Nick Schuermans
Biographic Data
| ID | 174071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Schuermans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuermans |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUERMANS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2780-6827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The accommodation and support of unaccompanied refugee minors in Belgium: Factors that complicate interprofessional collaboration
Drawing on in-depth interviews with representatives from 17 organisations, this paper focuses on patterns of collaboration between different actors involved in the pre- and post-adulthood trajectories of youngsters arriving in Belgium as unaccompanied refugee minors. First, we clarify that the Belgian support system for these minors is characterised by fragmentation. In order for this fragmented system to benefit minors, different actors need to …
From Asylum to Post‐Arrival Geographies: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Belgium
This paper investigates the spatial patterns of concentration and dispersal of recently arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq in a country without stringent dispersal policies, Belgium. In order to capture both the mobility and the immobility of refugees, we propose the term “post‐arrival geographies” for these patterns. Drawing on data from the national population register, we demonstrate that many refugees move to urban and suburban locations af…
Migration, equality and racisms
Migration, equality and racism
This book is the result of the active engagement of many people.First of all, the editors would like to thank all the authors for their enthusiasm and energetic collaboration on this project.From the first collective brainstorming exercise until the very end of the process, their constructive and critical feedback has improved the book and compelled us to constantly reexamine our own ideas.We also thank the VUB's POINcaré think
White, middle-class South Africans moving through Cape Town: Mobile Encounters With Strangers
Drawing on photo-elicitation interviews with 60 middle-class, white residents of two privileged suburbs of Cape Town, this paper focuses on the particularities and the potential effects of mobile encounters with strangers. Starting from discourses about different means of transportation, it is demonstrated, first, that middle-class, white South Africans prefer cars over public transit not only for safety reasons or matters of practicality but als…
Enclave urbanism as telescopic urbanism? Encounters of middle class whites in Cape Town
Putting flesh to the bone: Looking for Solidarity in Diversity, Here and Now
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…
Geographies of Whiteness and Wealth: White, Middle Class Discourses on Segregation and Social Mix in Flanders, Belgium
While policy makers in different parts of the world are worried about the supposedly negative consequences of spatial concentrations of ethnic minorities and/or disadvantaged people, researchers continue the debate about the desirability and feasibility of social mix. In this article, we add to this literature by focusing on the often neglected, but crucial practices and discourses of the privileged in urban and suburban neighborhoods. Drawing on…
More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act: Housing, spatial planning and urban development in post-apartheid South Africa
Ambivalent geographies of encounter inside and around the fortified homes of middle class Whites in Cape Town
Being a young and foreign researcher in S outh A frica: Towards a postcolonial dialogue
No region without individual catalysts? Exploring region formation processes in Flanders (Belgium)
This paper focuses on the process of region formation and its interrelation with agency and regional identity. The region formation processes of two regions in Flanders (Belgium) were analysed, using a framework assessing the institutionalisation of regions. Based on semi-structured interviews and policy documents, the analysis confirmed the usefulness of the concept of institutionalisation to understand and visualise the evolution and ongoing dy…
Happiness Hefei: Public art and rural-urban citizenship struggles in transitional China
On 8–9 May 2010, a deprived chengzhongcun (urban village) in the city of Hefei hosted a session of the Second Hefei Contemporary Art Biennale. In this article, we focus on the artistic practices and the online and offline discussions that they evoked. Drawing upon literature on citizenship, public art, public space and public pedagogy, we analyse the exhibition and its social and political potentialities. Looking at a case study in a country wher…
Exploring Synergies between Place Branding and Agricultural Landscape Management as a Rural Development Practice
This article explores the synergies between place branding and agricultural landscape management as a rural development practice. We hypothesise that place branding strategy can be used as a process to combat the homogenisation of regions and help to build networks and institutions that strengthen rural development. In order to explore these synergies an extended case study was undertaken in four Belgian regions that display major differences in …
Public space, public art and public pedagogy
Is there a world beyond academic geography? A reply to Ben Derudder: Commentary
status: Published
Is there a world beyond the Web of Science? Publication practices outside the heartland of academic geography
Because research on the publication practices of academic geographers has been limited to the quantification of journal articles cited in easily searchable databases such as Thomson Reuters' Web of Science or Elsevier's Scopus, the question remains whether journals that are not indexed by these databases flourish or perish under the increasing pressure to publish in outlets with the highest impact factors. To answer this question, we have compile…
