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The Multispecies Justice Collective is an international community of scholars, artists and practitioners

We explore what justice looks like, feels like, and means when we take seriously the interests and claims of all Earth beings.
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All life on Earth is embedded in, and depends on a complex set of ecological relations

The collective is committed to imagining, co-creating, and nourishing practices, cultures, and institutions that respect, revere, and care for the relationships that make life on 
Earth possible.
Yet every day, these life enabling relationships are under ever greater and more violent pressure.
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Working across diverse contexts, the collective is an ecology of scholarship and practice that actively challenges the extractive logics of our time

In the face of mass extinction, biodiversity loss, catastrophic climate change, ocean acidification, deforestation, the ongoing destruction of Indigenous Peoples and cultures, and pervasive social injustice, multispecies justice seeks to illuminate and counter the common roots of violence behind these interlinked crises. 
Still more importantly, we are oriented to the possibility of futures where all life can flourish, and where justice is the preserve of all Earth beings.
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Projects

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Including the more than human in decision making

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Animal Abidings: recovering from disasters in more-than-human communities

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Enabling multispecies transitions of cities and regions (MUST) project

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MSJ Danielle Celermajer

Danielle Celermajer

Sydney Environment Institute
Australia

Danielle (Dany) Celermajer is Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and lead of the Multispecies Justice project at the University of Sydney Over the last decade, she has turned her attention from uniquely intra-human injustice and human rights to injustices and violence against the more than human world and their intersection with injustice against particular groups of humans. Through the experience of living through the black summer bushfires as part of a multispecies community, she began writing about a new crime of our age, Omnicide. Her creative non-fiction book, Summertime; Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Penguin Random House, 2021) was written in recognition of the critical urgency of conveying the complex conceptual recognition of the multispecies harms of the climate catastrophe. Her latest book, co-authored with other members of the Multispecies Justice Collective is Institutionalizing Multispecies Justice, Cambridge University Press, 2025.

MSJ Pablo P. Castello

Pablo P. Castello

Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
United States

Pablo P. Castello is a Research Fellow at the Animal Law Program, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver. Drawing on his previous work at Harvard, he is currently developing a book project on the relationship between language, recognition of violence, and advocacy. His book challenges the idea that “seeing is believing” and explores new ways to change people’s hearts and minds. His research also engages themes such as dominion, the legal recognition of wild animals’ right to self-determination, the inclusion of nonhuman animals’ voices in decision-making, and critical perspectives on biodiversity-based conservation. Pablo’s work has been published in top-ranked, peer-reviewed journals, including the American Political Science Review, Biological Conservation, and Hypatia, and has also been featured in popular outlets like The Conversation, ABC, and Medium.

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Anthony Burke 

University of NSW
Australia

Anthony Burke is professor of environmental politics and international relations at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He is co-principal of the Planet Politics Institute and a senior fellow of the Earth System Governance network. His works include The Ecology Politic, with Stefanie Fishel, and Institutionalising Multispecies Justice, with Danielle Celermajer et al.

MSJ Christine Bosman

Christiane Bosman

Embassy of the North Sea / Confluence of European Water Bodies / GARN
The Netherlands

Christiane Bosman is part of the management team of the Embassy of the North Sea, an interdisciplinary collective based in the Netherlands aimed to represent the North Sea as cultural, political, legal person. After her studies in art history, heritage and communications she worked as an independent public art producer, curator and communicator, with a specific focus on human-non-human relations since 2019. She co-founded, together with TBA21-Academy and ILP Mar Menor the Confluence of European Water Bodies, a network of over 35 water bodies in 15 countries confluencing to give a voice to the rivers, seas, glaciers, lakes and lagoons of Europe. Starting 2026 she is also part of the facilitators team of GARN Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.

MSJ Karin Bolender

Karin Bolender

Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.)
UNITED STATES

Karin Bolender (aka K-Haw Hart) is an artist-researcher engaging methods across contemporary art and environmental humanities. She is the founder of an experimental ecological art platform called the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.), which cultivates collaborative practices that dig into dirty words and the hidden wisdoms of earthly ecologies through performance, video/sound installations, experimental book arts, and more. A not-monograph called The Unnaming of Aliass was published by punctum books in 2020. She is currently a co-researcher with Kultivator’s three-year artistic research project, Tell It to the Field She Wants to be a Meadow, investigating modes of more-than-human self-determination on former agricultural land in Sweden’s midland region.

