Kathrin Eitel ist Postdoktorandin am Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaften der Universität Zürich. Als Kulturanthropologin und feministische STS-Wissenschaftlerin konzentriert sich ihre Arbeit auf urbane Resilienz, Klimatechnologien und Umweltfragen im Zusammenhang mit Wasserknappheit und Abfallüberfluss, hauptsächlich in Südostasien und in Europa. Darüber hinaus ist Kathrin Eitel besonders daran interessiert ethnografisches Wissen kreativ und anders zu gestalten um andere Antworten auf den Klimawandel hervorrufen zu können.

Sie ist Autorin der Monographie „Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia. Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh“ (Routledge, 2022).

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Amit Ambekar is a climate and sustainability practitioner and doctoral researcher in Human Geography at Kiel University. His doctoral research examines proximity, responsibility and environmental justice in climate governance, with a particular focus on how institutional and spatial arrangements shape the attribution of responsibility and accountability. He is developing the concept of “Proximity Collapse” to understand how responsibility can become difficult to identify and enforce when authority, consequences and governance mechanisms are distributed across different territories, scales, places and networks. His empirical research is beginning with water governance in India, with a possible comparative European dimension. Alongside his doctoral work, Amit works professionally across climate governance, climate adaptation, water, landscape restoration and sustainability strategy in India, combining applied policy and institutional experience with academic research.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: India, with comparative interest in European climate and water governance

Links: amitambekar.substack.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-ambekar-06276a18/

Lizette Grobler is currently a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the interdisciplinary DSI/NRF/CSIR Chair in Waste and Society at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). She is involved with the Clean Cities and Towns project. Previously she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the South African Research Chair in Property Law (SARPL), at the University of Stellenbosch, where she obtained her LLD in Public Law. Her publications in this regard concern transformative property law in the light of the Constitution. Her research interests include the intersection between legal theory and waste law, constitutional aspects of solid waste management, perceptions regarding waste, waste management and waste disposal behaviour, the causes and consequences of and current management of undesirable waste diversion behaviour, as well as best practices in waste management. A particular interest is the promotion of sanitation justice within the context of environmental justice.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: South Africa; Southern Africa; Global South

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: The Caribbean Sea

SMW explores the sentient economy, cultures and transformations of elements and materializations. While forms and materials trace species and their social geopolitical context Winterling’s practice reflects upon aesthetic entanglements and power structures among human/ animal/ matter. Her time-based installations critically engage the representation of reality and investigate what pure information and form leaves out – including a sensual approach to media and material informed by embodiment before language and cognition and power as energy flows. Since 2018 the artistic research project Planetary sensing: navigation below the surface (www.planetary-sensing.com) circles with bioluminescence around social sculpture, environmental violence and ongoing colonial brutality to infrastructures of solidarity and conservation led by community. With the collective The Kalpana speculations on the desert were at the core of the practice, while the ongoing group Blockadia*Tiefsee invests with commoning and compost from the very local to the ocean. Her working group on matter antimatter and dark matter pursues ethics in quantum formations to anti colonial and antifascist hospitable spaces in the The unknown / unknowable.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Norway, Jamaica

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Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. As a social geographer, he worked on social inclusion and exclusion, urban studies, praxelogical theories, the methodology of the social sciences and geographical health research. He developed the research programme of a transactional anthropology, which expresses a specific understanding of critique as mediation. It is particularly suited to analyze local power asymmetries and dissent scenarios. Recent work has focused on cities in transition, post-growth economies and environmental justice. Numerous collaborative research projects with city administrations, urban target groups also by involving students.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Cities

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