Guilhem Mevel

Guilhem Mevel is a PhD candidate in political theory at the CEVIPOF.

He holds a research master’s degree in political theory awarded by Sciences Po. His research thesis was entitled ‘Can radical democracy be representative? A materialist history of the imperialist mandate.’ He is currently working on his PhD thesis on theories of radical democracy, under the supervision of Gil Delannoi.

He is working on the decompartmentalization of this concept as used by Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau. His work seeks to confront postmodern conceptions of the subject with the controversial role of subjectivity in historical Marxist debate. The history of ideas thus facilitates an approach to contemporary contradictions of radical democracy - that lie somewhere between spontaneity and populist strategy.

Thesis title: La théorie du sujet dans la démocratie radicale : lire les divergences pratiques à l’aune de la représentation. Supervised by: Gil Delannoi