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
Charmaine Ramos
Andro Rilovic
Adwoa Gyapong
Eric Gutierrez
Julia Julia
Bruna Goncalves
Tsagkari Maouko
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’ |
| Angelica Maria Ocampo Talero | Young people, development and the construction of the public in a rural conflict region in Colombia |
| Louis Thiemann | The Third Class: Artisans within, besides and beyond the capitalist economy |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Lorenza Arango Vasquez | |
| Vincenzo Fucci | |
| Suzie Xu | |
| Wenxiao Hou | |
| Leandro Llorente Gonzalez |