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

Political scientist, political ecologist and scholar-activist at the Chair of Global Climate Governance at the University of Hamburg and member of the research group “GLOCALPOWER – Funds, Tools and Networks for an African Energy Transition”. My research focus is on socio-ecological transformation, transition conflicts and energy and climate justice. A specific focus is on the role of social movements and trade unions in low-carbon transitions.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany, South Africa

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She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher to the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on contested international norms, more specifically on the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conflicts over resources and land. Conceptually, she brings together norms research in International Relations, postcolonial perspectives, and critical (legal) anthropology. Her current interests is to understand and further conceptualize the politics of translation between different ontologies involved in resource conflicts. Her regional focus is on the Amazon rainforest, especially Peru.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Amazon Rainforest, Peru

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