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
Bierre, S., Bierema, S., & Chisholm, E. (2026). Capital and power in the governance of Aotearoa New Zealand’s community housing sector. Housing, Theory & Society. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/14036096.2026.2724884 Journal - Research Article
Bierema, S., & Chisholm, E. (2026). The State as employer and landlord: State-owned company housing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of New Zealand Studies, (NS41), 42-62. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS41.11044 Journal - Research Article
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