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Sebastiaan Bierema imageBA, 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. (2025, November). Retaliatory evictions, tenure precarity, and the enforcement of private rental housing standards. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA)/Te Kāhui Tātai Tōngorapū o Aotearoa (TKTToA) Biennial Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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

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