Takeshi Ito – Worldviews, values and the political ecology of disasters
I am a political ecologist trained in politics and political economy, with broad interests in agrarian and environmental change. What…
I am a political ecologist trained in politics and political economy, with broad interests in agrarian and environmental change. What…
Image: Fieldwork in December 2025, Takeo Province, Cambodia (Photo by Vutha Srey) My name is Mira Käkönen and I am…
Although I trained as a human geographer, political ecology – and more specifically, urban political ecology – has always been…
My name is Carly Nichols and I am an assistant professor of geography at the National University of Singapore. My…
My relationship with plantation landscapes began more than a decade ago. In 2014, as an undergraduate student conducting my first…
Bridging territorial struggles and global comparative political ecology through feminist and participatory research.
Johan-Arango Quiroga explains his inspiring journey from engineering towards environmental justice.
I do research on topics related to energy humanities. With a background in physics and the history of science, I have eventually found a home in political ecology. In particular, I’m interested in the political use of energy in (post)colonial contexts and the expansion of the concept of energy justice.
I am a political ecologist and engineer currently interested in post-development theory, environmental justice/conflicts scholarship, conservation studies, low-tech, and degrowth.
Sayan Banerjee is a researcher exploring the more-than-human political ecology of human-wildlife interactions and biodiversity conservation in India. Apart from this, he is also interested in the governance of ICCAs and their interaction with market-based conservation, gender and environment interlinkages, and environmental history. He currently serves as board member of the Social Science Working Group and Asia region, both under the Society of Conservation Biology.
I am a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science who is
researching questions of contestation, power, and hegemony in global governance.
Specifically, my work empirically examines how processes of degrowth transformation
are introduced, contested, and co-opted in multistakeholder forest governance.
By Rebecca Borges (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/POLLEN Secretariat)