Esther Beeckaert
Biographic Data
| ID | 412295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Beeckaert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Beeckaert |
| SIGNATURE | BEECKAERT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2326-7966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Voyages of a Potato Companion: Phytophthora Infestans
Accompanying a shipment of potatoes in 1845, a fungus-like traveller unintentionally made it to Europe, after having maintained a low profile for centuries in Latin America. Decades later, scientists identified this stowaway as the basic ingredient for an outbreak of potato late blight and gave it a name—Phytophthora infestans. By following the potato on its travels back and forth between its cradle in the Andes and its development into a monocro…
Peasant frontiers as a research strategy: Peasant Resilience and the Reproduction of Common Land Rights
Common land rights are nowadays identified as a pivotal action terrain for building sustainable development and climate resilience. This often leads to an idealisation of these common land systems and the people that manage them. This article presents a research strategy that elaborates on the notion of frontiers to unpack peasant resilience and common land rights as the outcome of a long history of peasant adaptation, resistance and self-reinven…
Subsidies to the Rescue. The funding of poor relief in Flemish village communities during the crisis of the 1840s, a comparative analysis
This article questions changes in the funding of local poor relief during the 1845-1848 food crisis in Flemish village communities. This will be studied comparativelybetween three distinct regions in Flanders: inner-Flanders, coastal Flanders, and theWaasland. In all three regions it was local relief institutions that increased their financialcapacity in order to accommodate rising poverty, despite the long-term advanceof nationalized welfare in …
The ‘Societal Turn’. Historicising Future Society
As a group of young historians we are strongly convinced that the future of social and economic history will be a collective endeavour that crosses institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Only by means of continuous and intensive interaction junior researchers will be able to bring the societal turn to a decisive phase in the next ten years. This turn represents an upsurge of social and economic history that is deeply embedded in and engaged w…
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The ‘Societal Turn’. Historicising Future Society
As a group of young historians we are strongly convinced that the future of social and economic history will be a collective endeavour that crosses institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Only by means of continuous and intensive interaction junior researchers will be able to bring the societal turn to a decisive phase in the next ten years. This turn represents an upsurge of social and economic history that is deeply embedded in and engaged w…
Subsidies to the Rescue. The funding of poor relief in Flemish village communities during the crisis of the 1840s, a comparative analysis
This article questions changes in the funding of local poor relief during the 1845-1848 food crisis in Flemish village communities. This will be studied comparativelybetween three distinct regions in Flanders: inner-Flanders, coastal Flanders, and theWaasland. In all three regions it was local relief institutions that increased their financialcapacity in order to accommodate rising poverty, despite the long-term advanceof nationalized welfare in …
Peasant frontiers as a research strategy: Peasant Resilience and the Reproduction of Common Land Rights
Common land rights are nowadays identified as a pivotal action terrain for building sustainable development and climate resilience. This often leads to an idealisation of these common land systems and the people that manage them. This article presents a research strategy that elaborates on the notion of frontiers to unpack peasant resilience and common land rights as the outcome of a long history of peasant adaptation, resistance and self-reinven…
The Voyages of a Potato Companion: Phytophthora Infestans
Accompanying a shipment of potatoes in 1845, a fungus-like traveller unintentionally made it to Europe, after having maintained a low profile for centuries in Latin America. Decades later, scientists identified this stowaway as the basic ingredient for an outbreak of potato late blight and gave it a name—Phytophthora infestans. By following the potato on its travels back and forth between its cradle in the Andes and its development into a monocro…
Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adaptation (eye (1 works) · Agriculture (1 works)