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 leads to rethinking our current capitalist system where environmental injustices are inscribed in the production, circulation, taxation and consumption of resources and building materials. Madlen Kobi has more than ten years of experience in conducting research on urban development in China with an interest in circular economy, infrastructure, urban political ecology, ethnic place-making, material culture and urban climate change.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: China, European Cities

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M.A. (Environmental) Social Science student and student researcher, part of the Global Studies Programme organized between University of Freiburg (Germany), University of Cape Town (South Africa), and Jawaharlal University (India). She conducts research in the areas of environmental governance and sustainable economics, working specifically on sovereign sustainability transitions in food cultures to improve community resiliency to climate change and climate famine. The background of her research includes primarily environmental social science, social transformations, food anthropology, sustainability, sustainability economics, international ‘development,’ sustainable food systems, political ecology, and environmental justice, all with humility and intention toward decoloniality.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Current focus: Germany, Europe. Past foci: Arctic Alaska, Brazilian Amazon, Sumatra & Borneo

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 on everyday resistance and socioenvironmental justice. Throughout the last years, her work has been based on small-scale fisheries communities in coastal Ecuador and Peru, and slowly been developing in the direction of her home-region, Galicia, Spain.

Country/Region of interest/research focus:coastal Peru, coastal Ecuador, Galicia (Spain)

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Bachelor in Sociology, Master in Social Anthropology and PhD student in Social Sciences at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology Western Regional Unit (CIESAS-Occidente) in the research line Environment and Society. His current research discusses, from a political ecology perspective, the unequal production of space in the peripheries, the scarcity and micro-privatization of water and water suffering.

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Hali Healy has co-authored and co-ordinated work on two EC funded projects on sustainable development. One of these was EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade, 2011-2014), a project that linked researchers from the sustainability sciences and environmental justice organisations (EJOs). On the basis of this work Hali has published several peer-reviewed articles, and co-edited a book, Ecological Economics from the Ground Up (Routledge, 2013). In 2016 Hali moved to South Africa to take up lecturing post at the University of Johannesburg in the department of Anthropology and Development studies. Since then, much of her research has focused on environmental injustice, post and decoloniality, commons resource management and the greening of the South African economy.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: South Africa, Global South, Europe

Postdoctoral researcher of postcolonial Anglophobe literature and culture from the perspective of the Blue Humanities at the University of Bremen. He is a fellow of the Philipp Schwartz-Initiative program of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a member of the interdisciplinary research networks “Fiction Meets Science” and “Oceanic Humanities for the Global South” as well a number of postcolonial associations. His current research focuses on the intersections of postcolonial studies and the blue humanities especially in relation to climate change and sustainability. Along with research, he is teaching “Narratives of Ocean Cultures” at the University of Bremen. As an Arab scholar, he further researches Arabic maritime humanities. He taught English literature as an Assistant Professor in many universities in Yemen and Jordan.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe and the Mediterranean