Panagiota Kotsila
Biographic Data
| ID | 213449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Panagiota Kotsila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Panagiota |
| FAMILY NAME | Kotsila |
| SIGNATURE | KOTSILA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0498-8362 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Micropolitics of Care
Reforms in state care provision have increased reliance on community initiatives to address food insecurity and poverty across high-income countries. Community-driven food assistance initiatives (FAIs) have emerged as spaces of ‘embodied care’, fostering trust, solidarity and reciprocity among volunteers and recipients. Yet while research often studies the care provided within FAIs, less attention has been paid to how their care practices are sha…
Vulnerability Revisited
The risks of climate change on human health are increasingly studied through various conceptualizations of (social, environmental, and health) vulnerability, from different ontological and epistemological standpoints. Within this diverse body of work, questions around how different structures and forms of power shape why, how, where, and by whom such vulnerability is experienced and contested remain marginal, fragmented, or concentrated in certai…
Contradictions and lessons from thinking about health and vulnerability through feminist political ecology
Embodying and Resisting Urban Heat Injustice
Heat is a central concern for many cities whose efforts for adaptation tend to reproduce inequities. While community‐led adaptation has been considered key for enhancing just outcomes, how migrants from majority world countries are in‐ or excluded from local visions and practices of adaptation has rarely been asked. Through participatory photography and in‐depth interviews, we examine the ways through which migrant residents strive for a healthy …
Illuminating radical spatial imaginaries
Urban greening is not a neutral intervention on the social fabric. Critical analyses of the green city often concentrate on greening's top-down, hegemonic, and large-scale manifestations while neglecting the role of social movements. Aiming to address this gap, we ground discussions of "urbanized nature" within discussions of radical spatial imaginaries, concentrating on their performativity. We propose "counter-mapping" as an engaged methodology…
The necropolitics of expendability
COVID-19 has made visible and deepened inequalities globally, while also manifesting the vital role of functional food, health, and care systems in a context of strong socio-ecological interdependencies. We here mobilize bio- and necro-politics to problematize the declaration of agricultural workers as 'essential' and the accompanying policies during the early months of the pandemic, focusing on the region of Lleida, Spain. We show how this procl…
Contours of Feminist Political Ecology
The book reflects on a collective learning process as it maps out the contours of feminist political ecology. This is an open access book
Caring Communities for Radical Change
In this chapter, we share the insights of feminist political ecology (FPE) for degrowth, building from the debates on “caring communities for radical change” at the 8th International Degrowth Conference in August 2021. We discuss how FPE links to the principles of degrowth as an academic and activist movement and why it is necessary to take feminist political ecology perspectives on care and caring communities in resisting, questioning, and count…
The notion of justice in funded research on urban sustainability
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
Ouch! Eew! Blech! A Trialogue on Porous Technologies, Places and Embodiments
In this chapter, we bring political ecologies of health and the body into conversation with environmental justice and crip theory, science, technology and society studies (STS) and biopolitics. We present a trialogue that highlights three cases of health and embodiment examining the crosscutting themes of porosity and technologies as they offer us ways to insist on the right to be and signal a politics of health in FPE: (a) the lived experience o…
An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major social–environmental transitions. We develop the notion…
Injustice in Urban Sustainability
This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on claims of sustainability. Aligned with critical environmental justice studies, the book highlights the contradictions of urban sustainability in relation to justice. It argues that urban neighbourhoo…
Border troubles
Traditional interventions to "bring nature into the city" were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always been to some extent bounded, serving some in favor of others, authorizing particular uses and forms of behavior as more or less legitimate, and policing the boundaries of who is/not included in such sp…
Gentrification pathways and their health impacts on historically marginalized residents in Europe and North America
Community gardening in Hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism
In this paper, we aim to explore how community gardening can embed and foment grassroots resistance to the privatization of urban space in the current configuration of a prolonged socio-economic and ecological crisis in European cities. We focus on the emblematic case of the Hellinikon self-organized garden; a case of guerrilla gardening that emerged as part of a social movement against the real estate development of the former International Airp…
The governance of nature-based solutions in the city at the intersection of justice and equity
Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes
