24/08/2026
Alejandro Esguerra joined ReCentGlobe as a Senior Fellow in late 2025. As a political scientist who combines Science and Technology Studies with sociological approaches, he examines the dynamics of knowledge politics in environmental issues across scales.
💡 He is particularly interested in how claims to knowledge – whether based on scientific evidence, lived experience or different cosmologies – come to be regarded as authoritative, whose knowledge is deemed relevant, and which visions of the future guide processes of transformation.
📖 Last autumn, his monograph "The Politics of Beginning" was published by the University of Michigan Press; it demonstrates how political authority is shaped in its early stages – and which alternative visions remain unfulfilled in the process.
➡ After seven years at Bielefeld University, he was drawn to Leipzig by its dense network of relevant research institutes. We spoke to Alejandro Esguerra as part of our “Hub ● Encounters” series, in which we meet new and established members and guests of ReCentGlobe and discuss their research, perspectives and academic careers.
Read the interview here: https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details-2/artikel/vom-weltklimarat-zum-plastikabkommen-wie-erhaelt-expertise-ihre-autoritaet-2026-06-29