Arianna Porrone is a PhD student in Global Studies. Justice, Rights, Politics, at the Department of political science, communication and international relations of the University of Macerata, Italy. Awarded with a One-Year Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates (2020-2021) she has joined the research group Social Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Areas of Kiel University as a visiting researcher.
Her main research interests are political ecology, environmental justice, storytelling and the environmental humanities as well ecofeminisms and feminist critical theories. Her Ph.D research focuses on understanding power and gender dynamics in knowledge creation within the current international environmental governance realm and aims at exploring ontological pluralism as a way forward able to reconcile human and more-than-human concerns.

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Soy originario y radico en Monterrey, México, en la zona noreste del país. Soy partícipe en movimientos sociales con enfoque ecoanarquista y cooperativista; desde mi práctica me he formado profesionalmente diseñando y gestionando proyectos de impacto socioambiental con justicia climática desde el ecourbanismo, bioarquitectura y ecopsicología principalmente desde el Colectivo Zenderio, el cuál soy fundador desde 2019. Formo parte de la Cooperativa de Vivienda Ixlte de Monterey en donde desde un año iniciamos nuestro camino para hacernos de una vivienda digna para seguir habitando en una zona céntrica de la metrópoli y haciendo frente ante la gentrificación y despojo ocasionado por las Desarrolladoras inmobiliarias voraces. Actualmente soy miembro de la asamblea del movimiento socioambiental Un Río En El Río en donde nos organizamos para la defensa y regeneración de la cuenca ante la amenaza de los megaproyectos capitalistas que desde el origen de la ciudad industrial ha atentado a la salud del mismo y de las personas que aquí habitamos. Me gustaría seguir creciendo redes para fortalecer el impacto y compartir/aprender herramientas para la defensa del territorio.

País/región de interés/enfoque de la investigación: Noreste de México.

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Elisa Privitera (Lizzy) is a researcher and practitioner, contributing to spatial environmental justice-related initiatives and with experiences in Italy, Canada, California, and Sweden. Her work draws on participatory planning, environmental humanities, political ecology, environmental justice and South studies. Lizzy has achieved significant academic milestones, including being awarded a Fulbright fellowship for a research exchange at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Currently she is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Urban Just Transitions research project at the University of Toronto Scarborough (Canada). She is co-leading the Listening Project, a community-based research initiative that collaborates with community partners to understand and envision equitable transitions. Her work focuses on investigating how the co-production of knowledge can enhance environmental and social urban justice. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Environmental Planning and Design. Her dissertation examined the democratization of environmental knowledge and explored the potential role of small data and toxic autobiographies in understanding and planning within risk landscapes. Additionally, she has served as an elected member of the coordination team for the AESOP Young Academics Network. Currently, she is member of the PlaNext – Next Generation Planning editorial team and of the editorial collective of Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities.

Country/Region of interest /research focus: Mediterranean region (especially Sicily); USA (especially California); Canada; Global South countries

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Sina Trölenberg is a human geographer with emphasis on political ecology, international environmental conflicts, and environmental peacebuilding. She holds a Master’s degree in Human-Environment Interactions (JLU Giessen) and a double Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Spanish Studies. Her regional focus is on Latin America, specifically Colombia, as well as on European climate politics and local protest movements. Currently, she is part of the NGO “Romero Initiative” and working closely with central American human rights activists in the context of a climate justice project carried out in Europe.

Country/Region of Interest/Focus of Research: Latin America, Europe

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Nicolás is Ecologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), MSc and PhD in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently an Associate Academic Technician at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Chiapas and the Southern Border of UNAM. Nicolás is self-described as a critical cartographer and an academic activist committed to social and environmental causes. He is part of the Conflict, Region and Rural Societies research group ascribed to the Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies, member of the Collective for the Protection of the Province of Sugamuxi since 2012, member of the Cartographic Collective of the Global South since 2022, founder and coordinator of the Latin American Network for Community Use of Drones, and member of the Latin American Network for the Defense of Biocultural Heritage.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America

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