Vita
2023 – today
Master’s in Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg
2020
Certificate Program “Curatorial Practice in University Collections”, University of Oldenburg
2017 – 2023
Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Oldenburg
Research Interests
Positioned at the intersection of multiple disciplines, including geography, ecology, marine social sciences, and policy, my research interest is rooted in feminist scholarship and critical social theory, exploring how knowledge and power are produced and contested within marine governance. I am particularly interested in emotional geographies, which investigate how affect, embodiment, and governance shape socio-spatial relations and animal geography, which examines how humans and other animals co-constitute places, practices, and political communities. Drawing on critical resource geographies and feminist theories of discomfort and refusal, I engage with non-representational and more-than-human approaches that foreground lived experience and ongoing life, as well as the transformative events through which places and spaces are continuously made.
These perspectives shape my current master’s thesis, which examines the role of emotion in marine policymaking through a close analysis of the debate on the commercial whaling moratorium at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1982. Treating the moratorium as both a political and an emotional event, the project traces how emotions structure decision-making, illuminating the (re)production of power, (in)justice, and violence in ocean governance. The thesis asks how emotions are mobilised, contested, and made (in)visible in the making of international conservation policy, and what these dynamics reveal about the biopolitics of marine governance.