Guest Researcher Laura Kemmer holds the Martius Chair Germany-Brazil for Sustainability and Humanities of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of São Paulo. She is an urban researcher working at the intersection of anthropology, geography, and feminist theory. Her research focuses on ecologies of healing and reparation in São Paulo’s center, especially…
Guest Researcher Nida Rehman is a Pakistani-born urban geographer and architect, and Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where she serves as Track Chair for the PhD in Architecture program. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, Nida works at the intersection of urban political ecology, environmental humanities, and post/de-colonial studies, her work explores how discourses,…
Guest Researcher Samir Harb’s project focuses on the political ecology of cement production and its socio-ecological networks. By studying the multi-scalar relationships associated with cement production, he attempts to investigate How cement becomes a key agent in constituting new poltical and geographic imaginaries. His research project explores the environmental impact of cement production, with a…
Guest Researcher Tomás Usón joined IRI THESys in October 2018 as a PhD researcher to work on practices of memory and anticipation amid climatic and seismic disasters. With his research he aims to understand how different actors remember and anticipate extreme events and the consequences that those diverse practices have in the creation of past…
Guest Researcher Krystin Unverzagt is a guest researcher at IRI THESys. She concluded her PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2024. After obtaining a B.A. in “Politics and Society” from the University of Bonn, Germany, she graduated in “Science, Technology and Society” (M.Sc.) from University College London (UCL). Before joining IRI THESys, Krystin worked in…
Guest Researcher Beril Ocaklı is a research associate at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). As a critical geographer and institutional economist, she follows discourses and practices of modernity, governance and development through extractive infrastructure projects, above and below ground, along corridors and roads, in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. She…