Ingrid Helene Brandt Jensen

Ingrid Helene Brandt is a PhD fellow in Political Theory at the Department of Political Science, working on democratic theory, new materialism, and affect theory within the Democratic Innovations in a Green Transition (DIGT) initiative, led by Professor Lars Tønder. Her PhD project, Lingering Democracy: Stories of Democratic Participation Amid Climate and Ecological Crisis, explores how democratic participation is reshaped in the Anthropocene through an ethnographic study of the Danish Climate Citizens’ Assembly. Brandt’s research combines affect theory and new materialism to examine the entanglement of human and non-human actors in democratic processes, advocating for a more pluralistic, affective understanding of democracy in response to ecological crises.