Laurent Chambon

Laurent Chambon (born Laurent Pascal Chambon Guéguen on 22 May 1972 in Châtenay-Malabry France) is a French sociologist and politicologist living in Amsterdam since 1998. Specialist of the question of minorities in politics, he has been elected in the borough of Amsterdam Oud-Zuid for the Dutch Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) between March 2006 and May 2010 [1]. He was the only non-Dutch European politician in the Netherlands at the time.

Co-founder of the minority-related website Minorités, he is quite visible, as sociologist and as former politician, in the French media to talk about the Netherlands, and in the Dutch media to talk about the French situation. He was correspondant for French-speaking media in the Netherlands (particularly Têtu and Libération).

Doctor (PhD) in Political sciences, former pupil at the Lycée Lakanal, he is also producer for Cherry Juice Recordings and musician as Laurent Outang, one half of Laurent & Lewis. After having taught French and Political sciences at the Hyperion Lyceum in Amsterdam, he now teaches at the Gemeentelijk Gymnasium Hilversum. He is member of the antiracist party Bij1 and the antispecist party Party for the Animals (Partij voor de Dieren) and of the AOb and Leraren in actie trade unions.

Works

• Le sel de la démocratie, l'accès des minorités au pouvoir politique en France et aux Pays-Bas (The Salt of Democracy, Minority Access to Political Power in France and the Netherlands [2]), University of Amsterdam, 2002.
• Le grand mélange, Minorités, tolérance et faux-semblants dans la France de Nicolas Sarkozy, Éditions Denoël, Paris, April 2008.
• Überlove, Laurent & Lewis, Cherry Juice Recordings, May 2008 (CD) [3].
• Marine ne perd pas le Nord, Éditions Le Muscadier, Paris, March 2012 [4].
• Machine à danser, Laurent Outang, Testlab, June 2017.
• This Pill, The Uglicians, Cherry Juice Recordings, July 2019.

External links

• Minorités.org (collective site)
• Laurent & Lewis (music)
• Discogs: Laurent Chambon