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Representations of Violence in Literature and Other Media
This doctoral school aims to critically reflect on the concept of violence and provide insight into its literary and media representations.
Dataset on political violence in Bangladesh
This project starts from a new dataset on political violence in Bangladesh. Based on four newspapers (one English, three Bengali) the project aims to map political violence in Bangladesh from 1991 to the present.
Creative Actions in Times of Political Crisis and COVID-19 Pandemic: Everyday Vitalities in Conflicted Communities in Mindanao, Southern Philippines
Drawn from the context of the conducted multi-sited two-year ethnography with the internally displaced Lumad ethnolinguistic groups in Manila and Mindanao, Southern Philippines also known as Lumad "bakwit" (evacuees) before and during the militarized lockdown and global COVID-19 pandemic, this Ph.D. research project provides a transdisciplinary, theoretical, methodological, and empirical narrative of the impact of the militarized pandemic in the Philippines on the internally displaced Lumad evacuees who politically act, resist, and speak out on issues such as human rights violations, environmental plunder of their ancestral domain, widespread state-sponsored impunity, and deprivation of social services.
Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID)
CRG is a key member of the Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID), which conducts interdisciplinary research to strengthen knowledge about how the governance of societies in impoverished, marginal and/or conflict-affected places actually functions.
Changing urban residency: Migration, temporary settlement and new urbanisms in Africa
This research project is focused on temporary migration and settlement in Angola, DRC and Zimbabwe and how, in specific cases, they both extend in time and become permanent, creating unforeseen new urbanisms.
Book project: Beyond Green Colonialism: Global Justice and the Geopolitics of Ecosocial Transitions
This book project consciously moves away from the ubiquitous just transition rhetoric, seeking to strengthen more meaningful concepts like green colonialism, global justice, and ecosocial transformation in the debate about Green New Deals and pathways out of the planetary polycrisis.
Authority Production & Justice Delivery through Conflict Mediation in Rural Bangladesh
Authority is the legitimate power (Weber, 1947) produced in different forms and several circumstances.
Agroecology and the Emergence of a New Societal Paradigm: a Comparative Case Study on Social Movements and Transitions
This project investigates how agroecology is manifested politically as an answer to a development paradigm of industrial agriculture and extractivism in both indigenous and peasant communities in Argentina.
Adolescent Autocracies: Pro-government student groups in resurging authoritarian regimes
Students and universities have traditionally been considered bastions of (democratic) resistance.
A Tale of Two Crises: A Computer-aided Textual Analysis of Online Discourses and Narratives of Security during the Mamasapano Clash (2015) and Marawi Siege (2017)
In this project that combines a historical background of literary representation, social media and digital technologies, digitized and online texts published in the Philippines from 2001 to 2020 will be analyzed.