Political Ecology of Austerity: Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment

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Defne Gönenç

Defne Gönenç is an independent political scientist. She obtained her PhD in International Relations and Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland, and her MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Between 2019 and 2023, she worked as a reader and researcher at the Centre for Mediterranean Studies, Yasar University in Izmir, Turkey. Her recent articles appeared in several peer-reviewed academic journals including Environmental Politics, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Mediterranean Politics, and Cambridge Review of International Affairs. She is the co-editor of a special issue titled 'Asian Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean,' published by the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies in January 2023. She has also co-authored a non-academic book titled 'Çevre ve İktisat Politikası Gibi Bir Şey' (Something like Environmental and Economic Policy). Dr Gönenç speaks four languages: Turkish, English, French, and Greek. Website: https://www.defnegonenc.org/