Luca Scheunpflug

Luca Scheunpflug is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organisation (ISCO) and a member of the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC). He has interdisciplinary and international research experience in Germany, Spain, and Latin America and his work focuses on infrastructures and urban nature from the perspectives of urban political ecology, environmental justice, and science and technology studies.

His current research examines the spatiotemporal dynamics of water and urban society in times of climate change, where he is particularly interested in power-laden political ontologies and more-than-human relations around digital infrastructures and technologies. This builds on his previous work on the remunicipalisation of essential services, the mobilization of social movements, and conflicts over water.

Outside of academia, he engages in political education in urban contexts, addressing issues of urban development, postcolonial continuities and global entanglements in the city, as well as questions of justice in adapting to climate change.