• Interview to Mariateresa Muraca on the Movimiento de Mulheres Camponesas (MMC) in Brazil

    co-authored with Vittoria Ferri, Annamaria Piussi, Giulia Testi, Chiara Zamboni. Translated by Caterina Diotto. The original version, in italian, was published here. Chiara Zamboni: (introduction) It is not an objective narration that we are asking Mariateresa, it is a knowledge that she has of her experience and of the relationships that she has with people

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  • Senses of the Ending. Literary and Political Positioning on the Environmental Crisis

    The contribution presents an ecofeminist analysis on Science Fiction and its relation to the political imaginary of a way out from the ecological crisis. Considering three novels from Mary Shelley, Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin, it explores the possibilities and contradictions in «worlding» literary counternarratives in relation to the hegemonic representation of the

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  • Forming to Transform. For a Pedagogy of the Imagination

    co-edited with Markus Ophälders Italo Calvino, in 1985’s “Six Memos for the Nex Millennium”, developed six proposals for surviving in the next millennium. In one of them is the idea of a possible pedagogy of the imagination. Why reflect on a pedagogy of the imagination? Why still promote it today? Starting from this question, scholars

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  • Survival strategies. Reflections on this millennium

    co-authored with prof. Markus Ophälders. Translated by Caterina Diotto. Preface to Forming to transform. On a pedagogy of Imagination (Mimesis, Milan 2022) […] 2. Some proposal for this Millennium (by Caterina Diotto) It is 1985: fifteen years barely separate us from the beginning of a new millennium. For now, I do not feel that the

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  • Notes on War

    Notes on War

    co-authored with C. Zamboni, M. Spagnolli, G. Longobardi, E. Jankowski. Translated by Caterina Diotto. Originally published in italian here. In the war in Ukraine we recognise the expression of a particular clash in the symbolic, between world-forms and languages, which pervades our time and represents a political threshold between the realisation of one world or

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  • Ecofeminism in South America

    Co-authored with Mariateresa Muraca, Chiara Zamboni, Annamaria Piussi. Translated by Caterina Diotto. The original version, in italian, was published here. We would like to get to know some of the paths taken by feminism in areas and places in South America. We are interested in how women, whom we have met or read about, bring

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  • Ecology, Feminism, Ecofeminism

    Original title: Ecologia, Femminismo, Ecofemminismo Five invited seminar for RETE per la Filosofia e gli Studi Umanistici’s Winter School 2022 “La filosofia e la crisi ecologica”, organised by Società Italiana di Filosofia – Friuli Venezia-Giulia, online venues. Every day we are accustomed to being immersed in narratives about our bodies. Narratives that we create ourselves,

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  • Uroboros. Ecology, Feminism, Ecofeminism

    It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what concepts we think to think other concepts with. It matters wherehow ouroboros swallows its tale, again.                                       Donna Haraway […] Feminist theoretical elaboration has questioned the deep-seated logic of patriarchy – its archetypes, structural mechanisms and recurring patterns – especially since

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  • Orienteer with the Echo

    Great Seminar of the “Diotima” Women’s Philosophical Community 2021 – “L’irrinunciabile”, Università degli Studi di Verona Original title: Orientarsi con l’eco

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  • Interview to Antonietta Potente on the Aymara’s community in Bolivia

    Co-authored with Mariateresa Muraca, Annamaria Piussi, Chiara Zamboni. Translated by Caterina Diotto. The original version, in italian, was published here. Antonietta Potente: Thank you for the great trust you have shown in my story. It is a part of me that I feel very strongly, that I can never shake off, that has truly shaped

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