Amanda Douge
About
"The omnicrisis will not autosettle. The old world is dying, but immediacy poorly midwives the new world's struggle to be born. It is not too late for us to build things less worse. Let's get it on. "- Anna Kornbluh 2023
as we careen towards
gifting our children
the inheritance of
an ecological hellscape
an actress comes pen
in hand towards the fray
An award-winning actress, writer and scholar, Amanda Douge works internationally across film, television and stage, alongside her academic work on climate transformations. She brings her experience and passion to the existential crisis facing both earth systems and humanity and her research is gathering a growing audience across Norway, Scotland, Ireland, U.S.A, Italy, Australia and England. Amanda combines critical scholarship towards climate transformations with artistic practice, presenting research in provocative, moving, sometimes hilarious and impactful forms.
​she takes to screaming
betwixt thinking
wherever she possibly can
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A lecturer with the University of Greenwich and doctoral candidate with the University of Glasgow, Amanda's creative and critical thesis "Rosa Luxemburg and I" interrogates the ways in which poetic syntax can activate political agency for the purposes of climate revolution. ​She deconstructs inherited, carbon infrastructures through poetics and critical theory, reflecting on political economy, climate sociology, ecological imperatives and social transformation. Also an experienced educator and director, Amanda is interested in performance as a climate pedagogy in both community, research and arts contexts.
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