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Paolo Gruppuso is an anthropologist with research interests in nature conservation, urban ecologies, the Anthropocene, environmental justice, and the environmental and social history of wetlands and land reclamation. He obtained his doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Aberdeen in 2016 with a dissertation on environmental contestations between farming and nature conservation in protected wetlands of Agro Pontino, Italy. From 2013 to 2018, he was affiliated with the ERC project “Knowing from the Inside: Anthropology, Art, Architecture and Design,” based at the University of Aberdeen and led by Tim Ingold. In 2018, he was a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), where he focused on the history of wetland conservation within the wider fields of conservation science and environmentalism. From 2018 to 2021, he was a research fellow at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy.
RCC Research Project: Claiming Marshlands Back: Novel Economies beyond Agrarian and Conservation Perspectives
Selected Publications:
- with Nigel Clark, Sasha Engelmann, Tim Ingold, Franz Krause, Gavin Lucas, Germain Meulemans, Cristián Simonetti, Bronislaw Szerszynski, and Laura Watts. “A Solid Fluids Lexicon.” Theory, Culture and Society 39, no. 2 (2022): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764211030976.
- “In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino.” Theory,
Culture and Society 39, no. 2 (2022) : 53–73. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02632764211038669. - with Andrew Whitehouse. “Exploring Taskscapes: An Introduction.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 28, no. 3 (2020): 588–97. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12789.
- “Nature as a Constellation of Activities: Movement, Rhythm, and Perception in an Italian National Park.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 28, no. 3 (2020): 629–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12783.
- “Edenic Views in Wetland Conservation: Nature and Agriculture in the Fogliano Area, Italy.” Conservation & Society 16, no. 4 (2018): 397–408.
- “Geologic and Historical, Surface and Depth. Entanglement of Water and Temporality in a Contested Wetland of Agro Pontino.” AAM Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo 19, no. 2 (2017): 69–79. https://doi.org/10.7432/AAM190205.