“List of Contributors” in “Plastic Legacies”
Contributors
Sasha Adkins is a lecturer at the Institute of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University and a fellow with GreenFaith. Sasha’s research interests are endocrine disruption, environmental justice, and plastics.
Sven Bergmann is a cultural anthropologist currently working at the German Maritime Museum (DSM) in Bremerhaven. His research interests span from feminist technoscience, kinship, reproduction, and the body to political ecology, marine and environmental anthropology, and economies of waste. His postdoctoral research deals with the problematization of plastics in the ocean and other environments.
Stephanie Borrelle is a seabird conservation ecologist. Her research is at the intersection between conservation and policy, specifically in relation to plastics pollution and the impacts on seabirds and marine wildlife. Stephanie is from Ōtautahi, te Waipounamu, Aotearoa, and is a David H. Smith Fellow at the University of Georgia in the United States and the University of Toronto in Canada.
Trained initially in mathematics and the science of complex systems, Tridibesh Dey switched to (social) anthropology after a brief working career in engineering. He has co-created and been part of an international network of students in engineering, design, and social sciences to collaborate with marginalized communities in India on the problems of waste. Tridibesh is currently pursuing a PhD as a University of Exeter International Excellence Scholar.
Trisia Farrelly is a senior lecturer in environmental anthropology and an indefatigable optimist when it comes to solutions to plastics pollution. She is a member of the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Ad Hoc Open-Ended Expert Working Group and Scientific Advisory Committee (Marine Litter and Microplastics). She is also a co-founder of the New Zealand Product Stewardship Council; a co-director of Massey University’s Political Ecology Research Centre; and a co-founder of the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance. Trisia advises New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, businesses, and non-governmental organizations on plastics pollution impacts and responses, including shaping New Zealand’s national container deposit scheme. Her current focus is on the formation of an international coalition dedicated to developing novel, rights-based solutions to the plastics pollution crisis.
Christina Gerhardt is an associate professor of environmental humanities, film, and German at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and a senior fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise (University of California Press, 2021) and the editor of Climate Change, Hawaii and the Pacific. She is the editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment, the quarterly of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment published by Oxford University Press. She is the founding director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawaii. She has been awarded grants by the Fulbright Commission, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Free University Berlin, and Columbia University.
John Holland is a professor of environmental management at Massey University. His research interests include tourism, environmental economics, national parks, and wildlife tracking.
Deirdre McKay is a reader in geography at Keele University. Her research explores the material outcomes of global aspirations and people’s shifting senses of future selves. Her book An Archipelago of Care (Indiana University Press, 2016) documents Filipino migrants’ lives in London. Deirdre has worked with CIDA- and AusAID-funded projects in the Philippines and with Filipino migrant communities in Canada, Hong Kong, and London and online on arts and development projects. Her current work examines upcycled plastic arts and crafts, “private aid” after natural disasters, and the potential for migrants to document their development contributions through community arts.
Laura McLauchlan holds a PhD in anthropology from the Environmental Humanities program at the University of New South Wales. Her thesis work was based on fieldwork with hedgehogs, humans, and questions of conservation in urban Bristol (UK) and Wellington (NZ), with a particular focus on questions of care, obligation, collectives, affect, and uncertainty. Arising from this work, her ongoing interests as both a scholar and a human involve thinking about how to make and sustain helpful collectives as well as what taking emotions seriously might mean in teaching and environmental politics. Laura is currently convening courses in environmental justice at the University of New South Wales and ecocriticism at New York University Sydney.
Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology and a professor in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. His research interests have touched on the relation of everyday life to technoscience, the role of culture in biomedicine, and the interplay of design and social scientific perspectives. His recent major publications include Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations (Sage, 2017) and Energy Babble (with Andy Boucher, Bill Gaver, Tobie Kerridge, Liliana Ovalle, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, and Alex Wilkie, Mattering Press, 2018).
Imogen Napper recently completed a PhD at the University of Plymouth researching “The Sources and Fate of Plastic in the Marine Environment.” Her work influenced the UK government’s decision to introduce legislation on the use of microplastics in cosmetics. She is currently working on a National Geographic Early Career Grant, in partnership with Sky Ocean Rescue, to see how effective different inventions are at capturing fibres from clothing when it is laundered.
