Sören Weißermel is a human geographer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Kiel University. His research focuses on the spatial negotiation of political conflicts in the context of power-laden society-nature relations. In his PhD project, he investigated the processes of dispossession and precarisation of marginalised and invisibilised people and lifeforms in the context of the construction of…
I am working as a senior researcher at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik in Bonn. I am interested in the political ecology of conservation and development, climate politics and agrarian change. Currently, I am working on the socio-ecological transformation of the Jakarta Bay and of the Elbe estuary. My research has mainly focused on Indonesia, Northern…
Silja Klepp is Professor of Human Geography at Kiel University. She is a trained social anthropologist. Her research group “Social Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Areas” deals with human-environment relations in the Anthropocene. In her current research on climate change migration and adaptation, she integrates postcolonial perspectives, justice dimensions and critical theories in the study of the social effects…
