The Corona Diaries
Welcome to The Corona Diaries from Allegra, first recorded in April 2020 as part of the Corona thematic thread. The […]
Panagiota Kotsila
Panagiota Kotsila has a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany. During the last 6 years she has been a postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she is part of the Political Ecology and Urban Environmental Justice research group. She is a core editor in the Undisciplined Environments platform.
Her research examines the unequal distribution of health risks and how the very concepts of disease, health and well-being are constructed, mobilised and interpreted through and for power. She interrogates uneven, racialized, and intersectional vulnerabilities through a political ecology approach. Her empirical research has focused on the politics of development surrounding water supply and sanitation in rural Vietnam, and on the emergence of vector-borne diseases in the context of crisis and xenophobia in Greece. Currently, she is researching on the politics of urban re-naturing and sustainability in European cities and how this reflects and informs (in)justice.