Marnix Beyen's short bio: Marnix Beyen is full professor at the history department of the University of Antwerp, where he is also a member of the research group Power in History. Center for Political History. Central to his research is the cultural and political representation of nations during late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Western Europe. For further information see ;
Guest lecture by Marnix Beyen, University of Antwerp: "The Republic in the Neighborhood: A Local History of National Politics, Paris 1890-1920”
Political representation is not only shaped by representatives, but also by those who are represented. In the book I am preparing, I try to trace the voices of the latter in the letters they wrote to their representatives, and see how echoes of these voices returned in parliamentary discourses. I do so for the Parisian constituencies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thus trying to find out to which degree ‘ordinary citizens’ could contribute to the rise of mass democracy.
Marnix Beyen, University of Antwerp
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