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    Introduction to the Special Issue, People on Streets. Critical Phenomenologies of Embodied Resistance
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55 (1): 5-11. 2023.
    The last few years have seen the emergence of critical phenomenology as an exciting paradigm in phenomenology and beyond, spanning disciplines such as anthropology, urban studies, gender studies an...
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    Resisting Bodies: Between the Politics of Vulnerability and “We-Can”
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55 (1): 111-128. 2024.
    This article presents a critical phenomenology of embodiment in radical democratic struggles, focusing on racialized citizens inhabiting and navigating public spaces and on anti-racist protests. It contrasts the notion of the precarious body, central to critical theorists like Judith Butler, with an alternative phenomenological understanding, locating the political significance of the body in spontaneous movement (Arendt) and competence (Merleau-Ponty). Attending to either precariousness or mobi…Read more
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    This article seeks to investigate the relation between bodies’ movements, political freedom and the ontological constitution and maintenance of public space, understood in the very material sense of the res publica, the public thing, particularly the question what inhibitions of movement in public space could tell us about the meaning of uninhibited movement for political freedom. The starting point of this inquiry into the political value of bodily movement are Hannah Arendt’s cursory remarks, …Read more
  •  19
    Human Rights Activism and the Politics of Smell and Noise
    Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 46 (1): 4-12. 2017.
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    Arendt, Levinas, and a politics of relationality
    Contemporary Political Theory 17 (S3): 111-114. 2018.
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    This article first aims to reconstruct an Arendtian ‘politics of in/visibility.’ Section one interprets Arendt’s reflections on stateless aliens in inter-war Europe, and the next section provides a conceptual background by situating the politics of visibility within Arendt’s more theoretical-philosophical writings on politics. By juxtaposing her account with current Dutch policies and practices concerning aliens in the last section, this article next aims to investigate the relevance and currenc…Read more
  •  113
    In the 1980s extra-parliamentary social movements and critical theories of race, class, and gender added a new sociocultural understanding of justice—recognition—to the much older socioeconomic one. The best-known form of the struggle for recognition is the identity politics of disadvantaged groups. I argue that there is still another option to conceptualize their predicament, neglected in recent political philosophy, which understands exclusion not in terms of injustice, more particularly a lac…Read more
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    Vriendschap
    Krisis 6 (4): 45-48. 2005.
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    ‘A Sense of the World’: Hannah Arendt’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Common Sense
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (2). 2013.
    (2013). ‘A Sense of the World’: Hannah Arendt’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Common Sense. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. ???aop.label???. doi: 10.1080/09672559.2012.743156
  • Feministische Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik (review)
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 1. 2006.