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 |