Lorenza Belinda Fontana

Full Professor
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2025/2026 (41. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO

Other activities and projects related to teaching

I currently teach a master course (Laurea Magistrale) in Latin American History Politics

I also taught courses on qualitative research methods, research practice, dissertation writing, human rights, conflict studies and social movements.

Research

Supervised PhD students

Furio Viotti. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (41^st cycle, 2025-in progress)
Greta Mazzocchi. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (40^th cycle, 2024-in progress)
Research subject: My research explores wildfire governance in Brazil through an ecofeminist lens, focusing on fire, (im)mobility, gendered power relations, and socio-environmental conflicts in transitional areas.

Climate change

Human, economic and political geography

Urban and regional governance

Natural environment

Landscape

Other activities and projects related to research

My research has addressed questions around the ethnic politics of socio-environmental conflicts, the domestic politics of human rights of vulnerable groups (including indigenous peoples, domestic workers and working children), and, more recently, the contentious politics of wildfires. I have also worked on the post-2015 development agenda and the challenges of fostering engagement from the Global South with the Sustainable Development Goals.