Hannah Oorts is a predoctoral researcher, connected to both the department of political science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick; as part of an EUTOPIA joint-PhD. She holds a master’s degree in political science from the VUB, as well an advanced master’s degree in cultural anthropology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her research centres around the concepts of political representation, performance and claim-making. In her PhD, she aims to understand how political representation is done and how the representative relation is enacted. Building upon the constructivist claim-making framework and theatre studies, she explores the dimensions of representation as a theatrical performance.
