Sophie Baban hold a Master’s degree in Environmental and Resource Economics. In her thesis, she applied concepts from Ecological Economics to develop a shadow price for biodiversity in order to assess the impacts of illegal elephant trade in Africa and to highlight the resulting ecological and social conflicts.This engagement with global justice issues deepened her understanding of the connections…
Thomas Bobo is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). His research focuses on the intersection of internal violent conflicts and the environment from a political and discursive perspective. Before starting his doctoral research, he worked in international biodiversity governance at the French Agency for International Technical…
Devrim Eren is a doctoral student in Global and Area Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Asian and African Studies. Her research bridges environmental inequalities, intersectionality and decolonial praxis. Her work, based in the urban peripheries of India, focuses on the entanglement of pre-colonial sociocultures, colonial vestiges and neoliberal influences in shaping waste (picking) as part of the…
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,…
Jenny Bischoff was part of the coordination team of EnJust, headquartered at Kiel University in Northern Germany. Currently, she is writing her master’s thesis on the dissemination of traditional ecological knowledge and the power gaps and (in)justices arising during research processes. Furthermore, she is active in fields of climate justice, Indigenous rights and strives for a rethinking of Western…
Kathrin Eitel ist Postdoktorandin am Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaften der Universität Zürich. Als Kulturanthropologin und feministische STS-Wissenschaftlerin konzentriert sich ihre Arbeit auf urbane Resilienz, Klimatechnologien und Umweltfragen im Zusammenhang mit Wasserknappheit und Abfallüberfluss, hauptsächlich in Südostasien und in Europa. Darüber hinaus ist Kathrin Eitel besonders daran interessiert ethnografisches Wissen kreativ und anders zu gestalten um andere Antworten…
Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany and a PhD student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on climate adaptation and coastal policy with an emphasis on participation and knowledge politics. In her PhD thesis on coastal climate adaptation in Scottish island communities, she uses feminist and decolonial research practice…
Postdoctoral researcher of postcolonial Anglophobe literature and culture from the perspective of the Blue Humanities at the University of Bremen. He is a fellow of the Philipp Schwartz-Initiative program of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a member of the interdisciplinary research networks “Fiction Meets Science” and “Oceanic Humanities for the Global South” as well a number of postcolonial…
Part of the coordination team of the EnJust Network for Environmental Justice. Research assistant in the working group social geography of coastal and marine areas (Dept. of Geography) and at Kiel Marine Science, Kiel University. Study background in political science, sociology, geography, philosophy with a focus on interdisciplinary marine sciences. Country/Region of interest/research focus: Baltic Sea Region Link
Student of the master program “Environmental Management” at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. He is currently focusing on socio-technical imaginaries within the hydrogen energy transition in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Since Northern Germany has huge potentials for renewable energy production, the construction of a hydrogen energy infrastructure in Schleswig-Holstein is on its way. Ravn is researching the social and power relationships between…
