Femke Kaulingfreks

Femke Kaulingfreks is a political philosopher, anthropologist and pedagogue who has conducted extensive interdisciplinary research around the challenges young people face growing up in large and diverse urban contexts, particularly in the Netherlands and France. She has just been appointed the Wibaut chair (Wibautleerstoel) at the University of Amsterdam, a special chair created by the municipality of Amsterdam for the study of large urban questions. Femke is specialized in neighborhood-based ethnographic research centering the lifeworlds of young adults, and has focused on youth agency, criminalization, polarization and radicalization in her work. She is the author of Uncivil Engagement and Unruly Politics and Straatpolitiek.