Mads EjsingCentre associate
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Mads Ejsing is a postdoctoral researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) and studying the role of climate assemblies as a new type of democratic innvoation that aim to address societal polarization and promote more transformative and citizen-led climate policies. He is currently the PI of the Carlsberg-funded research project Democratic Innovations and Social Tipping Points: Can Citizens’ Assemblises Create Systemic Change? (2025-2027). Before coming to the SRC, he was involved in two research projects at the University of Copenhagen: Democratic Innovations in the Green Transition (2020-2024) and Climate Justice Temporalities in Denmark (2023-2025).
Ejsing’s approach to research is collaborative and interdisciplinary, drawing on his training in political science, political theory, and environmental humanities, while building bridges with other disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, geography, philosophy, STS, and political ecology. He has a particular interest in innovative methodologies that combine conceptual and ethnographic research with speculative and artistic practices.
Ejsing has taught and supervised students across the social sciences, contributing to courses on climate politics, environmental justice, and democratic theory. His teaching emphasises experiential and critical learning, while encouraging students to link theory with pressing political challenges. Over the years, he has collaborated closely with government actors, NGOs, and social movements working on democratic innovations, climate justice, and transformative governance. He currently chairs the expert group to the Copenhagen Citizens’ Assembly (2023-2026).
Key publications:
Ejsing, M., Veng, A. and Papazu, I., 2023. Green politics beyond the state: radicalizing the democratic potentials of climate citizens’ assemblies. Climatic Change, 176(6), p.73.
Ejsing, M., 2023. The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism. The Sociological Review, 71(1), 243-260.
Ejsing, M., 2023. Living with others: On multispecies resurgence in the altered forest landscapes of the Anthropocene. Journal of Political Ecology, 30(1), pp.316-334.
Ejsing, M., 2024. Why the turn to matter matters: A response to post-Marxist critiques of new materialism. Thesis Eleven, 181(1), 56-71.
Ejsing, M., Tønder, L., Jensen, I.H.B. and Hansen, J., 2025. Do we have time for democracy? Climate action and the problem of time in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review, 12(1), pp.63-78.