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The Council of Care

Implementation in Education Setting at Wageningen University, February 2024. Course: Transformative and participatory qualitative research approaches and methods. Photo by Gabriela De La Rosa. The Council of Care is ...

Rivers Across Worlds: Examining and innovating participatory Brazilian water governance

Through a case study taking part in a state-run participatory process for water-body classification in the Rio Doce, Brazil, I draw on concepts of plural ontologies to evaluate and critique the limits of modern Brazil...

Understanding the transdisciplinary challenges of emancipation within the 'Agroecological Logbooks' grassroots innovation in Brazil

Rural women face existential challenges of social and ecological justice that require holistic and transformative innovations (Anderson et al., 2019). In Brazil, where the proposed research is located, agroecological ...

Cultivating epistemic resilience in Sicily (Italy): Exploring desertification through senses, practices, and connections

Sicily, situated in the Mediterranean, a climate change hotspot, experiences desertification due to climate change and unsustainable land/water management. This impacts agriculture, and local economies, ...

Navigating the complexity of political ontologies: the Mayan Train case

My present research focuses on the investigation of the ontological dimension of the Mayan Train case – a megaproject in Mexico part of a broader development plan in the Southeast parts of the country. My framework br...

Evolving epistemologies: Understanding hybrid knowledge and its impact on livelihoods in migrant-agricultural settings in Ghana

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is increasingly recognized for its value in sustaining livelihoods and their resilience. My PhD research aims to understand the process of how different TEK systems co-exist, int...

Affective farmer-soil relations and regenerative agricultural practices

Regenerative agriculture is potentially able to sequester carbon, produce healthy food, replace agrochemicals, build soil health, etc. While the solutions that regenerative agriculture offers to today’s major challeng...

Ethnoontologies. Relating metaphysics and practice of knowledge diversity

Researchers in the life sciences increasingly recognize the importance of local and Indigenous knowledge for addressing issues such as biodiversity conservation, agricultural sustainability, and public health. Ho...

Local ecologies of knowledge

Expertise about biological and ecological processes is widely distributed but also contested between academic and non-academic stakeholders. This ERC project works with local communities and researchers in Brazil and ...