Dr. Kevin Flanagan is an anthropologist, artist and educator, specialising in social movements, digital culture and platform cooperatives, the commons and social solidarity economy. He is experienced in conducting qualitative research, the use of creative, collaborative methods, and digital ethnography. Flanagan was awarded a PhD in Anthropology from Maynooth University in 2022 and holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster. His doctoral thesis, 'Commoning the City' explores the practice, discourse and demands of social movements and municipal policies towards participatory and economic democracy following the election of Barcelona En Comú in 2015. Flanagan has taught courses in Anthropology at Maynooth University and Political Science at the University of Girona. His interests include participatory action research, design justice, design anthropology, collaborative mapping, visual and multimodal anthropology. Flanagan is an advocate for democratic community empowerment. As an activist and academic, he has over fifteen years experience working with arts and cultural organisations as well as communities and movements. He has been an active member and collaborator with self-organised arts collectives and hacker spaces, and is a founding member of SolidNetwork; the Irish network for cooperative and solidarity economy.

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Location

Ireland

Disciplines

• Visual Arts
• Anthropology
• Political Science

Affiliation

Maynooth University Department of Anthropology