Linda Williams

Linda Williams is a Professor Emerita of RMIT University, and an affiliate in environmental humanities at MESH (University of Cologne). Her research is focused on cultural histories of the longue durée in human-animal relations and the current issue of mass species extinction, along with philosophies of nature and the history of emotions.

Paul James

Paul James is a researcher in the Institute for Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University. He has been an editor of Arena since 1986, and is author or editor of numerous books including Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (with Manfred Steger, Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Marco Amati

Marco Amati teaches and researches urban planning and the history of cities at RMIT University in Melbourne. He is the author of the book The City and Superorganism (Palgrave 2021) and an advocate for more ecosystemic planning of cities.

Donna Houston

Donna Houston is Professor in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on environmental justice in climate-changing worlds; geographies of extinction, and urban planning in more-than-human cities. She is particularly interested in how cultural methodologies such as storytelling, visual methods and cultural memory can be used to address current social and environmental challenges.

Rosie Ibbotson

James Burgmann-Milner

James Burgmann-Milner is an Australian researcher and writer. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and received his PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Monash University, where he was based at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub. His co-authored monograph Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach (2020) was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award 2020 and Locus Award 2021. Children of Tomorrow, his debut novel, was highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 in the category of unpublished manuscripts, before being published by Upswell in 2023. He currently works as a researcher in Extinction Studies at RMIT and Climate Change Communication at Monash University.

Emma Leyder

Emma is a researcher exploring scientific and cultural perceptions of nature and their influence on conservation practices. Currently a PhD Candidate at RMIT University under the supervision of Linda Williams and Marco Amati, Emma holds a BA in Arts and Culture from Maastricht University and a MA in Environmental Management from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Timothy Erik Ström

Tim Ström is a postdoctoral fellow at Western Sydney University. He is also an editor at the radical publishing cooperative Arena, the author of Globalization and Surveillance and his forthcoming book, Cybernetic Capitalism will be published by Verso. His writings are collected on his website, The Sorcerer’s Apparatus.