Sebastiaan Bierema

Sebastiaan Bierema is research fellow in the governance strand of the Public Housing & Urban Regeneration programme. He completed his PhD in political theory at the University of Galway—his thesis explored the parallels between populism and early twentieth-century utopianism, with a specific focus on urban spaces and ideology. His research and teaching interests are in cities and the built environment, urban spaces and hostile architecture, democratic theory, utopianism, populism, and conspiracy theories.

 

Key publications

  1. Sebastiaan Bierema
    (Forthcoming, 2024).
    Anti-Utopian Blueprints: Populism in Müller’s Empty City.
    Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory.

    Forthcoming

  2. Sebastiaan Bierema Harris, M.
    2016
    A Universal Basic Income for New Zealand. Future of Work Commission Background Papers.
    Wellington: New Zealand Labour Party
  3. Sebastiaan Bierema
    2023
    Appropriating the Neoliberal City : Populism, Post-Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Problematic of the ‘World’.
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology,
    Appropriating the Neoliberal City : Populism, Post-Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Problematic of the ‘World’.
  4. Leyden, K. Hogan, M. D'Arcy, L. Bunting, B. Bierema, S.
    2023
    Walkable Neighborhoods: Linkages Between Place, Health, and Happiness in Younger and Older Adults.
    Journal of the American Planning Association.