Irina Velicu


Biography

Irina Velicu is a Researchers working on socio-environmental conflicts in post-communist Europe at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is currently the Principle Investigator of the JustFood FCT project, expanding her work by looking at food justice. 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.


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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Article in Scientific journal

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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