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
Myint Zaw
Monica Grau Sarabia EMPOWER project
Zeynep Benlisoy
Yukari Sekine
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 politics and political possibilities of India’s anti-coal struggles |
| Amaya Bayne | 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 |
| David Sabogal Habedank | Artisanal mining and indigenous livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon |
| Daniela Pessoa de Goes Calmon | Global politics of dispossession and the Amazon/Cerrado frontier |
| Nina Swen | Community-based environmental monitoring in the Amazon |
| Constance Dupuis | Aging and ecological wellbeing |
| Julia Quaedvlieg | The green commodity frontier in the Amazon: A critical analysis of sustainable cacao production among Peruvian Amazon smallholders |
| Emmanuel Otto Omony | Governance and social accountability in the provision of family planning in post-conflict Northern Uganda |
| Annah Kamusiime | Discourses of young motherhood: Weaving representations with subjectivity, performativity and young mothers’ agency |
| 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 | Contemporary global commodity/land rushes and how these (re)shape the politics of food, labour and migration, climate, state-society relations and geopolitics in Ethiopia |
| 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 | Economic involvement of rural Tibetan women in contemporary Amdo and the transitions in their lives |
| Lorenza Arango Vasquez | Interactions between contemporary commodity/land rushes and the politics of food, labour (and migration) and citizenship in Colombia |
| Vincenzo Fucci | Investigating the realization of an eco-social turn in Latin America as an alternative development model |
| Wenxiao Hou | |
| Fatema Baheranwala |