Recent publications

Journal article

Do We Have Time for Democracy? Climate Action and the Problem of Time in the Anthropocene

The urgency of climate change has brought democracy to a critical juncture. In this article, we explore new attempts to reinvigorate democracy in a time of crisis: Climate assemblies, community organising, and civil disobedience.

Full paper available here.

Journal article

Why the Turn to Matter Matters: A Response to Post- Marxist Critiques of New Materialism

Theories of new materialism have received severe criticism from post-Marxist critical theorists. In this article, I offer a defence of new materialism and its relevance in the context of the Anthropocene and the ongoing ecological crises.

Full paper available here.

Journal article

Living With Others: On Multispecies Resurgence in the Altered Forest Landscapes of the Anthropocene

Through an encounter with a plantation forest in Denmark called Klosterheden, the article explores the possibilities for what Anna Tsing calls multispecies resurgence – the ability of ecologies to survive and recover through interspecies cooperation.

Full paper available here.

Journal article

The Arrival of the Anthropocene in Social Theory: From Modernism and Marxism to a New Materialism

Since its origin in the natural sciences in the early 2000s, the concept of the Anthropocene has spread far and wide. In this article, I investigate three competing ways of thinking about the new Anthropocene condition.

Full paper available here.

PhD thesis

Approaching the Edge: Towards a New Materialist Theory of Democracy for the Anthropocene

Through immersive fieldwork on the west coast of Denmark, my dissertation offers an attempt to rethink what democracy might mean in a time of widespread ecological and climatic crises. 

Read the full dissertation here.