Amanda Machin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Machin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Machin |
| SIGNATURE | MACHIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Agder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The turn to the imagination: Transformation, politics and limits
We are currently witnessing what we refer to in this Critical Exchange as ‘a turn to the imagination’. Across the academy and beyond, the concept of ‘imaginaries’is increasingly used to examine how the imagination is provoked, harnessed and dispersed to encourage or inhibit social, political, economic, technological and cultural transformation. Highlighting the need for critical reflection not only on the possibilities but also the limits of this…
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses
This Critical Exchange explores the nonhuman condition. It asks: What are the implications of decentering the human subject via a new materialist reading of radical democracy? Does this reading dilute political agency? Or should this be seen, on the contrary, as an invitation for new voices and demands to enter into democratic assemblages? How might engagement with the more-than-human disrupt or extend theories of radical democracy? In our introd…
Bodies of Democracy: Modes of Embodied Politics
Where are all the bodies? Political institutions are populated by living, breathing human beings, who eat, sleep, gesture, desire and suffer. And yet participants of the political realm are often depicted as disembodied minds, detached and distinct from their corporeal existence. Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: representation, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinke…
Green European citizenship? Rights, duties, virtues, practices and the European Green Deal
Published in December 2019 by the European Commission, the European Green Deal (EGD) sets out the aim to transform the EU into a sustainable society in which economic growth is decoupled from resource use, so that there are no greenhouse gas net emissions by 2050. As the 'driving force of the transition' citizens are expected a play a key role in achieving this shift, by adopting sustainable consumption habits and changing their life styles and b…
Green democracy
A recurring feature of green movements is their emphasis on democracy, but what do greens mean exactly when they contemplate democracy? In this chapter, I delineate a green democratic imaginary that enables and shapes discussions of democracy between greens and is characterized by six dimensions: decentralization, inclusion, passion, participation, protest, and rupture. I highlight the connections and contradictions of these dimensions and their …
Corporealising a Healthy Democracy? Inequality, Bodies and Participation
Socio-economic inequality is associated with differentiated levels of health and poor health affects political participation; inequalities are embodied in political life. This contribution, focusing on South Africa, attends to the impact of exposure to environmental hazards and stigmatisation of unhealthy bodies on political participation. The corporealisation of a healthy democratic politics demands not (only) the inclusion of different bodies, …
Democracy, disagreement, disruption: Agonism and the Environmental State
Contemporary liberal democratic states seem to be headed towards inevitable environmental crisis. These states are locked into unsustainable practices and appear to lack the political institutions that could help them change path. Although there is broad social awareness of the problem of climate change, for example, this has not translated into robust environmental policymaking. Should democracy be regarded as a constitutive part of the ‘glass c…
Society and Climate: Transformations and Challenges
Agony and the Anthropos
The Anthropocene diagnosis, in which humanity has become a disruptive geological force, indicates an irresolvable political paradox. The political demos is inevitably and necessarily bounded. The Anthropocene, however, heralds the anthropos—the globalized more-than-human identity. The anthropos challenges the maintenance of political boundaries, yet any robust response to ecological predicament must be underpinned by a decisive demos. This articl…
Democracy and Agonism in the Anthropocene: The Challenges of Knowledge, Time and Boundary
The diagnosis of a new geological epoch, The ‘Anthropocene’, has implications far beyond geological science. If human activity has disrupted the planet, then this diagnosis potentially disrupts socio-political conventions. This article assesses the implications the Anthropocene has for democratic politics, by delineating three challenges: challenges of knowledge, time and boundary. In contrast to the claim that democratic institutions are unable …
Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate
Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate
Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits
Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits
The contributions in this book highlight, contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are the various cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recent decades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written by authors from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions, these contributions provide a rich account of inequality within contemporary society. The role of the state, the m…
Trusting the Climate: Catastrophe Vs. Stability
Deliberating Bodies: Democracy, Identification, and Embodiment
The significance of embodiment has long been overlooked in theories of deliberative democracy. Deliberation is characterized by inclusive and rational discussion that functions in an allegedly neutral and abstract space. This article draws attention to the bodies between which political interaction always occurs. Bodies have important yet unpredictable effects for political interaction and can extend or disorder the careful conscious conversation…
