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…
Syed Muhammad Jaffar Abbas is a Research Associate at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), where he works within the Urban Futures and Sustainability Transformation team. Originally from Pakistan, Jaffar holds a Master’s in Sustainability, Society & the Environment (SSE) from the University of Kiel. His research focuses on climate justice, climate mobility, loss…
Adjunct Professor focusing on sustainability transformations at McGill University, Canada. An interdisciplinary researcher trained in education, Ying-Syuan Huang’s current research focuses on transformative and transdisciplinary research, research ethics governance, collective learning, and the institutional conditions that support socially engaged scholarship. She integrates perspectives from sustainability science, critical social science, research ethics, and higher education studies to examine how universities…
Anthropologist (PUJ, Colombia) with an MSc in Rural Development (PUJ, Colombia) and a PhD in Development Studies (Institute of Development Policy-IOB, University of Antwerp). He holds a postdoctoral fellowship at IOB-UAntwerp and is a research associate at the Center for Alternatives to Development-CEALDES in Colombia (https://oad-cealdes.org/). He works on transformative and collaborative research with rural communities, exploring struggles for…
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…
Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy and Management at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She serves as the Faculty Director for Community-Engaged Scholarship for the Nicholas School, the Director for Community Engagement for the Duke University Superfund Research Center and the Co-Chair of the Community Engagement and Environmental Justice…
I am a PhD student in sociology at Freie Universität Berlin, researching activisms and discourses on climate justice based on queer, decolonial and intersectional methods, concepts and ethics. I have worked in the past on gender, climate and energy justice issues, through project and knowledge management, qualitative research, participatory methods and fundraising with NGOs, UN agencies, foundations and think…
Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning and a member of the Center for Urban Research and the Social Equity Research Center at RMIT University Melbourne. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation, social equity and justice, urban sustainability and land-use planning and the implications for policy and governance particularly at the local and regional scale. She has worked…
Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently studies community-based initiatives, including citizen science and technologies, to assess and adapt to environmental degradation, as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been working on various topics related to human-environment relations, science and technology studies, citizen science, and global…
Dr. Rosa Felicitas Philipp is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Economic and Social Geography Group at Heidelberg University. She completed her PhD at the University of Bern with the dissertation “Defensa de la vida (Defence of Life): Infrastructured Bodies, Care and Resistance at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.” In her doctoral research, she examined the resistance of Indigenous women against…
