Anthropologist.
Keywords: Bottom-up organisation, self-organisation and self-determination, democratization, direct democracy, deep democracy, cultural anthropology, prefiguratieve practices, nation building, conflict resolution, modernization, community building, municipalism, social engineering, development aid, human rights, gender equality, equity, refugee rights.
My focus areas are the Netherlands, Turkey and the North of Syria. I have a special interest in the “Kurdish question” and the democratic alternative taking shape in Rojava, North of Syria.
Event Manager.
Artistic Programme Coordinator, Catering Management.