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Elisa (Lizzy) Privitera is a transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner with expertise in community urban planning, environmental justice, environmental humanities, and political ecology. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Canada Excellence Research Chair Network for Equity in Sustainability Transitions (CERC NEST) at the University of Toronto Scarborough. At the same university, she co-led the Just Transitions in Action project—a community-based research initiative collaborating with local partners to understand and envision equitable transitions. Her PhD dissertation (University of Catania, Italy) explores the role of embodied knowledge and small data in researching and planning industrial risk landscapes. She has published scientific contributions and received several grants, including a Fulbright Scholarship supporting her visiting period at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the international Courageous Scientists Award for Environmental and Climate Justice (2025). She is a member of the editorial team of plaNext – Next Generation Planning, Critical Sociology and 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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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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{:en}Judith Bopp is a human geographer with a particular interest in organic farming practices and the interrelations among food, health, and ecology. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC). In her research project, “Fostering the Health–Nutrition–Ecology Nexus: Organic Farming Practices and Household Resilience in Rural Thailand,” she investigates how rural smallholder households strengthen their resilience to overlapping socioecological crises through the adoption of organic farming practices.

With a background in linguistics, she also has a strong interest in the field of ecolinguistics. Ecolinguistic analysis is used to identify ecologically destructive discourses and to help shape “eco-positive” narratives for more sustainable ways of living (see Ecolinguistics course).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Thailand, Myanmar, Southern India

Latest publication: Local Notions of Alternative Practices: Organic Food Movements in Bangkok, Thailand and Chennai, India

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