MSJ Astrida Neimanis

Astrida Neimanis

UBC Okanagan
Canada

Astrida Neimanis is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities and Associate Professor at UBC Okanagan, on the unceded lands of the syilx people. As a practice-led feminist theorist, Astrida writes about water, weather and bodies, often in collaboration with artists, scientists, writers and other community members. They are author of Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology (2017), and co-author of How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (2026), with Jennifer Hamilton. Astrida is also Director of The FEELed Lab – a feminist environmental humanities creative research lab in Kelowna, BC, Canada.

MSJ Marieke Nooren

Marieke Nooren

freelance artist and creative producer, working for and with: Elmo Vermijs/ Utrecht University, Polymorf and Gouden Haas
The Netherlands

Marieke Nooren is a program maker and dramaturg working at the intersection of art, climate, and ecology. Since 2020, she has been a key creative at Gouden Haas, where she develops theatrical forms to explore how we navigate the climate crisis. Her work is driven by a commitment to shifting from an egocentric to an ecocentric worldview, fostering a deeper connection with the more-than-human world. Beyond theater, Marieke collaborates with the award-winning design collective Polymorf, known for immersive multisensory experiences like Symbiosis, and artist Elmo Vermijs, whose work explores rights of nature and multispecies thinking and makes these concepts experiential. Through partnerships with Utrecht University, she bridges the gap between artistic research and scientific inquiry. Marieke specializes in multispecies thinking, creating spaces where new narratives and connections can emerge to redefine how we live together on a changing planet.

MSJ Shristee Bajpai

Shrishtee Bajpai

Kalpavriksh
India

Shrishtee is a writer, researcher, working at the intersections of environmental justice, earthy governance, worldviews and systemic transformations. She is part of environment action group-Kalpavriksh (India), Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence), Global Tapestry of Alternatives and serves on the executive committee of Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.

MSJ Myles Oakley

Myles Oakey

The University of Sydney
Australia

Myles Oakey is an early career researcher in the School of Humanities at the University of Sydney and a research member of the Sydney Environment Institute (SEI). His research is situated in the broad field of the environmental humanities, but emerges at the intersection of multispecies studies, science and technology studies, philosophical ethology, and extinction studies. His research critically engages with various epistemic practices within the natural sciences, particularly ecological and ethological literatures, to explore their world-making effects in the context of endangered-species conservation and extinction. His PhD research, The Death of a Songbird: Listening to Worlds in their (Un)Making, focused on the conservation efforts for the regent honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia), a critically endangered songbird endemic to the southeast of Australia.

MSJ Anne Obrien

Anne O'Brien

Health Research Institute, University of Canberra
Australia

Anne O’Brien works on climate change and health at the Australian Centre for Disease Control, and is a visiting fellow at the Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) Global Research Centre at the University of Canberra. She is interested in questions of how to build the conditions for justice, conviviality and wellbeing for humans and nonhumans in cities and in other human-altered landscapes. Her 2017 PhD, Ethical Relationships to Soil in the Anthropocene, explored how Australian farmers learn to care for soil biodiversity using tools such as microscopes to identify multitudes of life invisible to the naked eye. She has also worked in air quality, waste regulation, regional development and transport research. She is a mum of a 5 and a 1 year old, and enjoys playing music and gardening.

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Paul Powlesland

Lawyers for Nature
United Kingdom

Paul is a leading Barrister for Nature in the UK. He co-founded Lawyers for Nature, which campaigns for the Rights of Nature and he is the guardian of the River Roding, London’s third biggest river.

MSJ Daniel Ramp

Daniel Ramp

University of Technology Sydney
Australia

Daniel Ramp is the Founder and Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he is an Associate Professor in the Transdisciplinary School. He leads the development of research, teaching, and public outreach in the centre, where the goal is to stimulate innovation, novel research, and conservation practices that promote the flourishing of the more-than-human world. Dan conducts scientific research on human-wildlife cohabitation, wildlife trade, conservation practice, and wild animal welfare, while also collaborating widely across disciplines. He has led multiple ARC and CRC projects, working with government and industry to engage in evidenced-based policy transformation that promote multispecies coexistence and sustainability, particularly in production landscapes. He has published over 170 journal articles and book chapters.

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Christopher Raymond

University of Helsinki
Finland

Professor Raymond is the Director of the “Enabling multispecies transitions of cities and regions (MUST)” Strategic Research Council project and Director of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Finland. He has expertise in inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches to environmental valuation, environmental and multispecies justice, knowledge co-creation, nature-based solutions co-benefit and cost assessment and sustainability transformation.

