Amanda Machin is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway and an editor for the journal Environmental Politics. She is interested in the dynamics, theories, discourses, imaginaries, protests, identifications, performances and bodies of ecological and radical democratic transformation. With Marcel Wissenburg she has recently completed editing the collection Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene for Edward Elgar.
Articles
16.06.2025
“Save Our Children”: Breaking Down Far-Right Narratives Around Youth
Europe’s far-right is using children in its discourse to demonise environmentalists and gender activists. How can we challenge its rhetoric?
Read more11.09.2020
Rally Around the Flag? The Far-Right Response to Covid-19
AfD, the Lega and the Swedish Democrats have all struggled to find a message amid the pandemic. However, things might be changing.
Read more27.09.2019
Nationalising the Climate: Is the European Far Right Turning Green?
Research debunks the myth that far-right parties across Europe share a stance of climate denialism. But what might rising ‘climate nationalism’ mean?
Read more22.02.2019
The Nature of Green Populism?
From Nigel Farage's Great British Countryside to the fields of Bavaria, what role does the environment play in far-right discourse?
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