Eline Severs
Biographic Data
| ID | 4122670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eline Severs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eline |
| FAMILY NAME | Severs |
| SIGNATURE | SEVERS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5681-5343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Repairing Urban Youth’s Political Disengagement: Why Not Just Any Representative Will Do
This article investigates the experiences with and expectations towards politics of Brussels-based youngsters living in socio-economically disadvantaged and ethnically diverse neighbourhoods. Drawing on six focus groups, we detail how young people understand political representation—whether, how, when, and by whom they feel represented. The analysis centres on youth’s lived experiences with politics, analyses their conceptions of political repres…
The Dark Side of Descriptive Representation: Bodies, Normalisation and Exclusion
This contribution elaborates on the role model function of descriptive representatives. We seek to elaborate on potentially negative effects of role models, as we think they can endanger a feminist project of dismantling hierarchical power relations. When society attributes descriptive representatives the position of role models, the former no longer simply stand for their groups in a socio-demographic manner. Role models also stand for them in a…
Feminist Theorizing: How to Do Justice to a Multifaceted and Contentious Field of Inquiry
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Why We Need to Return to the Ethics of Political Representation
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Preferable Minority Representatives: Brokerage and Betrayal
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Power, privilege and disadvantage: Intersectionality theory and political representation
This article critically reviews the extant literature on social group representation and clarifies the advantages of intersectionality theory for studying political representation. It argues that the merit of intersectionality theory can be found in its ontology of power. Intersectionality theory is founded on a relational conception of political power that locates the constitution of power relations within social interactions, such as political …
The Indirectness of Political Representation: A Blessing or a Concern? A Study of the Conceptions of Members of the Flemish Regional Parliament
This article situates itself within ongoing scholarly debates on the conditions of democratic representation. It, more precisely, posits traditional concerns for the ‘indirectness’ of political representation—that is the possibility for citizens' alienation and exclusion from decision-making—against contemporary accounts that conceive of such ‘indirectness’ as quintessential to democracy; mobilising citizens' judgement and, potentially, drawing t…
The Limits of Categorical Refurbishment: Racialisation and Ethnicisation in the Flemish Debate on How to Denote "Migrant" Populations
Representative claims and beyond: A study of Muslim women's inclusion in the Flemish headscarf debate
In this article, we take a stand against the relativism of contemporary “claim-based” approaches to the study of the substantive representation of women (SRW), and argue for on-going evaluation of the responsiveness of actors’ claims to speak for women. We advance the concept of responsiveness as a criterion for evaluating the quality of SRW. We define such quality in a relational manner; implying the inclusion of women's judgment in the represen…
Substantive Representation Through a Claims-Making Lens: A Strategy for the Identification and Analysis of Substantive Claims
Within the scholarship on substantive representation, representation is increasingly perceived in terms of 'claiming to speak for' the represented. Although this constructivist turn to substantive representation creates promising avenues for further research, it makes it ever more difficult to set processes of representation apart from other, more generic, forms of communication. This article seeks to redress this situation in two ways: firstly, …
Representation as Claims‐making. Quid Responsiveness
Representation is recently viewed in terms of claims‐making. However, in emphasising the performative aspects of representation the issue of responsiveness risks being overlooked. Juxtaposing Hanna Pitkin’s seminal work on representation to Michael Saward’s article ‘The representative claim’, this article argues the need for a reintroduction of a notion of responsiveness within the claims‐making framework, and offers a dynamic conceptualisation o…
Representation as Claims‐making. Quid Responsiveness
Representation is recently viewed in terms of claims‐making. However, in emphasising the performative aspects of representation the issue of responsiveness risks being overlooked. Juxtaposing Hanna Pitkin’s seminal work on representation to Michael Saward’s article ‘The representative claim’, this article argues the need for a reintroduction of a notion of responsiveness within the claims‐making framework, and offers a dynamic conceptualisation o…
Power, privilege and disadvantage: Intersectionality theory and political representation
This article critically reviews the extant literature on social group representation and clarifies the advantages of intersectionality theory for studying political representation. It argues that the merit of intersectionality theory can be found in its ontology of power. Intersectionality theory is founded on a relational conception of political power that locates the constitution of power relations within social interactions, such as political …
Substantive Representation Through a Claims-Making Lens: A Strategy for the Identification and Analysis of Substantive Claims
Within the scholarship on substantive representation, representation is increasingly perceived in terms of 'claiming to speak for' the represented. Although this constructivist turn to substantive representation creates promising avenues for further research, it makes it ever more difficult to set processes of representation apart from other, more generic, forms of communication. This article seeks to redress this situation in two ways: firstly, …
Representative claims and beyond: A study of Muslim women's inclusion in the Flemish headscarf debate
