About

My research lies at the intersection of political ecology, postcolonial and feminist science and technology studies, and the field of critical adaptation studies. It focuses on the knowledge politics of multilateral climate funds, questions of epistemic violence within multilateral climate finance mechanisms and the extent to which these instruments enforce and deepen relations of power. Much of my work explores the development myths and colonial continuities in multilaterally financed adaptation projects, assessments and so-called climate capacity building projects in the adaptation and loss and damage arena, multi-scalar climate finance governance processes and their effects on the ground, as well as epistemic hierarchies and their effects on material access to and disbursement of adaptation and loss and damage finance.

I am exploring these topics through document analyses, interviews, and participant observations with state and non-state actors in Vanuatu, at international climate conferences, and in Germany. I have been teaching on the topics of climate change, epistemic violence, colonialism and resistance struggles at several universities. As part of the BMBF-funded project "H2Politics", my previous work has focused on the extractivist patterns and socio-ecological, political and economic risks of the German and European green hydrogen strategies and respective projects, particularly in Namibia. Prior to my PhD, I worked in climate change NGOs as policy researcher and research associate on climate justice and adaptation.

In addition, my research focuses on:

• Socio-ecological crises and global inequalities
• Climate finance, loss & damage, adaptation projects, development cooperation
• Decolonial and feminist critique of Science
• Epistemic violence, colonial continuities in and through climate change/knowledges
• Postcolonial theory, political ecology, feminist science and technology studies