She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher to the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on contested international norms, more specifically on the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conflicts over resources and land. Conceptually, she brings together norms research in International Relations, postcolonial perspectives, and critical (legal) anthropology. Her current interests is to understand and further conceptualize the politics of translation between different ontologies involved in resource conflicts. Her regional focus is on the Amazon rainforest, especially Peru.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Amazon Rainforest, Peru

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Irmak Ertör is an assistant professor in the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Before her current position, she was working in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded ENVJUSTICE project focusing on global fisheries conflicts and environmental justice. She holds a BS in Economics and an MA in Modern Turkish History from Bogazici University, Turkey. She has been a Marie Curie (ITN) early stage researcher of the ENTITLE project (European Network of Political Ecology) and completed her PhD on the “Political Ecology of Marine Finfish Aquaculture in Europe” in ICTA, UAB. Currently, she is a member of the Cost Action on Ocean Governance and investigates socio-environmental conflicts and social movements of fisher communities, food sovereignty and environmental justice.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Turkey and Mediterranean

Political Ecology blog (of the former ENTITLE group)

Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History 

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium. Main research focuses on the global and local nexus between the environment and processes of social change, and more specifically in the socio-political dynamics triggered by (international) conditional climate change/development finance instruments, such as carbon and biodiversity markets, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), and green microfinance. Also works on alternative (transformational) paradigms, social movements and processes related to degrowth, and decolonial approaches to social-ecological futures. Research has mainly focused on Central- and South America, using participatory action research methods.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Central America

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Researcher and lecturer at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Monterrey, Mexico, and a member of the Mexican National Researchers’ System. She’s also a member of the activist scholars collective Académic@s de Monterrey 43, and a member of the Redgesma (network for gender and environment). Her current research focuses on socio-spatial segregation and social vulnerability to hydro-meteorological hazards mainly using socio-anthropological methodologies. She integrates gender studies and political ecology perspectives to study socio-environmental issues. Her research lines include: social vulnerability to climate change; gender and environment; intersectionality and disasters; urban mobility and environmental justice. Libertad’s main research regions include Northern Germany, the Yucatán Peninsula and Northeast Mexico.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mexico, Germany

Académic@s de Monterrey 43

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An Interdisciplinary PhD Candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Angela Antle was the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer-in-Residence at Munich’s LMU and is a member of NMBU Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions. Her current research focuses on the role of political rhetoric in climate obstruction. She integrates feminist, postcolonial perspectives, and energy justice theories in the field of climate communications. A former CBC producer, her work was recognized by the Atlantic Journalism Awards, The New York Festivals, The Gabriels, The Gracie Allen Awards, The Nickel, Berlinale, Dublin, and Wexford Film Festivals. Antle now produces and hosts the environmental humanities podcast GYRE, writes an energy futures column in the Independent.ca and her debut novel The Saltbox Olive was published by Breakwater Books in 2025.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: North Atlantic, Newfoundland and Labrador & Norway

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Researcher and PhD candidate at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) and Goethe-University Frankfurt. I am currently investigating just knowledge integration in the context of biodiversity conservation and transdisciplinary collaboration. In my research I build on the concept of epistemic justice and how it can be more systemically integrated in transdisciplinary collaboration to utilize its transformative potential. My main areas of research are currently Biosphere Reserves in the Global North.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: forest ecosystems in Europe

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