Author’s corner

21st December, 2022 in Author’s corner

Het huidige debat is sterk polariserend: landbouw versus ecologie, vermarkting versus subsistentie, schaalvergroting versus familiebedrijven, comparatieve voordelen en specialisatie versus diversiteit, enzovoort. Met het boek ‘Tot de bodem’ wil edito…

2nd December, 2022 in Author’s corner

In zijn boek ‘Stilte in de klas’ verkent Pieter Verstraete aan de hand van niet eerder ontgonnen archiefmateriaal de geschiedenis van de pedagogische betekenis van stilte.

29th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso.

22nd November, 2022 in Author’s corner

In het volume Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani in de reeks Operatheek toont Annelies Andries hoe esthetische idealen botsten met de praktische vereisten van een operaproductie.

22nd November, 2022 in Author’s corner

‘Unfinished Histories’ explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.

15th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

In his book ‘Homo Mimeticus’ Nidesh Lawtoo proposes a new theory of one of the most influential concepts in western thought (mimesis) to confront some of the hypermimetic challenges of the present and future.

15th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

Me-Linh Riemann, author of ‘Leaving Spain’, and Pedro Moura, author of ‘Visualising Small Traumas’ share their experiences on writing their first academic book.

15th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

The Diamond Open Access publication ‘Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing’ emerges from the project Women Picturing Revolution. The editors and co-funders of the project, Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez…

8th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

‘Who Owns Africa?’ addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people.

14th October, 2022 in Author’s corner

In ‘Contemporary Photography in France’ author Olga Smith explores the history of photography in France from the 1970s to the present day and sets photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion in dialogue with…

30th September, 2022 in Author’s corner

In ‘Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive’ Irene Hilden examines sound objects and listening practices that render the coloniality of knowledge fragile and inconsistent, revealing the absent presences of colonial subjects who are given little or n…

8th September, 2022 in Author’s corner

“Kurt Weill was veel meer dan de componist van enkele schlagers.” Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny is een van de weerspannigste opera’s van de 20ste eeuw. Het stuk haalt vlijmscherp uit naar de uitwassen van het kapitalisme, op een manier die oo…