Professor Christopher Cramer Christopher Cramer is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS University of London.
Sam Bell Sam Bell, Department of History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS University of London. Researching the socio-political and ethical dimensions of photographic representations of violence and its aftermath, focusing on slow and ecological violence.
Professor David Mosse Professor David Mosse is a professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS, and Director of the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Dr Xiaoning Lu Chinese film history and criticism; modern Chinese popular culture; visual culture and media technology; cultural governance; socialist modernity
Marta Simonetti Marta Simonetti is a doctoral researcher within the School of law, SOAS. Her research focuses on environmental rights, in particular the way they can be shaped and expressed outside of traditional law. In this context, she is researching a rights-based perspective in international and national environmental law is an effective approach to achieving the global objectives of stabilising the climate and combat environmental degradation. Specifically, the thesis wants to explore whether localised answers, as expressed in customary law and other forms of non-state law– such as in Adat in Indonesia and Ubuntu in Rwanda –are more or less significant in providing formal and informal tools to ensure ecological balance. These two cases bring important knowledge to the table, as they each present specific characteristics in the way environmental rights are shaped and applied.