Maarten Loopmans
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 174070 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maarten Loopmans |
| NOMBRES | Maarten |
| APELLIDO | Loopmans |
| FIRMA | LOOPMANS M |
| AFILIACIONES | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7157-5608 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 303 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Whose knowledge counts? Knowledge mobilization and legitimation in environmental conflicts
This paper questions the post-political hypothesis that top-down mobilization of expert knowledge leads to depoliticization. For two case studies of environmental conflicts in Brussels, it analyzes how knowledge is also mobilized from below and emphasizes that neither politicization nor depoliticization is guaranteed. Developing an analytical framework to study knowledge politics, our analysis illuminates how both top-down and bottom-up politics …
Cosmopolitics in action
sponsorship: This work was supported by a sabbatical grant by FWO and internal funding of KU Leuven [C14/22/036]. This work was supported by patronage funding provided to KU Leuven for carrying out fundamental scientific research into urban processes and change. (FWO and internal funding of KU Leuven|C14/22/036, KU Leuven)
Affect, avoidance and authority
Contested Socio-Material Transformations in Irrigation Communities
The International Journal of the Commons is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.These resources may be part of the natural world (e.g. forests, climate systems, or the oceans) or they may be created (e.g. infrastructures such as irrigation systems, the internet or (scientific) knowledge, for…
Socio-Material Bricolage
Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are ignored. This paper treats drip irrigation as a socio-material assemblage and discusses the social and institutional changes triggered by the introduction of drip irrigation infrastructure in Ağlasun, a rural town located in the southwest of Turkey. Through an e…
Just air? Spatial injustice and the politicisation of air pollution
Properly equipped racing pigeons can gather continuous real-time air pollution data while moving through the air at key heights not accessible to the official instruments, as well as from the ground where they are released for their homing flights" (Haraway, 2016). Grasping the airExposure to air pollution and its health risks varies greatly according to the place where one lives (Kelly & Fussell, 2015; WHO, 2013).Not only differences between cou…
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement
DisCoord
Effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) presupposes awareness among key stakeholders on the causal factors that exacerbate disaster risks as well as a feeling of ownership over proposed DRR measures. Yet, the prevailing top-down communication of risk and the expert-centered knowledge have a limited impact in bringing significant positive change. Serious games respond to the need for a community-based DRR approach as they encourage a collective re…
Rethinking environmental justice
For more than a decade, a broad social movement has organised significant opposition to the expansion of the Antwerp ring road. By linking the very mobile, intangible and unplaceable problem of traffic-related air pollution to the highly local, concrete, immobile issue of the highway, they succeeded in creating the largest mobilization against air pollution ever in Belgium. A distributive justice discourse which portrayed Antwerp residents as bei…
Social Head-Enders
Inequalities in access are a major concern for the management of common pool resources. In the case of irrigation water, inequalities are often explained by spatial “head-ender/tail-ender” distinctions, determined by distance to the water source. However, inequalities in access are also produced by social relations and social institutions. Drawing from ethnographic research in Ağlasun, a rural town in the south-west of Turkey, we examine socio-sp…
Everyday Spatialities of Intersectional Solidarity and Activism
sponsorship: The authors would like to express their gratitude to the members of the 'Solidarity in Diversity' research network, for the discussions that inspired this collection, and thank the FWO. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek for the funding that made these discussions possible. (FWO. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
Intersectional Heterotopia
Unprotected sex is the primary mode of HIV transmission in China. In 2014, 25.8 per cent of newly diagnosed cases were attributed to unprotected sex between men (National Health and Family Planning Commission 2015). While the majority of the nation’s new HIV infections are due to heterosexual sex, HIV is deeply tied to homosexuality in public discourse in China. Standing at the intersection of a stigmatised disease and sexual dissidence, HIV‐posi…
Spatializing Solidarity
Scholars and social movements have long studied how cooperative values of solidarity and democracy can spill over to the rest of the society. However, such studies have failed to develop a sociospatial theory of solidarity. Focusing on two types of agricultural cooperatives in Cuba, this paper draws on recent geography literature on solidarity to explore the sociospatial dimensions of cooperative solidarity. We find that cooperatives represent a …
Displacement, memories and struggle
