Devrim Eren is a doctoral student in Global and Area Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Asian and African Studies. Her research bridges environmental inequalities, intersectionality and decolonial praxis. Her work, based in the urban peripheries of India, focuses on the entanglement of pre-colonial sociocultures, colonial vestiges and neoliberal influences in shaping waste (picking) as part of the informal urban economy and quotidian ways of waste pickers’ resistance for environmental justice. Her research connects Latin American thought with South Asian Studies.

She holds an MA in Modern South and Southeast Asian Studies and a BA in Information Science, and Asian and African Studies, both from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Apart from her research, she works as a political educator, focusing on topics such as anti-racism and feminist thought.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: India

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Mennatullah is an urban planner and visual thinker who aims to inspire sustained and empowered urban development through communication towards a just socio-spatial and visual reality. Mennatullah have long been fascinated by the way knowledge, power, and (in)justice are manifested in and co-construct cities and the public sphere. She is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia university, research associate and PhD candidate at The Technical university of Berlin, an associated researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner, Germany and an affiliated assistant lecturer at the department of urban planning and design in Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.

She is moved by the exploration of ‘agency’, ‘justice’ and ‘assumptions’ within socio-spatial everyday encounters. She is interested in how to enable the vulnerable majority and how to develop communities in an integrated manner. She certainly practices urban planning, design and education as approaches to empowerment with an aim to cover the gap in theory building in contested urban contexts. As a multipotentialite interested in intersections, she deals with urban planning as a developmental multidisciplinary field.

She believes in the role of research in driving local development and national policies as well as the importance of transferring knowledge and systems between global north and south through win-win means. As she views learning and research as two-way cyclic processes, the impact she strives for is the growth of all the humans she meets along her journey. In particular, she is interested in experimental methodologies and participatory action research through which she aspires to take values into action by connecting justice and urban planning.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Egypt, Mediatized World

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Irmak Ertör is an associate professor in the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Before her current position, she was working in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded ENVJUSTICE project focusing on global fisheries conflicts and environmental justice. She holds a BS in Economics and an MA in Modern Turkish History from Bogazici University, Turkey. She has been a Marie Curie (ITN) early stage researcher of the ENTITLE project (European Network of Political Ecology) and completed her PhD on the «Political Ecology of Marine Finfish Aquaculture in Europe» in ICTA, UAB. Currently, she is a member of the Core Group and the co-leader of the WG4 (on fisheries and emergent activities) of the COST Action on Rethinking the Blue Economy.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Turkey and Mediterranean

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Enrique F. Pasillas is a lawyer, and a transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner specialising in human rights, indigenous rights, environmental and water justice, peace and conflict, and socio-environmental conflicts. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher for the Science and Technology Secretaria (Gobierno de México) at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Public Centre for Social Research) in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. His current research focuses on environmental water justice and transboundary waters and indigenous rights. He has published several scientific papers and is a member of, or advisor to, several community and water defence NGOs.

Link:@efpasillas, research gate, academia

With a background in development studies, Nora Katharina Faltmann works on social science perspectives on food and agriculture. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‘Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime’ in which she researches alternative food initiatives across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland. A further research focus lies on the construction of animals-as-food at the intersection of food studies, human-animal relations and environmental justice.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: (e.g. Mediterranean region, Sicily) Europe, Uganda, Vietnam

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