Fear of crime as a political weapon: Explaining the rise of extreme right politics in the Flemish countryside
In this article, we discuss the recent success of extreme right politicians in the Flemish countryside. Because the Vlaams Belang, the dominant extreme right-wing party in Flanders, plays to racist attitudes and everyday fears, we study the interrelations between the rise of the extreme right, racism and a spatialized and racialized culture of fear. Based on a multi-level analysis of spatial variations of racism and a qualitative analysis of focu…
On poor whites in post-appartheid cities: The case of Bloemfontein
Putting flesh to the bone: Looking for Solidarity in Diversity, Here and Now
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
Geographies of Whiteness and Wealth: White, Middle Class Discourses on Segregation and Social Mix in Flanders, Belgium
While policy makers in different parts of the world are worried about the supposedly negative consequences of spatial concentrations of ethnic minorities and/or disadvantaged people, researchers continue the debate about the desirability and feasibility of social mix. In this article, we add to this literature by focusing on the often neglected, but crucial practices and discourses of the privileged in urban and suburban neighborhoods. Drawing on…
Fear of crime as a political weapon: Explaining the rise of extreme right politics in the Flemish countryside
In this article, we discuss the recent success of extreme right politicians in the Flemish countryside. Because the Vlaams Belang, the dominant extreme right-wing party in Flanders, plays to racist attitudes and everyday fears, we study the interrelations between the rise of the extreme right, racism and a spatialized and racialized culture of fear. Based on a multi-level analysis of spatial variations of racism and a qualitative analysis of focu…
Ambivalent geographies of encounter inside and around the fortified homes of middle class Whites in Cape Town
No region without individual catalysts? Exploring region formation processes in Flanders (Belgium)
This paper focuses on the process of region formation and its interrelation with agency and regional identity. The region formation processes of two regions in Flanders (Belgium) were analysed, using a framework assessing the institutionalisation of regions. Based on semi-structured interviews and policy documents, the analysis confirmed the usefulness of the concept of institutionalisation to understand and visualise the evolution and ongoing dy…
Is there a world beyond the Web of Science? Publication practices outside the heartland of academic geography
Because research on the publication practices of academic geographers has been limited to the quantification of journal articles cited in easily searchable databases such as Thomson Reuters' Web of Science or Elsevier's Scopus, the question remains whether journals that are not indexed by these databases flourish or perish under the increasing pressure to publish in outlets with the highest impact factors. To answer this question, we have compile…
White, middle-class South Africans moving through Cape Town: Mobile Encounters With Strangers
Drawing on photo-elicitation interviews with 60 middle-class, white residents of two privileged suburbs of Cape Town, this paper focuses on the particularities and the potential effects of mobile encounters with strangers. Starting from discourses about different means of transportation, it is demonstrated, first, that middle-class, white South Africans prefer cars over public transit not only for safety reasons or matters of practicality but als…
Happiness Hefei: Public art and rural-urban citizenship struggles in transitional China
On 8–9 May 2010, a deprived chengzhongcun (urban village) in the city of Hefei hosted a session of the Second Hefei Contemporary Art Biennale. In this article, we focus on the artistic practices and the online and offline discussions that they evoked. Drawing upon literature on citizenship, public art, public space and public pedagogy, we analyse the exhibition and its social and political potentialities. Looking at a case study in a country wher…
Exploring Synergies between Place Branding and Agricultural Landscape Management as a Rural Development Practice
This article explores the synergies between place branding and agricultural landscape management as a rural development practice. We hypothesise that place branding strategy can be used as a process to combat the homogenisation of regions and help to build networks and institutions that strengthen rural development. In order to explore these synergies an extended case study was undertaken in four Belgian regions that display major differences in …
From Asylum to Post‐Arrival Geographies: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Belgium
This paper investigates the spatial patterns of concentration and dispersal of recently arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq in a country without stringent dispersal policies, Belgium. In order to capture both the mobility and the immobility of refugees, we propose the term “post‐arrival geographies” for these patterns. Drawing on data from the national population register, we demonstrate that many refugees move to urban and suburban locations af…
Enclave urbanism as telescopic urbanism? Encounters of middle class whites in Cape Town
More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act: Housing, spatial planning and urban development in post-apartheid South Africa
On poor whites in post-appartheid cities: The case of Bloemfontein
Is there a world beyond the Web of Science? Publication practices outside the heartland of academic geography
