Dr. Mathijs Van De Sande

Biography

Mathijs van de Sande conducts research on democratic legitimacy and the role of protest in social movements. His work draws on philosophical traditions including anarchism, feminism, Marxism, and Post-Marxism. At Radboud University Nijmegen, he teaches political and practical philosophy. In 2017, he obtained his PhD from the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics (CAPPE) in Brighton (2011-2012), and a Fulbright scholar at The New School for Social Research in New York (2015). During the spring semester of 2023, he was a visiting researcher at Sciences Po in Paris. His current research interests include radical democracy, political representation, and the relevance of protests. His book, 'Prefigurative Democracy: Protest, Social Movements, Political Institution Society' (2023), examines contemporary protest movements and their organizational structures. In 2021, van de Sande began a research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, titled 'Vive la Commune: Communalism and Democratic Repertoire', which investigates the political legacies of the Paris Commune of 1871. He actively participates in academic unions, including the FNV labor union.

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