Aigul Hakimova has been active in various movements for freedom of movement and the right to stay for 20 years. She has participated in and co-created collectives such as Social Centre Rog, Second Home and Infokolpa, which are involved in the migrant struggles in Slovenia and through the Balkan route. She lives in Ljubljana and currently works in the cultural association Gmajna, where she co-directs local and international projects. She has studied international relations and diplomacy in Kyrgyzstan and anthropology in Slovenia.
Alba Sidera is a journalist specialized in the far-right and Italian politics, topics which she has been investigating for 13 years. Based in Italy since 2007, she is a correspondent for El Punt-Avui in Rome, as well as a collaborator in Contexto, Sapiens and Media.cat. Author of ‘Fascismo Persistente’, a radiography of Meloni and Salvini’s Italy (Saldonar, 2020) and co-author of 'Guía Práctica contra la extrema derecha' (Pagés Editors, 2022)
Alberto De Nicola is a researcher in sociology, working on welfare, poverty and labor. He is an activist of the social space Esc Atelier and editor of the website Dinamopress.it. With Biagio Quattrocchi, he edited the book "Social Syndicalism. Struggles and Institutional Inventions in the European Crisis" with the Euronomade collective.
Angelina Giannopoulou is an Athens-based political scientist, facilitator of transform! europe in the programme "European Integration and the Strategic Perspectives of the Radical Left" and collaborator of the Nicos-Poulantzas-Institute. Since 2019 she is a local councillor in the Athens Municipality.
Barbara Steiner is a political scientist based in Vienna, the director of transform!europe and member of transform.at
She describes herself as a popular educator and political activist. She currently focuses on the role of TNCs in economy and politics in the context of neoliberal globalisation. Her expertise and major interests are on the protagonisms of social, feminist, anti-racist, migrant and refugee movements as crucial agents of transformative change. Brid comes from Ireland, has extensive working experience in the different regions of the global south. She holds a BA in Literature and a post graduate degree in Education from the National University of Ireland and a Masters in Women’s Studies from the University of Westminster.
Dafne Yeltekin (she/her) is an Italian-Turkish/Kurdish researcher born and raised in Italy. She has a background in Middle Eastern studies, specifically postcolonial studies and identity politics. She just received her Master’s Degree in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at the New School. Her research lies at the intersection of climate justice, migration justice, border politics, securitization, militarization, necropolitics, decolonization and abolition. She is a co-author of Abolishing the War on Climate: Pathways for Collective Ecological Security which explores false solutions behind the climate security approach and presents three intersecting ways forward for climate justice. She is also the author of Militarised adaptation? How the Global South is Adopting Climate-security Approaches, a discussion paper in collaboration with the Transnational Institute.
Davide Pignata is an intern for tranform!Europe with a focus on migration and European borders. He is the contact person for the ASCS 'Borders' project.
Dottie is Head of Policy and Advocacy for Global Justice Now since January 2017. Her work in social movements and NGOs spans 30 years. She currently works on and writes about corporate accountability, climate change, migration, trade and investment, China and other related economic justice concerns. She is originally from the Philippines and has lived in The Netherlands, Germany, Thailand and South Africa before moving to the UK. She previously worked with the Transnational Institute (TNI), African Women Unite Against Destructive Resource Extraction (WOMIN), Focus on the Global South (an Asian regional organisation), Asienhaus Deutschland and the Institute for Popular Democracy in the Philippines. She also worked as guest lecturer in MA Development Programs in universities in Asia and Germany.
Edwick Madzimure is a Development Practitioner with a unique background in rural development, gender and the empowerment of women and girls. She is the Founding Director of WILPF Zimbabwe which she started in 2016. As part of her work, Edwick facilitates grassroots community climate change education awareness, human rights education, and gender-based violence activism. She advocates for the implementation of the Women Peace and Security Agenda and facilitates trainings on the localisation of the UNSCR 1325 in grassroots communities. She holds an Honours Degree in History and International Studies and an MA in Development Studies. She is currently studying towards a PhD in Development Studies with a thesis focused on rural women livelihoods and water scarcity. Edwick is on a mission to transform communities from socially constructed systems that contribute to the exclusion of the youth and women from development processes.
You can find latest eye-opening report on the nexus of how Militarism has impoverished the African Continent, placing it at the Epicentre of the Climate Crisis here: https://www.wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/WILPF_Climate-of-Insecurity_Web58-1.pdf
15.06
18:30
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
Federica Giardini is a feminist scholar and activist working at the university of Roma Tre, where she has initiated diverse autonomous spaces on gender and ecological issues. Among the publications, the collective book La natura dell’economia. Femminismi, economia politica, ecologia (Deriveapprodi 2020).
