Yasmin Koop-Monteiro is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of British Columbia (with an MA in Sociology from the University of Toronto). Her main research foci include environmental sociology, social movements, and social network analysis.
Yasmin is particularly interested in human–nature interactions:
On one level, she is interested in how social, political, and economic institutions impact (and are affected by) the climate change and biodiversity loss crises, and how social movements and communities are mobilizing around these issues to promote climate change adaptation/mitigation and environmental justice (via advocacy, lobbying, and local programs like community gardening initiatives).
On another level, Yasmin is interested in how humans relate more socially to nature and animals (including friendship and kinship relations), and how these types of relationships are being mobilized to address climate change and biodiversity loss within the environmental, animal rights, and rights of nature movements.
Her published works include an analysis of community gardens and crime in the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, a review of innovations developed to include animals within sociological research in Current Sociology, a co-authored review of recent developments within social network analysis in the Canadian Review of Sociology, a co-authored book chapter on scientific software for social network analysis in the Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis (2nd ed.), and a co-authored mixed methods analysis of climate-related Instagram posts in Environmental Sociology.