ...read more
This study envisages an international book publication approaching various traditions of materiality in different parts of the world as hybrid creations. The cultural dynamics are determined by the art of ...read more