Having a background in environmental sciences my focus shifted from natural sciences towards questions of responsibility and justice in my two masters programs on Environmental Ethics and Sustainability Science. Having studied in Lima, Lisbon and Kiel, I am passionate about coastal regions and inter- as well as transdisciplinary knowledge transfer. During my time at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact…
Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently studies community-based initiatives, including citizen science and technologies, to assess and adapt to environmental degradation, as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been working on various topics related to human-environment relations, science and technology studies, citizen science, and global…
Claudia Horn ist promovierte Sozialwissenschaftlerin und Dozentin für Politische Ökonomie am King’s College London. Sie forscht zu globaler Ungleichheit, Klimagerechtigkeit, Lateinamerika, Umwelt- und Entwicklungsfinanzierung. Ihr Buch „Klimahilfe mit Nebenwirkungen. Kooperation und Konflikt im Namen des Amazonas-Schutzes“ untersucht internationale Klimafinanzierung für Waldschutz in Brasilien. Ihr zweites Buch betrachtet die ökologische Kapitalismuskritik von Rosa Luxemburg. Zwischen 2018 und 2023 lebte sie…
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…
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…
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…
Mirja hat einen interdisziplinären Hintergrund in Umweltsozialwissenschaften und einen Abschluss in Literaturwissenschaft. Sie ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik in Bonn, wo sich ihre Doktorarbeit mit Wasserpolitik im Allgemeinen und mit Konflikten um Wasser und Bergbau im Spezifischen beschäftigt. Mirja interessiert sich für die Intersektion von Institutionen und Diskursen; dafür, wie die Art und Weise, wie wir…
Paola Villavicencio Calzadilla, legal scholar and environmental law researcher I am a Bolivian legal scholar specializing in environmental and climate change law, climate justice and environmental governance at the intersection of law, policy, and human rights. I hold a PhD in International Climate Change Law and a Master’s in Environmental Law from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain….
Wendy Chávez is an economist (Polytechnic School of Guayaquil, Ecuador) and holds a master’s degree in public administration (New York, USA) and a master’s degree in human settlements (KU Leuven, Belgium). She is a junior researcher and PhD student in Political and Cultural Change at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn. Her thesis project is…
Elisa (Lizzy) Privitera is a transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner with expertise in community urban planning, environmental justice, environmental humanities, and political ecology. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Canada Excellence Research Chair Network for Equity in Sustainability Transitions (CERC NEST) at the University of Toronto Scarborough. At the same university, she co-led the Just Transitions in Action…
