Institute of Sociology CAS
Dr. Petr Jehlička is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, focusing on informal economies, everyday sustainability, resilience, alternative food networks and environmental politics. He received his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1998, with a dissertation on environmental politics in Western and Eastern Europe.
Dr. Jehlička has taught environmental geography at the Open University in the UK and has been a visiting scholar at the European University Institute in Florence and the Ruralia Institute in Finland. His research emphasises the importance of informal food production and distribution in promoting social resilience and sustainability.
University of Bologna
Dr. Roberta Sassatelli is Professor of Sociology at the Department of History and Cultures of the University of Bologna, specialising in consumer culture, cultural theory, gender studies and the sociology of the body. She received her PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence in 1996.
Prior to her current position, Dr. Sassatelli held academic positions at the University of Milan and the University of East Anglia in the UK. She is a founding member of the journal “Studi Culturali” and is currently co-editor of the “European Journal of Sociology”. Her recent publications include “Italians and Food” (2019) and “Body and Gender” (2024).