Pepijn Van Eeden

Biography

Pepijn van Eeden grew up in the Netherlands and received his B.A. in History from the University of Amsterdam (2010). He developed an interest for contemporary politics and the central and eastern European region, which lead to a M.A. in Eastern European Studies (2012, with honours). His final thesis dealt with the history of political ecology in the former Warsaw pact and CIS countries. In 20123, he took up an internship as the assistant of the international director of De Helling (2012/13), the Dutch green political foundation. This involved him in a number of collaborative projects in support of green formations and parties in the non-EU centre and east (mostly following the EaP framework). It further developed his expertise on green politics in CEE, and lead to a position at the European Green Party (2013/14). Here he assisted the EGP Secretary General in the ‘Membership Revision' of parties and groups from Europe's east. A craving for further intellectual development propelled Pepijn into his current PhD research. His research is embedded in the Centre d’étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and aims at a series of articles on political ecology and green party politics outside of Europe’s ‘core’ (see below). The project is supervised by Jean-Michel Dewaele. From September to December 2014, Pepijn van Eeden taught a master’s thesis training course to the international students in International Relations and Political Science at ULB. He attended intensive courses on Interpretive Interviewing, CAQDAS, and ethnomethodology at the ECPR Summer and Winter Schools. Next to his scholarly engagements, Pepijn publishes regularly in dailies (Trouw), new media platforms (De Correspondent, DeWereldMorgen, Verspers) and political platforms (Oikos, Vlam, De Helling).

Research Interest

His interests include: political ecology / (non-Western-European) green parties / environmental politics / East-West dynamics in Europe / European and world history / narrative and discourse analysis / interpretive political science / post-constructivism / empirical ontology / interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) / Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) / ethnomethodology / political theory / democratic theory / left-Schmittianism / actor-network theory (ANT).