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Politics and International Studies

Marit Hammond

Associate Professor

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Mondays 12:00-13:00

Thursdays 14:00-15:00

Profile

I joined PAIS in 2024 as Associate Professor in the Politics of Climate Change. Prior to this, I was a Lecturer in Environmental Politics at Keele University for nine years. I gained my PhD in Government (Political Theory) at the University of Essex in 2015. I have also held visiting positions both at the Goethe University Frankfurt and at the Australian National University.

Research interests

My research interest spans environmental political theory, sustainability governance, and normative democratic theory. The central question driving my research agenda is how societies can undergo as unprecedented and profound a transformation as will be necessary in the face of climate change. Since the possibility of transformation will depend on the possibility to confront the structures of power upholding the status quo, sustainability is, in my view, innately linked to democracy, as the fundamental norm of resistance against domination and oppression. My research on both sustainability and (deliberative) democracy is thus underpinned by the lens of critical theory, directing inquiry towards uncovering and challenging structures of oppression in society. In practical terms, I am interested in the potential of the arts, specifically participatory theatre, to engender democratic renewal and an emancipatory political imagination.

My published work on these themes includes the edited volume The Political Prospects of a Sustainability Transformation (Routledge 2021, with Daniel Hausknost) and the monograph Power in Deliberative Democracy: Norms, Forums, Systems (Palgrave 2018, with Nicole Curato and John B. Min).

My Google Scholar page can be found hereLink opens in a new window.

Grants

I have been a Co-Investigator of the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) since 2016, exploring the political foundations of sustainable prosperity as part of the Centre’s political philosophy strand.

Publications

BOOKS

  • Hausknost, Daniel, and Marit Hammond (eds.) (2021), The Political Prospects of a Sustainability Transformation: Moving Beyond the Environmental State. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Curato, Nicole, Marit Hammond, and John Min (2018), Power in Deliberative Democracy: Norms, Forums, Systems. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

  • Hammond, Marit (2022), ‘Imagination and Critique in Environmental Politics.’ In Trajectories in Environmental Politics, ed. Graeme Hayes, Sikina Jinnah, Prakash Kashwan, David M. Konisky, Sherilyn MacGregor, John M. Meyer, and Anthony R. Zito. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Hammond, Marit (2022), ‘Democracy and Democratisation.’ In Elgar Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics, ed. Luigi Pellizzoni, Emmanuele Leonardi, and Viviana Asara. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • Hammond, Marit and Graham Smith (2022), ‘Deliberation and Sustainability.’ In Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Sustainability, ed. Basil Bornemann, Henrike Knappe and Patrizia Nanz. London: Routledge.
  • Hammond, Marit and Hugh Ward (2018), ‘Sustainability Governance in a Democratic Anthropocene: The Arts as Key to Deliberative Citizen Engagement.’ In: Rethinking the Environment for the Anthropocene: Political Theory and Socionatural Relations in the New Geological Epoch, ed. Manuel Arias-Maldonado and Zev Trachtenberg. London: Routledge.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

  • Hammond, Marit (2021), ‘Imagination and Critique in Environmental Politics.’ Environmental Politics 30 (1-2): 285-305.
  • Hammond, Marit (2021), ‘Democratic Innovations after the Post-Democratic Turn: Between Activation and Empowerment.’ Critical Policy Studies 15 (2): 174-191.
  • Hammond, Marit (2020), ‘Democratic Deliberation for Sustainability Transformations: Between Constructiveness and Disruption.’ Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 16 (1): 220-230.
  • Dryzek, John S., Dianne Nicol, Simon Niemeyer, Sonya Pemberton, Nicole Curato, André Bächtiger, Philip Batterham, Bjørn Bedsted, Simon Burall, Michael Burgess, Gaetan Burgio, Yurij Castelfranchi, Hervé Chneiweiss, George Church, Merlin Crossley, Jantina de Vries, Mahmud Farooque, Marit Hammond, Baogang He, Ricardo Mendonça, Jennifer Merchant, Anna Middleton, John E. J. Rasko, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Antoine Vergne (2020). ‘Global Citizen Deliberation on Genome Editing.’ Science 369 (6510): 1435-1437.
  • Hammond, Marit (2020), ‘Sustainability as a Cultural Transformation: The Role of Deliberative Democracy.’ Environmental Politics 29 (1): 173-192.
  • Hausknost, Daniel and Marit Hammond (2020), ‘Beyond the Environmental State? The Political Prospects of a Sustainability Transformation.’ Environmental Politics 29 (1): 1-16.
  • Hammond, Marit, John S. Dryzek and Jonathan Pickering (2019), ‘Democracy in the Anthropocene.’ Contemporary Political Theory 19 (1): 127-141.
  • Hammond, Marit (2019) ‘A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy.’ Environmental Values 28 (1): 55-74.
  • Hammond, Marit (2019), ‘Deliberative Democracy as a Critical Theory.’ Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22 (7): 787-808.
  • Hammond, Marit and Graham Smith (2017), ‘Sustainable Prosperity and Democracy: A Research Agenda.’ CUSP Working Paper No. 8. Guildford: University of Surrey.
  • Böker, Marit (2017), ‘Justification, Critique and Deliberative Legitimacy: The Limits of Mini-publics.’ Contemporary Political Theory 16 (1): 19-40.
  • Böker, Marit (2017), ‘The Concept of Realistic Utopia: Ideal Theory as Critique.’ Constellations 24 (1): 89-100.
  • Tim Jackson, Kate Burningham, Phil Catney, Ian Christie, Will Davies, Brian Doherty, Angela Druckman, Marit Hammond, Bronwyn Hayward, Aled Jones, Fergus Lyon, Nick Molho, Kate Oakley, Charles Seaford and Peter Victor (2016), ‘Understanding Sustainable Prosperity: Towards a Transdisciplinary Research Agenda.’ CUSP Working Paper No. 1.
  • Curato, Nicole and Marit Böker (2016), ‘Linking Mini-publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda.’ Policy Sciences 49 (2): 173-190.
  • Böhmelt, Tobias, Marit Böker, and Hugh Ward (2016), ‘Democratic Inclusiveness, Climate Policy Output, and Climate Policy Outcomes.’ Democratization 23 (7): 1272-1291.
  • Böker, Marit and Stephen Elstub (2015), ‘The Possibility of Critical Mini-Publics: Real-Politik and Normative Cycles in Democratic Theory.’ Representation 51 (1): 125-144.

Media

‘How can we adapt our prosperity thinking for the challenges of the 21st Century?’ - public panel talk at UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity, Oct 2023

Teaching and Supervision

I am module director of PO9F7 – 9 Ideas in Climate Politics, one of the core modules of the brand-new MA Programme in the Politics of Climate Change.

I am interested in PhD supervision in the areas of

  • Climate/environmental politics
  • Sustainability transformations
  • Sustainability governance
  • The Anthropocene
  • Environmental political theory
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Frankfurt School critical theory
  • Utopian thought in political theory
  • Art and politics
  • Cultural theory and politics