Amanda Machin is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. She is interested in the dynamics, theories, discourses, imaginaries, protests, identifications, performances and bodies of ecological and radical democratic transformation and has researched these topics in various positions at universities in UK and Germany before she moved to Norway in 2022. She has published five books including Bodies of Democracy: Modes of Embodied Politics (Transcript 2022) and Negotiating Climate Change: Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus (Zed Books, 2013). With Marcel Wissenburg she has recently completed editing the collection Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene for Edward Elgar. Amanda is also an editor for the journal Environmental Politics and the co-ordinator of a project on the governance of twin transition (RECODE MLG, funded by Horizon Europe). She also participates in projects on populism in the Nordics (POL-AID, funded by the Norwegian Research Council) and the project Democracy and Controversy in the green transition (funded by the MWW Foundation).