ECHO
MEDIA, CULTURE AND POLITICS
ECHO is devoted to the study of meaning across media, culture and politics, and their intersections. The group is home to an international group of scholars working on how meaning circulates, fluctuates, and resonates in society. Echo's aim is to produce a critical and nuanced understanding of how the reproduction and contestation of meaning contributes to social, cultural and political change and continuity.
Latest Publications
Pakistani transgender activists on Instagram: The politics of postcolonial language appropriation and abrogation
Fatima Zahid Ali, Kevin Smets and Benjamin De Cleen This study examines marginalized communities in postcolonial states, in particular transgender people, and attempts to understand the tension between globalized or transnational ‘queer’ language and local vernacular ‘Indigenous’ language.
Revealing activist experiences through film-viewing: emotional geographies at the border of Ceuta and Melilla
Silvia Almenara-Niebla Ceuta and Melilla are considered exemplary models of the border spectacle. The fences of these cities typify the notion of ‘Fortress Europe’ and impel the emotional engagement of the inhabitants with migration control policies.
News & Events
Practical info-ECHO's Pascal Verhoest & Joke Bauwens deliver two new articles for the IRP17-project
The two papers contribute to the IRP17-project, “Re-use of treated wastewater for irrigation and groundwater recharge: environmental impacts and public perception”, funded by VUB Onderzoeksraad Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds (BOF OZR) (2019—2025).
Practical info-PhD Defense of Archibald Gustin
Archibald has earned his PhD with the successful public defense of his thesis, “Disentangling Far-Right Gender Discourses: A Discursive-Theoretical Analysis of Vlaams Belang’s Patriarchal Politics.”
