Dr. Anoosh Soltani is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), affiliated with the Department of Business and Management and the SDU Climate Cluster’s PACA Centre. Her research explores nature-based foodscapes, community-oriented farming, collective governance and relational well-being in ecovillages from a post-anthropocentric perspective.
Her work contributes to debates on sustainability transitions by showing how everyday practices of food production, care and grassroots environmental governance can enable socially just and ecologically regenerative ways of living. Integrating gender and intersectional perspectives into socio-ecological transformation, she examines how inclusion, power and responsibility are negotiated within community-based climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives.
At SDU, her Marie Skłodowska-Curie-funded project, ESCARPÉ, investigates how ecovillages cultivate alternative food systems grounded in collective care, shared responsibility and ethical relations with more-than-human worlds. Through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, she explores how well-being, meanings of the “good life” and ecological belonging are collectively shaped, generating insights relevant for policy, community governance and sustainability practice.
At UNU-EHS, she contributes to a collaborative research initiative on beyond-GDP well-being in Danish and German ecovillages, focusing on joint publications, grant development and stakeholder-oriented knowledge exchange.