Ph.D. candidate in Urban And Regional Development , 40th cycle (2024-2027)
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
- Componente Academic Board - Ph.D. programme in Urban and Regional Development
- Member Gender Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing - GEDIW Observatory
Profile
PhD
Research topic
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.
Tutors
- Lorenza Belinda Fontana
- Giovanni Bettini
Keywords
Biography
I am a PhD candidate in Urban and Regional Development at Politecnico di Torino. My current research project, Burning Boundaries: an Ecofeminist Perspective on Fire and the Politics of (Im)Mobility in Brazilian Transitional Zones, examines the social, political and ecological dimensions of wildfire governance in Brazil, with particular attention to frontier areas where urban expansion, conservation and environmental conflict intersect.
My work adopts an ecofeminist and posthuman perspective to investigate how fire reshapes human and Earthothers mobilities, territorial inequalities, gendered power relations and socio-environmental relations, with particular attention to the role of women in fire governance and territorial practices. I am conducting fieldwork in Brazil in collaboration with Universidade de São Paulo and Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio). I also collaborate with local actors and volunteer brigades engaged in fire prevention, suppression and environmental education.
My broader academic interests include political ecology, feminist studies, climate mobilities studies and visual methods.