MSCA PF Fellow: Mathilde Gingembre

Mathilde Gingembre received her Ph.D. in Development Studies from the University of Sussex (UK), where she specialised in resource politics, land rights and green capitalism, with a focus on agrarian communities' mobilisation against a large-scale biofuel investment in Madagascar. After completing her doctorate, she was affiliated with the PASTRES project (European University Institute/ University of Sussex), researching Syrian pastoralist refugees' land access strategies in Jordan. She then held a postdoctoral position at the Université Catholique de Lille (ESPOL), conducting research on the local governance of green transitions in rural France, Scotland and the Czech Republic (Just Scapes project), and subsequently a Lecturer position at Lazarski University in Warsaw, Poland. Her research spans political ecology, anthropology and critical agrarian studies, examining how rural and pastoral communities across the Global South and Europe bear the uneven costs of green growth and mobilize for land justice. She has published in leading journals including Dev. & Change, J. Rural Studies, Env. & Planning, J. Peasant Studies and J. Agrarian Change. Her MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship project, JUSTLANDING, examines how local politics of renewable energy planning can support land-sensitive just transition pathways, through comparative ethnographic research in France and Italy. She will conduct the project at the University of Padua (ICEA department) under the supervision of Massimo De Marchi, with a secondment at INRAE (Dynafor) under Cécile Barnaud, and a non-academic placement at the Land Portal Foundation under Charl-Thom Bayer.