Организационная группа «Эко-Адилет»
Jeanine Daǧyeli
Assistant Professor
University of Vienna
Senior research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Jeanine Daǧyeli has a background in Central Asian Studies and her work includes research on the history and current practice of extractivism, environmental justice and work. Recent publications include: “Lasting Legacies in Central Asia’s Agro-Pastoral Livelihoods” (2023 in The Central Asian World), “A Community of Order: Morale, Internal Discipline and Punishment in the Craft Milieu of Turkestan” (2022 in Community Still Matters: Uyghur Culture and Society in Central Asian Context), “Being Natural and Supernatural: Animals between Spiritual Sense-Making and Environmentalism from 19th to 20th Century Central Asia” (in Diyâr 2022), “The ‘Moral Background’ of Work in Central Asia: The Sacred in the Mundane” (2022 in Routledge Handbook of Islam in Asia), and “The Fight against Heaven-sent Insects: Dealing with Locust Plagues in the Emirate of Bukhara” (2020, in Environment and History). Available languages: Uzbek, Tajik, Kazakh, Russian.
Asel Doolotkeldieva
Research Fellow
University of Potsdam
Asel Doolotkeldieva is a critical political scientist, a Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam. She has 13 years of experience conducting research, fieldwork and engagement with local communities, affected by extractive mining and environmental injustice in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Some of her recent publications include, “Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan” (forthcoming in Regulation & Governance, with Till Mostowlansky), “The “People” and the “Strong State”: Repoliticization in Kyrgyzstan” (in OSTEUROPA, in German), “The 2020 Violent Change in Government in Kyrgyzstan Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: Three Distinct Stories in One” (in Springer), and
“Populism à la Kyrgyz: Sadyr Japarov, Nationalism, and Anti-Elite Sentiment in Kyrgyzstan” (in Illiberalism Studies). Available languages: Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Russian.
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix
Assistant Professor
Bern University
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix holds a PRIMA research professorship at the University of Bern. As an environmental anthropologist, she pursues transdisciplinary research to support environmental justice around water and energy concerns. Jeanne currently leads the research project Social Ocean Energy: A Social Learning Approach to Global Marine Renewable Infrastructures and is building collaborations on Asian and American coasts. She is the author of Iconic Places in Central Asia: the moral geography of pastures, dams and holy sites (Transcript, 2017). Other recent publications include ‘The Central Asian World’ with Madeleine Reeves (Routledge 2023), and ‘Environmental Humanities in Central Asia’ (Routledge 2023) with Beatrice Penati. She has led multi-partner research on the Naryn and Syr Darya rivers as well as environmental movements. Available languages: Kyrgyz, Russian.
Robert Willard
Adjunct Lecturer
SUNY, University of Albany
Robert Willard is an adjunct lecturer in SUNY, University of Albany. He has 8 years of experience in ecological advocacy and fieldwork in Uzbekistan, in partnership with Columbia University, Webster University, University of Pisa and the World Aral Region Charity. Robert obtained an MSc in Sustainability Studies from IHE Delft and his research focuses on bottom-up experiences of river basin management. His current research focuses on the use of heritage as a framework for practicing and maintaining water governance in Western Uzbekistan. Available languages: Uzbek, Tajiki, Russian.
Amanda E. Wooden
Professor of Environmental Studies & Sciences
Bucknell University
Amanda E. Wooden is a critical political scientist and professor of environmental studies and sciences at Bucknell University (USA). She conducts community-centered political ecology research on extractivism (mining, fossil fuels, plastics), climate change, glaciers, waterways, and environmental activism in Kyrgyzstan, Canada, and the United States. Some of her publications include: “Glacier Cultures and Political Ecologies in Kyrgyzstan: Mining Histories, Climate Change, and Nationalism” (forthcoming 2025) in Water and Culture in Eurasian History; “Environment” in Central Asia in Context (2022); “‘Much Wealth is Hidden in Her Bosom’”: Echoes of Soviet Development in Gold Extraction and Resistance in Kyrgyzstan” (2018, in Ab Imperio); and “Images of Harm, Imagining Justice: The Shape & Shifting Forms of Gold Mining Contestation in Kyrgyzstan” (2017, in ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, & Alternative Futures). Amanda was the President of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) in 2018-19. She also engages in environmental activism in Central Pennsylvania (US) including the fight against a tire incinerator in 2013-14, and the “Save Our Susquehanna” resistance to the Encina petrochemical recycling facility in 2023-24. Available languages: Kyrgyz, Russian.