Laurent Pascal Chambon Guéguen (born 22 May 1972) is a French sociologist and politicologist
who has resided in
Amsterdam
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since 1998. A specialist of the question of minorities in politics, he was elected in the
borough
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History
In the Middle Ag ...
of
Amsterdam Oud-Zuid
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History
The borough was formed in 1998 by merging the former boroughs of Amsterdam-Zuid and De Pijp, lying southwest and south ...
for the
Labour Party (PvdA) from March 2006 to May 2010. Chambon was the only non-Dutch European politician in the Netherlands at the time. He is a native of
Châtenay-Malabry, south-southwest of Paris.
Co-founder of the minority-related website ''Minorités'', he is a visible figure, as a sociologist and former politician, in French media to discuss the Netherlands, as well as in the Dutch media to discuss France. He was a correspondent for French-speaking media in the Netherlands (particularly ''
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Libération
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Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
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** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...
) in political science and a former pupil at the
Lycée Lakanal
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, he is also a producer for Cherry Juice Recordings and a musician as Laurent Outang, one half of
Laurent & Lewis. After having taught French and political science at the
Hyperion Lyceum in Amsterdam, he now teaches at the Lyceum Rotterdam. Chambon is member of the antiracist party
BIJ1 and the antispecist party
Party for the Animals
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Since 2019, the PvdD's political lead ...
(PvdD). He is also a member of the AOb and Teachers in action (''Leraren in actie'') trade unions.
Works
* ''Le sel de la démocratie, l'accès des minorités au pouvoir politique en France et aux Pays-Bas'' (The Salt of Democracy, Minority Access to Political Power in France and the Netherlands), University of Amsterdam, 2002.
* ''Le grand mélange, Minorités, tolérance et faux-semblants dans la France de Nicolas Sarkozy'', Éditions Denoël, Paris, April 2008.
* ''Überlove'', Laurent & Lewis, Cherry Juice Recordings, May 2008 (CD).
* ''Marine ne perd pas le Nord'', Éditions Le Muscadier, Paris, March 2012.
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* ''Machine à danser'', Laurent Outang, Testlab, June 2017.
* ''This Pill'', The Uglicians, Cherry Juice Recordings, July 2019.
References
External links
Minorités.org
(collective site)
* Laurent & Lewis (music)
* Discogs
Laurent Chambon
1972 births
Living people
French expatriates in the Netherlands
French sociologists
French male writers
People from Châtenay-Malabry
University of Amsterdam alumni
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