Nature-based solutions’ is the new jargon used to promote ideas of urban sustainability, which is gaining traction in both academic and policy circles, especially in the European Union. Through an analysis of the definitions and discourse around nature-based solutions, we discern a number of assumptions stemming from positivist science that are embedded in the term, and which we find create an inviting space for nature’s neoliberalisation process…
How ‘just’ is hybrid governance of urban nature-based solutions
Hybrid (or multi-actor) governance has been identified as a key opportunity for upscaling urban nature-based solutions (referred to as urban NBS), representing a demand-driven and cost-effective realization of urban green infrastructure. However it is unclear how such hybrid governance affects the justice outcomes of urban NBS. Through six in-depth cases of urban NBS we show that hybrid governance can lead to both improvements and deterioration o…
Clashing temporalities of care and support as key determinants of transformatory and justice potentials in urban gardens
Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship
Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges, from protecting urban ecosystems to enhancing built environments and climate resilience or improving health outcomes. In this article, we expand the theoretical boundaries used to challenge this growing orthodoxy by laying out a nuanced framework that advances critical u…
Biopolitics of public health and immigration in times of crisis
Biopolitics Gone to Shit? State Narratives versus Everyday Realities of Water and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta
Tracing narratives and perceptions in the political ecologies of health and disease
Political ecology has, in the past decade, emerged as an increasingly accepted framework for studying issues of health and disease and has thus given rise to a distinct sub-field: the political ecologies of health and disease (PEHD). More recently, scholars have suggested more specific avenues through which the sub-field can be further developed and focused. Building on recent work, we suggest that the role of health perceptions and health discou…
Health dispossessions and the moralization of disease
Despite the swift development of Vietnam's water supply and sanitation (wat/san) sector, over the last ten years there have been 1.5 million annual documented cases of diarrhea. Western perspectives blame insufficient medical or economic advancement for failing to prevent diarrhea and its treatment, failing to grasp how disease is shaped in the cultural, moral and political domain. This article examines the nature and function of public health po…
Beyond "Socially Constructed" Disasters
Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe's most emblematic dam disasters – Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain) – and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India, this article argues that the damage caused by dam disasters is often not unavoidable o…
Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship
Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges, from protecting urban ecosystems to enhancing built environments and climate resilience or improving health outcomes. In this article, we expand the theoretical boundaries used to challenge this growing orthodoxy by laying out a nuanced framework that advances critical u…
Beyond "Socially Constructed" Disasters
Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe's most emblematic dam disasters – Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain) – and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India, this article argues that the damage caused by dam disasters is often not unavoidable o…
Gentrification pathways and their health impacts on historically marginalized residents in Europe and North America
Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes
Nature-based solutions’ is the new jargon used to promote ideas of urban sustainability, which is gaining traction in both academic and policy circles, especially in the European Union. Through an analysis of the definitions and discourse around nature-based solutions, we discern a number of assumptions stemming from positivist science that are embedded in the term, and which we find create an inviting space for nature’s neoliberalisation process…
Community gardening in Hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism
In this paper, we aim to explore how community gardening can embed and foment grassroots resistance to the privatization of urban space in the current configuration of a prolonged socio-economic and ecological crisis in European cities. We focus on the emblematic case of the Hellinikon self-organized garden; a case of guerrilla gardening that emerged as part of a social movement against the real estate development of the former International Airp…
Clashing temporalities of care and support as key determinants of transformatory and justice potentials in urban gardens
How ‘just’ is hybrid governance of urban nature-based solutions
Hybrid (or multi-actor) governance has been identified as a key opportunity for upscaling urban nature-based solutions (referred to as urban NBS), representing a demand-driven and cost-effective realization of urban green infrastructure. However it is unclear how such hybrid governance affects the justice outcomes of urban NBS. Through six in-depth cases of urban NBS we show that hybrid governance can lead to both improvements and deterioration o…
Biopolitics Gone to Shit? State Narratives versus Everyday Realities of Water and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta
The governance of nature-based solutions in the city at the intersection of justice and equity