Because research on the publication practices of academic geographers has been limited to the quantification of journal articles cited in easily searchable databases such as Thomson Reuters' Web of Science or Elsevier's Scopus, the question remains whether journals that are not indexed by these databases flourish or perish under the increasing pressure to publish in outlets with the highest impact factors. To answer this question, we have compile…
Fear of crime as a political weapon: Explaining the rise of extreme right politics in the Flemish countryside
In this article, we discuss the recent success of extreme right politicians in the Flemish countryside. Because the Vlaams Belang, the dominant extreme right-wing party in Flanders, plays to racist attitudes and everyday fears, we study the interrelations between the rise of the extreme right, racism and a spatialized and racialized culture of fear. Based on a multi-level analysis of spatial variations of racism and a qualitative analysis of focu…
Is there a world beyond academic geography? A reply to Ben Derudder: Commentary
status: Published
Being a young and foreign researcher in S outh A frica: Towards a postcolonial dialogue
No region without individual catalysts? Exploring region formation processes in Flanders (Belgium)
This paper focuses on the process of region formation and its interrelation with agency and regional identity. The region formation processes of two regions in Flanders (Belgium) were analysed, using a framework assessing the institutionalisation of regions. Based on semi-structured interviews and policy documents, the analysis confirmed the usefulness of the concept of institutionalisation to understand and visualise the evolution and ongoing dy…
Happiness Hefei: Public art and rural-urban citizenship struggles in transitional China
On 8–9 May 2010, a deprived chengzhongcun (urban village) in the city of Hefei hosted a session of the Second Hefei Contemporary Art Biennale. In this article, we focus on the artistic practices and the online and offline discussions that they evoked. Drawing upon literature on citizenship, public art, public space and public pedagogy, we analyse the exhibition and its social and political potentialities. Looking at a case study in a country wher…
Exploring Synergies between Place Branding and Agricultural Landscape Management as a Rural Development Practice
This article explores the synergies between place branding and agricultural landscape management as a rural development practice. We hypothesise that place branding strategy can be used as a process to combat the homogenisation of regions and help to build networks and institutions that strengthen rural development. In order to explore these synergies an extended case study was undertaken in four Belgian regions that display major differences in …
Public space, public art and public pedagogy
More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act: Housing, spatial planning and urban development in post-apartheid South Africa
Ambivalent geographies of encounter inside and around the fortified homes of middle class Whites in Cape Town
Geographies of Whiteness and Wealth: White, Middle Class Discourses on Segregation and Social Mix in Flanders, Belgium
While policy makers in different parts of the world are worried about the supposedly negative consequences of spatial concentrations of ethnic minorities and/or disadvantaged people, researchers continue the debate about the desirability and feasibility of social mix. In this article, we add to this literature by focusing on the often neglected, but crucial practices and discourses of the privileged in urban and suburban neighborhoods. Drawing on…
Enclave urbanism as telescopic urbanism? Encounters of middle class whites in Cape Town
Putting flesh to the bone: Looking for Solidarity in Diversity, Here and Now
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…
White, middle-class South Africans moving through Cape Town: Mobile Encounters With Strangers
Drawing on photo-elicitation interviews with 60 middle-class, white residents of two privileged suburbs of Cape Town, this paper focuses on the particularities and the potential effects of mobile encounters with strangers. Starting from discourses about different means of transportation, it is demonstrated, first, that middle-class, white South Africans prefer cars over public transit not only for safety reasons or matters of practicality but als…
Migration, equality and racisms
Migration, equality and racism
This book is the result of the active engagement of many people.First of all, the editors would like to thank all the authors for their enthusiasm and energetic collaboration on this project.From the first collective brainstorming exercise until the very end of the process, their constructive and critical feedback has improved the book and compelled us to constantly reexamine our own ideas.We also thank the VUB's POINcaré think
From Asylum to Post‐Arrival Geographies: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Belgium
This paper investigates the spatial patterns of concentration and dispersal of recently arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq in a country without stringent dispersal policies, Belgium. In order to capture both the mobility and the immobility of refugees, we propose the term “post‐arrival geographies” for these patterns. Drawing on data from the national population register, we demonstrate that many refugees move to urban and suburban locations af…
The accommodation and support of unaccompanied refugee minors in Belgium: Factors that complicate interprofessional collaboration
Drawing on in-depth interviews with representatives from 17 organisations, this paper focuses on patterns of collaboration between different actors involved in the pre- and post-adulthood trajectories of youngsters arriving in Belgium as unaccompanied refugee minors. First, we clarify that the Belgian support system for these minors is characterised by fragmentation. In order for this fragmented system to benefit minors, different actors need to …
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works)