Internationally, places like Mapari in the Save Valley Conservancy (SVC) are celebrated for their wildlife conservation efforts and are a major tourist destination. However, former inhabitants of such places, who lost land to colonialism tell a different story, silenced for long. Around 1920, the Bridges family bought land from the British South Africa Company to establish the Devuli cattle ranch, ruthlessly destroying wildlife and the environmen…
Seasonal gentrification and its (dis)contents
Meaningful intercultural contact
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the geographies of encounter in contexts of diversity. Through in-depth interviews, we explore what meaning people attach to intercultural contact and how different places influence this contact. Drawing on public pedagogy theory, we show how people consider intercultural contact as a moment of intersubjective learning, and d…
De-marginalizing youngsters in public space
Young people from lower income groups or with an immigrant background in public space are increasingly problematized in Belgium [Karsten, L., E. Kuiper, and H. Reubsaet. 2001. Van de straat? De relatie tussen jeugd en publieke ruimte verkend [Of the Street? Exploring the Relation between Youth and Public Space]. Assen: Van Gorcum; Rom, M., B. Vanobbergen, E. Coene, and N. Van Ceulebroeck. 2012. “Een reus op lemen voeten: GAS voor minderjarigen [A…
Social inequalities
Observations Economic and cultural globalisation The Brussels Capital Region has experienced a significant period of economic growth over the past few decades. The service sector has been particularly responsible for this economic performance, largely comprising the European, federal and regional administrations. However, overseas investments in the service sector have also been an important factor. In broad terms, Brussels has 2 000 foreign comp…
Inégalités sociales
Constats Globalisation économique et culturelle La décennie qui vient de s’écouler fut, pour la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, une période de croissance économique impressionnante, essentiellement dans le secteur des services. Ceux-ci comprennent essentiellement les administrations européennes, fédérales et régionales, mais les investissements étrangers y jouent également un rôle important. En gros, Bruxelles compte près de 2 000 entreprises étran…
Sociale ongelijkheden
Vaststellingen: globale maatschappelijke ontwikkeling en effecten op Brussel Economische en culturele globalisering Het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest kende het afgelopen decennia een indrukwekkende economische bloeiperiode. Vooral de dienstensector zorgt voor deze economische prestaties. Deze bestaat voor een groot deel uit de Europese, federale en regionale administraties. Belangrijk zijn echter ook de buitenlandse investeringen in de dienstens…
Putting flesh to the bone
In many Western European countries, concern rises that both formal mechanisms of redistribution and informal acts of charity, reciprocity and support are challenged by ethnic and cultural diversity. Against such gloomy perspectives, this paper draws on insights from sociology, geography, pedagogy and political science to argue that four traditional sources of solidarity (interdependence, shared norms and values, struggle and encounter) remain rel…
Who could benefit from a bus rapid transit system in cities from developing countries? A case study from Kampala, Uganda
Students Studying Student Sexuality
This article reports on an experiment engaging Master-level Geography students in real-life research on young people's sexuality in the context of a research methods module. This experiment was set up with the triple aim of providing students with a more hands-on learning experience of qualitative research methods, stimulating students to reflect on the social production of their own sexualities, and collaborating with young people to conduct res…
Will urban farming survive the growth of African cities
Changing trends in China’s inequality
status: Published
Cities and Social Movements
Cities and social movements: theorizing beyond the right to the city Cities breed contention.Social movements usually express themselves in cities, but cities have nevertheless been seen merely as a backdrop, as the empty canvas on which social movement activity unfolds.We maintain that the city is constitutive of social movements.The defi ning features of cities-density, size, and diversity (Wirth, 1938)-provide the basic elements for contention…
Putting flesh to the bone
In many Western European countries, concern rises that both formal mechanisms of redistribution and informal acts of charity, reciprocity and support are challenged by ethnic and cultural diversity. Against such gloomy perspectives, this paper draws on insights from sociology, geography, pedagogy and political science to argue that four traditional sources of solidarity (interdependence, shared norms and values, struggle and encounter) remain rel…
Public space, public art and public pedagogy
Relevance, Gentrification and the Development of a New Hegemony on Urban Policies in Antwerp, Belgium
This paper applies a state-theoretical perspective to a historical analysis of gentrification and urban policies in Antwerp, Belgium. Before 1970, the city experienced a period of modernist hegemony, with urban development policies characterised by slum clearing, peripheral high-rise social housing construction and inner-city office development. After moving through a period of non-hegemony with intense debate and struggle about urban development…
