Lina Hansen
Curriculum vitae
Lina Hansen (M.A.) (she/her)
Lina Hansen has been a teaching and research fellow in Cluster 3 (Participation & Social Cohesion) at the Centre for Structural Change and Regional Development (ZeStuR) since January 2026. Her dissertation entitled "Un/dependencies of nature/s" is supervised by Hanna Meißner (TU Berlin, Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's* and Gender Studies) and Melanie Jaeger-Erben. Together with Nadine Gerner, she has written an "Introduction to Ecofeminism. Between Theory and Practice" and studied sociology at the University of Bremen and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She completed interdisciplinary Erasmus semesters at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, in the Netherlands and at the TSU Tbilisi, Georgia. Her Master's thesis in the field of "Social Transformation and Sustainability", which was supervised by Prof. Sylka Scholz and Dr Andrea Vetter, is entitled "Feminist Perspectives on Degrowth - A Theoretical Discussion of Connections between Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Nature, Economy, Subjectivisation and Degrowth". She also conducted eco-feminist research in her bachelor's thesis: "Gender relations in garden projects. An analysis based on the case study of the urban garden project "Ab geht die Lucie" in Bremen".
| 2025 | Geiter, M./Gottschlich, D./Hansen, L./Ortloff, L./Vetter, A. (2024): The simultaneity of anthropocentrism and androcentrism in the context of the technology-fixated treatment of the socio-ecological crisis - effects and alternatives in the field of research funding. Expertise for the Federal Government's Fourth Gender Equality Report, Berlin: Bundesstiftung Gleichstellung. (Link) |
| 2024 | Hansen, Lina & Gerner, Nadine. Ecofeminism. Between theory and practice (2024). Münster: Unrast Verlag.(Link) |
| 2023 | Zechner, M./ Rübner-Hansen, B./ Mendoza Sandoval, L./ Gorenflos, S./ Hansen, L./ Borràs Escayola, M./ Calcagni, M., Common Ecologies (2023). Transforming Agriculture & Beyond. Infrastructures, tools and tactics for agroecological struggles and their allies, Common Ecologies,(Link) |
| 2023 | Lorek, S., Power, K., and Parker, N. (2023). Economies that Dare to Care - Achieving social justice and preventing ecological breakdown by putting care at the heart of our societies. Hot or Cool Institute, Berlin.(Link). (Expertise) |
| 2023 | FaDA Writing Collective, Corinna Dengler, Nadine Gerner, Taís Sonetti-González, Lina Hansen, Sourayan Mookerjea, Susan Paulson, and Anna Saave, Why are feminist perspectives, analyses and actions vital to degrowth? FaDA, Degrowth Journal 1, (2023).(Link). |
| 2022 | The future is post-growth, but is it feminist? Review of "The Future is Degrowth - a guide to a world beyond capitalism", Kontrapunkte with Nadine Gerner(Link). |
| 2022 | Feminist levers for socio-ecological transformation - from growth-critical androcentric economics to feminist social criticism In: Knobloch, U./Kleinert, A.C.: Caring Societies: New dependencies or more justice? Juventus Beltz Verlag.(Link). |
| 2021 | Pluralising Degrowth: Overcoming boundaries! Postwachstumsblog with Dominique Just(Link). |
| 2020 | Collaborative Feminist Degrowth: Pandemic as an Opening for a Care-Full Radical Transformation, Saave, A./Muraca, B./Dengler, C. et al., degrowth.info (Link). |
Conference contributions, lectures and workshops:
21/3/2025 "Which social analyses lead to which struggles for future designs?", opening panel discussion with Johanna Leinius and Inga Nüthen Critical political education in the struggle for the future, Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar
4/10/2024 "From neoliberal Trade and Investment agreements towards a cooperative international framework that enhances a caring Economy" with Alexandra Stricker & Fernando Hernandez Espino, European Summer School "Feminist Economy and Social Justice", RLS Brussel
Since 3/2024 Various workshops, readings on the book "Ecofeminism. Between Theory and Practice"
Since 2/2024 Various workshops and film discussions on "Queer Gardening" and "Glitter on Compost"
4/8/2023 "Connecting struggles: winning together instead of failing alone: alliances for a just, fair and ecological society", panel discussion with Alex Demirovic, Dejan Mihajlović, Francis Seeck and Nava Zarabian & workshop: Composting growth compulsion - Let's map ecofeminism, Katholische Zukunftsakademie Freiburg
2/6/2023 "Emancipatory relational work for the socio-ecological transformation - from growth-critical androcentric economics to feminist social criticism", lecture series "Wege aus der Wachstumsfalle", Institute of Geography and Earth System Sciences, University of Hamburg
08/10/2022 "Ökologisches Sorgen, Gut ver_sorgt?", workshop, conference "Allianzen im Care und Ernährungsbereich", Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie e.V.
