As a human geographer and postdoctoral lecturer/researcher at the Department of Geography/Kiel, I have been teaching Political Ecology and Environmental Justice classes as my favourites for more than 10 years.  In my PhD-project, I studied the transformation of traditional marine resource use in Indigenous communities in Nicaragua/Panama, focusing on changing institutions and local knowledges embedded in spiritual worldviews, and on local perceptions of environmental change such as sea-level rise. The communities are entangled in struggles with powerful economic actors and interest groups on different levels of scales, as well as in struggles for recognition and territorial autonomy. In this context, the creation of neo-traditional institutions for resource use and the local discourses on the unity of human-nature relations embedded in wider discourses on Indigeneity have been fascinating. In other small projects I have worked on migration and exclusion of Romanian Roma in Germany/France and on a protest movement against a large gold-mining project in Romania. I have begun to participate in the Enjust network during the time of its founding in 2018.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America/Caribbean, France, Romania, Germany

Author and Expert for Sustainable Development since the 1990s. Active in diverse political and scientific contexts, especially circular society, implementing the rights of nature. I am interested in ecological economy, degrowth and transformation theory and discourses. I have worked intensively on the importance of craftsmanship for sustainable development (because of its time-intensive and highly satisfying way of working and the numerous skills we need for a post-growth society and climate change: durable, customised products, unique items, services, maintenance/repair), growth theory and new forms of work. with growth theory and new forms of labour. Founder and board member of the Round Table Repair, the Kiel Food Council, moderator of the network ‘Rights of Nature’. Author of the following books: Das Handwerk der Zukunft (1997), Die Könnensgesellchaft (2007), together with Fritz Hinterberger Wachstumswahn (2014).

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PhD researcher at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her PhD investigates the role of social innovation and gender in attaining sustainable adaptation in coastal social-ecological systems in Bangladesh.  Her research covers multi-disciplinary issues connected to gender and feminist theories. Some of the themes she works with are gendered policy, land rights, migration, religion, the gendered body, sexuality, and masculinity.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: South Asia, Bangladesh

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Part of the coordination team of the EnJust Network for Environmental Justice. Research assistant in the working group social geography of coastal and marine areas (Dept. of Geography) and at Kiel Marine Science, Kiel University. Study background in political science, sociology, geography, philosophy with a focus on interdisciplinary marine sciences.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Baltic Sea Region

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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