Nina Isabella Moeller

Dr Nina Moeller

Independent Scholar Fellow 2016-17

Between planetary urbanization and thinking forests, or, Ikiam University and its living laboratory - a study of socio-ecological change in the Ecuadorian Amazon

The proposed project sets out to understand Ikiam's effects as well as its origins. In particular, I will investigate the socio-ecological relations that are produced or reconfigured by Ikiam, as well as the national and international discourses and policies on a transition to a 'green economy', which underpin Ikiam's development through valorisation and justification.

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Research outcomes

Moeller, N. I. (2018).

Haphazard knowledge production: Thoughts on ethnography and mess in the urbanising Ecuadorian Amazon. Messy ethnographies in action, 33-45.

Areas of interest

Amazon South America Philosophy Ecofeminism Agriculture Ecology Climate Finance Sustainable Trainsitions Green Transition Commoning Colonialism Ethnography

Cohort

ISF3

Biography

Nina Isabella Moeller is Associate Professor in the Department of Business and Sustainability at the University of Southern Denmark.

Her research interests are (not limited to) biogenetic resource politics (especially seeds); subsistence livelihoods and agrarian change (especially in the Amazon and Europe); philosophy, ecofeminism, and politics of agroecology (especially the intersection of soil, community, individual and planetary health); climate and development finance; uneven effects of sustainability/green transitions; commoning and other property relations; epistemic colonialism; ethnographic methodology innovation; and qualitatively ‘measuring agroecology‘.

She is also keen on herbalism, permaculture, nature-based education for children and have been involved in a variety of social, cultural and political movements since the 1990s. Nina is a member of AgroecologyNow! and Cultivate!, sits on the editorial bord of Rooted, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Political Ecology.

Biographical details correct as of 21.08.25