Ben Glasson is an interdisciplinary researcher of climate change, subjectivity and narrative, with a background in political theory and cultural studies. His research explores the implications of climate apathy, greenwashing, environmental hypocrisy and corporate environmentalism. He has been published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, the Journal of Political Ideologies, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Link Link Country/Region…
I’m a Mexican from the Global South, but with a broader context from the Global North as well. I work in social innovation and addressing root causes. My main focus is on nature-based social innovation,with a focus on the health, well-being, and cohesion of people and the planet because we are also nature. Country/Region of interest/research focus:Nature Based Social…
Eduardo Damián Valdez is originally from and currently living in Monterrey, in the northeastern region of Mexico. He actively participate in social movements with an eco-anarchist and cooperative focus. His professional and hands-on experience has centered on designing and managing socio-environmental projects rooted in climate justice, eco-urbanism, bio-architecture, and ecopsychology. He is the founder of Colectivo Zenderio (since 2019),…
Christian Buske holds a degree in biology and a master’s degree in administrative sciences and worked in environmental protection and nature conservation before becoming head of management training in the education sector in Schleswig-Holstein. He has been working as a ministerial councilor for the state government in Schleswig-Holstein since 2018. He is the editor of the blog The Future…
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…
I am Somaieh Samimi, a PhD student in environmental science from Iran. The field I am interested in is political ecology. The role of power at any scale in access and environmental justice fascinates me. Injustice in the distribution of natural resources, as well as recently, injustice in the distribution of the consequences of excessive consumption of resources such…
Associate Professor at the Center of Research in Environmental Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research interests revolve around community-based natural resource management, conservation and territorial defense, with a particular focus on protected areas inhabited by indigenous / local communities that are engaged in struggles for environmental justice. He’s interested in collaborative scientific approaches that trigger transdisciplinary processes…
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…
Madlen Kobi is assistant professor at the Unit of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg and leads the research project “Urban Bricolage. Mining, Designing and Constructing With Reused Building Materials“ (SNSF-PRIMA, 2022-2026). The project investigates at the intersection of anthropology and architecture the practical challenges of reusing building materials in selected European countries. The analysis of reuse practices…
