Making Trouble: Disruptive interventions of urban youth as unruly politics
The possibility that civil engagement can be subversive and that political agency can take unruly forms is explored in this book. The notion of unruly politics is presented by the author to describe a political agency that does not abide by the formal, moral and legal rules of the dominant game of poli tics. In order to give insight in possible sites and situations where such unruly politics take shape, Femke Kaulingfreks investigates the case of young urban troublemakers who are not recognized as worthy, or meaningful, political actors be cause they express disruptive agency in public space. The narratives of male adolescents with a migrant background from two deprived neighborhoods - one in the Netherlands and one in France- are engaged with philosophical theories on the difference between institutional politics and informal politics.
Femke Kaulingfreks ( 1981) received her Masters degree in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and completed her PhD at the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht.
On Monday November 25 2013 Femke Kaulingfreks defends her PhD thesis: Making Trouble: Disruptive interventions of urban youth as unruly politics.