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New Publication: Hindu Community in Bangladesh: Between Identity and Marginality

This chapter examines the minoritisation of Bangladesh Hindus through communal violence and politics of land appropriation.

CRG Book Launches 22: Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo by Vjosa Musliu

Pieter Troch (UGent, GCSEES) in conversation with Vjosa Musliu (VUB)
When: 12 May 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 16:00–17:30 CET
Where: 3rd Floor, John Vincke Room, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, Ghent University

CRG Book Launches 21: Le plus grand des maux: Sociologie des guerres civiles by Gilles Dorronsoro.

Koen Vlassenroot (CRG) in conversation with Gilles Dorronsoro (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
May 5, 2026 ( Tue)
11:00-12:30

EVENT: Social Movements and the Law: Global South–North Conversations on Law, Resistance, and Justice

This event brings together voices from the Global South and the Global North to explore how communities and legal advocates confront power, both within and beyond formal legal systems.

New Publication: Land to the tiller? Agroecology and the blueprint of dispossession and resistance at the agricultural frontier in Argentina

Agroecology has quickly become a buzzword in academia and we argue that scholarship is divided between a narrow, technical approach and a broader approach that considers the societal structures that help shape it.

Closing Workshop: The Politics of Hidden Urbanisation amidst conflict and forced displacement in the DRC

Date: March 26, 2026 ( Thu)

Time: 10:00- 16:00 CET

Venue: Rm. 301, 3rd Floor, Technicum 1 Bldg., UFO Campus, Ghent University

New Publication: Land to the tiller? Agroecology and the blueprint of dispossession and resistance at the agricultural frontier in Argentina

Agroecology has often been touted as one of the alternatives to an inherently unsustainable agricultural industry dominated by monocultures and pesticides.

Publication: Bootstrapping sovereignty: the placeholder dynamics of contested states from identity documents to international courts

These placeholder dynamics help explain how attributions of sovereignty simultaneously challenge, mimic, and rearticulate the statist international (dis)order.

New Publication: Contesting the capital: Sheger and the spatial politics of nation building

This article examines Sheger City within Ethiopia’s contested nation-building trajectory, arguing that capital-adjacent urban restructuring has become a strategic arena for negotiating competing national projects.