16.06
11:30
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Francesco Martone (Italy/Ecuador) is chair of the Assembly of Judges of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature (Quito), spokesperson of In Difesa Di (Italy) and an associate of the TNI. He has been Senator of the Italian Republic (2001-2008). His areas of work are: environmental defenders, anti-extractivism struggles, indigenous peoples, rights of nature and contemporary arts
Graduated from a Bachelor in Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University and a Master's Degree in International Security Studies at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa) and the University of Trento, works as an IT security analyst for NTT Data Italia. Her research focus concerns primarily the study of fake news regarding migration and the role of government and civil society organizations in combating xenophobia and racism in the media.
Gala Kabbaj is transform! europe's facilitator of the Working Group Radical, Far and Populist Right and a research coordinator in Espaces Marx. She holds a master degree in Geography from La Sorbonne. Her work focuses on social movements and electoral studies.
Gastivists is an anticapitalist and transfeminist collective that supports movements against fossil gas and that fight for social justice!
You can follow their work here:
https://www.gastivists.org/
https://www.instagram.com/gastivists_collective/
https://www.instagram.com/gastivists.ita
16.06
11:30
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
A TNI Fellow since 1986, Hilary is a sociologist who earned her BPhil from Oxford University. She works as an independent activist-researcher and journalist. She is a founding editor of Red Pepper(external link).
A socialist feminist activist, with strong connections to the labour movement, Hilary has been a long-time advocate of participatory democracy. She served as Deputy Economic Advisor to Ken Livingstone at the Greater London Council from 1982, where she founded the Popular Planning Unit of the Greater London Council. In 2017, she was invited to join the UK Labour Party’s ‘Community Wealth Building Commission’, involving inter alia trade unions, cooperatives, community organisations and progressive municipal representatives. Its mission was to build on the positive experience of Preston Council using public procurement to protect and improve local jobs, advance community well-being, and strengthen democratic control. Participatory democracy for community wealth building has been the red thread throughout Hilary’s activist life. She has documented resurgent democratic movements in many countries, analysing the lessons for progressive politics.
Hilary is Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Participation Studies, Department for Peace Studies, University of Bradford; an Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies in the UK; and member of the International Advisory Panel of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, a trade union think tank in the UK. She has also been a visiting professor and scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles; Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Todai University, Tokyo. The author of many articles and books
15.06
18:30
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
Ibai Atutxa studies relations of domination in the Basque Country, the violent construction of contemporary Europe, and processes of criminalization under Franco’s dictatorship. He teaches in the University of the Basque Country and holds two PhD: one in Communication from the University of Valencia and the other one in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In 2022 he published the book “The Barbarians and the Civilized. A Materialist Handbook of Basque Struggles.”
Imen Louati has worked as a researcher on several several topics including access to water, renewable energy, free trade agreements and the influence of financial institutions on public policies. She is currently a program manager on political ecology at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s North Africa Office in Tunis.
Katerina Anastasiou is the facilitator of the chapters Migration and Global Strategy in transform! europe. She is active in various grass roots groups in Austria and Europe. Her focus is militant organizational practices and communication.
15.06
17:00
Welcome to the Future Factory!
Welcome to the Future Factory!
16.06
18:30
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
16.06
19:30
Assembly – Open Discussion
Assembly – Open Discussion
17.06
11:30
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
Maha Ben Gadha is a researcher and senior regional economic program manager at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s North Africa Office in Tunis. Her current work consists of supporting relevant actors in economic policymaking, in particular regarding issues of economic and monetary sovereignty.
Manja Petrovska is a PhD researcher based between Amsterdam and the
Balkans, studying the intersections of border control, neocolonialism,
and humanitarian imperialism. Her work focuses on the border security
industry and the neoliberal rationalities shaping border and migration
policies.
Editor of the German civil rights journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag. After being in touch with military and police repression in the 90’s, I’m focussing on policing in the European Union, migration control, undercover cops, internet monitoring, surveillance and interception technologies, police gadgets, satellite intelligence, drones. I have been publishing in left-wing newspapers and online-media like netzpolitik.org or Golem.
Nela Porobić is a feminist researcher and activist working out of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nela works with Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the focus of her work is researching and understanding, from a feminist perspective, the political economy of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and recovery. She looks at social, political, and economic consequences of contemporary peacebuilding interventions framed within a neoliberal understanding of peace.
16.06
11:30
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Niamh Ni Bhriain coordinates TNI's War and Pacification programme, which focuses on the permanent state of war and pacification of resistance. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG).
Before coming to TNI, Niamh spent a number of years living in Colombia and Mexico working with civil society organisations and the UN in the areas of peace-building, transitional justice, the protection of Human Rights Defenders and conflict analysis. She also spent some time in Brussels doing political advocacy before European institutions related to the conflict in Colombia.