Clemens Greiner, Ph.D (2008), is a social and cultural anthropologist and the academic coordinator of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on rural change, political ecology, translocality, and (energy) infrastructures.Steven Van Wolputte, Ph.D (1998), is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Anthropological research in Africa (IARA) at the KU Leuven. His main interests are in the fields of political anthropology, material and urban popular culture and anthropology of the body. Michael Bollig, Ph.D (1991), is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His research projects focus on the social-ecological dynamics connected to large-scale conservation projects, the commodification of nature and the political ecology of pastoralism.
