about the organizers
Sophie Chao
Sophie Chao is Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney, and a member of the Sydney Environment Institute. Her research investigates the intersections of Indigeneity, ecology, capitalism, health, and justice in the Pacific. Sophie is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022) and co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice (Duke University Press, 2022) with Karin Bolender and Eben Kirksey. For more, visit www.morethanhumanworlds.com.
Christine Winter
Christine Winter (Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Ngati Pakeha) is a Senior Lecturer at the Politics Programme at the University of Otago/Te Whare Wānanga o te Ōtākou in Aotearoa New Zealand and a Research Associate at the Sydney Environment Institute. Her research focuses on the ways in which academic political theory, and particularly theories of justice, continue to perpetuate injustice for some people (and more specifically for Māori) and the environment. Her most recent research centres on ensuring the emerging field of a political theory of multispecies justice has decolonial (and anticolonial) foundations.
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David Schlosberg
David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, Payne-Scott Professor, and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. His research centers on environmental politics, environmental movements, and political theory. His other theoretical interests are in climate justice, food justice and multispecies justice, climate adaptation and resilience, and environmental movements and the practices of everyday life - what he terms sustainable materialism.
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Sydney Environment Institute (SEI)
The Sydney Environment Institute is a national and world leader in multidisciplinary environmental research. SEI’s purpose is to extend and amplify the scope of the engagement on environmental issues; and to bring together expertise from across disciplines to address key problems in favor of the public good. Recognizing the breadth of the harms unfolding, SEI's work aims to both effect and affect the personal, cultural, social, political, ecological, and economic.
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