Amanda Margaret Machin
Professor
Political Sociology
Amanda Machin is a political sociologist with a specialisation in environmental politics and radical democracy. After completing her PhD at the University of Westminster, London with Chantal Mouffe she moved to Germany to take up positions at various universities and research institutes and was awarded an Habilitation from Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen where she was mentored by Nico Stehr. She is interested in the dynamics, identifications, imaginaries, discourses and bodies of socio-ecological transformation and she has published numerous articles on these topics with journals such as Environmental Politics, Environmental Values , WIREs Climate Change and Democratic Theory. Her books have been published by Routledge, Zed Books, World Scientific and Transcript. Amanda has been invited as a speaker and panellist at academic and public events in cities including Wroclaw, Prague, Berlin, Graz, Copenhagen and Kiel. Together with Marcel Wissenburg, she is currently editing a collection entitled Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene for Edward Elgar.
Research interests
Environmental politics and radical democracy; climate discourses and political imaginaries; food politics; citizens' assemblies; sustainable development; green citizenship; green populism; the politics of statues.
Work experience
May 2021 – Oct 2021. Visiting Fellow, Centre for Social Investment, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Oct 2020 – March 2022. Research Fellow, PPE Department, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.
Oct 2018 – Oct 2020. Interim Professor of International Political Studies, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.
Sep 2014 – Sep 2018.Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
June 2016 – Dec 2017. Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany.
Jan 2007 – June 2014. Visiting Lecturer and Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster, UK.
Selected publications
Books
Amanda Machin (2022) Bodies of Democracy: Modes and Moments of Embodied Politics. Bielefeld and London: Transcript Press.
Nico Stehr and Amanda Machin (2020) Society and Climate: Transformations and Challenges. Singapore: World Scientific.
Alexander Ruser and Amanda Machin (2017) Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate. London: Routledge.
Amanda Machin (2015) Nations and Democracy: New Theoretical Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
Amanda Machin (2013) Negotiating Climate Change: Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus. London: Zed Books.
Journal Papers (peer reviewed)
Amanda Machin (2023) Democracy, Agony and Rupture: A Critique of Climate Citizens’ Assemblies. Politische Vierteljahresschrift [German Political Science Quarterly]. DOI: 10.1007/s11615-023-00455-5
Amanda Machin (2023) Climate Change and Democracy. Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Climate Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.859
Hans Asenbaum, Amanda Machin, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Diana Leong, Melissa Orlie and James Louis Smith (2023) The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses. Contemporary Political Theory. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-023-00635-3
Amanda Machin and Alexander Ruser (2023) Introduction: Sustainability, Democracy and the Dark Sides of Civil Society. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. DOI:10.1007/s10767-023-09445-2
Simone Schiller-Merkens and Amanda Machin (2023) Knowing Food: Food Policy Councils and the Challenges of Co-Producing Knowledge. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. DOI:10.1007/s10767-023-09446-1
Amanda Machin (2022) “Climate Democracy: Sceptical, Rational and Radical Imaginaries“. Advanced review. WIRES Climate Change. e774. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.774
Amanda Machin and Evrim Tan (2022) Green European Citizenship? Rights, Duties, Virtues, Practices and the European Green Deal. European Politics and Society. DOI:10.1080/23745118.2022.2118984
Amanda Machin and Alexander Ruser (2021) “Corporealising a healthy democracy? Inequality, bodies and participation”. Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy. 57 (2): 209-224. DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2019.1674912
Amanda Machin (2020) “The Agony of Nuclear: Sustaining Democratic Disagreement” Sustainability: Science, Practice, Policy. 16 (1): 335-352. DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2020.1829847
Amanda Machin (2020) “Democracy, disagreement, disruption: agonism and the environmental state”. Environmental Politics. 29 (1): 155-172. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2019.1684739
Amanda Machin (2019) “Democracy in the Anthropocene: The Challenges of Knowledge, Time and Identity”. Environmental Values. 28 (3): 347-365. DOI: 10.3197/096327119X15519764179836
Amanda Machin (2019) “Agony and the Anthropos: Democracy and Boundaries in the Anthropocene”. Nature + Culture. 14 (1): 1-16. DOI: 10.3167/nc.2019.140101
Amanda Machin (2019) “Changing the Story? The trajectory of the ecological modernisation discourse in the European Union”. Environmental Politics. 28 (2): 208-227. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2019.1549780
Amanda Machin (2018) “Science, Knowledge and Bodies: “We can know more than we can tell”” Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. 55 (4): 84-97.
