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David Van Reybrouck


Born
in Brugge, Belgium
September 11, 1971

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David Grégoire Van Reybrouck is a Belgian cultural historian, archaeologist and author. He writes historical fiction, literary non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays and academic texts. Moreover, he is the founder of the G1000 project in Belgium, a platform for democratic innovation and inclusive participatory politics.

He was born into a family of florists, bookbinders and artists. His father, a farmer's son, spent five years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a railway engineer immediately after independence.

He studied archaeology and philosophy at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and obtained a Master's degree in World Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. He also holds a doctorate from Leiden University.

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“But it was definitely a hecatomb, a slaughter on a staggering scale that was not intentional, but that could have been recognized much earlier as the collateral damage of a perfidious, rapacious policy of exploitation, a living sacrifice on the altar of the pathological pursuit of profit.”
David Van Reybrouck, Congo: The Epic History of a People

“Hij heeft geen grenzen overgestoken, de grenzen zijn hem overgestoken.”
David Van Reybrouck, Zink

“Ces dernières décennies, le référendum a souvent été mis en avant comme un moyen efficace de réformer la démocratie. À une époque où la société s’individualise et où la société civile pèse moins lourd qu’autrefois, il a paru utile à beaucoup d’observateurs de demander directement à la population son avis sur des dossiers controversés. Les référendums sur la Constitution européenne aux Pays-Bas, en France et en Irlande ont quelque peu refroidi le zèle en faveur de ce mode de décision. Pourtant, il bénéficie encore d’une grande popularité, comme en témoignent les référendums projetés sur l’autonomie de la Catalogne et de l’Écosse, et sur le retrait du Royaume-Uni de l’Union européenne. Les référendums et la démocratie délibérative sont apparentés dans la mesure où, dans un cas comme dans l’autre, le citoyen ordinaire est consulté, mais les mécanismes sont pour le reste totalement opposés : lors d’un référendum, on demande à tout le monde de voter sur un sujet à propos duquel, le plus souvent, peu de gens sont informés ; lors d’un projet délibératif, on demande à un échantillon représentatif de la population de délibérer sur un sujet à propos duquel il obtient le plus d’informations possible. Lors d’un référendum, les gens réagissent encore très souvent avec leurs tripes ; lors d’une délibération, c’est une opinion publique éclairée qui s’exprime.”
David Van Reybrouck, Tegen verkiezingen

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