Sustainability in the Global South Challenges, Failures, and Innovative Solutions

Ghita Rezzouk is a researcher at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and a project coordinator for the Planetary Utilization of Sustainability Strategies (PLUS) project. Her research interests include gender and society, cultural identity, religion, and resilience and she has published several articles on these topics.

Sarita Monjane Henriksen is a visiting professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany and a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA. She has been guest professor at various higher education institutions in Europe and Brazil. She has a PhD in Human Rights, from the University of Salamanca, Spain and a PhD in Language Policy and Education Planning from Roskilde University, Denmark She is an associate professor and the Director of Cooperation at UP-Maputo, Mozambique. Her main research interests are language and globalization, migration, mobility, language education policies etc. and has published two books recently.

Jörn Ahrens is a professor of Cultural Sociology at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and Extraordinary Professor of Social Anthropology at North-West University, South Africa. He received his PhD in sociology in 1999 from Free University Berlin and his Habilitation in 2006 at Humboldt University Berlin. His main research interests are climate change and society; Southern African societies; violence; popular culture; and theories of modernity. He has published extensively on climate change epistemologies, popular media, and social theory.