Dr. Soumaya Majdoub

I’m deeply offended. We women have still a long way to go.

Doe ik direct. Dank voor jullie fantastisch werk.

Een cadeaubon ergens, kan dit helpen? Laat u weten wat het snelste werkt?

And helmets for stubborn people are difficult to find.

I see her posting on LinkedIn, she « seems » ok.

Then you might like how Ben Simon is experimenting with velvet corduroy…

Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

It’s Friday. May I be blunt? F*ck this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

You may be blunt all days of the week! This madness needs to be stopped immediately.

Join the club. Mine is a mix of house and French Rap.

I am into Jazz…

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Thank you Emmanuel! Unfortunately it’s still under embargo, but I’ll share bits and pieces over here in the coming days and weeks until I free myself from the shackles of academic publishing.
And if I can be of any use for your PhD, don’t hesitate to reach out.

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Every. Single. Time.

(You forgot to mention Africa. It’s always Africa.)

Thank you, Rebecca!

Thank you, Leslie! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

For those in the back…

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Thank you!!

Most certainly! 😉
Please reach out by mail: soumaya.majdoub@vub.be

And yes, it’s crazy how we cannot seem to get rid of that narrative. I hope my explanatory framework can be of use to tackle its persistence.

Thank you, Amanda!

Always happy to connect with people thinking about population, climate, migration and justice beyond the usual Malthusian script.

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The thesis follows how this apparatus operates in Dutch population policy, EU migration governance and climate adaptation, but also documents practices – from cuerpo territorio to reproductive justice and data sovereignty – that refuse demographic capture.

I read this as epistemic foreclosure: erasing other lineages so that a linear, catastrophic Malthusian worldview appears as neutral demographic “science.”

The surprising part: 4 centuries before Malthus, Ibn Khaldun theorised population, economy and power in cyclical, relational terms, where density could generate prosperity rather than inevitable crisis – yet he is almost entirely absent from demographic training.

It works through seven mechanisms from double‑sided discourse and affective mobilisation to temporal manipulation, scientific legitimation, naturalisation, coalitional breadth and institutional resilience.

I call the underlying process Malthusianisation: the way structural outcomes are continually remade as “population problems.”

PhD defended! My thesis asks why, in 2025, we still explain housing crises, border regimes and climate breakdown through “overpopulation” – even when the evidence points to extraction, speculation and colonial histories instead.

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What’s their rationale, you think?

Humaan en solidair, het EU Migratiepact.

RFK Jr. why don’t you take some notes?

Why is that even a question?