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…
Post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven and teaching associate at the Master program in Sustainable Development of the same University. Her current research focuses on community forests and historical commons, socially-differentiated vulnerabilities and female cooperatives, in the context of the argan oil boom and climate change. Further research focuses on sustainable agriculture and water governance from a climate change-(sustainable) development…
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…
M.A. (Environmental) Social Science student and student researcher, part of the Global Studies Programme organized between University of Freiburg (Germany), University of Cape Town (South Africa), and Jawaharlal University (India). She conducts research in the areas of environmental governance and sustainable economics, working specifically on sovereign sustainability transitions in food cultures to improve community resiliency to climate change and…
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…
Bachelor in Sociology, Master in Social Anthropology and PhD student in Social Sciences at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology Western Regional Unit (CIESAS-Occidente) in the research line Environment and Society. His current research discusses, from a political ecology perspective, the unequal production of space in the peripheries, the scarcity and micro-privatization of water and…
Social Anthropology Phd Student, working in Social Construction of Risk and Disasters field studies. My current research focuses in the socionatural causes of the damages provoked by the 2017 7th September earthquake on a fishery located in the northern coast of Chiapas, Mexico. I work from a historical/political perspective, which I propose as a necessary platform to understand the…
