Dr. Bernardo Jurema
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Dr. Bernardo Jurema is a political scientist from Recife, Brazil. He joined the RIFS-Potsdam in 2021 as Research Associate for the Democratic Governance for Ecopolitical Transformations (Ecopol) project, which analyzes the dynamics of sustainability governance. His research interests include US foreign policy, critical security studies, transdisciplinary research, environmental justice, and the intersection of geopolitics and ecopolitics, with the Amazon Basin as case study. He has worked at international organizations and think tanks in Europe and Latin America. He graduated in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Pernambuco, holds an MSc in comparative politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD degree in political science from the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Blog Posts
- Braskem’s Salt Mines, Maceió’s Ground Subsidence, and the Pitfalls of Corporate Sustainability Discourse
- Sketching a Theory of Fossil Imperialism
- Brazil: An Environmental Power
- RIFS Focal Topic: The Year in Review
- “Struggle for Agrarian and Environmental Justice: The Farmers Movement in Northwest India”
- 2022 PhD in Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin
- 2021- current Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS/ RIFS) Research Associate
- 2020 The Democratic Society, Berlin Research & Project Officer, PaCE
- 2017- current Freie Universität Berlin Ph.D. candidate
- 2014 - 2018 Governance in the Area of Limited Statehood Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin Research associate
- 2011 - 2013 International Crisis Group, Guatemala City Researcher
- 2010 MSc in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science
- US foreign policy
- Critical security studies
- trasnsdisciplinary research
- democratic theory
- postcolonial studies
- climate change
- social movements