Amanda Machin (2016) “Hunger Power: The embodied protest of the political hunger strike”. Interface. 8 (1): 157-180.
Amanda Machin (2015) “Deliberating Bodies: Democracy, Identification and Embodiment”. Democratic Theory. 2 (1): 42-62.
Amanda Machin (2014) “Mouffe, Merleau-Ponty and Others: The View from Somewhere?” Parallax. 20 (2): 73-87.
Amanda Machin and Graham Smith (2014) “Means, Ends, Beginnings: Environmental Technocracy, Ecological Deliberation or Embodied Democracy?” Ethical Perspectives. 21 (1): 47-72.
Amanda Machin (2012) “Decisions, disagreement and responsibility: towards an agonistic green citizenship”. Environmental Politics. 21 (6): 847-863.
Edited Books and Special Issues
Marcel Wissenburg and Amanda Machin (eds.) (forthcoming 2024) Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene. Edward Elgar.
Amanda Machin and Alexander Ruser (eds.) (f2022) Special Issue - Sustainability Politics and Civil Society. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society.
Amanda Machin and Nadine Meidert (eds.) (2021) Political Identification in Europe: Community in Crisis. Bingley: Emerald Press.
Amanda Machin and Nico Stehr (eds.) (2016) Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Book Chapters and Other Articles (selection)
Amanda Machin (2022) “Climate Change and Green Democratic Transformations”. Basil Bornemann, Henrike Knappe and Patrizia Nanz (eds.) The Handbook of Democracy and Sustainability. Routledge.
Amanda Machin (2022) “Green Democracy: Political Imaginaries of Environmental Movements”. Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements. Routledge.
Ben Abrams, Sebastian Büttner and Amanda Machin (2021) “Identity and Brexit: Five Readings of the Referendum”. Amanda Machin and Nadine Meidert (eds) (2021) Political Identification in Europe: Community in Crisis. pp. 147- 160. Bingley: Emerald Press.
Amanda Machin and Alexander Ruser (2020) “Rally around the Flag? The Far-Right Response to Covid-19”. Green European Journal. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/rally-around-the-flag-the-far-right-response-to-covid-19/
Amanda Machin and Alexander Ruser (2019) “What Counts in the Politics of Climate Change? Science, Scepticism and Emblematic Numbers”. Markus Prutsch (ed.) Science, Numbers and Politics. pp. 203-225. Palgrave MacMillan.
Amanda Machin (2019) “Nations and Nationalism.” Yannis Stravrakakis (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory. pp. 285-295. New York: Routledge.
Amanda Machin and Alexander Ruser (2019) “Nationalising the Climate: Is the Far Right Turning Green?” Green European Journal. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/nationalising-the-climate-is-the-european-far-right-turning-green/
Amanda Machin and Oliver Wagener (2019) “The Nature of Green Populism”. Green European Journal. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-nature-of-green-populism/
Amanda Machin (2018) “Green Democracy”. Noel Castree, Mike Hulme and James Proctor (eds.) The Companion to Environmental Studies. pp.184-187. London & New York: Routledge.
Amanda Machin (2017) “Sustaining Democracy: Science, Politics and Disagreement in the Anthropocene”. Thomas Pfister (ed.) Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften und die Suche nach neuen Wissensregimen. pp. 169-186. Munich: Metropolis.
Scientific publications
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2023). Climate Change and Imaginaries of Democracy. Oxford Research Encyclopedias. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.859.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2023). Democracy, Agony, and Rupture: A Critique of Climate Citizens’ Assemblies. Politische Vierteljahresschrift. ISSN: 0032-3470. doi:10.1007/s11615-023-00455-5.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret; Ruser, Alexander (2023). Introduction: Sustainability, Democracy and the Dark Sides of Civil Society. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. ISSN: 0891-4486. doi:10.1007/s10767-023-09445-2.
- Schiller-Merkens, Simone; Machin, Amanda Margaret (2023). Knowing Food: Sustainability Politics, Food Policy Councils and the Co-Production of Knowledge. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. ISSN: 0891-4486. doi:10.1007/s10767-023-09446-1.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2023). Performances of Death; Hunger Strikes, Discipline, and Democracy. Democratic Theory: An Interdisciplinary Journal. ISSN: 2332-8894. 10 (2). s 31 - 43. doi:10.3167/DT.2023.100204.
