Virginia is currently pursuing a PhD at the Department of Environment, Development and Sustainability Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her doctoral research explores contemporary environmental movements in the Western Balkans adopting an interdisciplinary approach to explore their role in facilitating stability and sustainable development pathways in the (post) conflict, post-socialist region. This work builds on her previous research…
Syed Muhammad Jaffar Abbas is a Research Associate at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), where he works within the Urban Futures and Sustainability Transformation team. Originally from Pakistan, Jaffar holds a Master’s in Sustainability, Society & the Environment (SSE) from the University of Kiel. His research focuses on climate justice, climate mobility, loss…
Afifa Khalid is part of the Coordination Team of the EnJust Network at CAU – Kiel. She supports international collaboration and knowledge exchange on environmental and climate justice, connecting researchers, practitioners, artists, and civil society actors across disciplines and regions. With a background in agribusiness and sustainable supply chains in Pakistan, her work has focused on reducing food loss,…
SMW explores the sentient economy, cultures and transformations of elements and materializations. While forms and materials trace species and their social geopolitical context Winterling’s practice reflects upon aesthetic entanglements and power structures among human/ animal/ matter. Her time-based installations critically engage the representation of reality and investigate what pure information and form leaves out – including a sensual approach…
I am a PhD student in sociology at Freie Universität Berlin, researching activisms and discourses on climate justice based on queer, decolonial and intersectional methods, concepts and ethics. I have worked in the past on gender, climate and energy justice issues, through project and knowledge management, qualitative research, participatory methods and fundraising with NGOs, UN agencies, foundations and think…
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…
With a background in development studies, Nora Katharina Faltmann works on social science perspectives on food and agriculture. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‚Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime‘ in which she researches alternative food initiatives across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland. A further research focus lies…
Janina Dannenberg is a sustainability scientist with a specialisation on the intersection of gender and socio-ecological crisis and transformation. She leads the project “Nuclear Justice and Gender in the Sea of Islands” at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg. It focusses on the socio-ecological impacts of nuclear weapons and their interaction with climate changes through a gender lens…
Dr. Rosa Felicitas Philipp ist Postdoktorandin in der Arbeitsgruppe Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie an der Universität Heidelberg. Ihren PhD erwarb sie an der Universität Bern mit der Dissertation „Defensa de la vida (engl. Defence of Life): Infrastructured Bodies, Care and Resistance at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec“. Darin untersuchte sie den Widerstand indigener Frauen gegen ein Mega-Infrastrukturprojekt im Süden Mexikos. Ihre…
Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin (DE) with a PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). Her research focuses on climate adaptation with an emphasis on recognition, onto-epistemic justice and knowledge politics. Katriona works with creative and participatory methods to encourage critical engagement with dominant ways of thinking about climate change. Katriona has also…
