I am an Assistant Professor at the chair group of Economic Theory and Policy at Radboud University. I am co-coordinating the multi-disciplinary hotspot Transformative sustainable change in Action at my institute.
My research focuses on two main topics: the governance of natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa, and the development of alternative economic and development systems. I have a background in economics and now work at the border between political economy and ecological economics.
Since my first year as a student in economics, I have been struggling with the content of what I learned. I was lucky enough however to study at a University (Lille) with a real pluralist non-mainstream institute (Clersé, gathering heterodox economists and sociologists), and realised how much the assumptions and foundations of the economics field are wicked. Now I am back as an Assistant Professor in an economics department in the Netherlands that is not the usual type and one of my goals being an academic is to contribute to changing the discipline and the way we teach from the inside.
Being part of this action lab is an amazing opportunity for this. Besides, we can see so many changes in society as in academia. However, economics departments are not changing or very slowly in comparison, and it is urgently needed as economists are mainly heard when formulating recommendations. Let’s join forces!
# transformation
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# policy
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# academia
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# co-creation
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# commons
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# capitalism
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# decolonisation
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# degrowth
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# Indigenous
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# multidisciplinary
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# systemchange
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