- Urban Development, World History, Migration Studies, History and Memory, Microhistory, New Mobilities Paradigm, and 13 moreHistoire du temps présent, Media and Cultural Studies, Migration History, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Environmental Humanities, Oral history, Urban Political Ecology, Historical Geography, Critical Geography, History of Migration, Michel de Certeau, and Tim Ingoldedit
- Daniele Valisena (1986) Ph.D. Candidate since fall 2015 at the KTH - Royal Institute of Technology within the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL), at the Division of Histo... moreDaniele Valisena (1986) Ph.D. Candidate since fall 2015 at the KTH - Royal Institute of Technology within the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL), at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment. My PhD program is part of the ITN – Marie Curie Network ENHANCE.
My background is in Modern and Contemporary History, but I specialized on Migration Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Environmental History. Since I started my graduate program, I also worked on Political Ecology, Heritage Studies, Walking Ethnography, More-than-human Ecologies, and Ecocriticism. In spring 2018, I spent three months as a guest researcher at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich.
I studied at the University of Bologna, Italy, and I hold a Bachelor Degree in Modern History and a Master Degree in Contemporary History.
Afterwards I worked as a Research Assistant within the Laboratorio di Storia delle Migrazioni of the University of Modena, focusing on Migration History.edit - Marco Armieroedit
In this article, we discuss the role played by graffiti in representing, fomenting and studying binary and non-binary sentiments of 'us' and 'them'. Through asocio-textual analysis of examples of public anti-gentrification and... more
In this article, we discuss the role played by graffiti in representing, fomenting and studying binary and non-binary sentiments of 'us' and 'them'. Through asocio-textual analysis of examples of public anti-gentrification and anti-touristification protest graffiti in Berlin, we consider the complex layers of history, identity, mobility, community and environment which have been folded onto one another throughout the city over the past decades. By investigating the textual politics of belonging and self as shown through the lens of graffiti, we argue that representational analyses of so-called banal public texts can help to comprehend the complexities that lie behind binary socio-cultural categories (e.g. local/non-local. In exploring some of the defining characteristics that distinguish ecocritical from environmental humanities approaches to critique, the article posits how multiple disciplines-even those well outside humanities subjects-might well be able to benefit from the humanities' distinct approaches to cultural, or indeed social, analysis.
The complete article can be found as open access file on Green Letters website
The complete article can be found as open access file on Green Letters website
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“Une ville transhumante, ou metaphorique, s’insinue ainsi dans le texte clair de la ville planifiée et lisible”[1]. This statement perfectly enlightens the relationship between urban space and new forms of mobility in the European Union.... more
“Une ville transhumante, ou metaphorique, s’insinue ainsi dans le texte clair de la ville planifiée et lisible”[1]. This statement perfectly enlightens the relationship between urban space and new forms of mobility in the European Union. Havens of many transnational patterns: here’s what globalized world cities[2] are turned in.
The 2008 crisis cut the bond that tied a generation of high skilled workers and globalized multicultural citizens[3] to their homeland, giving them the opportunity - or the necessity - to leave their countries. Paraphrasing Sayad[4], they suffer a double absence: they have been left behind by their States welfare and work policies and they experience a multiple social identity, that doesn’t lie within a Nation State or neither in an assimilation or integration process. World cities are gates of circular life and multi-situated identity[5] patterns opened by English proficiency, work and educational skills, and common cultural belonging. From a socio-historical perspective, Italians in Berlin are the perfect case study to reconstruct new mobility patterns and new mobile agency in the EU[6]. The traditional chain migration, diaspora and push and pull models can’t explain the nature of these new identity patterns, vivified by web social networks and new mobility possibilities[7].
Where do the roots of new mobiles lie? Which social markers do define their life patterns? Is this transnational generation the prototype of the future a--‐national European citizenship? Otherwise, do this fluid, glocal and rootles generation experience a large anomie that put under question the inner migration and integration model of the EU?
The 2008 crisis cut the bond that tied a generation of high skilled workers and globalized multicultural citizens[3] to their homeland, giving them the opportunity - or the necessity - to leave their countries. Paraphrasing Sayad[4], they suffer a double absence: they have been left behind by their States welfare and work policies and they experience a multiple social identity, that doesn’t lie within a Nation State or neither in an assimilation or integration process. World cities are gates of circular life and multi-situated identity[5] patterns opened by English proficiency, work and educational skills, and common cultural belonging. From a socio-historical perspective, Italians in Berlin are the perfect case study to reconstruct new mobility patterns and new mobile agency in the EU[6]. The traditional chain migration, diaspora and push and pull models can’t explain the nature of these new identity patterns, vivified by web social networks and new mobility possibilities[7].
Where do the roots of new mobiles lie? Which social markers do define their life patterns? Is this transnational generation the prototype of the future a--‐national European citizenship? Otherwise, do this fluid, glocal and rootles generation experience a large anomie that put under question the inner migration and integration model of the EU?
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A microhistorical research on the migration patterns from Casalgrande, Scandiano and Castellarano, villages near, Reggio Emilia, to France in the ages between the two World Wars
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The migration pattern of a fuoriuscito from Casalgrande, a village near Reggio Emilia, to Paris banlieue, which explains how political issues, traditions and migration strategies converged to form a new kind of migrating identity
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This chapter is part of the book "Environmental History of Modern Migration", edited by Marco Armiero and Richard Tucker and published by Routledge
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Don Mitchell is one of the most influential contemporary cultural geographers and has long been at the forefront of scholarship on intersections of capital, nature and labor. His work engages the geo-historical processes of landscape... more
Don Mitchell is one of the most influential contemporary cultural geographers and has long been at the forefront of scholarship on intersections of capital, nature and labor. His work engages the geo-historical processes of landscape co-production and discusses how social, political and labor struggles that formed landscapes have been hidden or erased. Mitchell’s research and work are informed by an urgency to uncover the forces shaping the human–land dialectic. It is difficult not to sense profound urgency at the current political–ecological conjuncture, which is why we turned to Don Mitchell to reflect on his research, intellectual practice and the state of academia and activism today. The first section of the interview centers on Mitchell’s research and the tools and methods he employs in his work. In the second section of the interview, we discuss strategies and tactics in resistance struggles, campus activism and radical scholarship. Infused throughout the interview are the influences that have shaped Mitchell’s unique approach to teaching, research and a critical academic life. We conclude with a section on current academic practice
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Earthen Histories - Geo-historical metabolisms within human landscapes. Conference on Environmental History of Migration, University of Modena, Italy, 15th December 2017. Application can be writtin in English or Italian. The deadline for... more
Earthen Histories - Geo-historical metabolisms within human landscapes. Conference on Environmental History of Migration, University of Modena, Italy, 15th December 2017. Application can be writtin in English or Italian. The deadline for application is November 15th.