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Gender, Climate Change and Natural Resource Management

Vacancy Post-doctoral Researcher on Sovereignty and Aesthetics Politics

You will join the Sovereign Performance project, which is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. The project will grow into a team of five post-docs and is coordinated by Bart Klem

New Publication:Land Under Siege: Militarized Capitalism and Urban Land Dispossession in the City of Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

This article investigates the relationship between militarization and land grabbing in the context of rapid urbanization and protracted violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo

New Publication: Contextual Note on the Ebola Bundibugyo Outbreak in Ituri (2026)

This note provides contextual background on the Ituri province, currently affected by an Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak.

Event: Building Capacities: “Washout”: Film Showing and Global South-North Conversations on the Politics of Land, Resistance and Solidarity

July 7, 2026
13:30–16:00
Stadsacademie / Green Office Gent / Green Hub, Ghent University
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 31, 9000 Ghent
Lunch will be provided at 12:30 (same venue).

Event: Policy Roundtable Advancing integrated climate–security responses: the role of local institutions, youth, and gender in flood-prone western Burundi

27 May 2026
14.00-15.30
Venue: Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU, Belliardstraat 65, 1040 Brussels

New Publication: The politics of potentiality: Responsible sourcing, ASM formalization and future making in the DRC’s cobalt mines

The DRC’s cobalt has become a spear point of global policies and narratives envisioning sustainable futures.

CRG Book Launches 23: Contested States in War and Law

Date: June 2, 2026 (Tuesday)

Time: 11:00–12:30

Venue: Room 3.1 (3rd Floor), Technicum 1, UFO Campus, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41