Gen Z protests: Global wave or local struggles?

Hanna Geschewski

Environmental scientist focusing on socio-ecological change in South Asia.

Hanna is a doctoral researcher at CMI within the NFR (NORGLOBAL) project, “Prioritising the Displacement-Environment Nexus: Refugee and IDP Settlements as Social- Ecological Systems.”

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Hans Marius Eitland Nagy

Nagy is a doctoral student at the Department of Sociology, UiB.

Hans Marius’s research interests touch on social movements, activism and political participation. The doctoral project examines how the prerequisites for democratic participation are expanded by climate activists.

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Xuefei Shi

Xuefei Shi is a cultural anthropologist and development researcher focusing on Madagascar, East Africa and the Indian Ocean.

He is a post-doctoral researcher in the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project “Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple Mobilities in and out of the South China Sea” (TransOcean) at CMI. His research focuses on trans-Indian Ocean seafood trade, Sinophone maritime worlds, and China’s social and ecological footprint in East Africa.

He received my PhD in Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has extensive field experience in the Southwest Indian Ocean and East Africa region, along the multiethnic Swahili coast, the great island of Madagascar, and the Mascarene Archipelago.

He is an expert on China and the global governance with more than 10 years’ experience. He provided policy consultancy to development studies/projects funded by World Bank, UNESCO, WWF, Oxfam and Ford Foundation.

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Tony Agutu Awiti

Tony is a master’s student at the University of Bergen, specializing in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges. He has experience participating in youth-led protests in Kenya