Dr Anneleen Kenis
Lecturer in Geographies of Political Ecology and Environmental Justice

Research area(s)

• (Post)politics, climate justice, carbon colonialism and the green economy
• Political agroecology, (bio)technology critique and food justice
• Urban air pollution, social movements, health and racial injustice
• Feminist, queer and resistance ecologies (ecologies of change)

Project details

 ‘Just Air: The Spatial Politics of Urban Air Pollution’ (2015-2020) 

This research project was funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and studied how different spatial framings of air pollution contribute to its (de)politicisation. The key aim was to understand how these framings open up or close down spaces for democratic public debate and contribute to pursuing environmental and health justice.

‘Time and The Political: Navigating the Temporalities of Climate Change' (2020-2024)

This research project is funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and deals with the role of emergency discourses, clashing temporalities, intergenerational conflicts and imaginaries on historical time in (de)politicising climate change. Examples include the movable deadlines of climate modelling, the monotonous ticking of the climate clock, the rise and fall of new grassroots climate movements, and the emergence of technocratic solutions, such as geo-engineering, which are increasingly promoted by referring to the need to pull the ‘emergency brake’ or to ‘buy time’.