BA, BA Hons, MA, PhD
NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities, University of Otago
Contact details
Email sebastiaan.bierema@otago.ac.nz
www.sebastiaanbierema.com
Research interests and activities
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.
Publications
Bierema, S., & Ruggi, L. O. (2025). The ramblings of an angry pig: Disruptive counter-imaginaries and the meaning of work at the University of Galway. Studies in Philosophy & Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s11217-025-10013-8 Journal - Research Article
Bierema, S., & Le Gros, L. (2025). Public housing in Aotearoa and Austria: A utopian comparison. Environment & Planning C. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/23996544251355597 Journal - Research Article
Le Gros, L., & Bierema, S. (2024). Housing, financialisation, and utopia in Ursula Le Guin's ‘The Dispossessed’. Proceedings of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Conference: The Sociology to Come. Retrieved from https://www.saanz.net/saanz2024/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Fasoro, A., Yu, C., Bierema, S., Pehi, T., Fraser, B., Howden-Chapman, P., & Pierse, N. (2024). The impact of transitions from emergency housing to public housing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Discover Public Health, 21, 189. doi: 10.1186/s12982-024-00320-9 Journal - Research Article
Leyden, K. M., Hogan, M. J., D'Arcy, L., Bunting, B., & Bierema, S. (2024). Walkable neighborhoods: Linkages between place, health, and happiness in younger and older adults. Journal of the American Planning Association, 90(1), 101-114. doi: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2123382 Journal - Research Article