Colin von Negenborn is a postdoctoral researcher at Kiel University, working at both the institute of philosophy and the Walther Schücking institute for international law. With a background in physics (ETH Zurich), Colin pursued a PhD in economics (HU Berlin) in the field of mechanism design, effectively reverse-engineering game theory. He is now taking the language of game theory…
Researcher at the Multidisciplinary Research Centre on Chiapas and the Southern Border -CIMSUR- at the National Mexican Autonomous University -UNAM-. Her current research in the transborder region between Chiapas and Guatemala focuses on climate change adaptation, rural sustainable production systems and borderland issues. She integrates political ecology and borderland studies into the field of climate change adaptation. Further research…
Caroline Meier is a research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Biosphere Reserves Institute at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Germany. I study cultural dimensions of human-‘nature’ relations. Of particular interest are power relations within environmental initiatives, how they emerged and how they work. In my PhD project, I investigate how international organisations allowed and still allow for…
Birgit Hoinle is Postdoc-Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim. She holds a PhD in Geography by the University of Hamburg, promoted with a scholarship by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung within the research cluster on transformation studies. In her dissertation project she analyzed processes of spatial empowerment in the urban and peri-urban agriculture in…
Broadly speaking my research engages with the question how societal trajectories can be shifted away from current patterns of unsustainability towards social and environmental justice. Within the complex and divergent processes of global change, I take a particular interest in community initiatives and social enterprises working towards alternative economies. My primary empirical focus, thereby, is on localized productive infrastructures…
Arianna Porrone is a PhD student in Global Studies. Justice, Rights, Politics, at the Department of political science, communication and international relations of the University of Macerata, Italy. Awarded with a One-Year Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates (2020-2021) she has joined the research group Social Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Areas of Kiel University as a visiting researcher. Her…
Antje Bruns is a professor for Sustainable Development and Governance in the Human Geography Department at Trier University. Her work examines socio-political geographies of resources and the role of politics, power and expertise in environmental governance. Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany, Greater Region (Saar-Lor-Lux), Coastal Cities; West-Africa Website
Researcher in the Research Group Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Transnational Entanglements and Interdependencies in the Bioenergy Sector at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Her current research in Argentina and Europe focuses on socio-ecological conflicts, green grabbing and strategies of social-ecological transformation. She draws on Political Ecology, post- and decolonial perspectives and transnational studies. Further research focuses are global social inequalities,…
Mein aktueller Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt bei Planetarer Gesundheit. In meiner Masterarbeit werde ich die Deutschsprachige Debatte um Planetary Health mit besonderem Fokus auf Klimagerechtigkeit und Transformationsmodelle analysieren. Ich versuche postkoloniale, diskriminierungssensible und Feministische Denkweisen in mein Forschen und Schreiben miteinzubeziehen. More-than-human ecologies, multispecies Ethnography und Medical Anthropology sowie Multimodalität und Wissenschaftskommunikation liegen ebenso in meinem Interessensgebiet. Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: München und Umgebung…
Anika Schmidt is a scientist working on urban transformations towards sustainability at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Department Urban and Environmental Sociology. Her research includes e.g. urban governance, (cooperative) processes of green space development and the socio-spatial implications of housing market dynamics. She is involved in transdisciplinary research projects, contributing to combine the knowledge and…
