Dr. Vanessa Jaiteh is a transdisciplinary marine social scientist specialising in tropical fisheries governance, fishing livelihoods, working conditions at sea, and endangered species conservation. Her research bridges the social and natural sciences through extended fieldwork in West Africa, Oceania, Micronesia, and Southeast Asia, and sustained engagement with fishing communities, governments, and international organisations. Her SNSF Starting Grant project SIRENA…
Alexandra is a PhD Student at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, and a Research Assistant at the Collaborative Research Center Transregio SFB/TRR 294 “Structural Change of Property”. Her academic work is grounded in political theories of justice, with a particular focus on environmental and distributive justice, international cooperation on transboundary challenges, and the development of international environmental legal regimes. Her…
Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently studies community-based initiatives, including citizen science and technologies, to assess and adapt to environmental degradation, as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been working on various topics related to human-environment relations, science and technology studies, citizen science, and global…
Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin (DE) with a PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). Her research focuses on climate adaptation with an emphasis on recognition, onto-epistemic justice and knowledge politics. Katriona works with creative and participatory methods to encourage critical engagement with dominant ways of thinking about climate change. Katriona has also…
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…
Patricia Widener is a professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University, and her research and teaching interests include social movements and environmental, climate, and marine justice. In the past, she has researched how communities and environmental groups responded to offshore and onshore oil extraction or expansion activities in Aotearoa New Zealand, Ecuador, and in Florida in the U.S. Currently,…
Wendy Chávez is an economist (Polytechnic School of Guayaquil, Ecuador) and holds a master’s degree in public administration (New York, USA) and a master’s degree in human settlements (KU Leuven, Belgium). She is a junior researcher and PhD student in Political and Cultural Change at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn. Her thesis project is…
Irmak Ertör is an associate professor in the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Before her current position, she was working in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded ENVJUSTICE project focusing on global fisheries conflicts and environmental justice. She holds a BS in…
Erik van Doorn‘s field of expertise is international law of the sea, with a main interest in the international regulation of marine resources but also new uses of the ocean and the effects of climate change. His research has focused on fisheries, mineral resources of the deep sea, and marine planning where questions relating to justice on an international…
