Birgit Hoinle is Postdoc-Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim. She holds a PhD in Geography by the University of Hamburg, promoted with a scholarship by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung within the research cluster on transformation studies. In her dissertation project she analyzed processes of spatial empowerment in the urban and peri-urban agriculture in Colombia. She conducted 18 months of field research with the participatory-action research approach together with agroecological networks and Community Supported Agriculture projects in Bogotá. Her current research involves food justice, sustainable public food procurement and the role of local food initiatives. She is engaged in the building-up of a local food policy council in Tübingen. Birgit Hoinle is part of the network of Critical Geography in Latin-America GeoRaizAL (Red de Geografías Críticas de Raíz Latinoamericana) and of the working group feminist geographies.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, Southern Germany

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Associate Professor at the Center of Research in Environmental Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research interests revolve around community-based natural resource management, conservation and territorial defense, with a particular focus on protected areas inhabited by indigenous / local communities that are engaged in struggles for environmental justice. He’s interested in collaborative scientific approaches that trigger transdisciplinary processes of co-production of environmental knowledge, social learning and grassroots innovation, and their potential in such struggles for imagining and enacting transformations toward just sustainabilities. A main area of interest has been the analysis of such processes in community environmental monitoring using technologies (e.g., drones, kits for in situ water quality analysis). His main focal areas of interest are water, forests and food systems.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia

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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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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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Antje Bruns is a professor for Sustainable Development and Governance in the Human Geography Department at Trier University. Her work examines socio-political geographies of resources and the role of politics, power and expertise in environmental governance.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany, Greater Region (Saar-Lor-Lux), Coastal Cities; West-Africa

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