Photography, public pedagogy and the politics of place-making in post-industrial areas
This paper discusses the way in which public photographic depictions of places and place-based communities contribute to the construction of local identity and community building. Being public and visualised statements about what a place and the people living there are and what they are not, photographs incite public debate about place and community. The paper discusses two interventions, one in Ghent, Belgium involving professional photographers…
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement
Towards Radicalized Communicative Rationality
What are the theoretical tools at our disposal for helping explain local participatory processes in the context of the governance of social and ethnic diversity in cities? Conventional wisdom within urban scholarship often has it that new modes of governance are, by definition, more conducive to participatory practice in cities. In this article we take issue with this assumption with reference to political process derived from Habermas and Mouffe…
Seasonal gentrification and its (dis)contents
Social Mix and Passive Revolution. A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Social Mix Rhetoric in Flanders, Belgium
Belgium's housing policy has always been instrumental in the pillarisation process. As a consequence, two competing historical models have existed: first, a model promoted by the socialist pillar based on social rental housing in urban settings; second, the model put forward by the hegemonic Catholic party, emphasising the promotion of homeownership of single-family dwellings in rural settings. When this second, anti-urban model, became the main …
Meaningful intercultural contact
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the geographies of encounter in contexts of diversity. Through in-depth interviews, we explore what meaning people attach to intercultural contact and how different places influence this contact. Drawing on public pedagogy theory, we show how people consider intercultural contact as a moment of intersubjective learning, and d…
Politicization of research and the relevance of geography
In this paper we address the revival of interest in recent years in the relevance of geographical research and highlight problems of politicization faced by researchers through cases of policy‐oriented research in the UK and Belgium. We argue that geographers should be aware of the possibilities and constraints for critical engagement in the context of policy‐oriented research. We identify at least two important opportunities for researchers to a…
Urban renewal without displacement? Belgium’s ‘housing contract experiment’ and the risks of gentrification
Gentrification has become part and parcel of urban policies throughout the world. Critics have argued against those policies but they have not yet developed concrete and comprehensive alternatives. This paper seeks to remedy this omission by investigating the Belgian ‘housing contract’ experiment (2005–2007). Quite exceptionally, Belgium’s ‘housing contract’ experiment was based on the premise that housing policies should improve the quality of l…
Threatened or Empowered? The Impact of Neighborhood Context on Community Involvement in Antwerp, Belgium
Using a citywide register of community involvement, this article tests two competing theories for explaining active citizenship through neighborhood context: one that emphasizes the opportunities available in the neighborhood, whether at the level of the individual, the social environment, or the physical environment, and one that explains how active citizenship can be regarded as a reaction to threats in the neighborhood. The present analysis su…
Just air? Spatial injustice and the politicisation of air pollution
Properly equipped racing pigeons can gather continuous real-time air pollution data while moving through the air at key heights not accessible to the official instruments, as well as from the ground where they are released for their homing flights" (Haraway, 2016). Grasping the airExposure to air pollution and its health risks varies greatly according to the place where one lives (Kelly & Fussell, 2015; WHO, 2013).Not only differences between cou…
Global Pressures, Local Measures
This paper analyses the changes in the Antwerp Schipperskwartier, one of the oldest and largest red light districts on the European continent. While the geography of sex work has received considerable scholarly attention since the 1970s, such analyses have focused upon the interplay between market pressures and sexual values in the production of sexual spaces. This paper takes a different stance, as it analyses the Schipperskwartier's restructuri…
Socio-Material Bricolage
Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are ignored. This paper treats drip irrigation as a socio-material assemblage and discusses the social and institutional changes triggered by the introduction of drip irrigation infrastructure in Ağlasun, a rural town located in the southwest of Turkey. Through an e…
Social Head-Enders
Inequalities in access are a major concern for the management of common pool resources. In the case of irrigation water, inequalities are often explained by spatial “head-ender/tail-ender” distinctions, determined by distance to the water source. However, inequalities in access are also produced by social relations and social institutions. Drawing from ethnographic research in Ağlasun, a rural town in the south-west of Turkey, we examine socio-sp…
