Dougald Hine

Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer and creator of a series of projects and organisations. From 2009 to 2019, he was a director of the Dark Mountain Project, which he co-founded with Paul Kingsnorth. He is currently writing Notes From Underground, a weekly essay series on the context of the new climate movements for Bella Caledonia, where he is a commissioning editor. Originally from England, he now lives in Sweden.

Climate emergency: the democracy fork

Reinvigorating democracy has to be as urgent a demand as cutting emissions. The latter can only be sustained insofar as the former is also achieved.

By Dougald Hine and Duncan McLaren

/ 11 Dec 2019

A crack in history? – a conversation between two recent UK Labour Party recruits

We need to find a way to build political movements that make space for difficult questions, for diversity, for ambivalence. But how?

By Dougald Hine and Keith Kahn-Harris

/ 31 Aug 2017

Nonline community: freedom, education, the net

There is frequent and widespread criticism of the way that governments around the world attempt to manage or control the internet. The imprint of the global network's origins

By Dougald Hine

/ 20 Feb 2008

Climate change: a question of democracy

When Tony Blair told a reporter he was "still waiting for the first politician who's actually running for office who's going to come out and

By Dougald Hine

/ 2 Mar 2007

Chinas days of protest

By the second night, the onlookers outnumbered the demonstrators; but at the height of the protest 6-7,000 textile workers had occupied Peoples Square, chanting and singing outside the

By Dougald Hine

/ 16 Jun 2004

Dougald Hine

Climate emergency: the democracy fork

A crack in history? – a conversation between two recent UK Labour Party recruits

Nonline community: freedom, education, the net

Climate change: a question of democracy

China&#146;s days of protest

Chinas days of protest