Kate Long

Research

Title of Research:

Common ground for a common future? Exploring dynamics of hybridity within environmental democracy

Brief overview of research topic:

Democracy appears an elusive goal for many in the climate movement, blocked by the vested interests of capitalist hierarchies or side-lined by emergency calls for swift action. I hope to address how two central democratic goods – contestation, as conceptualised by agonistic thinkers, and coherent and steadfast collective action, as prioritised by deliberative theorists, - can be combined in the context of climate governance. My project will develop and empirically investigate 'hybrid' institutional innovations and mechanisms that promise to combine agonistic pluralism and deliberative preference transformation to encourage environmentally sustainable decision making.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

MA International Relations Durham University

BA Politics Durham University