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A new spectre is haunting the globalised world, the spectre of Ecofeminism. If Socialism and Communism represented the backbone of political invention between the 19th and 20th century, since the middle of the last century it has been Feminism and Ecofeminism – which on the other hand share some of the roots of the first…
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Co-authored with M. Muraca, V. Ferri, A. Piussi, G. Testi, C. Zamboni. Translated by Caterina Diotto. The original version, in italian, was published here. Caterina Diotto There are many things that strike me about the experience with the Women Farmers’ Movement in Brazil that Mariateresa has told us about in her books and in the…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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