De-marginalizing youngsters in public space
Young people from lower income groups or with an immigrant background in public space are increasingly problematized in Belgium [Karsten, L., E. Kuiper, and H. Reubsaet. 2001. Van de straat? De relatie tussen jeugd en publieke ruimte verkend [Of the Street? Exploring the Relation between Youth and Public Space]. Assen: Van Gorcum; Rom, M., B. Vanobbergen, E. Coene, and N. Van Ceulebroeck. 2012. “Een reus op lemen voeten: GAS voor minderjarigen [A…
From SIF to City Fund
Affect, avoidance and authority
Rethinking environmental justice
For more than a decade, a broad social movement has organised significant opposition to the expansion of the Antwerp ring road. By linking the very mobile, intangible and unplaceable problem of traffic-related air pollution to the highly local, concrete, immobile issue of the highway, they succeeded in creating the largest mobilization against air pollution ever in Belgium. A distributive justice discourse which portrayed Antwerp residents as bei…
Everyday Spatialities of Intersectional Solidarity and Activism
sponsorship: The authors would like to express their gratitude to the members of the 'Solidarity in Diversity' research network, for the discussions that inspired this collection, and thank the FWO. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek for the funding that made these discussions possible. (FWO. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
Who could benefit from a bus rapid transit system in cities from developing countries? A case study from Kampala, Uganda
Spatializing Solidarity
Scholars and social movements have long studied how cooperative values of solidarity and democracy can spill over to the rest of the society. However, such studies have failed to develop a sociospatial theory of solidarity. Focusing on two types of agricultural cooperatives in Cuba, this paper draws on recent geography literature on solidarity to explore the sociospatial dimensions of cooperative solidarity. We find that cooperatives represent a …
Will urban farming survive the growth of African cities
Politicization of research and the relevance of geography
In this paper we address the revival of interest in recent years in the relevance of geographical research and highlight problems of politicization faced by researchers through cases of policy‐oriented research in the UK and Belgium. We argue that geographers should be aware of the possibilities and constraints for critical engagement in the context of policy‐oriented research. We identify at least two important opportunities for researchers to a…
From SIF to City Fund
European Cities
Relevance, Gentrification and the Development of a New Hegemony on Urban Policies in Antwerp, Belgium
This paper applies a state-theoretical perspective to a historical analysis of gentrification and urban policies in Antwerp, Belgium. Before 1970, the city experienced a period of modernist hegemony, with urban development policies characterised by slum clearing, peripheral high-rise social housing construction and inner-city office development. After moving through a period of non-hegemony with intense debate and struggle about urban development…
Towards Radicalized Communicative Rationality
What are the theoretical tools at our disposal for helping explain local participatory processes in the context of the governance of social and ethnic diversity in cities? Conventional wisdom within urban scholarship often has it that new modes of governance are, by definition, more conducive to participatory practice in cities. In this article we take issue with this assumption with reference to political process derived from Habermas and Mouffe…
Social Mix and Passive Revolution. A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Social Mix Rhetoric in Flanders, Belgium
Belgium's housing policy has always been instrumental in the pillarisation process. As a consequence, two competing historical models have existed: first, a model promoted by the socialist pillar based on social rental housing in urban settings; second, the model put forward by the hegemonic Catholic party, emphasising the promotion of homeownership of single-family dwellings in rural settings. When this second, anti-urban model, became the main …
Threatened or Empowered? The Impact of Neighborhood Context on Community Involvement in Antwerp, Belgium
Using a citywide register of community involvement, this article tests two competing theories for explaining active citizenship through neighborhood context: one that emphasizes the opportunities available in the neighborhood, whether at the level of the individual, the social environment, or the physical environment, and one that explains how active citizenship can be regarded as a reaction to threats in the neighborhood. The present analysis su…
Global Pressures, Local Measures
This paper analyses the changes in the Antwerp Schipperskwartier, one of the oldest and largest red light districts on the European continent. While the geography of sex work has received considerable scholarly attention since the 1970s, such analyses have focused upon the interplay between market pressures and sexual values in the production of sexual spaces. This paper takes a different stance, as it analyses the Schipperskwartier's restructuri…
Urban growth of Kampala, Uganda
Network strategies of passive revolution
Urban renewal without displacement? Belgium’s ‘housing contract experiment’ and the risks of gentrification
