Mariya Nadeem Khan
Digital Editor
Mariya is a researcher at the Urban Socio-Spatial Development department at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has an MA in Development Studies from Erasmus University and a Bachelor’s in International Relations from Leiden University. Her research builds on violence, nationalism, and social movements in South Asia and the GCC. Her other areas of interest include non-Western historiography, alternatives to the capitalist world economy, and Urdu literature.
Nina Swen
Commissioning Editor
Nina is a researcher at the International Institute for Social Studies (ISS). Her fields of interest include political ecology, the politics of knowledge production, epistemic (in)justice, and post-humanism. Nina holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a degree in Political Science and Anthropology from Amsterdam University College. She feels at home in the Netherlands and Peru.
Daniele Rossi-Doria
Managing Editor
Daniele is a researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies. He has a degree in History and Philosophy from the University of Napoli (Italy) and an MA in Development Studies from the ISS. He focuses on water management, agricultural development, and climate change adaptation. He enjoys traveling and supports the Napoli football club.
Ilaha Abasli
Culture Editor
Ilaha is a doctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Her research focuses on exploring the discourses and practices of the Circular Economy concept and examining issues of Environmental Justice in the Global South. Beyond her research, she is interested in political-cultural movements, initiatives, and art scenes that challenge dominant narratives and create alternative imaginaries.
Khatija Khader
Revise Editor
Khatija is an assistant professor at Cluster University Kashmir with a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her research focused on histories of migration of Siddi and seafaring Hadrami diaspora in the Indian Ocean. She critically engages with modern discourses on assimilation, multiculturalism, and migration.
Mo Thung
Technology Editor
Thung is a PhD student studying internet users and consumption of mobile phones, with a focus on Chinese digital technology. His research interests include mobile internet usage under the distinctive environments of difficult connectivity vis-a-vis the rapid leapfrog in mobile adoption of Myanmar.
Yuki Fujita
Grants & Communications Manager
Yuki is experienced in, and passionate about, the role of communications in the aid sector, serving as a bridge between practitioners and stakeholders. She holds an MA in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, with her research focused on discourse analysis of policy documents in the humanitarian sector. of difficult connectivity vis-a-vis the rapid leapfrog in mobile adoption of Myanmar.
Ahmed El Assal
Revise Editor
Ahmed is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS). His research focuses on civil society, foreign aid, and politics of development. His interests encompass topics on political dynamics in the Middle East and Africa. He holds an MA in Governance, Development, and Public Policy from the Institute of Development Studies (UK). He has worked, and lived, in several countries in the Middle East and Europe.
Wendy Harcourt
Consulting Editor
Prof Harcourt was born in Australia, lives in Italy, and works in the Netherlands. She has engaged in critical development praxis with a focus on gender and environment since 1988 when she worked at the Society for International Development in Rome as Editor of the journal Development and director of programmes. She is currently a Professor of Gender, Diversity, and Sustainable Development at the ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has published widely on post-development, feminism political ecology, and gender and development. She is editor of 14 books and her monograph: Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development published by Zed Books in 2009, received the 2010 FWSA Book Prize. She is the series editor of the Palgrave Gender, Development, and Social Change series, and the Bloomsbury Academic New Critical Thinking in Development series.
Julien-François Gerber
Consulting Editor
Dr. Gerber is an Associate Professor at the ISS. Prior to that, he was based at universities in Bhutan, India, and the United States – including Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University. He is broadly interested in the political economy of sustainability and in its anthropological, psychological, and spiritual dimensions. He has published on debt, ownership, agrarian change, economic theory, social movements, depth psychology, and ecopsychology. He is active in the degrowth movement.
Shangbie Du
Staff Writer
Shangbie is currently pursuing an MSc in AI in Governance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has an MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy and a BSc in Political Science from Leiden University and was previously a Junior Fellow at The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, where he published on public diplomacy, security, and international relations.
Matea Grbeša
Staff Writer
Matea is a researcher with a degree in International Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a bachelor’s in International Studies from Leiden University. Her fields of interest include migration to the European Union and labor laws.