Monica Pons Hernandez
@monicapons.bsky.social
Ph.D. • MSCA SEAS Postdoctoral Research Fellow UiB • IUU Fishing and Wildlife Trafficking • Green Criminology, Crimes of the Powerful, Qualitative Methods
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📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
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Details on the position with Spanish are here www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
Postdoc GreenFrontier - Politics of Conservation and Unequal Ecological Exchange in European Peripheries' - the case of Spain
www.wur.nl
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Details on the position with Spanish are here www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
Reposted by Monica Pons Hernandez
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
📣Publication alert!
“Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved”
Available OA here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved”
Available OA here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved - Trends in Organized Crime
The management of plastic waste represents a significant global environmental challenge due to excessive reliance on plastics and the limitations of recycling. The inability of countries and cities to...
link.springer.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
📣Publication alert!
“Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved”
Available OA here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved”
Available OA here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I am thilled I got to contribute to this story! A must read by @alexandratalty.bsky.social !!
Inside the illegal eel trade: is there a way to stop Europe’s biggest wildlife crime before it’s too late?
Inside the illegal eel trade: is there a way to stop Europe’s biggest wildlife crime before it’s too late?
Interviews with experts and key players across four countries reveal why efforts to stop the multibillion-euro trafficking industry have failed – and how to save the endangered fish
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I am thilled I got to contribute to this story! A must read by @alexandratalty.bsky.social !!
🍂 Just like autumn, the new issue of the GREEN Working Group newsletter has arrived! 🍁
This edition is packed with updates and insights!
Whether you're deep into #greencriminology or just curious about the latest developments, this issue has something for you.
🔗 www.uu.nl/en/research/...
This edition is packed with updates and insights!
Whether you're deep into #greencriminology or just curious about the latest developments, this issue has something for you.
🔗 www.uu.nl/en/research/...
September 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
🍂 Just like autumn, the new issue of the GREEN Working Group newsletter has arrived! 🍁
This edition is packed with updates and insights!
Whether you're deep into #greencriminology or just curious about the latest developments, this issue has something for you.
🔗 www.uu.nl/en/research/...
This edition is packed with updates and insights!
Whether you're deep into #greencriminology or just curious about the latest developments, this issue has something for you.
🔗 www.uu.nl/en/research/...
Happy to share that a chapter I wrote with Avi Brisman is out! Here we challenge the conventional North-South narrative in wildlife trafficking research by employing the idea of “internal Souths” within affluent countries.
Read the full chapter here: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Read the full chapter here: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
“Internal Souths” in the Global North
Much of the research on wildlife trafficking often centres on countries in the Global South, which are frequently rich in biodiversity. Such research frames these countries as the primary sources of t...
link.springer.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy to share that a chapter I wrote with Avi Brisman is out! Here we challenge the conventional North-South narrative in wildlife trafficking research by employing the idea of “internal Souths” within affluent countries.
Read the full chapter here: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Read the full chapter here: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Reposted by Monica Pons Hernandez
Reposted by Monica Pons Hernandez
Working on a report on aquaculture, focused on salmon farming.
Study frames this, rightly, as "food crime", which reveals "how practices that are presented as ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ can entail systemic environmental & social injustices"
@theferret.scot
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Study frames this, rightly, as "food crime", which reveals "how practices that are presented as ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ can entail systemic environmental & social injustices"
@theferret.scot
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...
link.springer.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Working on a report on aquaculture, focused on salmon farming.
Study frames this, rightly, as "food crime", which reveals "how practices that are presented as ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ can entail systemic environmental & social injustices"
@theferret.scot
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Study frames this, rightly, as "food crime", which reveals "how practices that are presented as ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ can entail systemic environmental & social injustices"
@theferret.scot
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Really important article examining #harms from @monicapons.bsky.social & @guillemrubio.bsky.social comparing #AtlanticSalmon & #EuropeanEel in #Aquaculture. The narrative of ecological sustainability & reduced pressure on ‘wild’ fish needs a fundamental rethink #PoliticalEcology #GreenCriminology ⬇️
"The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology" is out!
