About

Dr. Maryse Helbert is Lecturer in the INternational Relations and International Organisations department at Groningen university. and in Political Science at the University of Leiden, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs in the Netherlands. Prior to that she held two post-doctoral positions: A Writing Fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany; and a LEaDing Fellowship at the International Institute for Social Studies in the University of Erasmus Rotterdam, the Netherlands. For the latter she completed research on gender, lithium extraction and the just transition, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Maryse completed her Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she also taught International Relations and Political Science for over a decade. Maryse’s main research is on socio-ecological transformations for a just and sustainable transition with a particular focus on gender, energy and the environment. Recent publications include ‘The Challenges of the Energy Transition: Gender and Nature in a Just Transition’, chapter in the edited book Engendering the Energy Transition: Policy and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan; and ‘Transitions in the Niger Delta: Oil. Poverty and Environmental Degradation’, article in the online journal, Rachel Carson Center Perspectives. In 2022, the Book: Women, Gender and Oil Exploitation was published by Palgrave Pivot. In this book, she associates two conceptual frameworks – the Imperial Mode of Living and Intersectional Ecofeminism – to analyse the unequal distribution of risks and benefits of the oil project between men and women. Three illustrative cases supported the thesis: Niger Delta in Nigeria, Venezuela and the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline.

Research Interests

Democracy, Development, Environmental Policy, Ethnic Conflict, Gender, Globalisation, Governance, Green Politics, International Relations, Latin America, Political Economy, Political Participation, Social Justice, Developing World Politics, Critical Theory, Feminism, IMF, Marxism, Neo-Marxism, World Bank, Ethics, Normative Theory, Energy, Energy Policy, Transitional justice

Current/Upcoming Events

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Gender and Politics
• Environmental Politics
• International Relations
• Energy Politics, Policy, and Governance
• Political Theory
• Political Economy and Welfare State Politics
• Food Policy and Governance
• International Political Theory
• Local Government and Politics
• Democratic Innovations