Gentrification has become part and parcel of urban policies throughout the world. Critics have argued against those policies but they have not yet developed concrete and comprehensive alternatives. This paper seeks to remedy this omission by investigating the Belgian ‘housing contract’ experiment (2005–2007). Quite exceptionally, Belgium’s ‘housing contract’ experiment was based on the premise that housing policies should improve the quality of l…
Cities and Social Movements
Cities and social movements: theorizing beyond the right to the city Cities breed contention.Social movements usually express themselves in cities, but cities have nevertheless been seen merely as a backdrop, as the empty canvas on which social movement activity unfolds.We maintain that the city is constitutive of social movements.The defi ning features of cities-density, size, and diversity (Wirth, 1938)-provide the basic elements for contention…
Public space, public art and public pedagogy
Photography, public pedagogy and the politics of place-making in post-industrial areas
This paper discusses the way in which public photographic depictions of places and place-based communities contribute to the construction of local identity and community building. Being public and visualised statements about what a place and the people living there are and what they are not, photographs incite public debate about place and community. The paper discusses two interventions, one in Ghent, Belgium involving professional photographers…
Will urban farming survive the growth of African cities
Students Studying Student Sexuality
This article reports on an experiment engaging Master-level Geography students in real-life research on young people's sexuality in the context of a research methods module. This experiment was set up with the triple aim of providing students with a more hands-on learning experience of qualitative research methods, stimulating students to reflect on the social production of their own sexualities, and collaborating with young people to conduct res…
Who could benefit from a bus rapid transit system in cities from developing countries? A case study from Kampala, Uganda
Social inequalities
Observations Economic and cultural globalisation The Brussels Capital Region has experienced a significant period of economic growth over the past few decades. The service sector has been particularly responsible for this economic performance, largely comprising the European, federal and regional administrations. However, overseas investments in the service sector have also been an important factor. In broad terms, Brussels has 2 000 foreign comp…
Inégalités sociales
Constats Globalisation économique et culturelle La décennie qui vient de s’écouler fut, pour la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, une période de croissance économique impressionnante, essentiellement dans le secteur des services. Ceux-ci comprennent essentiellement les administrations européennes, fédérales et régionales, mais les investissements étrangers y jouent également un rôle important. En gros, Bruxelles compte près de 2 000 entreprises étran…
Sociale ongelijkheden
Vaststellingen: globale maatschappelijke ontwikkeling en effecten op Brussel Economische en culturele globalisering Het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest kende het afgelopen decennia een indrukwekkende economische bloeiperiode. Vooral de dienstensector zorgt voor deze economische prestaties. Deze bestaat voor een groot deel uit de Europese, federale en regionale administraties. Belangrijk zijn echter ook de buitenlandse investeringen in de dienstens…
Putting flesh to the bone
In many Western European countries, concern rises that both formal mechanisms of redistribution and informal acts of charity, reciprocity and support are challenged by ethnic and cultural diversity. Against such gloomy perspectives, this paper draws on insights from sociology, geography, pedagogy and political science to argue that four traditional sources of solidarity (interdependence, shared norms and values, struggle and encounter) remain rel…
De-marginalizing youngsters in public space
Young people from lower income groups or with an immigrant background in public space are increasingly problematized in Belgium [Karsten, L., E. Kuiper, and H. Reubsaet. 2001. Van de straat? De relatie tussen jeugd en publieke ruimte verkend [Of the Street? Exploring the Relation between Youth and Public Space]. Assen: Van Gorcum; Rom, M., B. Vanobbergen, E. Coene, and N. Van Ceulebroeck. 2012. “Een reus op lemen voeten: GAS voor minderjarigen [A…
Displacement, memories and struggle
Internationally, places like Mapari in the Save Valley Conservancy (SVC) are celebrated for their wildlife conservation efforts and are a major tourist destination. However, former inhabitants of such places, who lost land to colonialism tell a different story, silenced for long. Around 1920, the Bridges family bought land from the British South Africa Company to establish the Devuli cattle ranch, ruthlessly destroying wildlife and the environmen…
Seasonal gentrification and its (dis)contents
Meaningful intercultural contact
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the geographies of encounter in contexts of diversity. Through in-depth interviews, we explore what meaning people attach to intercultural contact and how different places influence this contact. Drawing on public pedagogy theory, we show how people consider intercultural contact as a moment of intersubjective learning, and d…
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