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. (2023). Appropriating the neoliberal city: Populism, post-transcendental phenomenology, and the problematic of the “world”. Journal of Aesthetics & Phenomenology, 10(1), 67-87. doi: 10.1080/20539320.2023.2239605 Journal - Research Article
Bierema, S. B. (2023). After the end of history: Utopia, cities, and the populist imagination (PhD). University of Galway, Galway, Ireland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10379/17797 Awarded Doctoral Degree
Leyden, K. M., Hogan, M. J., D'Arcy, L., Bunting, B., & Bierema, S. (2023). Walkable neighborhoods: Linkages between place, health, and happiness in younger and older adults. Journal of the American Planning Association. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2123382 Journal - Research Article
Bierema, S. (2019). [Review of the book The people vs. democracy: Why our freedom is in danger and how to save it]. Journal of Political Power, 12(3), 460-463. doi: 10.1080/2158379X.2019.1668637 Journal - Research Other