Marcel Wissenburg (born 1962) is a Dutch

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who is a Professor of Political Theory at

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...

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Career

Wissenburg studied

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and

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at the

(RU), where he then read for a PhD, graduating in 1994. He was a junior researcher at RU in the Faculty of Management Sciences from 1990 to 1994, then a

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(funded by the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research) at the same institution from 1995 to 1998. He became a Lecturer of Political Theory and the Philosophy of the Policy Sciences in 1997, and held this title until 2005. During this time, he taught in the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...

's Department of Political Science and, from 1999-2000, at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

. Between 1999 and 2001, he was affiliated with the Nijmegen Centre for Business, Environment and Government. He was the Socrates Professor of Humanist Philosophy at the

Wageningen University and Research Centre Wageningen University & Research (also known as Wageningen UR; abbreviation: WUR) is a public university in Wageningen, Netherlands, specializing in life sciences with a focus on agriculture, technical and engineering subjects. It is a globally ...

from 2004 to 2009. From 2006 to 2009, he was temporarily appointed as Professor of Political Theory in the political science department at RU, but this position became permanent in 2009. That same year, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Research Institute for Law, Politics & Justice,

Keele University Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a public research university in Keele, approximately from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, Keele ...

, and, since 2011, he has been the chair of the RU Department of Public Affairs & Political Science.

Bibliography

Monographs

*1998: ''Green Liberalism: The Free and the Green Society''. London: University College London Press. *1999: ''Imperfection and Impartiality: A Liberal Theory of Social Justice''. London: University College London Press. *2008: ''Political Pluralism and the State: Beyond Sovereignty''. Routledge Innovators in Political Theory. London: Routledge.

Edited collections

*1995: ''Civic Politics and Civil Society''. Nijmegen, Netherlands: University of Nijmegen Press. *1999: ''European Discourses on Environmental Policy''. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate. (with Gökhan Orhan and Ute Collier) *2001: ''Sustaining Liberal Democracy: Ecological Challenges and Opportunities''. London and New York: Palgrave. (with John Barry) *2004: ''Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism: The End of Environmentalism?'' ECPR European Political Science Series. London: Routledge. (with Yoram Levy) *2014: '' Political Animals and Animal Politics''. Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. (with David Schlosberg)

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wissenburg, Marcel 1962 births Living people Dutch political philosophers Green liberalism Green thinkers People from Arnhem Radboud University Nijmegen alumni Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen Academic staff of Leiden University Academic staff of the University of Groningen Academic staff of Wageningen University and Research Academics of Keele University