PhD defence: Catarina Pessanha Gomes

This thesis connects the history and philosophy of ideas with organizational practices of contemporary social movements. It examines the historical and epistemological significance of Romanticism as a cultural movement providing activists with resources to legitimate aesthetic and imaginative types of prefigurative practices. The French social movement Nuit Debout and its occupation of public space is studied as an illustrative example of how the prefiguration of another, different world combines artistic and symbolic interventions as well as forms of organizing practices and political representation.  
 
Primary Supervisor:
Professor Dennis Schoeneborn
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business School
 
Secondary Supervisor:
Professor Mitchell Dean
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assessment Committee:
Professor Hans Krause Hansen (Chair)
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business School
 
Professor Juliane Reinecke
Kings College London
 
Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Centre for Development Studies
University of Bath
 
Thesis:
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk
 
Reception:
The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in DHV 2.88 (second floor).