Laura McAdam-Otto is an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist. She currently leads the research project “Making Algae (In-)Visible: Tourism, Responsibility and Governance in the Caribbean” as Principle Investigator at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Her research is situated at the nexus of cultural anthropology, nature-culture debates, and science and technology studies, and focuses on questions of human-environment relations in the Caribbean. With a strong focus on the Riviera Maya in Mexico, the research project discusses how responsibility for environmental change is negotiated and distributed in the Anthropocene, bringing questions of environmental justice and governance to the fore.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: The Caribbean, with a focus on Mexico, Yucatán Peninsula

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PhD student (she/her) researching on the intersection of transdisciplinarity, art, and critical sustainability at the EcoArtLab. She is involved with the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern and the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB). She focuses on transdisciplinary research in art and climate science collaborations: Investigating methodologies, procedures, and practices to reach epistemic justice in terms of knowledge co-creation between artists, climate scientists, extra-scientific actors, and the more-than-human in the context of Switzerland. She integrates critical climate justice and feminist political ecology perspectives.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Switzerland

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Dr. Liv Yoon’s research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequity, and health, with a focus on community engagement work. As a social scientist, she approaches climate change as a sociopolitical crisis. Her research is focused on taking climate change as an opportunity to challenge the status quo and promote structural changes that alleviate social inequities that both led to, and are exacerbated by, the climate crisis.

Dr. Yoon obtained her Ph.D. at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in Sociocultural Kinesiology. Her training in socio-cultural studies informs her to think about bodies in sociopolitical context. Applied to climate change, this means thinking about how some bodies are considered more ‘dispensable’, and in turn, rendered more vulnerable to climate-related risks and pollution.

She is a Fellow with the New York City Panel on Climate Change – Health Working Group, a member of the Community Engagement Core at the Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan, and member of Columbia University’s Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities (EJCJC).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: North America (but not limited to it)

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Birgit Hoinle is Postdoc-Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim. She holds a PhD in Geography by the University of Hamburg, promoted with a scholarship by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung within the research cluster on transformation studies. In her dissertation project she analyzed processes of spatial empowerment in the urban and peri-urban agriculture in Colombia. She conducted 18 months of field research with the participatory-action research approach together with agroecological networks and Community Supported Agriculture projects in Bogotá. Her current research involves food justice, sustainable public food procurement and the role of local food initiatives. She is engaged in the building-up of a local food policy council in Tübingen. Birgit Hoinle is part of the network of Critical Geography in Latin-America GeoRaizAL (Red de Geografías Críticas de Raíz Latinoamericana) and of the working group feminist geographies.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, Southern Germany

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Florian Dünckmann heads the working group for cultural geography at the Geography Department in Kiel. He deals with questions of political ecology, the development of rural areas and processes of democracy-building. Hannah Arend’s philosophy and current practical theories form the theoretical approach to these topics.

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