MSJ Susan Reid

Susan Reid

UBC and DeepCurrentsCollective
Australia / Canada

Dr Susan Reid explores multibeing ontologies with a focus on human-ocean relationships, multibeing justice, and extractivism. She is a cultural theorist, environmental philosopher, artist, and lawyer whose transdisciplinary work engages feminist and queer environmentalisms, contemporary arts, and science and technology studies. Dr Reid is a postdoctoral research fellow with UBC’s Faculty of Critical and Creative Studies. She is a co-founder of the Deep Currents Collective and of the online project Extracting the Ocean, as well as a member of the FEELed Lab, and the University of Sydney’s Critical Minerals Network and Sydney Environment Institute. Published essays include Multibeing Ocean, Ocean Justice: Reckoning with Material Vulnerability, Imagining Justice with the Abyssal Ocean, Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones, Taking Code to Sea. Dr Reid has also coauthored several essays and co-edited the volume Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive.

MSJ Lauren Rickards

Lauren Rickards

La Trobe University
Australia

A Geographer by training, Lauren leads the La Trobe Climate Change Adaptation Lab that is exploring the complexities of climate change risks, impacts and adaptation in society’s foundational sectors, including the environment sector, broadly defined. This work underlines the importance of centring environmental sustainability in climate change adaptation. Lauren has previously worked at the University of Melbourne and RMIT and has degrees from Melbourne and Oxford. She does a large amount of service work, including contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Chairing the Board of the Climate Change Exchange – a not-for-profit set up to foster knowledge exchange on climate change adaptation between academics and practitioners. 

MSJ Krithika Srinivasan

Krithika Srinivasan

University of Edinburgh
India / United Kingdom

Krithika Srinivasan is Professor of Political Ecology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political ecology, post-development politics, and human-animal studies. Her work draws on research in South Asia to rethink globally established concepts and practices about nature-society relations. A key focus of her scholarship is on decolonising and reconfiguring approaches to multispecies justice.

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Makere Stewart-Harawira

University of Alberta
Canada

Professor in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, in Treaty Six territory in Alberta, Canada, Makere is an enrolled member of the Waitaha ki Te Waipounamu iwi in Aotearoa New Zealand, also of Celtic and English heritage. Her work focuses on Indigenous knowledge systems, ethics and values in relation to integrative approaches to ecosystem wellbeing, multispecies justice, planetary stewardship and global governance. Makere leads the I-STEAM Pathways environmental education and research program for Indigenous undergraduate students program at the University of Alberta. Current works in press are ‘Afterword’, in Worlds Beyond Bios: The Matter of Life and the Matter of Death, Sophie Chao, Christine Winter, David Scholsberg (Eds.) (US: Duke University Press), in press, and Inter-Species Justice and the Right to Thrive: biodiversity in crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand, Ethics and Planetary Boundaries, Jeremy Schmidt, Simon Meisch (eds). (UK: Cambridge University Press).

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Mathias Thaler

University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Mathias Thaler is Professor of Political Theory in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interest is in contemporary political theory. Thaler regularly teaches courses on democratic theory, populism, human rights and the morality of war and violence. Thaler is the author of No Other Planet (Cambridge University Press 2022), Naming Violence (Columbia University Press 2018), Moralische Politik oder politische Moral? (Campus 2008), and co-editor (with Mihaela Mihai) of Political Violence and the Imagination (Routledge 2020) and of On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (Palgrave 2014). His papers have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Environmental Politics, European Journal of Political Theory, Perspectives on Politics, Political Studies, Political Theory, and Review of Politics, amongst others. His recent research has been funded through a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant from the European Commission (2013–2017), through a Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2020–2021) and through an AHRC Networking Grant (2023–2026). Over the past 15 years, Thaler has held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, the Université de Montréal, KU Leuven, the University of Sydney, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.

MSJ Petre Tschaker

Petra Tschakert

National University of Singapore
Singapore

Petra Tschakert, Professor of Geography at NUS, is trained as a human-environment geographer and applied anthropologist. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation and everyday limits, structural and intersectional inequalities, and loss, grief, and hope, drawing on scholarship grounded in political ecology, feminist methodologies, and social, climate, and energy justice. Some of her recent scholarly interests entail urban thermopolitics, heated urban bodies, counter-hegemonic heat mapping, energy humanities and energy precarity, environmental humanities, multispecies justice, and resilience governmentality.

MSJ Blanche Verlie

Blanche Verlie

University of Sydney
Australia

Blanche Verlie is a feminist cultural geographer and environmental humanities scholar whose work focuses on climate change. Her research investigates how people understand, experience, and respond to climate change, and how we might do this differently and better. Verlie draws on feminist, anti-colonial and more-than-human philosophy to consider the complex, diverse and intimate ways that climate changes manifests in contemporary life, and how this analysis could contribute to more just and ecological modes of living with the world. Verlie’s work focuses specifically on the ways climate change is felt, lived and imagined, and how this informs and inspires bottom-up approaches to climate justice activism. This work spans climate change education, communication and activism, environmental politics, cultural geography, and environmental humanities. Her book Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation is available as a free e-book. At the University of Sydney, She is a Sydney Horizon Fellow in Gender and Cultural Studies.

