Research Projects

Kerala, India

This project documents the oral histories of older Dalit individuals and communities in Kerala. Through life-history interviews, it explores how ecological change, food systems, and social inequalities have shaped lived experience across generations. By centering Dalit memory as historical knowledge, the project contributes to the broader collective by highlighting forms of resilience, care, and resistance that often remain absent from official archives.

Women in rural work: perspectives on social justice from the Appenines to the Andes

This research will collect narratives on life experiences by women who work the land in agroecological settings between the Global North and South, focusing primarily on Northern Italy (Piedmont) and the Peruvian Amazon. This research will highlight how similar global issues, such as food security, care for the environment, production diversification and the pursuit of economic independence, are at stake around different agroecological settings.

The Sea Does Not Touch Bagnoli. Memory, Postmemory, and Movements from Italsider to the America's Cup.

This research aims to investigate the transformations of factory memory and environmental conflict in Bagnoli through an intergenerational and gendered perspective, focusing on the forms of family transmission of the Italsider experience and their contemporary reworkings within local territorial movements.