I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...
link.springer.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Really important article examining #harms from @monicapons.bsky.social & @guillemrubio.bsky.social comparing #AtlanticSalmon & #EuropeanEel in #Aquaculture. The narrative of ecological sustainability & reduced pressure on ‘wild’ fish needs a fundamental rethink #PoliticalEcology #GreenCriminology ⬇️
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Love the abstract of this paper. Congratulations, Monica!
"The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology" is out!
I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...
link.springer.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Love the abstract of this paper. Congratulations, Monica!
"The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology" is out!
I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...
link.springer.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology" is out!
I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business
Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...
beastlybusiness.org
July 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
Join us in Athens for this year’s GREEN Working Group Pre-ESC event "Environmental crime, policing & social control"🌎
July 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Join us in Athens for this year’s GREEN Working Group Pre-ESC event "Environmental crime, policing & social control"🌎
Reposted by Monica Pons Hernandez
Excellent piece on #GlassEel trade in @mongabay.com - and as ever @monicapons.bsky.social is absolutely spot on. Eel consumption always relies on wild caught fish, & the valuable trade attracts criminal networks #IWT #WildlifeTrade #EuropeanEel #EnvironmentalCrime
I recently contributed to a Mongabay article on the illegal glass eel trade—a critical issue for environmental crime research.
Thank you, Keith Anthony Fabro, for giving me the chance to share insights on this topic and engaging with my work.
📖 Read it here:
news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glas...
Thank you, Keith Anthony Fabro, for giving me the chance to share insights on this topic and engaging with my work.
📖 Read it here:
news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glas...
Glass eel smuggling booms despite bans, leaving species on the brink
Tiny, translucent and no longer than a finger, juvenile European eels, also known as glass eels, might not look like much. But demand for these slippery creatures, particularly in East Asia, has made ...
news.mongabay.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Excellent piece on #GlassEel trade in @mongabay.com - and as ever @monicapons.bsky.social is absolutely spot on. Eel consumption always relies on wild caught fish, & the valuable trade attracts criminal networks #IWT #WildlifeTrade #EuropeanEel #EnvironmentalCrime
I recently contributed to a Mongabay article on the illegal glass eel trade—a critical issue for environmental crime research.
Thank you, Keith Anthony Fabro, for giving me the chance to share insights on this topic and engaging with my work.
📖 Read it here:
news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glas...
Thank you, Keith Anthony Fabro, for giving me the chance to share insights on this topic and engaging with my work.
📖 Read it here:
news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glas...
Glass eel smuggling booms despite bans, leaving species on the brink
Tiny, translucent and no longer than a finger, juvenile European eels, also known as glass eels, might not look like much. But demand for these slippery creatures, particularly in East Asia, has made ...
news.mongabay.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I recently contributed to a Mongabay article on the illegal glass eel trade—a critical issue for environmental crime research.
Thank you, Keith Anthony Fabro, for giving me the chance to share insights on this topic and engaging with my work.
📖 Read it here:
news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glas...
Thank you, Keith Anthony Fabro, for giving me the chance to share insights on this topic and engaging with my work.
📖 Read it here:
news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glas...
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I've just watched Attenborough's Oceans film. It's excellent. But my overwhelming feeling is "at last!" I've been waiting, and fruitlessly lobbying, for a film like this for 40 years. But the institutional cowardice of the broadcasters has stymied such projects, until now.
June 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I've just watched Attenborough's Oceans film. It's excellent. But my overwhelming feeling is "at last!" I've been waiting, and fruitlessly lobbying, for a film like this for 40 years. But the institutional cowardice of the broadcasters has stymied such projects, until now.
