Working Group Titles and Coordinators
- Nurturing Hope and Resistance in the Ruins. (Coordinators: Bayan Arouri, Ebru Sevik, Meeri Tiensuu, Caecilie Svop Jensen)
- The Entanglement of Gen Z, Democracy and Geopolitics in the Global South. (Coordinators: Tiina Seppälä, tiina.s.seppala@helsinki.fi and Manoj Bhusal, manoj.bhusal@helsinki.fi)
- Intergenerational Hope in Sparsely Populated Regions. (Coordinators: Tapio Nykänen, tapio.nykanen@oulu.fi and Helena Ristaniemi, helena.ristaniemi@oulu.fi)
- Sites of Ruins, Sites of Hope: (Re)Thinking Building Infrastructures in the Precarious Present. (Coordinator: Dayabati Roy, dayabatiroy@gmail.com)
- Pedagogy of Resistance: Social Movements, Popular Education, and Transformative Learning. (Coordinator: Meri Mononen-Matias, meri.mononen@helsinki.fi)
- Philosophical and Spiritual Practices for Sustainability Transformations: Cultivating Inner Wisdom, Embodying Change. (Coordinators: Ramcilovik-Suominen Sabaheta sabaheta.ramcilovik-suominen@luke.fi and Jessica Böhme)
- From Crises to Just Sustainable Futures: Reimagining the ‘Ecotopia’ in Socio-Ecological Systems. Coordinators: Ayonghe Nebasifu, akonwi.ayonghe@helsinki.fi; Karen Heikkilä, karen.heikkila@helsinki.fi; Alizée Ville, alizee.ville@helsinki.fi)
- Governing in the Ruins of Green Development: Neoliberal and/or Authoritarian Sustainability and the Cracks of Everyday Ecologies. (Coordinators: Taru Salmenkari, taru.salmenkari@helsinki.fi and Virginie Arantes, virginie.arantes@ulb.be)
- Extractivism, Recognition, and Responsibility: The Search for More Just Futures. Coordinators: Anja Nygren, anja.nygren@helsinki.fi; Anna Heikkinen, anna.heikkinen@helsinki.fi; Mira Käkönen and Anu Lounela)
- Planting Promises: Money, Myths, and the Realities of Global Tree Planting and
Ecological Restoration (Coordinators: Markus Kröger, Ossi Ollinaho, Sophia Hagolani-Albov, sophia.hagolani-albov@helsinki.fi) - Reawakening Consciousness: Pedagogies of Hope and Participatory Learning for Transformative Futures. (Coordinator: Abirlal Mukherjee, abirlal55@gmail.com)
- Methodology as a Tool for Resistance and Hope. (Coordinator: Reyhane Gholami, reyhane.gholami.n@gmail.com)
- Supporting Environmental Defenders to Advance Environmental and Social Justice. (Coordinators: Denis Ruysschaert, denis.ruysschaert@helsinki.fi and Yannick Wild, yannick.wild@peacebrigades.ch)
- Re-imagining Futures from the Edges: Epistemologies and Experiences of Sustainability and Resistance Otherwise. (Coordinators: Tuija Veintie, tuija.veintie@helsinki.fi; Nathaly Pinto, nathaly.pinto@aalto.fi; Marinka Räsänen, marinka.rasanen@helsinki.fi; Eleonora Lundell, eleonora.lundell@helsinki.fi; Monica Lemos, monica.lemos@helsinki.fi)
- Shifting Foundations for Civic Space and Expanding Solidarity: Learning, Care, and
Collective Agency Beyond Development. (Coordinator: Crystal Green, crystalbgreen@gmail.com and Susan Wiksten, susanwiksten@g.ucla.edu) - Reimagining Political Participation in an Age of Geopolitics: Southern Experiences. (Coordinators: Henri Onodera, henri.onodera@helsinki.fi; Karim Mäiche)
- Reclaiming Metaphysical Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Ancestral Healing, and Regenerative Development in Southern Africa and the Global South (Coordinators: Munya Saruchera and Sostina Spiwe Matina)
- Green-Digital Transition (Coordinators: Edemilson Paraná and Rodrigo Santaella Gonçalves)
- Student and Youth Solidarity Network (Coordinators: Syksy Byholm, benjamin.byholm@helsinki.fi and Johanna Airaksinen, johanna.airaksinen@helsinki.fi)
- DEVELOP2: The Academy Programme for Development Research. (Coordinator: Mikko Ylikangas, mikko.ylikangas@aka.fi)