Lucilla BARCHETTA
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lucilla.barchetta@unive.it
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www.unive.it/people/lucilla.barchetta (personal record)
LUCILLA BARCHETTA – CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST AND PHD IN URBAN STUDIES
Current research position
ERC Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice (GA n. 949742 ERC-HealthXCross)
Publications
Publications in preparation
Barchetta L., Climate change and political ecologies, in Kazig R., Masson D., Welton M., Wieczorek I. (Eds) “Routledge Handbook of Ambiances and Atmospheres” (chapter accepted for section 5 “Future Challenges”)
Barchetta L., Bolzoni M., Semi G., “Luckily we don’t have any Negroes here”. Exploring the construction of Italian whiteness in racially mixed neighborhoods (article submitted, first round of review)
Books
Barchetta L., (2021). La rivolta del verde: nature e rovine a Torino (AgenziaX, Terrae)
Book chapters
Barchetta L., (2019). Green is not always perfectly green: temporality, decay and open spaces in riverside Turin in Evans G. (Ed) “New Ethnographies of Post-industrial Precarity”, Vernon Press.
Barchetta L., (2020). Walking with plants: disrupting the material logics of degrado at the banks of Turin’s Stura River in Jasper S., Gandy M. (Eds) “The Botanical City”, Jovis Verlag.
Working papers
Barchetta L., (2017). The natures of cities: a typology of green spaces and property regimes, Gran sasso Science Institute Working Papers Series
Barchetta L., (2016). Renaturing cities: green space for all or elitist landscape? A review of the literature, Gran Sasso Science Institute Working Paper Series
Book reviews
Barchetta L., (2019). Urban Gardening as Politics by Chiara Tornaghi and Chiara Certomà (Eds). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43(4), 809-810.
Education
2019 Ph.D. in Urban Studies obtained with an excellent degree by the Gran Sasso Science Institute/Social Sciences Unit
2014 MA in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (ITA, FRE), Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
2012 LLP Erasmus Program (FRE, ENG), Université Lumière Lyon2
2011 BA in Intercultural Communication (ITA), Faculty of Literature and Philosophy University of Turin
Previous research positions
2020-2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (ITA, ENG), the Department of Architecture and Arts, University IUAV of Venice
2019-2020 Research Fellow (ITA), Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
2015-2019 Ph.D. Candidate in Urban Studies, XXXI cycle (ENG), Gran Sasso Science Institute/Social Science Unit
2018 Visiting Researcher (ENG), Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU University, Berlin (Mentor: Dorothee Brantz)
2018 Visiting Researcher (ENG), Rethinking Urban Nature Project, University of Cambridge (Mentor: Matthew Gandy)
2012-2013 Research Assistant (FRE), Maison des Services Publics, Villeurbanne.
2012 Research Intern (FRE), Centre Social Charpennes-Tonkin, Lyon.
International seminars organization
2021
(ongoing) Temporalities of Urban Natures: narratives, imaginaries and practices, seminar series funded by the Urban Studies Foundation.
2020
(co-organised and chaired) The sociology of evictions, seminar held by Prof. Matthew Desmond, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
2019
(co-organised and chaired) From light to dark, seminar held by Prof. Tim Edensor, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
Teaching experiences
2020
University of Turin, Academic tutor (ITA), Specialisation course “Culture urbane”, SPS/07 (sociology)
2019
University of Turin, Academic tutor (ITA), Specialisation course “Culture urbane”, SPS/07 (sociology)
Presentations and lectures
2021
Walking with Urban Natures. Rethinking Mobile Ethnography in the Anthropocene (ENG), Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua
The Temporal Dimensions of Urban Natures (ITA), Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
Conflicting multibeings temporalities of material decay (ENG), Temporal Belongings Conference
2020
Politicising the Atmospheres of Environmental Changes (ENG), International Ambiance Network
Doing ethnographic research in a pandemic (ITA), Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
2019
An ethnographic approach to the study of urban atmospheres (ITA), Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
Civilising ugly nature: urban biodiversity and the issue of urban decorum in Italy (ITA), Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
Populist-revanchist urbanism and the imaginaries of urban environmental change in contemporary Italy (ENG), Political Ecologies of the Far-Right Conference, Lund University
2018
Ethnography and traces. Experimental comparison and open spaces in riverside Turin (ENG), 7th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, Bergamo
Understanding the temporalities of urban natures through atmospheres (ENG), From horror vacui to spaces of re-enchantement: art, ecology and urban wastelands, Berlin UdK
Exploring processes of abandonment and decay in open spaces of post-industrial riverside Turin (ENG), 12th International Ethnography Symposium, Manchester
2017
The ethnography of urban natures (ITA), Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
Riverine ecologies. An urban environmental history of Turin (ENG), AAG, Boston
2016
The natures of cities. A typology of green spaces and property regimes, Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, London.
Understanding urban natures through the practice of property (ITA), Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
Grants awarded
2021 ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Cà Foscari University of Venice (GA n. 949742 ERC-HealthXCross)
2021 Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Awards (Grant Code: USF-SSA-210201)
2020-2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from University IUAV of Venice
2019-2020 Research Grant from the University of Turin
2015-2019 PhD Scholarship, Gran Sasso Science Institute
Service
Reviewer
2021 Environmental Development
2018 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
External
2020 Examiner, Specialisation course “Laboratorio di progettazione e gestione del verde urbano”, Instructor: Prof. Bianca Maria Rinaldi, Polytechnic School of Turin
2019 Official Rapporteur, Rail City Lab Workshop on the future development of Turin’s railway stations
Languages
Mother tongue: Italian English level: C1 French level: C1 Spanish level: B1
Barchetta L. (updated 12/11/2021)
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