About the guest
Louisa Parks is currently Full Professor in Political Sociology at the University of Trento’s School of International Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Research. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute.
Her research has focused on the impacts of social movements on European Union legislation, framing in the environmental (justice) movement, global civil society, local community activism and the inclusion of local communities and indigenous peoples in global environmental governance with a focus on the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Her work includes the books Social Movement Campaigns on European Policy: in the corridors and in the streets, published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, and Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance: local experiences of a global concept, published in 2020 by Routledge in open access and shortlisted for the Hart-SLSA prize.
