Short Vita
Naomi is a PhD candidate in the DFG research training group “Fixing Futures”. She studied Sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. After the completion of her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for social-ecological research (ISOE) in Frankfurt in the research unit on biodiversity and people. Naomi’s research interests include environmental sociology, social and political ecology, (eco)feminist, postcolonial and decolonial theory and (feminist) science and technology studies.
Project Description
Naomi investigates the politics of knowledge in global biodiversity governance. The aim of her doctoral project is to make sense of the situated knowledges that constitute biodiversity as an object to act on as well as the anticipatory assemblages that affect ways of relating to biodiversity futures and render them present and actionable. Her research focuses on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and explores the boundary work, conceptual shifts, frictions, and contestations in the production of ‘policy-relevant knowledge’ for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Situated at the interface of science and policy, IPBES combines efforts to build consensus with a commitment to epistemic pluralism, making it an interesting case to study how global biodiversity governance evolves through ongoing and dynamic processes of (de)politicization.