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Researcher

Eline Mestdagh

Publications & Research Data

Awards & Distinctions

22 Results

2025

'It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men' : decolonial memory activists and the duty to remember in postcolonial Belgium (2010–present)

A1 Journal Article in MEMORY STUDIES

Registers of dissent : mobilizing memory for racial justice in Belgium’s ‘decolonial moment’ (2010 – 2021)

Eline MestdaghBerber Bevernage

2024

Claiming the people's past : populist politics of history in the twenty-first century

Introduction : towards a theory of populist historical reason

Berber BevernageEline MestdaghWalderez RamalhoMarie-Gabrielle Verbergt

Bookchapter in Claiming the people's past : populist politics of history in the twenty-first century

Lumumba, memory activism, and the state (2010-2018)

Mujib’s two bodies : memorial populism in Bangladesh

Julian KuttigBert Suykens

Bookchapter in Claiming the people's past : populist politics of history in the twenty-first century

Populist Islamism in East Africa : elaborating alternative futures from idealized pasts

Felicitas Maria Becker

Bookchapter in Claiming the people's past : populist politics of history in the twenty-first century

2023

Appropriation and contestation of the duty to remember in postcolonial Belgium (2010 – present)

2022

Op zoek naar de ‘nieuwe’ Vlaamse meesters in het KMSKA

Article in a magazine

Over verschuivende blinde vlekken en de dilemma’s van linkse politiek in een postkoloniaal tijdperk

A2 Journal Article in TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR SOCIALE EN ECONOMISCHE GESCHIEDENIS

Social reform international congresses and organizations (1846-1914) : from sources to data

Christophe VerbruggenFlorian DerooHans BlommeThomas D'haeninckAmandine ThiryLisa van DiemJan VandersmissenEline MestdaghBo BillietJudith Wolff et al.

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF OPEN HUMANITIES DATA

‘Counter-truth telling’ from below in the face of Belgium’s Congo Commission (2020-2021)

2020

Commission Congo : la peur paralysante de l’historien

Berber BevernageEline MestdaghBruno De WeverEva WillemsRomain Landmeters

Article in a newspaper

De verlammende angst van de historicus

Berber BevernageEline MestdaghBruno De WeverEva WillemsRomain Landmeters

Article in a newspaper

Restitutie als zuiveringsritueel?

Article in a magazine

Wanneer “nuance” leidt tot vergoeilijking

Eline MestdaghGillian Mathys

Article in a newspaper

2019

The elephant in the room : how the Africamuseum has (not) shed its colonial ‘curse’

Berber BevernageEline Mestdagh

Bookchapter in Jelena Juresa : Aphasia

2018

(Van) wie is Zwarte Piet?

A2 Journal Article in DE UIL VAN MINERVA

Over Zwarte Piet, erkenning en historisch onrecht in ‘postkoloniaal’ Nederland

A2 Journal Article in BROOD & ROZEN

‘Devoir de mémoire’ in Brussels : the turn to memory in Belgian postcolonial recognition struggles

2017

Between academia and activism : how to manage your position as an engaged researcher?

Wat Zwarte Piet ons kan leren over historici, verhalen en identiteit