Featured POLLENators

Energopolitics & soaps

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.

Sayan Banerjee: learning is a process

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.

Sarah Anne Stevens: Living the Values of Political Ecology

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.

Eleonora: research as a journey

I am a researcher currently interested both in the environmental justice dimension of biodiversity conservation, and the challenges and opportunities posed by ecological transitions in Europe —critically examining dominant “greening” narratives to uncover both their transformative potential and their pitfalls. I am member of the Direction Board of the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas) and an honorary member of the ICCA Consortium.

Laila Vivas

I am a researcher from Barcelona, with special focus on environmental justice, ecofeminism and health imaginaries. I have been working and collaborating with the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the JHU-UPF Public Policy Center.