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My first paper from my PhD is out! In it, I argue that viewing pigs as both resources (that feed) and as more-than-resources (to be fed) is crucial for understanding how nonhuman animals make nations and how, in turn, nations make nonhuman animals.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Animals that feed nations and nations that feed animals: industrially farmed pigs as nation-building resources in Catalonia
This paper examines industrially farmed pigs in Catalonia, a stateless nation within Spain and a major pig meat producer, to expand existing understan…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My first paper from my PhD is out! In it, I argue that viewing pigs as both resources (that feed) and as more-than-resources (to be fed) is crucial for understanding how nonhuman animals make nations and how, in turn, nations make nonhuman animals.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon
Open-net farms to continue despite numbers of wild fish halving as minister looks for ‘acceptable’ pollution levels
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Marc Balcells, criminólogo: “Los ladrones de tumbas trabajan y por la noche van a excavar” www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025030...
Marc Balcells, criminólogo: “Los ladrones de tumbas trabajan y por la noche van a excavar”
Jan Téllez Asensio Barcelona, 9 mar (EFE).- Tras una investigación sobre el tráfico de bienes arqueológicos italianos, el criminólogo Marc Balcells narra en un libro quié...
www.lavanguardia.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Marc Balcells, criminólogo: “Los ladrones de tumbas trabajan y por la noche van a excavar” www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025030...
Exciting news! I’ve been awarded the Extraordinary PhD Award by URV for my thesis on “Wildlife trafficking, speciesism & the European eel”. Grateful to my mentors, colleagues & loved ones for the support! Excited to continue researching marine wildlife harm at UiB! 🐋✨
March 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Exciting news! I’ve been awarded the Extraordinary PhD Award by URV for my thesis on “Wildlife trafficking, speciesism & the European eel”. Grateful to my mentors, colleagues & loved ones for the support! Excited to continue researching marine wildlife harm at UiB! 🐋✨
Excited to contribute to The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime, with an entry on IUU Fishing! 🌊
A huge thanks to the editor, Prof. Rob White, for leading this important project. I’m thrilled to be part of this work and to share the space with amazing senior and early-career scholars.
A huge thanks to the editor, Prof. Rob White, for leading this important project. I’m thrilled to be part of this work and to share the space with amazing senior and early-career scholars.
February 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Excited to contribute to The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime, with an entry on IUU Fishing! 🌊
A huge thanks to the editor, Prof. Rob White, for leading this important project. I’m thrilled to be part of this work and to share the space with amazing senior and early-career scholars.
A huge thanks to the editor, Prof. Rob White, for leading this important project. I’m thrilled to be part of this work and to share the space with amazing senior and early-career scholars.
Excited to start my MSCA #SEAS Postdoctoral Fellowship at the @unibergen.bsky.social! Looking forward to new research and collaborations in this inspiring environment!
February 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Excited to start my MSCA #SEAS Postdoctoral Fellowship at the @unibergen.bsky.social! Looking forward to new research and collaborations in this inspiring environment!
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Sweet moment of celebration at @w-u-r.bsky.social as both my dear friend Emmanuel Adu-Ampong and I are launching our #ERC Starting Grant projects! Keep an eye out for #GreenFrontier & #Frictions research!
January 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sweet moment of celebration at @w-u-r.bsky.social as both my dear friend Emmanuel Adu-Ampong and I are launching our #ERC Starting Grant projects! Keep an eye out for #GreenFrontier & #Frictions research!
I'm thrilled to share that the paper I coauthored with the brilliant Dr Gohar Petrossian is now available in Marine Policy!
Read the full paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X24005694
Read the full paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X24005694
Using crime script analysis to unveil illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing of European eels
The exploitation of European eels, driven by the global demand for eel meat, is contributing significantly to the declining populations of the species…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 25, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I'm thrilled to share that the paper I coauthored with the brilliant Dr Gohar Petrossian is now available in Marine Policy!
Read the full paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X24005694
Read the full paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X24005694