A research lab at ICTA-UAB
Senior Researcher and Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Panagiota is a ‘Juan de la Cierva-incorporacio’ postdoctoral fellow, and was the co-PI at ICTA-UAB of the H2020 WEGO-ITN (www.wegoitn.org). She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn. She has been a Marie-Curie fellow in the ENTITLE-ITN network and a founding member of the Undisciplined Environments collective.
Panagiota has led research projects on the socio-economic determinants of climate-related health impacts (vector-borne disease) and on the drivers of heat-related health vulnerability for migrant communities in European cities. Her research spans from the politics of water and sanitation development, the bio/necro-politics of public health, the neoliberalisation of urban nature, and questions of urban climate and health justice, particulalry in relation to immigration and racialized groups. As a political ecologist she is interested in how the notions of ‘nature’ and ‘risk’ are socially constructed and socially driven. She is the co-cordinator of the “Feminist and Urban Political Ecology” research line at BCNUEJ. (Languages: Eng, Cat, Spa, Greek).
Selected Publications
- Kotsila, Panagiota. 2024. “Immigrant Communities in Europe as Situated Knowledge-Holders for Postcolonial and Feminist Urban Adaptation to Climate Health Risks.” In Urban Climate Movements and the Struggles over Adaptation, Loss and Damage, edited by M. Armiero, S.P. De Rosa, and E. Turhan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Kotsila, Panagiota, and Isabelle Anguelovski. “Justice should be at the centre of assessments of climate change impacts on health.” The Lancet Public Health 8.1 (2023): e11-e12.
- Apostolopoulou, Elia, and Panagiota Kotsila. “Community gardening in Hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism: spatial autogestion and the right to the city in post-crisis Athens, Greece.” Urban Geography 43.2 (2022): 293-319.
- Kotsila, Panagiota, et al. “Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes.” Environment and planning E: Nature and space 4.2 (2021): 252-274.
- Kotsila, Panagiota, et al. “Clashing temporalities of care and support as key determinants of transformatory and justice potentials in urban gardens.” Cities 106 (2020): 102865.
- Kotsila, Panagiota, and Giorgos Kallis. “Biopolitics of public health and immigration in times of crisis: The malaria epidemic in Greece (2009–2014).” Geoforum 106 (2019): 223-233.
Media Mentions
- Raval Resiliente project in El Periodico “Acorraladas por el calor en el Raval”
- El Pais (῾Olas de calor urbanas y salud: aprendiendo de la población inmigrante de El Raval en Barcelona῾)