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Gloria Pessina is assistant professor of urban and regional planning in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She holds a PhD in Spatial Planning and Urban Development with a focus on Environmental and Territorial Sociology from the same university. From 2010 to 2015 she conducted transdisciplinary research on the politics of water management and urban design in Western India, thanks to the support of various institutions, including the Vastu Shilpa Foundation for Environmental Design and Research (Ahmedabad), the Center for Urban Equity (CEPT, Ahmedabad), the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex, UK) and Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Following her interest for flows across multiple geographical scales, she started a research on the social and territorial dimensions of energy transition in marginal areas of Italy, which was later included in the Excellence Project on Territorial Fragilities funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (2018-2022) and hosted by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano. Within this research, she is particularly interested in investigating path dependence, justice and materiality related to energy transition in Sardinia (Italy). As Visiting Scholar at the Rachel Carson Center she will be working on the project Energy transition in an extreme and fragile land: the case of Sardinia, Italy.
RCC Research Project: Energy transition in an extreme and fragile land: the case of Sardinia, Italy
Selected Publications:
- "Environmental violence" in Elgar Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics, edited by Luigi Pellizzoni, Emanuele Leonardi and Viviana Asara. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, forthcoming.
- with Chiara Geroldi. "Power stations and petroleum heritage in Italy: the case of Porto Tolle" in Oil Spaces. Exploring the Global Petroleumscape, edited by Carola Hein. Routledge, New York. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780367816049-18/power-stations-petroleum-heritage-italy-chiara-geroldi-gloria-pessina
- "Territorial dimensions of energy transition and new spatial inequalities in peripheral regions: the case of Sardinia, Italy." Paper presented at the 60th ERSA Conference in the session "S29 – Territorial dimensions of green and digital transitions," 26.8.2021. https://az659834.vo.msecnd.net/eventsairwesteuprod/production-ersa-public/d17ffe7385f04cc39b4f108a603d585a
- "The Brand-new Riverfront and the Historical Centre: Narratives and Open Questions in Contemporary Ahmedabad, India."European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes 2, no. 1 (2019): 65 – 92. https://cpcl.unibo.it/article/view/8746/10129
- "The 'Missing Conflict' of the Sabarmati Riverfront. Authoritarian Governance, Neoliberalism and Water in Ahmedabad, India." Partecipazione e Conflitto 11, no. 3 (2018): 692-716. http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/20225