Recent publications

Journal article 

Re-Assembling Democracy: A Nascent Theory of Nonhuman Political Participation

The article argues that the concept of political participation must be expanded beyond reflective human actions in order to better account for the agency of nonhuman entities.

The article as available here.

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.

The article is 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.

The article is 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.

The article is 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.

The article is 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. 

The dissertation is available here.