Carlotta MOLFESE

After completing an undergraduate degree (BSc) in Marine Biology and Oceanography and a master degree (MSc) in Sustainable Environmental management at the University of Plymouth (UK), Carlotta received a 1 + 3 years studentship from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to pursue a master degree and a PhD in Human Geography at the same university.

She completed her PhD in October 2023. Her thesis developed an original theoretical framework that combined more-than-human and anarchist perspectives in geography to examine the affective journeys and everyday doings of countercultural or radical “back-to-the-land” farmers.

Carlotta works at the intersection of cultural and environmental geography using more-than-human and critical perspectives, as well as traditional and innovative qualitative methods. Her research interests include animal and plant geographies, agriculture and rural change, new peasant movements and agroecology, diverse and community economies.

She has presented her research at several prestigious international conferences, including the Annual Conferences of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IGB) and the American Associations of Geographers (AAG), and she has published a chapter in the volume “Critical Geographies of Resistance” edited by Sarah M. Hughes (2023).

She has worked for the Southwest Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP) developing, organising and chairing an online webinar series on the intersections between research and activism; and she is currently working on a research project financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research led by Prof. Annalisa Colombino entitled “Farms on the move. Rethinking the geographies of transhumance’s community-based economies: a more-than-human approach”.