Biopolitics of public health and immigration in times of crisis
The necropolitics of expendability
COVID-19 has made visible and deepened inequalities globally, while also manifesting the vital role of functional food, health, and care systems in a context of strong socio-ecological interdependencies. We here mobilize bio- and necro-politics to problematize the declaration of agricultural workers as 'essential' and the accompanying policies during the early months of the pandemic, focusing on the region of Lleida, Spain. We show how this procl…
Tracing narratives and perceptions in the political ecologies of health and disease
Political ecology has, in the past decade, emerged as an increasingly accepted framework for studying issues of health and disease and has thus given rise to a distinct sub-field: the political ecologies of health and disease (PEHD). More recently, scholars have suggested more specific avenues through which the sub-field can be further developed and focused. Building on recent work, we suggest that the role of health perceptions and health discou…
Border troubles
Traditional interventions to "bring nature into the city" were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always been to some extent bounded, serving some in favor of others, authorizing particular uses and forms of behavior as more or less legitimate, and policing the boundaries of who is/not included in such sp…
Embodying and Resisting Urban Heat Injustice
Heat is a central concern for many cities whose efforts for adaptation tend to reproduce inequities. While community‐led adaptation has been considered key for enhancing just outcomes, how migrants from majority world countries are in‐ or excluded from local visions and practices of adaptation has rarely been asked. Through participatory photography and in‐depth interviews, we examine the ways through which migrant residents strive for a healthy …
Illuminating radical spatial imaginaries
Urban greening is not a neutral intervention on the social fabric. Critical analyses of the green city often concentrate on greening's top-down, hegemonic, and large-scale manifestations while neglecting the role of social movements. Aiming to address this gap, we ground discussions of "urbanized nature" within discussions of radical spatial imaginaries, concentrating on their performativity. We propose "counter-mapping" as an engaged methodology…
Health dispossessions and the moralization of disease
Despite the swift development of Vietnam's water supply and sanitation (wat/san) sector, over the last ten years there have been 1.5 million annual documented cases of diarrhea. Western perspectives blame insufficient medical or economic advancement for failing to prevent diarrhea and its treatment, failing to grasp how disease is shaped in the cultural, moral and political domain. This article examines the nature and function of public health po…
Biopolitics Gone to Shit? State Narratives versus Everyday Realities of Water and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta
Tracing narratives and perceptions in the political ecologies of health and disease
Political ecology has, in the past decade, emerged as an increasingly accepted framework for studying issues of health and disease and has thus given rise to a distinct sub-field: the political ecologies of health and disease (PEHD). More recently, scholars have suggested more specific avenues through which the sub-field can be further developed and focused. Building on recent work, we suggest that the role of health perceptions and health discou…
Health dispossessions and the moralization of disease
Despite the swift development of Vietnam's water supply and sanitation (wat/san) sector, over the last ten years there have been 1.5 million annual documented cases of diarrhea. Western perspectives blame insufficient medical or economic advancement for failing to prevent diarrhea and its treatment, failing to grasp how disease is shaped in the cultural, moral and political domain. This article examines the nature and function of public health po…
Beyond "Socially Constructed" Disasters
Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe's most emblematic dam disasters – Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain) – and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India, this article argues that the damage caused by dam disasters is often not unavoidable o…
Biopolitics of public health and immigration in times of crisis
How ‘just’ is hybrid governance of urban nature-based solutions
Hybrid (or multi-actor) governance has been identified as a key opportunity for upscaling urban nature-based solutions (referred to as urban NBS), representing a demand-driven and cost-effective realization of urban green infrastructure. However it is unclear how such hybrid governance affects the justice outcomes of urban NBS. Through six in-depth cases of urban NBS we show that hybrid governance can lead to both improvements and deterioration o…
Clashing temporalities of care and support as key determinants of transformatory and justice potentials in urban gardens
Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship
Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges, from protecting urban ecosystems to enhancing built environments and climate resilience or improving health outcomes. In this article, we expand the theoretical boundaries used to challenge this growing orthodoxy by laying out a nuanced framework that advances critical u…
Gentrification pathways and their health impacts on historically marginalized residents in Europe and North America
Community gardening in Hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism
