Carla Noever Castelos

• Since 2023: Research assistant and doctorate at the Department of International Relations with a focus on Latin America at the University of Kassel
• 2021-2023: PhD scholarship holder in the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung's research training group "Crisis and socio-ecological transformation", PhD topic: "Green extractivism and transformation - protests against lithium mining in the European periphery"
• 2015-2018: Student assistant in the junior research group "GLOCON: Global Change - Local Conflicts? Land conflicts in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of interdependent transformation processes" (FU Berlin)
• Since 2017: Member of the research and education collective I.L.A.-Kollektiv
• 2013-2018: Master's degree in International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin and University of Potsdam
• 2009-2013: Bachelor's degree in Political Science and German Studies at the University of Münster and Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence

• Socio-ecological crisis, global inequalities and transformation
• Land, energy and raw material conflicts from a transnational perspective
• Political ecology
• Feminist political economy and care
• Social movement and protest research
• Transformation in rural areas

• Southern Europe/Spain

2025:

• Noever Castelos, Carla (2025): How does the new enter the world? On the prefiguration of a post-extractivist future. In: PROKLA, 219, 255-273, https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v55i219.2185

2023:

• Noever Castelos, Carla (2023): Mining out of the crisis? The role of the state in the expansion of the lithium frontier in Extremadura, Spain. In: The Extractive Industries and Society, 15, 101329, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101329
• Noever Castelos, Carla (2023): At the expense of others. Overcoming externalization for a good life for all, In: über:morgen, 6.

2022:

• I.L.A. Collective (2022): Turning the world upside down. Strategies for radical transformation. A handbook for people in social movements, Munich: Oekom. https://www.oekom.de/buch/die-welt-auf-den-kopf-stellen-9783962384050
• Noever Castelos, Carla (2022): Turning the wheel at last. In: Candeias, M. / Krull, S. (eds.): Spurwechsel. Studies on mobility industries, employment potentials and alternative production, Hamburg: VSA, 367-371. https://www.vsa-verlag.de/nc/buecher/detail/artikel/spurwechsel/

2019:

• Noever Castelos, Carla (2019): Imperiale Lebensweise, in: Brunner, J. et al. (eds.): Wörterbuch Land- und Rohstoffkonflikte, Bielefeld: transcript, 141-146. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4433-3/woerterbuch-land-und-rohstoffkonflikte/
• Noever Castelos, Carla (2019): Vertragslandwirtschaft, in: Brunner, J. et al. (eds.): Wörterbuch Land- und Rohstoffkonflikte, Bielefeld: transcript, 303-309. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4433-3/woerterbuch-land-und-rohstoffkonflikte/

2018:

• Noever Castelos, Carla (2018): Worry and let worry. Imperiale Lebensweise - Ein Dienstleistungsprekariat leistet die Care-Arbeit für die Privilegierten (with Anne Siemons). In: analyse&kritik, 634, 16.

2017:

• I.L.A. Collective (2017): At the expense of others? How the imperial way of life prevents a good life for all, Munich: Oekom. https://www.oekom.de/buch/auf-kosten-anderer-9783960060253
• Noever Castelos, Carla (2017): Green economy: strategies, contradictions and blind spots of 'green economic' crisis management (with Kristina Dietz). In: Peters, S. / Burchardt, H.J. (eds.): Environment and development in a global perspective. Ressourcen-Konflikte-Degrowth, Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 181-204. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/politikwissenschaft/umwelt_und_entwicklung_in_globaler_perspektive-10853.html
• Noever Castelos, Carla (2017): Communities brace themselves against the 'mining locomotive' (with Kristina Dietz). In: Standpunkte, No. 13, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/38031/gemeinden-stemmen-sich-gegen-die-bergbau-lokomotive

BA seminar: Understanding and encountering right-wing ecologies  (Wed, 12-14 from 22.10.2025, weekly)

Please register in advance by email (at least 1 week in advance) to carla.noever[at]uni-kassel[dot]de, stating the topic to be discussed.

Further dates [zoom] n.V.