Doctoral Student (Uni Bonn, L. Schipper supervision) at IDOS (German Institute of Development & Sustainability) in the Environmental Governance program within the Klimalog research project. My current research in the coastal region of South India (Tamil Nadu) focuses on coastal adaptation policies/measures in the context of contested sand resources. Applying a political ecology lens, I aim to investigate climate change adaptation regimes within wider socio-political processes that ultimately (re)define who has access over (sand) resources. Further, I am interested in using documentary photography as a means to visually explore contested land- and seascapes where environmental justice concerns are prevalent. 

Mitglied des interdisziplinären FWF Zukunftskollegs „Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime” an der Universität Innsbruck. Sein Forschungsfokus liegt auf (i) Alternativen im WTO-zentrierten Nahrungsmittelsystem (unter Einbeziehung von Werten wie Solidarität und Vertrauen), (ii) Methodenentwicklung im Bereich der Viszeralität zur Verbindung traditioneller Methoden mit mehr-als-rationalen/multisensorischen Ansätzen, (iii) Re-Konzeptualisierung von Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen durch, trotz, und über Technologie hinaus. Empirische Beispiele sind die Soja-Agrobusiness-Expansion und sozial-ökologische Konflikte in NW Argentinien, online gärtnern und offline konsumieren, alternative Produzent_innen-Konsument_innen Beziehungen (z.B. CSA) und ihre Potentiale für sozial-ökologische Transformation. Robert Hafners Forschungsgebiete sind Südamerika (insb. Argentinien) und Zentraleuropa (insb. Österreich).

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Südamerika (insb. Argentinien) und Zentraleuropa (insb. Österreich)

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Elena Zepharovich is a researcher at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern. She finished her PhD at University of Bern at the Institute of Geography. Before joining the CDE, she was working at Vienna University of Economics (WU) in the Department of Ecological Economics in the field of Education for Sustainable Development. Her current research focus lies on inequality, environmental justice, and deforestation in the Argentinean Chaco.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Argentinia

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Researcher, project manager and architect with an MSc in Land Management and Land Tenure and 13+ years experience in the private and not-for-profit sectors, as a committed advocate for socially justice and sustainable urban development. Her research interests centre on the promotion and defence of the commons, the role of design as an agent of change, housing as a public good (not a commodity), and the socially just distribution of environmental goods and burdens. She is currently researching the integration of environmental justice concerns into the local planning, development and governance of urban green space. In her previous role at a global network of local governments, Eleanor was responsible for steering effective collaborations between researchers and municipal staff working for European cities, with a focus on climate adaptation and building resilient communities.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe, in particular Germany

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Devrim Eren is a doctoral student in Global and Area Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Asian and African Studies. Her research bridges environmental inequalities, intersectionality and decolonial praxis. Her work, based in the urban peripheries of India, focuses on the entanglement of pre-colonial sociocultures, colonial vestiges and neoliberal influences in shaping waste (picking) as part of the informal urban economy and quotidian ways of waste pickers’ resistance for environmental justice. Her research connects Latin American thought with South Asian Studies.

She holds an MA in Modern South and Southeast Asian Studies and a BA in Information Science, and Asian and African Studies, both from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Apart from her research, she works as a political educator, focusing on topics such as anti-racism and feminist thought.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: India

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Researcher at the Multidisciplinary Research Centre on Chiapas and the Southern Border -CIMSUR- at the National Mexican Autonomous University -UNAM-. Her current research in the transborder region between Chiapas and Guatemala focuses on climate change adaptation, rural sustainable production systems and borderland issues. She integrates political ecology and borderland studies into the field of climate change adaptation. Further research focuses on the migration and climate change nexus at the Mexican southern border. Celia Ruiz de Oña´s main research areas are in Chiapas-Guatemala borderland regions. She has been collaborating with ENJUST members since 2018.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin American, Transboundary area between Chiapas-Guatemala.

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