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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Student des Masterstudiengangs „Sustainability, Society and the Environment” in Kiel. Aktuell arbeitet er an seiner Masterthesis über den Infrastrukturausbau für eine grüne Wasserstoffwirtschaft an der Westküste Schleswig-Holsteins. Zuvor hat er über räumliche Konflikte im Rahmen der Hafenerweiterung des Hamburger Hafens gearbeitet. Forschungsinteressen sind Umwelt-/Energie-/Wasserstoffgerechtigkeit, Infrastruktur und politische Ökologie.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Norddeutschland, insbesondere Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg

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Dr. Christian Baatz ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Philosophischen Seminar der Universität Kiel und Leiter eines Forschungsprojekt das untersucht, was eine gerechte Verteilung der Mittel ist, welche die internationale Gemeinschaft dem Globalen Süden zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel bereitstellt. Zuvor promovierte er im Fach Philosophie mit einer Arbeit zu Rechtfertigung und praktischen Möglichkeiten der Kompensation von Opfern des Klimawandels. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund seines Studiums der Umweltwissenschaften zielt seine Arbeit darauf ab, die normativen Aspekte aktueller sozialer und ökologischer Probleme zu analysieren and sich darüber in inter- und transdisziplinären Kontexten auszutauschen.

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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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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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