Lotte Knote

Lotte Knote is a PhD candidate and Researcher affiliated with the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin, within the Department of Political and Social Sciences. She is supervised by Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse and associated with the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO). Her doctoral research focuses on A feminist political ecology of seaweed farming: gendered livelihood strategies in aquaculture in the Western Indian Ocean, examining intersections of gender, environment, and economic practices in coastal communities.

From January 2020 to June 2024, she served as a Research Associate on this project, exploring themes such as marine resource management, socioecological justice, and feminist critiques of development frameworks. Her work bridges social sciences and environmental studies, emphasizing participatory methodologies and decolonial perspectives.

No academic awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. Her research contributes to debates in political ecology, gender studies, and global South development contexts. She collaborates with institutions like the ZMO, though specific labs or teams are not detailed here.