The Political Ecology research group works with a wide variety of researchers including ISS faculty, post-docs, visiting researchers and PhD candidates.
ISS faculty and post-docs
Visiting and affiliated researchers
Max Spoor - Emeritus Professor Development Studies
Cristóbal Kay - Emeritus Professor Development Studies
Ashwani Saith - Emeritus Professor Rural Economics
Ben White - Emeritus Professor Rural Sociology
Marc Wuyts - Emeritus Professor Quantitative Applied Economics
Mahmoud Messkoub
Nicholas Awortwi
Adwoa Gyapong
Eric Gutierrez
Julia Julia
Bruna Goncalves
Leandro Llorente Gonzalez
Sergio Coronado
Myint Zaw
Louis Thiemann
Monica Grau Sarabia EMPOWER project
Zeynep Benlisoy
PhD researchers
| Ana Lucia Badillo | Social protection in Ecuador and Paraguay |
| Emma Lynn Cantal | Convergence amidst diversity: The political economy of residualist models of social protection in Cambodia and the Philippines |
| Benedict Yeyugsah | The political economy of social protection expansion in Africa in the context of broader struggles for development policy autonomy |
| Zoe Brent | Land access mechanisms in the Global North |
| Nguyet Dang Bao | The Political economy of cross border agricultural wage labour: ethnic minority Vietnamese working in farms in Southern China |
| Kwalu Samwel Dede | The Exclusive breast feeding dilemma in Tanzania. A case study of Dodoma Region |
| Cecile Fameree | Collective action revisited in cases of land grabs in the Peruvian Jungle: Reactions from below, transparency and the role of the state |
| Corrine Lamain | Conflicting securities: socio-environmental conflicts. Climate security debates and climate mitigation |
| Martha Jane Robbins | Food sovereignty and the politics of food system localization |
| Yukari Sekine | Climate change mitigation politics, land grabbing and conflict in Myanmar: shifting the terrain of struggle ‘from below’ |
| Salena Tramel | Resource control grabs from the landscape level and political reactions |
| Ana Portocarrero Lacayo | Climate change adaptation and food insecurity in Nicaragua: Discourses, power, resistance, transformation |
| Umut Kocagoz | Authoritarian regime in relation to peasant politics: the case of hazelnut farmers in Turkey |
| Amod Shah | The political character of resistance to land acquisition in India in an era of climate change and populism |
| Antonio Roman Alcala | Authoritarian populism and emancipatory movements in rural and agrarian California |
| Women, indignity, knowledges and power in the Ecuadorian Amazon | |
| Claudia Rodriguez Orrego | The political economy of judicialization of welfare reform in Colombia |
| Daglha Duo | Social policy, ageing, and elderly care in Tibetan areas in western China in the context of rapid socioeconomic transformation and marginalization |
| Artisanal mining and indigenous livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon | |
| Daniela Pessoa de Goes Calmon | Global politics of dispossession and the Amazon/Cerrado frontier |
| Milja Fenger | Reproductive freedom in the context of environmental justice |
| Community-based environmental monitoring in the Amazon | |
| Constance Dupuis | Aging and ecological wellbeing |
| Anna Voss | Women organisations in gendered economic landscapes in rural Italy/Feminist Political AgroEcology |
| Voluntary conservation of communities and small-holders in the Peruvian Amazon | |
| Emmanuel Otto Omony | Governance and social accountability in the provision of family planning in post-conflict Northern Uganda |
| Annah Kamusiime | Representations of young motherhood in Uganda: Policy implications on sexual and reproductive health outcomes |
| Jimmy Mugisha | Governance of adolescent sexual reproductive health services in a refugee context: A comparative study of two refugee nationalities in Uganda |
| Haris Zargar | Exploring the interface between land reform and political Islam: A case study of Kashmir’s agrarian reforms of 1950s and 1970s |
| Itayosara Rojas Herrera | Land regime change and commodities rushes: Frontier making processes in protected areas in the Colombian Amazon |
| Moges Belay Bantie | Contemporary global commodity/land rushes and how these (re)shape the politics of food, labour and migration, climate, state-society relations and geopolitics in Ethiopia |
| Luciana dos Santos Duarte | Ontologies and social technologies in global value chains of rubber materials for fashion in the Western Amazon |
| Xueting Liang | |
| Drumo Zhoumaoji | Economic involvement of rural Tibetan women in contemporary Amdo and the transitions in their lives |
| Lorenza Arango Vasquez | Interactions between contemporary commodity/land rushes and the politics of food, labour (and migration) and citizenship in Colombia |
| Vincenzo Fucci | Investigating the realization of an eco-social turn in Latin America as an alternative development model |
| Suzie Xu | |
| Wenxiao Hou |