Dr Miriam Meissner (M.M.)

Miriam is an assistant professor of culture and political ecology. Bridging the social sciences and humanities, her work investigates popular cultural responses to capitalist accumulation and the crises that arise from this dynamic. Through analyses of film, literature, and lifestyle movements, Miriam examines how mass culture politicizes the status quo and explores cultural strategies to support contemporary movements for social and environmental justice. Her current research focuses on postgrowth and cultural politics.

Miriam is the author of Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth (2017, Palgrave) and co-editor of Global Garbage: Urban Imaginaries of Waste, Excess, and Abandonment (2016, Routledge) and The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries (2018). Her work on cultural strategies for postgrowth has been published in the Journal of Cultural Economy, the Journal of Political Ecology, and several edited volumes.

In addition to her academic pursuits, Miriam is a member of the Dutch degrowth network Ontgroei, a participant in the Postgrowth Cities Coalition, and co-organizer of the 2021 International Degrowth Conference. She frequently contributes to media debates on social justice and the climate crisis, with her insights appearing in the Dutch national newspaper Trouw, the German newspaper Der Freitag, and the international platform The Broker.

For an overview of Miriam’s PUBLICATIONS, please see: here: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/persons/miriam-meissner/publications/