Negar Elodie Behzadi Editor

Stephanie Postar is an environmental anthropologist specializing in energy and natural resources in the Global South. Her research engages with the politics and practices that shape decisions about and attitudes toward natural resource use and management in Tanzania. Stephanie holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and previously was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Negar Elodie Behzadi is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Bristol. She holds a doctorate in Human Geography from the University of Oxford, and a Masters in Environment and Development from King’s College London. Negar is a feminist political geographer and political ecologist whose work focuses on how intersectional forms of exclusion and marginalization are produced, reproduced and contested in stressed environments. Her research brings the insights of feminist geography and the sensibilities of an ethnographer to issues related to resource extraction in Tajikistan (Central Asia) and Iranian migrants in France. Negar has also co-directed two ethnographic films, and her work uses creative practice and methods.

Nina Nikola Doering holds an Mphil in Development Studies and a DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford. Her research has engaged with public participation and decision-making in extractive resource management in Greenland. More recently, she has focused on knowledge co-creation, research ethics, Indigenous rights, and decolonization. Nina works as research group leader of the Arctic Governance research group at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany.