Anna Gall

Utrecht University

Based in

Netherlands
Europe

Anna Gall is a PhD researcher at Utrecht University’s Urban Futures Studio and Innovation Studies Section. With a background in Political Science (FU Berlin, Germany) and Governance of Sustainability Transformations (Wageningen University, Netherlands) her research interests lie in the politicisation of sustainability transformations, particularly in relation to the rise of authoritarian politics, the emergence of new coalitions and the role of ‘science’ in these contested spaces. Anna’s PhD focuses on the performance of politicising science, zooming in on how different actor networks – ranging from “radical” academics to (right-wing) politicians – attempt to destabilise academic institutions, practices or funding streams and how this reflects broader sociopolitical projects. Central to her project are questions related to who gets to politicise science, with what implications, and how politicisation affects science’s imagined role amidst ecological crises and democratic decline.