Ulrich Brand is a political scientist and Professor for International Politics at the University of Vienna. He works and publishes on questions of capitalist-liberal globalization, including its critique and possibilities of political regulation, as well as on critical theory on the state, hegemony and regulation, and on international resource and environmental policy, NGOs, and social movements with a focus on Latin America. His research is anchored in the concept of the "imperial mode of living." He is a member of the editorial board of "Tagebuch. Zeitschrift für Auseinandersetzung", among others, and co-founder and board member of "Diskurs. Das Wissenschaftsnetz".

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Sophie von Redecker is a PhD student in ecological agricultural sciences at the University of Kassel-Witzenhausen and a Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung scholar. Her PhD project is entitled: “Agrarian Humanities – agricultural perspectives on the socio-ecological crisis of the human-nature relationship in the so-called Anthropocene.” She uses various critical post-structuralist theories, as well as approaches from New Materialisms, to investigate hegemonic human-nature relations and anthropocentric perspectives on climate change, the environment, and nature. She is also concerned with the interface between (socio-political) movement(s) and agronomy/agriculture, and describes herself as a farming scholar activist.

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Moderator
Friederike Gesing is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Sciences at the University of Graz. Her research interests include Qualitative Environmental Studies, Ethnography, Political Ecology, Environmental Governance, More-than-Human Geographies, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Discard Studies, Climate Change and Anthropocene, and Social Science Coastal Research. She is also part of the urban HEAP (Health and Everyday Activities take Place) research group, which focuses on the interactions between everyday social life and socio-spatial and ecological environments.