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…
Jean Carlo Rodriguez is an environmental-social scientist interested in environmental change, environmental governance and equity. At the Alexander von Humboldt Institute in Colombia and the Landbouw Economisch Instituut (LEI) in the Netherlands, he gathered significant experience in designing and implementing NbS to protect ecosystems and biodiversity for the provision of watershed ecosystem services. During his Ph.D. on the political…
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…
Diego Silva is an economist/anthropologist and works as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre of International Environmental Studies (CIES) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), in Geneva. His work is located at the intersection of science and technology studies, environmental and economic anthropology, and agrarian studies. His current research agenda includes: 1) the socio-technical analysis of…
Lila Sax dos Santos Gomes leads Yarrow Global Consulting gGmbH, a non-profit consulting firm based in Germany that operates at the intersection of health and the environment with a special focus on intersectional feminist approaches to socio-ecological transformation processes. She is an experienced facilitator, project manager, and gender expert with extensive expertise in participatory methods and capacity building. She…
Privatdozent an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Als Sozialgeograph hat er Arbeiten zu sozialer Inklusion und Exklusion, den Urban Studies, praxelogischen Theorien, der Methodologie der Sozialwissenschaften und der geographischen Gesundheitsforschung vorgelegt. Er entwickelte das Forschungsprogramm einer transaktionalen Anthropologie, die ein spezifisches Verständnis von Kritik als Mediation ausdrückt. Es eignet sich insbesondere zur Analyse lokaler Machtasymmetrien und Dissensszenarien. Jüngere Arbeiten beschäftigen sich…
Matthias Schmelzer is an economic historian and transformation researcher. He is currently substitute Professor for Social-Ecological Transformation at the University of Flensburg. He is author of the award-winning „The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Growth Paradigm“ (Cambridge University Press, 2016), co-edited “Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformation” and is co-author of “The Future…
Lizette Grobler is currently a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the interdisciplinary DSI/NRF/CSIR Chair in Waste and Society at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). She is involved with the Clean Cities and Towns project. Previously she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the South African Research Chair in Property Law (SARPL), at the University of Stellenbosch, where she obtained…