MSJ Elmo Vermijs

Elmo Vermijs

Studio Elmo Vermijs
The Netherlands

Elmo Vermijs investigates how art, architecture, and land intersect. His practice delves into the intricate relationships between space, materiality, and regenerative processes, offering fresh perspectives on contemporary challenges. Through research that considers the dynamic interactions between human and non-human actors, Western societal structures, and local ecologies, his work is situated within broader historical, political, and environmental contexts. Working closely with local (non-)human communities and stakeholders, Vermijs weaves material research together with environmental insights as part of his creative process. His projects are often accompanied by publications, workshops, and conversations, inviting visitors to physically engage with the installations and their materials. These embodied encounters encourage reflection on a range of social issues and invite viewers to reconsider their relationship with both themselves and the environment.

MSJ Dinesh Wadiwel

Dinesh Wadiwel

University of Sydney
Australia

Dinesh Wadiwel is Associate Professor in socio-legal studies and human rights in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. His research interests include theories of violence, critical animal studies, and disability rights. He is the author of The War against Animals (Brill, 2015), Animals and Capital (Edinburgh UP 2023) and co-editor (with Matthew Chrulew) of Foucault and Animals (Brill, 2016).

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Scott Webster

Sydney Environment Institute
Australia

Scott Webster is a postdoctoral researcher based at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney. His research spans cultural studies, anthropology, memory studies, postcolonial theory, and environmental humanities. Scott is investigating how bushfire recovery is differently experienced, understood and practiced among multispecies communities in New South Wales, Australia. This research is for the ERC-funded (ID: 101043231) ABIDE project in partnership with researchers at the University of Lisbon. Other recent work explores community-led actions in climate-induced disasters and how universities can best work with host communities to build local climate adaptation. Scott’s research is centrally concerned with connection to place: understanding the knowledges and ways of being that emerge from close familiarity with place and (more-than-human) community; the loss experienced when that connection is severed through human action and climate disaster; and, the transformative possibilities of recognising multiple and multispecies belonging. Additionally, Scott’s work explores how mnemonic, multispecies, and climate injustice are often co-constitutive and entangled.

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Christine Winter

Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago
New Zealand

Christine Winter (Ngāti Kahungunu, Pākehā) is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Otago and Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute. A political theorist, Christine’s research engages with decolonial framings for multispecies, environmental, climate and planetary justice. At the heart of her work is an examination of the incompatibilities between western and Māori philosophies and ways in which theories of justice continue the colonial project, as demonstrated in The Subjects of Intergenerational Justice: Indigenous philosophy, the environment, and relationships (2022). In decolonizing justice theory so she has two aims: to identify what is required if justice theory is to be just for Māori; and to expand the boundaries of theories of justice to protect the environment for future generations of Māori, settler compatriots and the multispecies community. See also Institutionalizing Multispecies Justice a collaboratively co-authored Cambridge Element.

MSJ Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Case Western Reserve University
USA / RLOMN (Rightful Land of Many Nations)

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer works as Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.  His work investigates and explores how anti-narcissistic formations can be developed in the midst of deeply narcissistic societies and social forms.

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Hans Asenbaum

University of Canberra
Australia

Hans Asenbaum is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy at the University of Canberra. His research interests include radical democracy, queer and gender studies, new materialism, digital politics, and participatory research methods. In 2022 he received the ECPR Rising Star Award. Hans is the author of The Politics of Becoming: Anonymity and Democracy in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2023) and co-editor of Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) as well as co-editor of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, New Media & Society, Politics & Gender, and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

MSJ Brontie Ansell

Brontie Ansell

Lawyers for Nature
united kingdom

Brontie is the Managing Director and co-founder of Lawyers for Nature. Her work is grounded in the philosophy and practice of Rights of Nature and is centrally concerned with advancing multispecies justice through law and governance. She works to create legal and institutional structures that enable Nature and Earth others to be meaningfully represented within human decision-making spaces, including corporate, regulatory, and public law contexts.  Brontie was a lead legal architect of the 2022 Faith in Nature: Nature on the Board intervention and subsequently became the first person to sit as the legal guardian for Nature on a corporate board, a role she held for two years. She now sits on a number of corporate and non-profit boards both as a non-executive legal expert and explicitly as ‘Nature’.  She was named one of Vogue Business’ 100 Innovators of 2024 for her work as a sustainability thought leader.