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…
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…
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…
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…
PhD candidate in the artec Sustainability Research Center in University of Bremen, Germany. Currently working within the Humboldt Tipping Project (WP7). She is interested in the political ecology of coastal activities (fisheries along the value chain) within extractive landscapes. She works on coastal-marine resource governance, and its consequences on gendered power dynamics happening in socioecological conflicts, with a focus…
Tobias Müller is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Isaac Newton Trust, Fellow at the CRASSH and Bye-Fellow at Queens‘ College, University of Cambridge, where he received his PhD in Politics and International Studies. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at Cape Town, Leiden, Hamburg, Oxford, UNAM and Yale. Tobias is Principal Investigator of the project „Democratic Futures: Climate…
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…