In this paper, we aim to explore how community gardening can embed and foment grassroots resistance to the privatization of urban space in the current configuration of a prolonged socio-economic and ecological crisis in European cities. We focus on the emblematic case of the Hellinikon self-organized garden; a case of guerrilla gardening that emerged as part of a social movement against the real estate development of the former International Airp…
The governance of nature-based solutions in the city at the intersection of justice and equity
Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes
Nature-based solutions’ is the new jargon used to promote ideas of urban sustainability, which is gaining traction in both academic and policy circles, especially in the European Union. Through an analysis of the definitions and discourse around nature-based solutions, we discern a number of assumptions stemming from positivist science that are embedded in the term, and which we find create an inviting space for nature’s neoliberalisation process…
Injustice in Urban Sustainability
This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on claims of sustainability. Aligned with critical environmental justice studies, the book highlights the contradictions of urban sustainability in relation to justice. It argues that urban neighbourhoo…
Border troubles
Traditional interventions to "bring nature into the city" were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always been to some extent bounded, serving some in favor of others, authorizing particular uses and forms of behavior as more or less legitimate, and policing the boundaries of who is/not included in such sp…
Contours of Feminist Political Ecology
The book reflects on a collective learning process as it maps out the contours of feminist political ecology. This is an open access book
Caring Communities for Radical Change
In this chapter, we share the insights of feminist political ecology (FPE) for degrowth, building from the debates on “caring communities for radical change” at the 8th International Degrowth Conference in August 2021. We discuss how FPE links to the principles of degrowth as an academic and activist movement and why it is necessary to take feminist political ecology perspectives on care and caring communities in resisting, questioning, and count…
The notion of justice in funded research on urban sustainability
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
Ouch! Eew! Blech! A Trialogue on Porous Technologies, Places and Embodiments
In this chapter, we bring political ecologies of health and the body into conversation with environmental justice and crip theory, science, technology and society studies (STS) and biopolitics. We present a trialogue that highlights three cases of health and embodiment examining the crosscutting themes of porosity and technologies as they offer us ways to insist on the right to be and signal a politics of health in FPE: (a) the lived experience o…
An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major social–environmental transitions. We develop the notion…
Illuminating radical spatial imaginaries
Urban greening is not a neutral intervention on the social fabric. Critical analyses of the green city often concentrate on greening's top-down, hegemonic, and large-scale manifestations while neglecting the role of social movements. Aiming to address this gap, we ground discussions of "urbanized nature" within discussions of radical spatial imaginaries, concentrating on their performativity. We propose "counter-mapping" as an engaged methodology…
The necropolitics of expendability
COVID-19 has made visible and deepened inequalities globally, while also manifesting the vital role of functional food, health, and care systems in a context of strong socio-ecological interdependencies. We here mobilize bio- and necro-politics to problematize the declaration of agricultural workers as 'essential' and the accompanying policies during the early months of the pandemic, focusing on the region of Lleida, Spain. We show how this procl…
Embodying and Resisting Urban Heat Injustice
Heat is a central concern for many cities whose efforts for adaptation tend to reproduce inequities. While community‐led adaptation has been considered key for enhancing just outcomes, how migrants from majority world countries are in‐ or excluded from local visions and practices of adaptation has rarely been asked. Through participatory photography and in‐depth interviews, we examine the ways through which migrant residents strive for a healthy …
The Micropolitics of Care
Reforms in state care provision have increased reliance on community initiatives to address food insecurity and poverty across high-income countries. Community-driven food assistance initiatives (FAIs) have emerged as spaces of ‘embodied care’, fostering trust, solidarity and reciprocity among volunteers and recipients. Yet while research often studies the care provided within FAIs, less attention has been paid to how their care practices are sha…
Vulnerability Revisited
The risks of climate change on human health are increasingly studied through various conceptualizations of (social, environmental, and health) vulnerability, from different ontological and epistemological standpoints. Within this diverse body of work, questions around how different structures and forms of power shape why, how, where, and by whom such vulnerability is experienced and contested remain marginal, fragmented, or concentrated in certai…
Contradictions and lessons from thinking about health and vulnerability through feminist political ecology
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (16 works) · Geography (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political ecology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (7 works)