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Author: Eva Vandenberghe

Eva Vandenberghe is PhD researcher at the Department of Conflict & Development Studies (UGent). Eva’s research focuses on studying how radical imagination emerges and persists within Belgian activist movements by looking through the lens of living counter-archives.

Eva Vandenberghe

Eva Vandenberghe is PhD researcher at the Department of Conflict & Development Studies (UGent). Eva’s research focuses on studying how radical imagination emerges and persists within Belgian activist movements by looking through the lens of living counter-archives.

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Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

June, 2026 / By Eva Vandenberghe

Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused […]

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