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Dick Pels (1948) is a sociologist, freelance political writer and singer-songwriter. In previous lives, he was Professor of Sociology & Communications at Brunel University, London, chairman of the left-liberal thinktank Waterland and director of the research foundation of the Dutch Green Party. Among his English books are Property and Power. A Study in Intellectual Rivalry<\/em> (1998), The Intellectual as Stranger<\/em> (2000) and Unhastening Science<\/em> (2003). His Dutch books include De geest van Pim. Het gedachtengoed van een politieke dandy<\/em> (2003), Een zwak voor Nederland<\/em> (2005), De economie van de eer<\/em> (2007), Opium van het volk<\/em> (2008) and Het volk bestaat niet<\/em> (2011).\u00a0 A Heart for Europe. The Case for Europatriotism<\/em> was published in 2016. He also writes and performs songs in the folkblues genre (www.dickpelsmusic.nl<\/a>). Until recently, he lived on the historic yacht Nymphaea<\/em> (built in 1917) about which he wrote a cultural biography: Nymphaea. Autobiografie van een jacht<\/em> (Walburg Pers, 2023).<\/p>\n

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