- Schojan, Fabio; Machin, Amanda Margaret; Silberberger, Magdalene (2023). Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities. Critical Policy Studies. ISSN: 1946-0171. doi:10.1080/19460171.2023.2265988.
- Asenbaum, Hans; Machin, Amanda Margaret; Gagnon, Jean-Paul; Leong, Diana; Orlie, Melissa; Smith, James Louis (2023). The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses. Contemporary Political Theory. ISSN: 1470-8914. 22s 584 - 615. doi:10.1057/s41296-023-00635-3.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2022). Climate Democracy: Sceptical, Rational and Radical Imaginaries. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (WIRESs). ISSN: 1757-7780. 13 (4). doi:10.1002/wcc.774.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret; Tan, Evrim (2022). Green European citizenship? Rights, duties, virtues, practices and the European Green Deal. European Politics and Society. ISSN: 2374-5118. doi:10.1080/23745118.2022.2118984.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2020). Democracy, disagreement, disruption: agonism and the environmental state. Environmental Politics. ISSN: 0964-4016. 29 (1). s 155 - 172. doi:10.1080/09644016.2019.1684739.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2020). The Agony of Nuclear: Sustaining Democratic Disagreement. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. ISSN: 1548-7733. 16 (1). s 286 - 297. doi:10.1080/15487733.2020.1829847.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2019). Agony and the Anthropos: Democracy and Boundaries in the Anthropocene. Nature and Culture. ISSN: 1558-6073. 14 (1). s 1 - 16. doi:10.3167/nc.2019.140101.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2019). Changing the Story? The trajectory of the ecological modernisation discourse in the European Union. Environmental Politics. ISSN: 0964-4016. 28 (2). s 208 - 227. doi:10.1080/09644016.2019.1549780.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2019). Democracy in the Anthropocene: The Challenges of Knowledge, Time and Identity. Environmental Values. ISSN: 0963-2719. 28 (3). s 347 - 365. doi:10.3197/096327119X15519764179836.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2018). Science, Knowledge and Bodies: “We can know more than we can tell”. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. ISSN: 1811-833X. 55 (4). s 84 - 97. doi:10.5840/eps201855470.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2016). Hunger Power: The embodied protest of the political hunger strike. Interface: a journal for and about social movements. ISSN: 2009-2431. 8 (1). s 157 - 180.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2015). Deliberating Bodies: Democracy, Identification and Embodiment. Democratic Theory: An Interdisciplinary Journal. ISSN: 2332-8894. 2 (1). s 42 - 62. doi:10.3167/dt.2015.020104.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret; Smith, Graham (2014). Means, Ends, Beginnings: Environmental Technocracy, Ecological Deliberation or Embodied Democracy?. Ethical Perspectives. ISSN: 1370-0049. 21 (1). s 47 - 72. doi:10.2143/EP.21.1.3017286.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2014). Mouffe, Merleau-Ponty and Others: The View from Somewhere?. Parallax. ISSN: 1353-4645. 20 (2). s 73 - 87. doi:10.1080/13534645.2014.896553.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2012). Decisions, disagreement and responsibility: towards an agonistic green citizenship. Environmental Politics. ISSN: 0964-4016. 21 (6). s 847 - 863. doi:10.1080/09644016.2012.712791.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret; Stehr, Nico (2016). Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits. ISBN: 978-3-658-11662-0. Springer. s 427.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret; Meidert, Nadine (2021). Political Identification in Europe: Community in Crisis. ISBN: 9781839821257. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. s 216.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2015). Nations and Democracy: New Theoretical Perspectives. ISBN: 9781138066540. Routledge. s 172.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2013). Negotiating Climate Change: Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus. ISBN: 9781780323978. Zed Books. s 176.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret; Stehr, Nico (2019). Society and Climate: Transformations and Challenges. ISBN: 978-981-3272-43-9. World Scientific. s 198.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret (2022). Bodies of Democracy: Modes and Moments of Embodied Politics. ISBN: 978-3-8376-4923-9. Transcript Verlag. s 183.
- Ruser, Alexander; Machin, Amanda Margaret (2019). Against Political Compromise- Sustaining Democratic Debate (paperback). ISBN: 0367901315. Routledge Focus. s 78.
- Machin, Amanda Margaret; Ruser, Alexander (2019). What Counts in the Politics of Climate Change? Science, Scepticism and Emblematic Numbers. ISBN: 9783030112080. Palgrave Macmillan. s 22.
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