Panagiota Kotsila

Barcelona

Panagiota Kotsila has a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany and is a postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB and the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ), at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research examines the unequal distribution of health risks and how the very concepts of disease, health and well-being are constructed, mobilised and interpreted through and for power. She interrogates uneven, racialized, and intersectional vulnerabilities through a political ecology approach. Her empirical research has focused on the politics of development surrounding water supply and sanitation in rural Vietnam, and on the emergence of vector-borne diseases in the context of crisis and xenophobia in Greece. Currently, she is researching on the politics of urban re-naturing in European cities and how this reflects and informs (in)justice.