A Ngāti Porou wāhine and the mother of two children, Tina Ngata is involved in advocacy for environmental, Indigenous, and human rights. This work includes local, national, and international initiatives that highlight the role of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste pollution, and it promotes Indigenous conservation as the best practice for a globally sustainable future.
Sabine Pahl is a social psychologist engaged in basic and applied research. Her applied work focuses on the human dimension in environmental issues. She investigates perceptions and behavioural changes, particularly in the area of protecting marine environments, marine litter, and microplastics.
Padmapani L. Perez is a research fellow at the Institute of Arts and Sciences, Far Eastern University, Manila. She held the Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of the Philippines, Baguio City, in 2014–15. Her book Green Entanglements: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Nature Conservation in Indonesia and the Philippines (University of the Philippines Press, 2017) is an ethnographic exploration of the relationships among Indigenous peoples, agents of biodiversity conservation, and their environments. Padma is a community-engaged researcher and serves on the Board of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines (UGAT) and is a founding partner of Mt. Cloud Bookshop, Baguio City.
Jennifer Provencher studies how seabirds are affected by human activities in collaboration with Inuit communities in northern Canada. Her research focuses primarily on contaminants and ingested plastics in seabirds. Jennifer is of settler heritage, a mother of one child, and a Weston Fellow of Northern Research and a Liber Ero Fellow at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Ian Shaw is an author, broadcaster, and academic. He has worked in government science, the pharmaceuticals industry, and several universities. He rose to the dizzy administrative height of pro vice-chancellor (science) at the University of Canterbury but then defected to the world of real science in 2009. He is now a professor of toxicology at the University of Canterbury. Ian is the author of three books on food and the environment, the editor of a major work on estrogen mimics in food, a feature writer for the Press, a regular on Radio NZ National’s This Way Up and TV NZ (What’s Really in Our Food?), and has published over 100 articles in scientific journals. His research interest for the past twenty years has been the cellular and human effects of estrogen mimics in food and the environment, with particular reference to environmental estrogens from plastics and their impacts on human and ecosystem health. Ian is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He won the New Zealand Association of Scientists Science Communicator Award in 2009, and in 2020, he was awarded a Doctor of Science by the University of Bath for his contribution to toxicology and science communication. But Ian is most proud of being awarded Science Lecturer of the Year by the University of Canterbury Students’ Association in 2009, 2013, 2014, and 2016.
Elyse Stanes is a cultural geographer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research connects everyday cultures of consumption to wider politics of excess and waste.
Sy Taffel is co-director of the Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre and one of the centre’s founding members. His research focusses on political ecologies of digital media, technological solutionism, and the social, cultural, and political impacts of digital technologies. Sy is the author of Digital Media Ecologies, and along with Nicholas Holm co-edited the anthology Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene. Sy’s research has been published in many journals, including Cultural Politics, Media, Culture & Society, and Convergence. He also makes documentary/activist films, including for environmental groups such as the Environment Network Manawatu and Carrying Our Future.
Johanne Tarpgaard is a PhD candidate with Project BLUE at Aarhus University, Denmark where she also received her master’s degree in anthropology. Throughout her master’s degree, she was affiliated with Aarhus Research in the Anthropocene (AURA). Based on anthropological interest and work experience focusing on human relations to the ocean, she carried out her fieldwork on the expedition ship of an environmental organization working with plastics pollution.
Richard Thompson has focused his research work over the past decade on marine debris. He was a co-author of the European Union Marine Strategy Framework Directive text on marine litter. He has been a member of numerous international working groups on marine litter, including GESAMP, NCEAS, UNEP, and UNIRP. Recent work by his team directly informed the UK government’s decision to introduce legislation on the use of microplastics in cosmetics. Richard has been working recently with G7 nations on the monitoring of marine litter. In 2017, he received the Marsh Award for Marine and Freshwater Conservation for his work on plastics, and he was recognized in the New Year Honours List with an OBE for services to marine science. Richard leads the International Marine Litter Research Unit at the University of Plymouth.
Lei Xiaoyu is a member of the company at the Stoke-on-Trent arts charity, B arts, and a PhD candidate in the Human Geography programme at Keele University.
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