Benedikte Zitouni
I'm a Lecturer at Saint-Louis University Brussels where I teach courses and seminars in sociology, and head the CESIR Centre for Sociological Intervention and Research. I'm also a member of the GECo Group of Constructivist Studies at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and involved with the Etopia archives.
http://www.cesir.usaintlouis.be
https://groupeconstructiviste.wordpress.com
http://www.etopia.be/spip.php?rubrique274
So far, my research has led me to deal with: 19th-Century urban planning, hygienic reform and environmental history, wastes and material surfaces, State power and spatial policies, all investigations that had an archival as well as a local touch to them, i.e. they were all based on the analysis of traces and documents that related to Brussels.
My research has also led me to delve into the protests undertaken by the Young Lords in New York in the sixties, by the prisoners in France in the seventies, by ecofeminists in the US and the UK during the early eighties, and by urban gardeners in Brussels today (with other researchers, collective writing).
Some of my more theoretical texts - for what the theory/empiricism split is worth - are on the agency networks of Latour, the strategical thinking of Foucault, the situated knowledges of Haraway, the monumental history of Nietzsche or Bourdieu's early love for Leibniz, and on notions such as webs of life, otherworldliness, more-than-human worlds and the Chthulucene.
Since 2018, I've started new archival research and fieldwork on the harbour of Antwerp, its tendency for land-grabbing and the people who struggle against this.
http://www.cesir.usaintlouis.be
https://groupeconstructiviste.wordpress.com
http://www.etopia.be/spip.php?rubrique274
So far, my research has led me to deal with: 19th-Century urban planning, hygienic reform and environmental history, wastes and material surfaces, State power and spatial policies, all investigations that had an archival as well as a local touch to them, i.e. they were all based on the analysis of traces and documents that related to Brussels.
My research has also led me to delve into the protests undertaken by the Young Lords in New York in the sixties, by the prisoners in France in the seventies, by ecofeminists in the US and the UK during the early eighties, and by urban gardeners in Brussels today (with other researchers, collective writing).
Some of my more theoretical texts - for what the theory/empiricism split is worth - are on the agency networks of Latour, the strategical thinking of Foucault, the situated knowledges of Haraway, the monumental history of Nietzsche or Bourdieu's early love for Leibniz, and on notions such as webs of life, otherworldliness, more-than-human worlds and the Chthulucene.
Since 2018, I've started new archival research and fieldwork on the harbour of Antwerp, its tendency for land-grabbing and the people who struggle against this.
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