Anna-Lena Mieke is a PhD student in Environmental Science with a focus on social ecological system research at the University of Vienna, Austria. As a member of the Justice and Conservation Research Group, she contributes to interdisciplinary work on conservation and justice within complex social ecological systems. Her main research interests include political ecology, environmental justice, and the analysis of human environment relations, with particular attention to conservation conflicts and governance. Her work engages critically with the historical and contemporary role of colonial structures in nature conservation and examines how these continue to shape present day dynamics.

Anna-Lena Mieke PhD research investigates how power dynamics are embedded in conservation initiatives and how reflexive practice can help to deconstruct power asymmetries. Her work aims to contribute to more just and context sensitive conservation practices.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Africa

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M.A. (Environmental) Social Science student and student researcher, part of the Global Studies Programme organized between University of Freiburg (Germany), University of Cape Town (South Africa), and Jawaharlal University (India). She conducts research in the areas of environmental governance and sustainable economics, working specifically on sovereign sustainability transitions in food cultures to improve community resiliency to climate change and climate famine. The background of her research includes primarily environmental social science, social transformations, food anthropology, sustainability, sustainability economics, international ‘development,’ sustainable food systems, political ecology, and environmental justice, all with humility and intention toward decoloniality.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Current focus: Germany, Europe. Past foci: Arctic Alaska, Brazilian Amazon, Sumatra & Borneo

Senior Researcher in Integrative Geography at the University of Bern. His current research focuses on agroecological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa with a critical perspective and an emphasis on social justice aspects. His research has the overall objective of integrating social-ecological thinking and the idea of justice. This includes conceptual and empirical work looking at environmental justice issues in telecoupled social-ecological systems, the relevance of cognitive justice in environmental governance and ecosystem management, and resilience justice in relation with climate change, natural resource governance and rural smallholders in the Global South. His main research areas are in Latin America (Bolivia, Cuba, Brazil) and in sub-Sahran Africa (Senegal, Kenya).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mountain Regions, Latin America, Africa

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Ben Glasson is an interdisciplinary researcher of climate change, subjectivity and narrative, with a background in political theory and cultural studies. His research explores the implications of climate apathy, greenwashing, environmental hypocrisy and corporate environmentalism. He has been published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, the Journal of Political Ideologies, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: Anglophone countries, digital spaces

Anthropologist (PUJ, Colombia) with an MSc in Rural Development (PUJ, Colombia) and a PhD in Development Studies (Institute of Development Policy-IOB, University of Antwerp). He is a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS / UCLouvain & Research Associate of the Centre for Alternatives to Development – CEALDES. He works on transformative and collaborative research with rural communities, exploring struggles for autonomy and social-ecological justice within conservation-related conflicts from a political ecological perspective, with a particular focus on the Colombian Andes and Amazon regions.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Colombia & Latin America

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