Anna Fünfgeld is a postdoctoral researcher and a member of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Climate, Climatic Change, and Society’ (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is an associate fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on energy and climate politics, especially climate obstruction, climate justice, green extractivism, infrastructure studies, natural resource conflicts, and the far right – mainly in Indonesia, Brazil, and Germany. She is particularly interested in assessing potentials for and obstacles to socio-ecological transformation and climate and energy justice from critical political economy/ Gramscian, STS, and post-structuralist perspectives. Anna obtained her PhD in political science from Freiburg University and GIGA. Previously, she worked at Potsdam University as a principal researcher of the DFG-funded INLOCADE project, which is concerned with the institutionalization of low-carbon development in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and South Africa. At Hamburg University, Anna co-authors the annual ‘Climate Transformation Outlook for Germany’.
