Contributors

Sam Anderson is an engineer and data scientist specialising in industrial carbon emissions. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of CarbonGraph (www. carbongraph.io). Before CarbonGraph, he worked for various natural resource companies around the world. He holds a BASc in Mathematics and Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada and is a current graduate student in Data Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Sanne van den Boom is a master’s student in Development, Environment and Cultural Change at SUM. In 2021, she was one of the holders of the annual stipend by the Arne Næss Programme on Global Justice and the Environment. For her thesis, she is currently researching citizens’ assemblies on climate change and thinking about the relation between democracy and the environment.

Sofie Van Canegem from Belgium, holds a master’s degree in Law from the University of Leuven. Thanks to her participation in the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition, she discovered a keen interest in International and Environmental Law. She holds a second master’s degree from the University of Oslo where she specialized in these fields of law.

Hanee Jang is a master’s student in Development, Environment and Cultural Change at SUM with a background in Social welfare. For her thesis, she is currently researching cash transfer programs and comparing the World Bank and Asian Development Bank’s debates and projects of the programs. Amalie Rugård Jensen has a B.Sc. in paper conservation and is now a student at Art & Craft at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where she will finish her bachelor this summer. She works with lithography, writing, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and collecting objects. She enjoys reading Ursula Le Guin, walking in forests and making things up.

Andrew Turner Poeppel holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental and urban studies from New York University. His research interests include: the history of environmental movements, ecological awareness in cities, and the ability of activists to affect social and cultural change. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in development, environment, and cultural change at the University of Oslo.

Hendrik Pröhl is a master’s student of SUM’s Development, Environment and Cultural Change programme with a background in social anthropology and politics. For his thesis, he is investigating the role that ecological ethics, and the narratives they weave of human/non-human relations, plays in determining policy proposals for Germany’s transition to hydrogen gas energy production.

Matteo Redaelli is a travel and landscape photographer and video maker based in Milan, Italy. His work has been published in journals, featured in exhibitions and photographic events, and the recipient of international awards.

Wouter de Rijk is pursuing a research master’s degree in History: Politics, Culture, and National Identities at Leiden University, in the Netherlands. His research interest lies at the junction of political and environmental history.

Jean David Rizo soy profesional de Filosofía de la Universidad del Valle en Cali, Colombia. Soy tejedor y artesano, a eso me dedico. Desde hace mucho tiempo he estado involucrado en los temas de la siembra. Por ello, he estado haciendo y apoyando huertos universitarios, huertos en barrios y comunitarios. Asimismo, he continuado mi autoformación a través de los viajes que he hecho en Colombia y en otros países de Abya Yala, o sea Latinoamérica, donde he aprendido y compartido con comunidades indígenas campesinas y afrodescendientes temas en torno a la defensa de la Tierra y el cuidado de la vida.

Alejandro Ruelas completed a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism in Mexico City, where he was born, and a decade later came back to academia to engage more meaningfully with environmental issues. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Development, Environment and Cultural Change at the University of Oslo. He spends most of his time talking about conservation, ruminating about everything that is wrong with capitalism, and wondering whether it is time to watch a football match and have a beer. Elena Salmansperger is in her second semester of the DECC master’s program at SUM. She plans to write her thesis on public perceptions of urban squatting in Frankfurt, and how squatting might affect peoples’ worldview and behaviour. Her academic interests are usually in some way related to degrowth and urban settings.

Janne J. Salovaara and Sophia Hagolani-Albov are doctoral researchers in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences Doctoral Programme (DENVI) at the University of Helsinki. They are affiliated with the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Sciences (HELSUS) and the Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT).

Johannes Volden is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment. His current research focuses on the intersection between meat, alternative proteins, and (un)sustainable consumption.

Kylie Wrigley is a research assistant and PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, with a master’s degree from the University of Oslo and an interdisciplinary background in geography and environmental humanities. Her current research partners with local climate justice activists to develop and evaluate effective community organising strategies through decolonial feminist participatory action research.