Deniz Pelek is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at İzmir Democracy University in Türkiye. She received her PhD degree from the Atatürk Institute at Boğaziçi University and the Geopolitical Institute at Paris-8 University (2019) within the framework of the double doctoral degree programme (cotutelle). Her research interests are critical agrarian studies, migration…
Bosman Batubara is an Indonesian postdoctoral researcher at Human Geography and Spatial Planning Department, University of Utrecht. He defended his PhD thesis entitled “Floods in (post-) New Order Jakarta: A political ecology of urbanization” at Human Geography, Planning, and International Development Department, University of Amsterdam and Water Governance Department at IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education…
Atakan Büke is a research affiliate at the Research Centre GlobalDynamics (ReCentGlobe) at Leipzig University, where he has recentlycompleted a three-year post-doc. He holds a PhD in sociology fromMiddle East Technical University (Ankara, Türkiye). Informed by socialtheory, sociological theories of capitalist modernity and development,critical agrifood studies, and more recently science and technologystudies, he works especially…
Alonso Gutiérrez Navarro is studying for the Ph.D. in Rural Development and is a professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Xochimilco. He studied Biology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He received his Master’s degree from the Colegio de la Frontera Sur, where he researched peasant perspectives on fire management in an environmental conservation…
Prosper Turimubumwe is a Burundian and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Land Policy and Governance at Bahir Dar University, Institute of Land Administration- Ethiopia. He holds a Master of Science degree in Urban Planning and Management (M.Sc. UPM) from Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam-Tanzania; and a Bachelor of Science degree in Urban and Regional Planning…