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Organization profile
Organisation profile
DESIRE performs critical research into the political-democratic nature of societal processes and their discursive-significatory dimensions.
Crucial within DESIRE's remit is the study of the logics of power, how power strategies are developed and resisted and how signification intervenes into these power logics. DESIRE's areas of interest thus include the many societal fields where meaning is produced and circulated, including the media sphere, the sphere of cultural institutions (including museums, heritage sites and theatres) and the sphere of politics. Within these areas of interest, DESIRE analyses the role of the discursive-significatory. In order to study these discursive-significatory dimensions of the power logics, a variety of methods are used and combined, e.g., critical discourse analysis, visual analysis, rhetorical analysis, discourse-theoretical analysis, and narrative analysis.
DESIRE brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia), Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), University of Essex (UK), and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), as well as affiliate members from other institutions, to support their joint research activities.
DESIRE is chaired by Benjamin De Cleen (VUB) and its management committee further consists of Ilija Tomanic Trivundza (Univerza v Ljubljani), Nico Carpentier (Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), Jason Glynos (University of Essex) and Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
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Profiles
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Karel Deneckere
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Communication Sciences - Academic
- Centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance
- ECHO: Research group on media, culture and politics
Person: Researcher, Guest professor
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OZR2686: International Joint Research Group - Centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance (DeSIRe)
De Cleen, B., Carpentier, N. & Tomanic Trivundza, I.
1/10/14 → 30/09/23
Project: Fundamental
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OZR3369: Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - ULB MISTIAEN VALERIANE
19/01/19 → 18/01/22
Project: Fundamental
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OZR2824: Identiteiten in beweging: een geo-narratieve kijk op kinderen en jongeren die op straat leven in La Paz, Bolivië
1/10/15 → 30/09/16
Project: Policy Based
Research output
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A sensemaking perspective on the roll-out of transdisciplinary learning communities in an academic environment from Bolivia
Peres-Cajías, G., Bauwens, J. R., Craps, M. & Loots, G., 15 May 2022, In : Development in Pracrice.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Far-right intellectual discourse about populism: the case of the German Institut für Staatspolitik
Shroufi, O. & De Cleen, B., 2022, In : Journal of Political Ideologies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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#Godwin. A discursive analysis and typology of strategic references to the Thirties and the Second World War in Flemish MPs’ Tweets
Willaert, T. & Goyvaerts, J., Dec 2021, In : Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 36, 4, p. 1056-1075 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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A Decolonizing Analysis of Multicultural Competence Counseling Approaches.
Nguyen, T., 2021Research output: Thesis › PhD Thesis
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Advances in the study of the connections between populism and nationalism
De Cleen, B. & Stavrakakis, Y., 1 Feb 2021, In : Populisme. La Revue.. 1, 1, 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Activities
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Constructing the Boundaries of Democracy: Journalistic Discourses about Populism
Jana Goyvaerts (Speaker)10 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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From the "asylum crisis" to the "self-provoked crisis". Evolution of the syntagm associated with the word "crisis" in the Belgian migratory context
Valériane Mistiaen (Speaker), Cécile Balty (Contributor)11 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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« La Belgique, c'est un terrain vague où des minorités se disputent au nom de deux cultures qui n'existent pas. » Jacques Brel
Valériane Mistiaen (Speaker)28 May 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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The challenge of naming people in media discourse
Valériane Mistiaen (Speaker)17 Dec 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Naming people on the move according to the political agenda: a study of Belgian media
Valériane Mistiaen (Speaker)9 Sep 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference