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author, academic & senior lecturer
Nikos Sotirakopoulos is a Senior Lecturer of Social Sciences at York St John University. He is the author of the books ‘The Rise of Lifestyle Activism: from New Left to Occupy’ and of the upcoming ‘Identity Politics & Tribalism: the New Culture Wars’. He has been a member of the organizing team of the Battle of Ideas festival for 10 years, and he is an Academic Advisor to the Ayn Rand Centre UK.