Negotiating climate change: Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus
Climate change is the greatest challenge of the age and yet fierce disagreement still exists over the best way to tackle the problem or, indeed, about whether it should be tackled at all. In this original book, Amanda Machin draws on radical democratic theory to show that such disagreement does not have to hinder collective action; rather, democratic differences are necessary if we are to have any hope of acting against climate change
Decisions, disagreement and responsibility: Towards an Agonistic Green Citizenship
In recent explications of green citizenship, citizenship responsibilities are emphasised over citizenship rights. Too often it is assumed that deciding the content of these citizenship responsibilities and acting collectively in accordance with them is a straightforward matter of rational consensus. Using Mouffe's account of the political, this article argues that a rational and fully inclusive consensus is impossible. The inevitable conflict of …
Illness: A Collection of Poems
Democracy and Agonism in the Anthropocene: The Challenges of Knowledge, Time and Boundary
The diagnosis of a new geological epoch, The ‘Anthropocene’, has implications far beyond geological science. If human activity has disrupted the planet, then this diagnosis potentially disrupts socio-political conventions. This article assesses the implications the Anthropocene has for democratic politics, by delineating three challenges: challenges of knowledge, time and boundary. In contrast to the claim that democratic institutions are unable …
Democracy, disagreement, disruption: Agonism and the Environmental State
Contemporary liberal democratic states seem to be headed towards inevitable environmental crisis. These states are locked into unsustainable practices and appear to lack the political institutions that could help them change path. Although there is broad social awareness of the problem of climate change, for example, this has not translated into robust environmental policymaking. Should democracy be regarded as a constitutive part of the ‘glass c…
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses
This Critical Exchange explores the nonhuman condition. It asks: What are the implications of decentering the human subject via a new materialist reading of radical democracy? Does this reading dilute political agency? Or should this be seen, on the contrary, as an invitation for new voices and demands to enter into democratic assemblages? How might engagement with the more-than-human disrupt or extend theories of radical democracy? In our introd…
Green European citizenship? Rights, duties, virtues, practices and the European Green Deal
Published in December 2019 by the European Commission, the European Green Deal (EGD) sets out the aim to transform the EU into a sustainable society in which economic growth is decoupled from resource use, so that there are no greenhouse gas net emissions by 2050. As the 'driving force of the transition' citizens are expected a play a key role in achieving this shift, by adopting sustainable consumption habits and changing their life styles and b…
Decisions, disagreement and responsibility: Towards an Agonistic Green Citizenship
In recent explications of green citizenship, citizenship responsibilities are emphasised over citizenship rights. Too often it is assumed that deciding the content of these citizenship responsibilities and acting collectively in accordance with them is a straightforward matter of rational consensus. Using Mouffe's account of the political, this article argues that a rational and fully inclusive consensus is impossible. The inevitable conflict of …
Deliberating Bodies: Democracy, Identification, and Embodiment
The significance of embodiment has long been overlooked in theories of deliberative democracy. Deliberation is characterized by inclusive and rational discussion that functions in an allegedly neutral and abstract space. This article draws attention to the bodies between which political interaction always occurs. Bodies have important yet unpredictable effects for political interaction and can extend or disorder the careful conscious conversation…
Corporealising a Healthy Democracy? Inequality, Bodies and Participation
Socio-economic inequality is associated with differentiated levels of health and poor health affects political participation; inequalities are embodied in political life. This contribution, focusing on South Africa, attends to the impact of exposure to environmental hazards and stigmatisation of unhealthy bodies on political participation. The corporealisation of a healthy democratic politics demands not (only) the inclusion of different bodies, …
Trusting the Climate: Catastrophe Vs. Stability
Illness: A Collection of Poems
Decisions, disagreement and responsibility: Towards an Agonistic Green Citizenship
In recent explications of green citizenship, citizenship responsibilities are emphasised over citizenship rights. Too often it is assumed that deciding the content of these citizenship responsibilities and acting collectively in accordance with them is a straightforward matter of rational consensus. Using Mouffe's account of the political, this article argues that a rational and fully inclusive consensus is impossible. The inevitable conflict of …
Negotiating climate change: Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus
Climate change is the greatest challenge of the age and yet fierce disagreement still exists over the best way to tackle the problem or, indeed, about whether it should be tackled at all. In this original book, Amanda Machin draws on radical democratic theory to show that such disagreement does not have to hinder collective action; rather, democratic differences are necessary if we are to have any hope of acting against climate change