In this article, we take a stand against the relativism of contemporary “claim-based” approaches to the study of the substantive representation of women (SRW), and argue for on-going evaluation of the responsiveness of actors’ claims to speak for women. We advance the concept of responsiveness as a criterion for evaluating the quality of SRW. We define such quality in a relational manner; implying the inclusion of women's judgment in the represen…
The Limits of Categorical Refurbishment: Racialisation and Ethnicisation in the Flemish Debate on How to Denote "Migrant" Populations
Preferable Minority Representatives: Brokerage and Betrayal
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Indirectness of Political Representation: A Blessing or a Concern? A Study of the Conceptions of Members of the Flemish Regional Parliament
This article situates itself within ongoing scholarly debates on the conditions of democratic representation. It, more precisely, posits traditional concerns for the ‘indirectness’ of political representation—that is the possibility for citizens' alienation and exclusion from decision-making—against contemporary accounts that conceive of such ‘indirectness’ as quintessential to democracy; mobilising citizens' judgement and, potentially, drawing t…
The Dark Side of Descriptive Representation: Bodies, Normalisation and Exclusion
This contribution elaborates on the role model function of descriptive representatives. We seek to elaborate on potentially negative effects of role models, as we think they can endanger a feminist project of dismantling hierarchical power relations. When society attributes descriptive representatives the position of role models, the former no longer simply stand for their groups in a socio-demographic manner. Role models also stand for them in a…
Feminist Theorizing: How to Do Justice to a Multifaceted and Contentious Field of Inquiry
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Why We Need to Return to the Ethics of Political Representation
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Representation as Claims‐making. Quid Responsiveness
Representation is recently viewed in terms of claims‐making. However, in emphasising the performative aspects of representation the issue of responsiveness risks being overlooked. Juxtaposing Hanna Pitkin’s seminal work on representation to Michael Saward’s article ‘The representative claim’, this article argues the need for a reintroduction of a notion of responsiveness within the claims‐making framework, and offers a dynamic conceptualisation o…
Substantive Representation Through a Claims-Making Lens: A Strategy for the Identification and Analysis of Substantive Claims
Within the scholarship on substantive representation, representation is increasingly perceived in terms of 'claiming to speak for' the represented. Although this constructivist turn to substantive representation creates promising avenues for further research, it makes it ever more difficult to set processes of representation apart from other, more generic, forms of communication. This article seeks to redress this situation in two ways: firstly, …
Representative claims and beyond: A study of Muslim women's inclusion in the Flemish headscarf debate
In this article, we take a stand against the relativism of contemporary “claim-based” approaches to the study of the substantive representation of women (SRW), and argue for on-going evaluation of the responsiveness of actors’ claims to speak for women. We advance the concept of responsiveness as a criterion for evaluating the quality of SRW. We define such quality in a relational manner; implying the inclusion of women's judgment in the represen…
The Indirectness of Political Representation: A Blessing or a Concern? A Study of the Conceptions of Members of the Flemish Regional Parliament
This article situates itself within ongoing scholarly debates on the conditions of democratic representation. It, more precisely, posits traditional concerns for the ‘indirectness’ of political representation—that is the possibility for citizens' alienation and exclusion from decision-making—against contemporary accounts that conceive of such ‘indirectness’ as quintessential to democracy; mobilising citizens' judgement and, potentially, drawing t…
The Limits of Categorical Refurbishment: Racialisation and Ethnicisation in the Flemish Debate on How to Denote "Migrant" Populations
Power, privilege and disadvantage: Intersectionality theory and political representation
This article critically reviews the extant literature on social group representation and clarifies the advantages of intersectionality theory for studying political representation. It argues that the merit of intersectionality theory can be found in its ontology of power. Intersectionality theory is founded on a relational conception of political power that locates the constitution of power relations within social interactions, such as political …
The Dark Side of Descriptive Representation: Bodies, Normalisation and Exclusion
This contribution elaborates on the role model function of descriptive representatives. We seek to elaborate on potentially negative effects of role models, as we think they can endanger a feminist project of dismantling hierarchical power relations. When society attributes descriptive representatives the position of role models, the former no longer simply stand for their groups in a socio-demographic manner. Role models also stand for them in a…
Feminist Theorizing: How to Do Justice to a Multifaceted and Contentious Field of Inquiry
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Why We Need to Return to the Ethics of Political Representation
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Preferable Minority Representatives: Brokerage and Betrayal
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Repairing Urban Youth’s Political Disengagement: Why Not Just Any Representative Will Do
This article investigates the experiences with and expectations towards politics of Brussels-based youngsters living in socio-economically disadvantaged and ethnically diverse neighbourhoods. Drawing on six focus groups, we detail how young people understand political representation—whether, how, when, and by whom they feel represented. The analysis centres on youth’s lived experiences with politics, analyses their conceptions of political repres…
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