PhD candidate at @crg_crg | working on popular mobilization, youth and urban peripheries in eastern DRC
Brussels, Belgium
Joined February 2014
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Colleagues & I just published a paper @Global_Policy on the linkages btw (post-)conflict decentralisation policies & violent competition for crafting & securing public authority in DR Congo 🇨🇩👇 @KarenBscher @JeroenCuvelier @GodefroidMuzal1 @ERwakira
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Join the Palestinian Solidarity Network's teachout on Palestine at the UFO @ugent from 12h-15h this Friday 20/10 during the Global strike. 📢✊🏽 Consider skipping work/classes to attend. Share the poster & inform others. 🔄 The time for action is now. 🇵🇸
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Big day for CRG yesterday with the launch of the Insecure Livelihoods Fellowship programme in Bukavu. For the next six months 10 Congolese researchers will get a tailored mentorship programme to guide their research
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Happy to have this out (open access), in the Strategic Review for Southern Africa: "Russian influence, anti-Western sentiments and African agency: The struggle for influence in the Democratic Republic of Congo" upjournals.up.ac.za/index.ph… #DRC #Russia
Fascinating analysis by @KristofTiteca on Russian influence in the DRC, just published in the Strategic Review for Southern Africa. Freely accessible here 👇
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One of the things I enjoyed most during my PhD research was witnessing some of my interlocutors translating their lives (and my research) into music. I am glad the article is finally out in Ethnography.
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A stellar monograph turned into a book and Robin Thiers is presenting it next week at our department! Will there be free bananas? 🍌🍌🍌
Dive into captivating tales of the #postplantation! Join @robin_thiers in conversation with @jeroen_adam and Patricio Abinales (@UHMAsianStudies) on June 21, 10-11am CEST/ 4-5pm PHT at our upcoming hybrid #CRGBookLaunch, co-organised with Ateneo de Manila #Philippinebananas (1/3)
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OPPORTUNITÉ pour cherhcheur. se.s 🇨🇩! Contribuez à notre série Insecure Livelihoods (ILS). 8 bourses de 6 mois, dans le cadre du programme Insecure Livelihoods Fellowship (ILF) / projet de recherche "Analyse des conflits à l’est de la RDC" financé par la GIZ (ProPaix II)
Thanks to all who made it for the thought-provoking questions!
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We got to talk about our recently published volume Rebellious Riots with @emmaelfversson and @kieranmitton in Ghent today and it was a great conversation! Thanks to all who came and my fellow editor @KarenBscher of course.
Next Tuesday, don't forget!
📚 Make sure not to miss the upcoming #CRGBookLaunch in Ghent (TUE, 30 May, 11-13h) where our @KarenBscher and @SamKnkn, together with co-authors @emmaelfversson and @kieranmitton, will present their new volume Rebellious Riots: Entangled Geographies of Contention in Africa (1/2)
On May 30, @KarenBscher and I present our new volume on the entanglements between protests and armed conflict! In conversation with contributors @emmaelfversson and @kieranmitton, we will talk about the ways in which different forms of contention come together.
We are extremely happy with the result! Take a look here: brill.com/display/title/6431…
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Narratives about the debt crisis in Global South countries typically present it as a technical issue or the fault of “corrupt” or “incompetent” governments.
This intentionally erases colonialism in creating Global South debt, & how it is utilised as a form of neo-colonialism.
On this day in 1955, the Bandung conference ended, an important moment in the making of a shared postcolonial consciousness. Amid narratives of a renewed Cold War, let's remember how nations in the Global South have since long resisted being taken in by one side or another.
Dat er een pro-Russisch sentiment leeft in Afrikaanse landen heeft niet enkel te maken met de vraag of Rusland zozeer een geloofwaardig verhaal heeft te vertellen op het continent. 1/
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De torenhoge schulden waarmee vele Afrikaase landen zitten sinds het IMF hen SAPs oplegde en die de ongelijkheid vergrootten zijn niet vergeten en evenmin kwijtgescholden. De steun voor Rusland weerspiegelt misschien het meest van al wel een kritiek op het Westen.