Antje Brown is a Lecturer in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, UK, and originally from Berlin, with a Politics degree from Glasgow and a PhD from Stirling University. Antje has published on, and is particularly interested in, environmental politics, policy discourses, framings and implementations. Her involvement in a number of modules in Sustainable Development taught at various levels of the St Andrews degree programme inspired her to initiate this book project.
Sandra Gilgan is an academic manager and affiliated researcher at the University of Bonn, Germany. She studied and conducted research at the Universities of Münster, Trier, and Bonn, as well as at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, and Xiamen University in China. As a cultural scientist, she is involved in several initiatives exploring ‘plural sustainabilities’. Her research interests include social movements, utopian thinking, and processes of social change.