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{:en}Mirja Schoderer is a transdisciplinary researcher with expertise in environmental justice, political ecology, water, mining and conservation. She is an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she explores the uneven green transition, focusing on the extraction of critical raw materials and on how frontline communities experience and conceptualize extraction that takes place under the green transition paradigm. Her research centers lived experiences and creative methods and explores options to integrate plural knowledges and ontologies into public decision-making, for which she also applies context-sensitive synthesis methods. With a background in literature studies and environmental politics and management, Mirja’s work always comes back to how the material and the symbolic are interlinked, exploring, i.a., how imaginaries and discourses manifest in institutions and practices, and how these, in turn, consolidate or challenge imaginaries. Her PhD research on mining and water governance in Mongolia exemplifies this, but so does her more recent work on nature conservation in Colombia.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mongolia

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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 with political ecology and is passionate about the untold stories within environmental politics. Her recent ethnographic focus is on wetlands and the entanglements of race, ecology and socio-spatial inequalities in mangrove restoration in Cartagena de Indias, a city on the Colombian Caribbean coast.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Cartagena de Indias, Colombian Caribbean and Goma, Eastern DR Congo

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Patricia Widener is a professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University, and her research and teaching interests include social movements and environmental, climate, and marine justice. In the past, she has researched how communities and environmental groups responded to offshore and onshore oil extraction or expansion activities in Aotearoa New Zealand, Ecuador, and in Florida in the U.S. Currently, she is exploring how coastal Florida is responding to sea-level rise and coastal erosion. She is also engaged in an ongoing project examining the visual and coastal opportunity space for climate awareness, ecological educations, oil promotions, and oil resistance along the Florida and Gulf of Mexico coastlines in the U.S.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Sites of Offshore and Onshore Oil & Gas Extraction. Past research has included Ecuador, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the U.S., including Alaska, Florida, and Texas. Current research is along the Florida and Gulf of Mexico coastlines in the U.S.

Professor of society and environment, at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. Member of the Academic Group of Gender Studies. Her current research in the Gulf Coast focuses on gender relations in fishermen’s households. Further research focuses on the cultural and social consequences of oil infrastructure development in the Gulf of Mexico, using theory from political ecology.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Gulf of Mexico, Southeastern Mexico

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