Kevin
Smets
Kevin Smets is research professor in film studies and cultural media studies. He studied cultural history (KU Leuven) and obtained a PhD in Film Studies and Visual Culture (University of Antwerp). His research focuses primarily on the intersections between migration, media and conflict, with a long research interest in Turkey. Kevin is co-director of the ECHO research group and since 2021 he leads the Reel Borders project, funded by an ERC Starting Grant. He also teaches the course ‘Film history’.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4517 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4932-9064 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/smetskevin/ | |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Smets-2 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration governance
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Migration policy and law
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
Roles
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
University, Brussel, Belgium
Associate professor
Research
Counter-documentation tactics: participatory, visual, and walking research with undocumented migrants
| Authors | Kevin Smets, Lisa Ahenkona |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Communication, Culture & Critique | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Media Capture and Journalism as Emotional Labor: How Do Media Professionals Manage Bureaucratic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq?
| Authors | Jiyan Faris, Pieter Maeseele, Yazan Badran, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journalism Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Cultural Identity Performances on Social Media: A Study of Bolivian Students
| Authors | Paola Condemayta Soto, Joke Bauwens, Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journalism and Media | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Refugee hybrid fiction: Rhetorical, generic and intermedial hybridity as strategies of political resistance
| Authors | Giacomo Toffano, Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Anatomy of a precarious newsroom: precarity and agency in Syrian exiled journalism in Turkey
| Authors | Yazan Badran, Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Media, Culture & Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Local associative media in Tunisia and the value of voice
| Authors | Yazan Badran, Jan Loisen, Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | The Journal of North African Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ethnic identity without ethnic media? Diasporic cosmopolitanism, (social) media and distant conflict among young Kurds in London
| Authors | Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | International Communication Gazette | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Five Questions for Digital Migration Studies: Learning From Digital Connectivity and Forced Migration In(to) Europe
| Authors | Koen Leurs, Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Social Media + Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Book review: Social media in Southeast Turkey: Love, kinship and politics
| Authors | Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Social Media + Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The way Syrian refugees in Turkey use media: Understanding “connected refugees” through a non-media-centric and local approach
| Authors | Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Communications | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Editorial introduction. Representations of immigrants and refugees: News coverage, public opinion and media literacy
| Authors | Kevin Smets, Çiğdem Bozdağ |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Communications | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Perceived Human Rights in Van Merkez, Eastern Turkey
| Authors | Kenneth Hemmerechts, Kevin Smets, Christiane Timmerman |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Diaspora
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ethnic media, conflict, and the nation-state: Kurdish broadcasting in Turkey and Europe and mediated nationhood
| Authors | Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Media, Culture & Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Kurds and Their Cultural Crossroads Kurdish Identity, Media and Cultural Production
| Authors | Kevin Smets, Ali Fuat Sengul |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Media and violent conflict: Halil Dağ, Kurdish insurgency, and the hybridity of vernacular cinema of conflict
| Authors | Kevin Smets, Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Media, War & Conflict | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Film-viewing in Turkish and Moroccan diasporic families: a gender and place perspective
| Authors | Kevin Smets, Sofie Van Bauwel, Philippe Meers, ... |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Gender, Place & Culture | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Links of ink. Pieces of textual heritage of the Turkish migration in Belgium
| Authors | Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | VOLKSKUNDE | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Bordering cinematic experiences: Emotional narratives in the Irish borderland
| Authors | Silvia Almenara-Niebla, Kevin Smets |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Emotion, Space and Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Refugee and Mediated Lives
| Authors | Kevin Smets, Giacomo Toffano, Silvia Almenara-Niebla |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Pride and popcorn: consuming the idea of community at film screenings in the Turkish diaspora
| Authors | Kevin Smets, Philippe Meers, Roel Vande Winkel, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Identities |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |