Day 2 | Tuesday, June 4, 2024 |
Giorgos Kallis
Political ecologist, and ecological economist, specialising in environmental justice and limits to growth. His latest book, ‘Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care, was published by Stanford University Press in 2019. |
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Stephanie McDonagh
An activist in the Grup de Suport Mutu no Mixt Vallcarca (Barcelona) and a member of R&D. Their educational and professional background is in Political ecology, facilitation, and education. |
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Nikola Lange
A trained relational facilitator, Nikola is passionate about regenerative activism, non-formal education methods, and meditation. They have a background in Political ecology, degrowth, and environmental justice. |
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Ashley Sheets
A degrowth and environmental labour activist who works as a project manager for a non-formal educational eco project in Almería, Spain. Her research focuses on the intersections where environmental movements and labour activism meet. |
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Claudio Cattaneo
A self-described, privileged white, European, middle-class, well-educated, able, 50-year-old male, Claudio actively questions how patriarchy impacts his life, while also engaging in research and degrowth and participating in grassroots movements in Barcelona. He holds a PhD from ICTA. |
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Day 3 | Wednesday, June 5, 2024 |
Arpita Bisht
Political ecologist and ecological economist, investigating environmental injustices and ecological conflicts, with a focus on indigenous rights. She has conducted research on ecological conflicts in India, comparative analyses of environmental justice movements, and global sand mining. |
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Diego Andreucci
Political ecologist working on social struggles around resource extractivism and climate politics in Latin America and Europe, and a member of the Undisciplined Environments collective. |
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Marta Conde
A Marie Curie Fellow at ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and CSRM, University of Queensland. Her research looks at social reactions to the expansion of extractive industries. Using political ecology, ecological economics, political economy and environmental justice, she analyses the drivers, strategies and discourses of resistance movements to mining |
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Christos Zografos
A Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the JHU-UPF Public Policy Centre and at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. He is an environmental social scientist, and his line of research looks at the politics of environmental transformation and conflict. |
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Marula Tsagkari
A political ecologist from Athens, Greece, Marula currently serves as a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB. Her research focuses on energy communities, self-sufficiency, technology, and values. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona. She conducted her postdoctoral research at TU-Delft in 2022-2023. |
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Borja Nogué Algueró
An environmental social scientist in Girona, Borja actively researches marine sustainability in the Mediterranean, analysing blue economy narratives and promoting the concept of Blue Degrowth with colleagues. |
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Ksenija Hanacek
A political ecologist and Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellow at the University of Helsinki and the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Ksenija researches Arctic environmental conflicts, including extractivist projects. |
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Day 4 | Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
Jason Hickel
An anthropologist and professor at ICTA-UAB, Hickel’s research and writing focus on economic anthropology and development, and is particularly opposed to capitalism, neocolonialism, and economic growth as a model of human development. His most recent book is Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2020). |
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Giacomo D’Alisa
A political ecologist and ecological economist. His research is action-oriented and, with a strong community service component, contributes to sustainability studies and its impact on society. He mainly contributes to four scientific camps, i.e., waste environmental conflicts and crimes, the role of the State in adaptation to environmental disasters and ecological transformations, low carbon and just transition towards degrowth and post-growth societies, and the analysis of the Commons and social movement commoning practices. |
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Filka Sekulova
A social environmental scientist working at the intersection of social sciences and heterodox economics. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the IN3 institute, (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), and part of the Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory. Filka is a founding member of the academic think tank Research & Degrowth, and part of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability. |
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Clàudia Custodio
Researcher and project officer at the Debt Observatory in Globalization (ODG), Clàudia focuses on climate justice and green extractivism, while actively participating in Zeroport, Stay Grounded, and Xarxa per la Sobirania Energètica. She holds a Master’s degree in “Human Ecology: Culture, Power, and Sustainability” from Lund University, Sweden. |
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Jesse Segura
A cultural anthropologist who investigates indigenous knowledge systems, emphasising their resilience and everyday forms of resistance. He explores how these worldviews contribute to envisioning a socially equitable, environmentally friendly future, particularly through decoloniality’s intersection with the degrowth movement. |
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Day 5 | Friday, June 7, 2024 |
Angelos Varvarousis
A Ramon y Cajal researcher at ICTA/UAB, Angelos co-directs the International Masters on Degrowth: Ecology, Economics, and Policy, extensively exploring socio-spatial transformations through an interdisciplinary scientific toolkit rooted in urban studies, commons’ management, island studies, and social and solidarity economics. |
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Brototi Roy
An ecological economist and political ecologist, Brototi is currently a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher, based jointly at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, and ICTA-UAB. She’s also the co-president of Research & Degrowth (R&D) and co-founder of the Degrowth India Initiative. |
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Lucía Muñoz
A sociocultural anthropologist, Lucía investigates collective experiences in addressing the Iberian territory’s socio-ecological crisis. With two Masters degrees from Columbia University and The New School, she pursues a PhD at ICTA-UAB on traditional popular culture and degrowth, while also contributing to educational routes and being a member of Research & Degrowth. |
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Day 6 | Saturday, June 8, 2024 |
Laura Chica |