Silke Oldenburg is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the PI of the research project “Space, Agency and Climate Change in a Contested Urban Landscape: Exploring Urban Environmental Futures in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia”, funded by the Leading House of the Latin American Region, Switzerland. She integrates critical urban theory approaches with political ecology and is passionate about the untold stories within environmental politics. Her recent ethnographic focus is on wetlands and the entanglements of race, ecology and socio-spatial inequalities in mangrove restoration in Cartagena de Indias, a city on the Colombian Caribbean coast.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Cartagena de Indias, Colombian Caribbean and Goma, Eastern DR Congo

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Shuma Talukdar is a Corporate Lawyer and a Corporate Governance Professional from India. She is the Director of LexEd Research an independent think-tank. She is also a Ph.D. Research Scholar (Law), Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India. She holds professional membership of the Bar Council of India. Her research interests include the intersectionality of gender, climate, business, and law. Her scholarly publications include an edited volume Judicial Responses to Climate Change in the Global South: A Jurisdictional & Thematic Review (Switzerland: Springer, 2023) and papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. She has also published in popular media and presented at international conferences in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: India/North-East India, climate justice, gender, indigenous environmental justice, sustainability law

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PhD student in Transdisciplinary Sustainability with a background in Agricultural Economics, Sustainable Development and Community Organizing as well as Fund Raising. Wrote and researched on Fast Fashion, then continued in the field of plastic bag usage, development of megacities that lead to more environmental degradation and economic gentrification that displaces people. Margaret Ojochide Aligbe is presently researching on the loss of marine biodiversity at the transdisciplinary level through the lens of methodological cosmopolitanism and ocean governance.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe, Africa and North America

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Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. As a social geographer, he worked on social inclusion and exclusion, urban studies, praxelogical theories, the methodology of the social sciences and geographical health research. He developed the research programme of a transactional anthropology, which expresses a specific understanding of critique as mediation. It is particularly suited to analyze local power asymmetries and dissent scenarios. Recent work has focused on cities in transition, post-growth economies and environmental justice. Numerous collaborative research projects with city administrations, urban target groups also by involving students.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Cities

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Thomas Bobo is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). His research focuses on the intersection of internal violent conflicts and the environment from a political and discursive perspective. Before starting his doctoral research, he worked in international biodiversity governance at the French Agency for International Technical Cooperation. Thomas is particularly interested in the construction of competing ecological visions and how they become vehicles of power struggles between actors in conflict. He explores how those ecological discourses emerge, evolve and are utilised in the context of the rise of environmental issues in the international, national and local political agendas. Thomas‘s current research focuses on the Zapatista conflict in the State of Chiapas (Mexico).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Environmental discourse in Chiapas, Mexico, and more broadly in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East

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Arianna Porrone is a PhD student in Global Studies. Justice, Rights, Politics, at the Department of political science, communication and international relations of the University of Macerata, Italy. Awarded with a One-Year Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates (2020-2021) she has joined the research group Social Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Areas of Kiel University as a visiting researcher.
Her main research interests are political ecology, environmental justice, storytelling and the environmental humanities as well ecofeminisms and feminist critical theories. Her Ph.D research focuses on understanding power and gender dynamics in knowledge creation within the current international environmental governance realm and aims at exploring ontological pluralism as a way forward able to reconcile human and more-than-human concerns.

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