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Michael Bravo is Professor of the History and Geography of Science, University of Cambridge, and Hugh Brammer Fellow in Geography at Downing College. He has served two terms as Acting Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute. He directs the Circumpolar History and Public Policy Research Group, and is Co-Director of the Arctic Humanities Workshop. Michael is a member of the UArctic Critical Arctic Studies Thematic Network based at the University of Lapland. He has also held a Professor II appointment at the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Michael read for a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science at Cambridge. His books include Narrating the Arctic (2002,) Arctic Geopolitics and Autonomy (2011) and most recently, North Pole: Nature and Culture (2019). Michael’s work has been widely featured by the media in programmes such as BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, Radio 4’s Daughters of the Snow, and BBC World Service’s The Forum.

Joana Castro Pereira is assistant professor of Politics and International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations, and a member of the Planet Politics Institute. Her research interests include the political economy of Amazonian deforestation, the politics of climate change in Latin America, and international relations in the Anthropocene. She is the author (with Eduardo Viola) of Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse? (Routledge, 2022), shortlisted for the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize, and co-editor (with André Saramago) of the volume Non-Human Nature in World Politics: Theory and Practice (Springer, 2020).

Emilian Kavalski is the NAWA Chair Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) and the book series editor for Routledge’s “Rethinking Asia and International Relations” series. His work explores the interconnections between the simultaneous decentring of International Relations by post-Western perspectives and non-anthropocentric approaches.