Irina Velicu
Biography
Irina Velicu is a Researchers working on socio-environmental conflicts and movements in Europe at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is currently coordinating at CES the HORIZON project GREENPATHS, led by the University of Cantabria, conducting research related to the impacts of the green transition policies. She is also a member of the HORIZON project PHOENIX. She was the Principle Investigator of the JustFood FCT project (2019-2021), expanding her work on socio-environmental justice by focusing on alternative food networks in Portugal and Romania. Dr. Velicu is a member of the POSTRADE nucleus and of ECOSOC, looking at the intersections of social and environmental justice. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawaii (USA) and an MA in International Studies from the University of Warwick (UK). Her work has received funding from national and international research organisations (including the EU-FCT, Marie Curie, Chevening Dr. Velicu worked as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher within the ENTITLE European Network of Political Ecology. Her recent publications can be found in Environmental Politics, Theory, Culture and Society, Ecological Economics, Geoforum, New Political Science, Globalizations.
ORCID
Projetos
GREENPATHS
European Knowledge Hub On Just Transition Pathways
PHOENIX
The Rise of Citizens Voices for a Greener Europe
Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Velicu, Irina (2024), Polenta and Cyanide? Investment Arbitration and Environmental Injustice in the Rosia Montana Case, in Raluca Grosescu, John G. Dale (org.), Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action. Springer Studies on human righs
Article in Scientific journal
Velicu, Irina (2024), "Peasant Ecogrief at the Semi-Periphery of Europe", Ecopsychology
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Velicu, Irina; Barca, Stefania; Ogrezeanu, Andreea (2024), "No Seed is Illegal: Seed Commoning as Peasant Labor in Romania´", Journal of Agrarian Change
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