Marcos Engelken-Jorge
Marcos Engelken-Jorge holds a degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, where he also gained his PhD, and holds a postgraduate degree in ‘Advanced Methods of Applied Statistics’ (UNED). He has held various positions as a researcher and lecturer at UPV/EHU, has worked as a Marie Curie researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin with the project LearningDemoi (625592), and has provided support to participatory projects at local and European levels while working outside academia. His research interests lie in contemporary political theory, in particular critical theory and deliberative democracy, as well as in political sociology, with a special emphasis on the sociology of the public sphere and the study of populist mobilisations and discourses. He is currently working for the project Democratic Literacy and Humour, DELIAH (101177739), which examines the multifaceted role of humour in contemporary democracies, including its employment for the dissemination of hate speech and its use as a form of counter-speech.
His work has been published in journals such as Political Studies, European Journal of Social Theory, Critical Horizons and Journal of Political Ideologies. He is also the editor of books and author of book chapters published by publishers such as Tecnos and VS-Verlag/Springer, and he has contributed to events organised by the International Political Science Association, European Consortium for Political Research and the Spanish Association of Political Science and Public Administration.
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