Dr Anneleen Kenis
Lecturer in Geographies of Political Ecology and Environmental Justice
- Email: anneleen.kenis@brunel.ac.uk
- Anthropology
- Social Science and Communications
- College of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
Summary
Anneleen Kenis is a critical human geographer working on the (de)politicisation of environmental issues. Before joining Brunel, Anneleen held positions as a lecturer in respectively Human Geography (2022-2023) and Society and Environment (2017-2019) at King’s College London and as a senior research fellow at Ghent University (2019-2022) and the University of Leuven (2013-2017). She enjoyed visiting scholarships at Lund University, King's College London and the University of Cambridge.
Qualifications
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- PhD Political Ecology (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven)
- MSc Sustainable Development and Human Ecology (VUB)
Newest selected publications
Kenis, A. (2025) 'Post-politics and the Anthropocene: towards a post-foundational environmental political theory', in Machin, A. and Wissenburg, M. (eds.) Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. pp. 311 - 320. ISBN 10: 1-80220-895-X. ISBN 13: 978-1-80220-894-8. Open Access Link
Kenis, A. (2023) 'A Race Against the Clock? On the Paradoxes of Acting “Now” in the Climate Struggle'. South Atlantic Quarterly, 122 (1). pp. 192 - 202. ISSN: 0038-2876 Open Access Link
Kenis, A. and Barratt, B. (2022) 'The role of the media in staging air pollution: The controversy on extreme air pollution along Oxford Street and other debates on poor air quality in London'. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40 (3). pp. 611 - 628. ISSN: 2399-6544 Open Access Link
Kenis, A. and Loopmans, M. (2022) 'Just air? Spatial injustice and the politicisation of air pollution'. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40 (3). pp. 563 - 571. ISSN: 2399-6544 Open Access Link
Loopmans, M., Smits, L. and Kenis, A. (2021) 'Rethinking environmental justice: capability building, public knowledge and the struggle against traffic-related air pollution'. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40 (3). pp. 705 - 723. ISSN: 2399-6544 Open Access Link