Post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven and teaching associate at the Master program in Sustainable Development of the same University. Her current research focuses on community forests and historical commons, socially-differentiated vulnerabilities and female cooperatives, in the context of the argan oil boom and climate change. Further research focuses on sustainable agriculture and water governance from a climate change-(sustainable) development…
Madlen Kobi is assistant professor at the Unit of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg and leads the research project „Urban Bricolage. Mining, Designing and Constructing With Reused Building Materials“ (SNSF-PRIMA, 2022-2026). The project investigates at the intersection of anthropology and architecture the practical challenges of reusing building materials in selected European countries. The analysis of reuse practices…
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…
Nicolás is Ecologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), MSc and PhD in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently an Associate Academic Technician at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Chiapas and the Southern Border of UNAM. Nicolás is self-described as a critical cartographer and an academic activist committed to social and environmental…
Ich befinde mich gerade in meinem Master „Sustainability, Society and Environment“ und im Rahmen dessen besuche ich ein Seminar, welches sich mit sozial-ökologischen Konflikten beschäftigt. Insbesondere untersuche ich gerade den Konflikt im Yasuni Nationalpark in Ecuador. Mein Schwerpunkt dabei liegt vor allem auf der Anerkennung des indigenen Wissens. Bei meiner Forschung ziehe ich vor allem politische Ökologie, Extraktivismus und…
Dr Tobias Müller is Principal Investigator of the project “Democratic Futures: Climate Change, Coloniality and State Legitimacy”, funded through a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2024-2027), and a Fellowship at The New Institute, Hamburg. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at Oxford, Munich, Leiden, Yale and Cambridge, where he received his PhD in Politics…
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…
Manuel Wagner arbeitet am StadtLabor der Universität Münster und beschäftigt sich momentan vor allem mit Mensch-Kompost-Verhältnissen. Dafür bezieht er sich auf Themenfelder wie Feministisch Politische Ökologie, more-than-human geography, neue Materialismen, Care-/Sorgebeziehungen oder die spekulative Fabulation. Was kann der Mensch von Kompost lernen? Wie können wir Gesellschaft von der Rottung her denken? Wie können bewusste Mensch-Boden bzw. Mensch-Kompost Sorgebeziehungen gedacht…
Michael is a critical geographer who studies the intersecting social, economic and political inequalities caused by the impacts of, and our responses to, climate change. His research is informed by critical theory and interrogates the concepts of climate justice, adaptation, resilience and intersectionality. Michael is an Assistant Professor of Climate Justice and Urban Sustainability at the Department of Environmental…
Laura McAdam-Otto ist Ethnographin und Kulturwissenschaftlerin. Aktuell leitet sie an der Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main das Forschungsprojekt „Making Algae (In-)Visible: Tourism, Responsibility and Governance along the Caribbean Coast of Mexico“ als Principle Investigator. Ihre Forschung ist an der Schnittstelle zwischen Kulturanthropologie, NaturenKulturen-Debatten und den Science and Technology Studies angesiedelt, und sie fokussiert Fragen nach Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen in der…
