Utopias of Sustainability – The Sustainability of Utopias: A Multimodal Intervention

PhD (Göttingen), is a cultural anthropologist at the University of Göttingen, where she works on her postdoctoral project on performed authenticity in times of economisation and digitality – in NPO fundraising, with social media influencers, with vendors and organizers of street magazines, and regarding ‘social media detox’. Her research interests include social movements, media usage at demonstrations, work cultures, trust, ego documents, popular taste, media theory & reception, and the anthropology of space.

is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at University of Perugia, Italy, and a bush-league bee-keeper in his spare time. His work focuses on how grassroot activism extends the horizon of what seems possible and thinkable. He served in different faculty positions at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Münster (Germany) and the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). His publications in German, French and English cover four monographs and papers in major international journals, including for American Anthropologist, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Contemporary Ethnography, Mobilization, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Anthropology Today. 

is an Assistant Professor for European Ethnology at the Institute for History and European Ethnology of the University of Innsbruck. After completing her PhD on gender relations within the German armed forces, she held postdoc positions at Paderborn, Marburg, and Innsbruck, and has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Messina, Perugia and Hamburg. Her habilitation focused on the new Italian feminist movement ‘Se Non Ora Quando?’. Among her research interests are social movement research, gender studies, digitization, and methodological and ethical aspects of researching sensitive fields. Her last edited book, together with Timo Heimerdinger, Position beziehen, Haltung zeigen!? (2024) explores questions of positioning within cultural anthropology.

holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Université libre de Bruxelles. She completed her last postdoctoral research at the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (Sciences Po Paris) with funding from the CNRS. She is interested in libertarian communal communities in France, Italy, and Spain, where she studies their work organisation, political imaginaries, and the power relations within them. To do so, she combines temporal and political anthropology. Her book, À la recherche de l‘écologie temporelle, won the 2023 Political Ecology Book Prize.

PhD (Manchester), is a social and visual anthropologist working in Berlin at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) and the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). He has published on everyday activism, civil society, migrants’ social engagement, visual methods, narratives and practices of diversity, and language and identity. He is the author of internationally awarded ethnographic documentaries: ‘Active (citizen)’ and ‘Spółdzielnia/Cooperative.’

is an ecofeminist and posthumanist researcher. She holds a Ph.D.-scholarship in social anthropology at the University of Perugia (Italy, 2022–2025) and has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Geography at University of Münster (Germany, 2023–2024), where she has contributed to the interdisciplinary research group of Economic Geography and Globalisation. At the intersection of political and anarchist anthropology, her work combines multispecies ethnography, more-than-human resistance and new material feminism. She completed extensive fieldwork with environmental activists who occupy and live in contested forests in Germany, exploring human and non-human relations and experimental forms of shared life.

is a cultural anthropologist interested in human-environmental relations. During his PhD he studied the ways in which people relate to the returning wolves in Switzerland and how nature is perceived and conceptualized by different actors. He is currently investigating the values, socialities, spaces, imaginaries and aesthetics that emerge along water bodies.

is a Visiting researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and researcher at the Center for Visual Anthropology and Image Studies (NAVI).

is a Professor emerita of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Paris V, René Descartes, Paris, France.

is an Anthropologist and journalist, professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and coordinator of the Center for Visual Anthropology and Image Studies (NAVI). She is the author of The Power of Garbage: Anthropological Approaches to Solid Waste and several articles on the circular economy and recycling.

began his studies in anthropology at the Federal University of Pará, in the Amazon region of Brazil, his home country. After graduating with a Bachelor‘s degree in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Anthropology (2015), he obtained a Master‘s degree in Ethnology in France (2017) at the Université Côte d‘Azur (formerly named Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis). He is currently a PhD candidate in Ethnology at the Université Côte d‘Azur (UCA), within the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits, Cultures et Sociétés (LIRCES – UPR 3159), under the supervision of Silvia Paggi.

is a Professor of economic geography and globalization studies at Münster University. Her research has investigated land and natural resources, the global food system, sustainable livelihoods, labour and migration, and the intersections of global finance, digital technologies, and agri-food. More recently, she has also started a new project on diverse economic, resiliency, and food sovereignty practices in rural Italy (Molise). Empirically, she has worked in North Africa (specifically Morocco), Australia, the US, and the Mediterranean (France, Italy).

is an anthropologist with a background in history and sociology, and a social entrepreneur. He has a PhD from Rutgers University and is currently a lecturer at Münster University. His research has centered on autonomy and the intersections between democracy and capitalism, specifically related to Leftist and Autonomist movements. This includes occupations and squatting, marginalization and disenfranchisement, daily lived alternatives and prefigurative politics and economics. He has worked in Central Europe (specifically Czechia), as well in Sweden, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, the US, and Italy. He is also the co-founder of aibia, an alternative educational and development organisation with locations in Italy, Sierra Leone, and New York.

is Chair of Film Studies at Queen‘s University Belfast and Director of the Prisons Memory Archive. His most recent films are We Never Gave Up (2022), on the legacy of apartheid, made in partnership with the Human Rights Media Centre, Cape Town; Right Now I Want to Scream: Police and Army Violence in Rio – the Brazil Haiti Connection (2018); It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti (2018); and Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol (2015), on the female prison during the conflict known as the Troubles in the North of Ireland. His publications include, Challenging the Narrative: Documentary Film as Participatory Practice, Anthem Press (2024).

is Director of Ulster University’s Transitional Justice Institute. She is a member of the International Law Association Global Health Committee and of the UN Antiracism Committee, which was established in 2021 to work with the UN Expert Mechanism on Racial Justice in the context of Law Enforcement. From 2014–2018 she was a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force. Since 2015 she has been using participatory film practices, in collaboration with Prof McLaughlin (QUB), to research the impact of police violence on marginalised communities in Cité Soleil in Haiti, and the Manguinhos, Maré and Alemão favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

is an anthropologist, documentary film director, and human rights activist. Her extensive research, direction, and production of ethnographic documentaries on the intersection of dance, politics, and social movements in Buenos Aires, Seville, and Athens have earned her international participation in festivals and conferences in global academic and film communities. She is the head of the ‘Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival’ program and a board member of the ACA educational and artistic civil society organization based in Buenos Aires, which emphasizes gender audiovisual projects. Konstantina is also the coordinator of the Gender Network in the Greek Department of Amnesty International.

is a Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at Queen Mary University of London. Her research is situated in the field of cultural politics, and her interests include extractivism, social movements, art activism, performance, cultural labour, and socioecological transitions. In addition to her research, over the last decade and a half she has developed collaborative practices in pedagogy and organising alongside autonomous collectives in London, where she is currently based. She is author of Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism (Routledge, 2018) and Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism (Vanderbilt University Press, 2022), and co-editor of artWORK: Art, Labour and Activism (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017) and Arte y Ecología Política (IIGG–CLACSO, 2020).