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…
Anna-Lena Mieke is a PhD student in Environmental Science with a focus on social ecological system research at the University of Vienna, Austria. As a member of the Justice and Conservation Research Group, she contributes to interdisciplinary work on conservation and justice within complex social ecological systems. Her main research interests include political ecology, environmental justice, and the analysis…
Enrique F. Pasillas is a lawyer, and a transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner specialising in human rights, indigenous rights, environmental and water justice, peace and conflict, and socio-environmental conflicts. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher for the Science and Technology Secretaria (Gobierno de México) at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Public Centre for Social Research) in Tijuana, Baja California,…
PhD candidate in the artec Sustainability Research Center in University of Bremen, Germany. Currently working within the Humboldt Tipping Project (WP7). She is interested in the political ecology of coastal activities (fisheries along the value chain) within extractive landscapes. She works on coastal-marine resource governance, and its consequences on gendered power dynamics happening in socioecological conflicts, with a focus…
Catalina is a marine social science researcher working within critical ocean studies. Her research focuses on ocean justice and marine governance in contested marine regions, particularly to the role of alternative legalities in addressing conflict, shaping equity and decolonizing ocean governance in the Caribbean. She examines issues related to international maritime boundary-making, the militarization of the ocean, traditional sea…
Laura has a background in public health, public policy, and sociology. She is a Research Associate at the University of Bielefeld and a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg. Her dissertation explores the role of conceptual frameworks and analytical models in environmental health research. It examines how these frameworks capture the complexity of human–environment interactions and highlights the…
Luis Rubén González Márquez is postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Politics and Research (CIPR). He recently earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Merced. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of El Salvador (UES), and a M.A. in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Ecuador (FLACSO Ecuador). Luis…
Paola Villavicencio Calzadilla, legal scholar and environmental law researcher I am a Bolivian legal scholar specializing in environmental and climate change law, climate justice and environmental governance at the intersection of law, policy, and human rights. I hold a PhD in International Climate Change Law and a Master’s in Environmental Law from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain….
