Sina Trölenberg is a human geographer with emphasis on political ecology, international environmental conflicts, and environmental peacebuilding. She holds a Master’s degree in Human-Environment Interactions (JLU Giessen) and a double Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Spanish Studies. Her regional focus is on Latin America, specifically Colombia, as well as on European climate politics and local protest movements. Currently, she is part of the NGO “Romero Initiative” and working closely with central American human rights activists in the context of a climate justice project carried out in Europe.

Country/Region of Interest/Focus of Research: Latin America, Europe

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Diego Silva is an economist/anthropologist and works as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre of International Environmental Studies (CIES) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), in Geneva. His work is located at the intersection of science and technology studies, environmental and economic anthropology, and agrarian studies. His current research agenda includes: 1) the socio-technical analysis of seed commodity networks and the rural conflicts surrounding the deployment of agricultural innovations in Latin America (FNS Postdoc project); 2) the anthropological study of climate change mitigation in agriculture through the emergent knowledge and practices of environmental accounting (PI: prof. Shaila Seshia Galvin); and 3) the political ecology of the EU energy transition with a focus on the lithium battery production chain, linking Latin American suppliers of lithium minerals with the European lithium battery industry (co-coordinator for the project led by prof. Marc Hufty).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, Colombia and Argentina

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Simon Radtke is studying for a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Development at the University of Kiel and deals with questions of housing policy in times of neoliberalism and the right to the city / right to housing.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: India, Northern Germany, Ruhr Region

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Sophie Baban hold a Master’s degree in Environmental and Resource Economics. In her  thesis,  she applied concepts from Ecological Economics to develop a shadow price for biodiversity in order to assess the impacts of illegal elephant trade in Africa and to highlight the resulting ecological and social conflicts.This engagement with global justice issues deepened her understanding of the connections between environmental change, power dynamics, and distributional conflicts.Currently, she work at EKSH in the field of municipal climate protection in Northern Germany. She finds it especially interesting to learn how climate politics are shaped at the regional level in Schleswig-Holstein – and what socially just implications, opportunities, and challenges come with it.

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{:en}Judith Bopp is a human geographer with a particular interest in organic farming practices and the interrelations among food, health, and ecology. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC). In her research project, “Fostering the Health–Nutrition–Ecology Nexus: Organic Farming Practices and Household Resilience in Rural Thailand,” she investigates how rural smallholder households strengthen their resilience to overlapping socioecological crises through the adoption of organic farming practices.

With a background in linguistics, she also has a strong interest in the field of ecolinguistics. Ecolinguistic analysis is used to identify ecologically destructive discourses and to help shape “eco-positive” narratives for more sustainable ways of living (see Ecolinguistics course).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Thailand, Myanmar, Southern India

Latest publication: Local Notions of Alternative Practices: Organic Food Movements in Bangkok, Thailand and Chennai, India

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