10/9/2022 "Let's map ecofeminism: (un)learning, weaving, building alliances", workshop together with Nadine Gerner at the (De)GrowthConference on Degrowth and socio-ecological transformation, Brno
5&6/2022 "Let's map ecofeminism: from seeds to antimilitarism to degrowth", workshop FemFestFlensburg and Long Night of Education Münster together with Nadine Gerner (May and June 2022)
11/202 "Feministische Stellschrauben für die sozial-ökologische Transformation, Nachwuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie" Conference contribution commented by Katharina Hoppe, conference "Sozial-ökologische Transformation im Kapitalozän: Herausforderungen und Widersprüche", Nachwuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie, University of Flensburg
09/2021 "Feminist logics for a socio-ecological transformation
Caring Societies: New dependencies or more justice, lecture in the strand "Caring Economy - Sorgende Ökonomie" organised by Corinna Dengler, University of Vechta
06/2021 "Feminist economics - potential for a socio-ecological transformation", lecture series with Dr Anna Saave, Political Science, University of Erfurt
10/2020 Lecture "Ecofeminisms", KlimaWerkstadt Bremen
07/2020 Workshop: "Ecofeminisms", Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie
Key research areas and interests:
- Eco-feminist social theory and critique
- Socialisation of nature/en
- Social de/colonial understandings of nature/en and gender
- Critique of dualism
- Urban/rural
- Subsistence economy
- Property,
- onto-epistemo-logy
- Social psychology
"Von Ökofeminismus bis Queer Ecologies: Feministische Perspektiven und Debatten um Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse", FU Berlin, proseminar with Nadine Gerner, WiSe25/26, B.A.
"Die Tür zum Garten öffnen: Ecofeminist interventions", Koblenz University for Social Design, seminar with Nadine Gerner, B.A., WiSe 25/26
"Economy, sustainability, (re)production", Koblenz School of Social Design, B.A. seminar, summer semester 25
"Feminist perspectives on environmental sociology", Goethe University Frankfurt, M.A.,
Block seminar with Nadine Gerner, winter semester 24/25
"Sociology", "Social Policy", "Social Inequality and Diversity", "Social Change and Social Innovation", "Qualitative and Quantitative Methods", Introduction to Scientific Work", "Introduction to Social Work", Academic Lecturer, IU University, 06/2024-12/2025
"Wider dem Wirtschaftswachstum: Einführung und kritische Perspektiven auf Nachhaltigkeit und Postwachstum", University of Münster, B.A., block seminar with Nadine Gerner, WiSe24/25
"Ökofeminismus gestern, heute und morgen: Eine Einführung", University of Münster, B.A., with Nadine Gerner, summer semester 24
"Plurale Perspektiven auf Degrowth",Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung, M.A., summer semester 24, block seminar
"Einführung in Feministische Politische Theorien", University of Münster, B.A., reading course with Nadine, winter semester 2023/24, block seminar