• KU Leuven
    Institute of Philosophy
    Graduate student
  • Radboud University
    Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies
    Assistant Professor
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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    This article conceptualizes some of the political practices and discourses that characterize recent protest movements such as Occupy and the Indignados. These movements’ strategies are distinguished by the central role they give to the occupation and recomposition of public spaces and also by their refusal to engage with 10 representative politics and public institutions. Critics argue that this so-called strategy of withdrawal illustrates a categorical misunderstanding of the political. But as …Read more
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    Kropotkin: Reviewing the classical Anarchist tradition
    Contemporary Political Theory 18 (3): 183-186. 2019.
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    Only one year after the global wave of protest movements and revolts—starting with the ‘Arab Spring’, then, subsequently, the Indignados movement and Occupy- our appreciation of such movements turned sour. The aim of this contribution is to question the predominantly sceptical and defeatist discourse on these movements. One element central to many defeatist discourses on the 2011 movements, is the way in which a lack of demonstrable ‘outcomes’ or ‘successes’ is retrospectively ascribed to them. …Read more