Author's Corner

Mohit Chandna | Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces

by Annemie Vandezande September 16, 2021

The colonial project is far from over and it continues to determine our lives through the borders that surround us. In order to understand here and now, one needs to start with there and then.

Posted in Literature, Open Access, Post-colonial studies

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Ernst Wolff | Martin Versfeld

by Annemie Vandezande September 10, 2021

Go and read Versfeld! His philosophy develops this basic orientation in an ethics of simplicity, in critique of injustice, often with irony and humor, but without ever being frivolous.

Posted in Philosophy

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Bruno Yammine | Fake news in oorlogstijd

by Annemie Vandezande March 17, 2021

Ik hoop dat de lezer met een kritischere blik dan voorheen feiten bestudeert. En ook: dat hij/zij zich realiseert dat wat een gemeenschap vorm geeft, nationalistische verhalen, in grote mate een nevenproduct is van propaganda.

Posted in Belgium, History 1800-present

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Patrick Develtere, Huib Huyse, and Jan Van Ongevalle | International Development Cooperation Today

by Annemie Vandezande March 15, 2021

Today's challenge is to make modern international development cooperation a principled approach that seeks win-wins wherever possible, in tandem with programmes that address long-term structural challenges and promote the interests of more vulnerable partners.

Posted in European Policy & Politics, Post-colonial studies, Public Administration, Social Science

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Jo Shaw | The Art of Being Dangerous

by Annemie Vandezande February 23, 2021

The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explore what it means to be a dangerous woman.

Posted in Art & Theory

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Peter Ludlow | European Council Studies

by Annemie Vandezande January 26, 2021

Launched twenty years ago and based on a wide range of published and unpublished sources, the European Council Studies written by Peter Ludlow provide a continuous, highly readable and independent narrative of the politics and policies of the European Council.

Posted in European Council Studies, Public Administration

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Alexandra Moschovi | A Gust of Photo-Philia

by Annemie Vandezande January 06, 2021

In her book A Gust of Photo-Philia Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum.

Posted in Art & Theory, Lieven Gevaert Series, Photography

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Ernst Wolff | Mongameli Mabona

by Annemie Vandezande January 05, 2021

Ernst Wolff's book 'Mongameli Mabona. His Life and Work' is the first study of any kind devoted to Mongameli Anthony Mabona (1929), a South African scholar with an exceptional life path.

Posted in Open Access, Post-colonial studies

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Olha Lehka-Paul | Personality Matters

by Annemie Vandezande November 28, 2020

In her book Personality Matters Olha Lehka-Paul explores the psychological and cognitive characteristics of a translator.

Posted in Interpreting and Transfer, Translation

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Fiona-Katharina Seiger | Migration at Work

by Annemie Vandezande November 28, 2020

The willingness to migrate in search of employment is in itself insufficient to compel anyone to move. The dynamics of labour mobility are heavily influenced by the opportunities perceived and the imaginaries held by both employers and regulating authorities in relation to migrant labour.

Posted in CeMIS Migration and Intercultural Studies, Migration