Enjoying Climate Change

Lucas Pohl is Professor of Human Geography at University of Innsbruck, Austria. He holds a doctorate from Goethe University Frankfurt and previously worked at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and HafenCity University Hamburg. His work mediates between human geography, continental philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory, focusing on spatial imaginaries, built environments, and political action. He is co-editor of [Un]Grounding: Post-foundational Geographies (transcript; together with Friederike Landau und Nikolai Roskamm) and his research has been published in journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Political Geography, and Theory, Culture & Society.
Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at The University of Manchester, UK and Senior Research Associate of the University of Johannesburg Centre for Social Change, South Africa. He was previously Professor of Geography at Oxford University. He holds a doctorate from The Johns Hopkins University and was awarded Honorary Doctorates from Roskilde University and the University of Malmö. He works on political ecology, critical theory, environmental and emancipatory politics. He is author of, among others, Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Democratic Environment (MIT Press), Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in 20th Century Spain (MIT Press) and Social Power and the Urbanization of Nature (Oxford University Press).