Master Student at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, in the programme Sustainability, Society, and the Environment. As a research assistant in the Urban- and Population Geography working group of the CAU his focus is set on processes of green gentrification, energetic retrofitting and energy justice in Kiel. Furthermore, his master thesis will be based on the topic of financialization of the social housing market and the resulting urban development in Sao Paulo. Finally, he is interested in science communication and science’s role in social society. Overall, the urban realm is at the center of his studies, researching about the influence of capitalistic patterns of urban development and ruptures in this overarching trend.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Brazil, Sao Paulo, Kiel

Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Anthropology at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and member of the Political Ecology Working Group at the Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO), the environmental NGO Grupo Semillas and FIAN Colombia, an organization that advocates for the right to food. She has worked on seed conflicts due to the expansion of GM crops and intellectual property rights as well as on grassroots alternatives based on agroecology and food and seed sovereignty in Colombia. Her current research focuses on socio-environmental conflicts linked to payments for ecosystems services, particularly carbon markets and REDD+ programs in the Colombian Amazon. She integrates political ecology perspectives and environmental ethics into her research. Laura Gutiérrez’s main research area is in Colombia.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Colombia

A transdisciplinary artist, educator, and consultant working in video, installation, performance, and collaboration, Curry centers environmental, economic, political and gender structures. Curry’s research-based practice frames her projects with the diverse location-specific narratives that link non-conventional methods of research and activism. Extending into the areas of urban planning and design, developing projects in collaboration with the communities her work resides, the engagements and interactions generated form deeply personal, dynamic, thought-provoking experiences and concepts.

Laura has conducted projects in North and South America, Europe and the Caribbean, and has been exhibited internationally.

Irmak Ertör is an assistant 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 Cost Action on Ocean Governance and investigates socio-environmental conflicts and social movements of fisher communities, food sovereignty and environmental justice.

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

Political Ecology blog (of the former ENTITLE group)

Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History 

I’m currently working as a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Landscape Planning (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna). My research focuses on the topic of risk governance, social justices and natural hazard risk management in Europe, with a particular emphasis on questions relating to design and effectiveness of governance systems as well as integrated of European environmental policies into national and local institutions.

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