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
a lone actress comes
pen in hand to the fray
Actress, writer and scholar, Amanda Douge brings her arts experience and passion to the existential crisis facing both earth systems and humanity. Her practice-based climate research is gathering a growing audience across Norway, Scotland, Ireland, U.S.A, Australia and England.​ Amanda successfully combines her critical scholarship with her arts background, presenting research in entertaining, moving, sometimes hilarious and impactful artistic forms.
​she takes to screaming
betwixt thinking
wherever she possibly can
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A 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. An experienced teacher and director, Amanda is interested in performance as a climate pedagogy in both community, research and arts settings.
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