PD Dr. Basil Bornemann
Lehrbeauftragter
Lehrbeauftragter
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Rheinsprung 21
4051
Basel
Schweiz
Curriculum Vitae
Basil Bornemann is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel, and at the Center for Religion, Economy and Politics, University of Zürich, Switzerland. A critically engaged social scientist, he explores the interplay between sustainability and democracy in contemporary societies, with a particular interest in how democratic governance is challenged by, and can effectively and legitimately, address social-ecological crises. At the Social Transitions Research group, he is currently coordinating the SNSF-funded project “Food coalitions beyond the local scale: spaces for a democratic sustainability transformation.” In addition, he currently works on the role of the state in sustainability governance, sustainability transformations in urban food systems, and the structure and dynamics of transformation conflicts. Basil holds an interdisciplinary background in environmental sciences, a doctoral degree in political science, and a venia legendi in political science and sustainability research. He serves as co-speaker of the Standing Group on Environmental Policy and Global Change of the German Political Science Association (GPSA) and as co-president of the Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (saguf).