Deliberating Bodies: Democracy, Identification, and Embodiment
The significance of embodiment has long been overlooked in theories of deliberative democracy. Deliberation is characterized by inclusive and rational discussion that functions in an allegedly neutral and abstract space. This article draws attention to the bodies between which political interaction always occurs. Bodies have important yet unpredictable effects for political interaction and can extend or disorder the careful conscious conversation…
Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits
Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits
The contributions in this book highlight, contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are the various cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recent decades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written by authors from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions, these contributions provide a rich account of inequality within contemporary society. The role of the state, the m…
Trusting the Climate: Catastrophe Vs. Stability
Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate
Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate
Society and Climate: Transformations and Challenges
Agony and the Anthropos
The Anthropocene diagnosis, in which humanity has become a disruptive geological force, indicates an irresolvable political paradox. The political demos is inevitably and necessarily bounded. The Anthropocene, however, heralds the anthropos—the globalized more-than-human identity. The anthropos challenges the maintenance of political boundaries, yet any robust response to ecological predicament must be underpinned by a decisive demos. This articl…
Democracy and Agonism in the Anthropocene: The Challenges of Knowledge, Time and Boundary
The diagnosis of a new geological epoch, The ‘Anthropocene’, has implications far beyond geological science. If human activity has disrupted the planet, then this diagnosis potentially disrupts socio-political conventions. This article assesses the implications the Anthropocene has for democratic politics, by delineating three challenges: challenges of knowledge, time and boundary. In contrast to the claim that democratic institutions are unable …
Democracy, disagreement, disruption: Agonism and the Environmental State
Contemporary liberal democratic states seem to be headed towards inevitable environmental crisis. These states are locked into unsustainable practices and appear to lack the political institutions that could help them change path. Although there is broad social awareness of the problem of climate change, for example, this has not translated into robust environmental policymaking. Should democracy be regarded as a constitutive part of the ‘glass c…
Green democracy
A recurring feature of green movements is their emphasis on democracy, but what do greens mean exactly when they contemplate democracy? In this chapter, I delineate a green democratic imaginary that enables and shapes discussions of democracy between greens and is characterized by six dimensions: decentralization, inclusion, passion, participation, protest, and rupture. I highlight the connections and contradictions of these dimensions and their …
Corporealising a Healthy Democracy? Inequality, Bodies and Participation
Socio-economic inequality is associated with differentiated levels of health and poor health affects political participation; inequalities are embodied in political life. This contribution, focusing on South Africa, attends to the impact of exposure to environmental hazards and stigmatisation of unhealthy bodies on political participation. The corporealisation of a healthy democratic politics demands not (only) the inclusion of different bodies, …
Bodies of Democracy: Modes of Embodied Politics
Where are all the bodies? Political institutions are populated by living, breathing human beings, who eat, sleep, gesture, desire and suffer. And yet participants of the political realm are often depicted as disembodied minds, detached and distinct from their corporeal existence. Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: representation, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinke…
Green European citizenship? Rights, duties, virtues, practices and the European Green Deal
Published in December 2019 by the European Commission, the European Green Deal (EGD) sets out the aim to transform the EU into a sustainable society in which economic growth is decoupled from resource use, so that there are no greenhouse gas net emissions by 2050. As the 'driving force of the transition' citizens are expected a play a key role in achieving this shift, by adopting sustainable consumption habits and changing their life styles and b…
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses
This Critical Exchange explores the nonhuman condition. It asks: What are the implications of decentering the human subject via a new materialist reading of radical democracy? Does this reading dilute political agency? Or should this be seen, on the contrary, as an invitation for new voices and demands to enter into democratic assemblages? How might engagement with the more-than-human disrupt or extend theories of radical democracy? In our introd…
The turn to the imagination: Transformation, politics and limits
We are currently witnessing what we refer to in this Critical Exchange as ‘a turn to the imagination’. Across the academy and beyond, the concept of ‘imaginaries’is increasingly used to examine how the imagination is provoked, harnessed and dispersed to encourage or inhibit social, political, economic, technological and cultural transformation. Highlighting the need for critical reflection not only on the possibilities but also the limits of this…
Political science (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Agonism (4 works)