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Armiero, M. (2023). Foreword. In: Basilicata and Southern Italy between Film and Ecology: (pp. 1-269). Springer Nature
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2023 (English)In: Basilicata and Southern Italy between Film and Ecology, Springer Nature , 2023, p. 1-269Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature, 2023
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-333950 (URN)2-s2.0-85162676039 (Scopus ID)
Note

Part of ISBN 9783031135736 9783031135729

QC 20230815

Available from: 2023-08-15 Created: 2023-08-15 Last updated: 2023-08-15Bibliographically approved
Fornale, E., Armiero, M. & Odasso, L. (2023). Trust in disaster resilience. Disaster Prevention and Management, 32(2), 253-267
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2023 (English)In: Disaster Prevention and Management, ISSN 0965-3562, E-ISSN 1758-6100, Vol. 32, no 2, p. 253-267Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose

The erosion of 'trust' (among citizens as well as within and between institutional levels) is a worrying aspect of these turbulent times in Europe and beyond. Trust (between citizens and institutions, citizens and experts, policymakers and experts, and among different levels of governance) is crucial in all dimensions of disaster resilience. Risk perceptions stem from a complex web of feedback between individuals, communities, institutions, and experts. Sometimes, institutions and experts are slow or even resistant to accepting signals and knowledge about risks coming from the grassroots. Or, it is the other way around, and citizens are skeptical about the information coming from institutions and experts. Thus, trust must work in all directions (from citizens to institutions, from experts to citizens, etc.) to build a cooperative framework for action.

Design/methodology/approach

Our article aims to explore the construction of trust and distrust in communities dealing with historical, actual, or potential disasters by putting forward a three-dimensional approach (societal, cooperative, and institutional). We convey the idea that less tangible aspects such as culture, contextual history, knowledge, and habits shape the perception of risk, the degree of preparedness and, ultimately, the impacts of environmental changes.

Findings

These elements affect cooperative behaviors, and it is expected that the institutional environment - which will vary across domestic, national, and regional contexts - will play a significant role in nurturing trust or distrust in relation to disaster risk.

Originality/value

This article will offer valuable insights by developing a new conceptual framework that can be translated and validated by future research.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Emerald, 2023
Keywords
Trust, Culture of risk, Memory, Cooperation, Multilevel governance
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-333277 (URN)10.1108/DPM-04-2022-0082 (DOI)001021064800001 ()2-s2.0-85164094881 (Scopus ID)
Note

QC 20230731

Available from: 2023-07-31 Created: 2023-07-31 Last updated: 2023-07-31Bibliographically approved
Armiero, M., De Rosa, S. P. & Pellow, D. (2022). Climate insurgency between academia and activism. Social Text, 40(1)
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2022 (English)In: Social Text, ISSN 0164-2472, E-ISSN 1527-1951, Vol. 40, no 1Article in journal (Other academic) In press
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
A&C Black Publishers Ltd., 2022
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-310288 (URN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2017-01962_3
Note

QC 20220329

Available from: 2022-03-25 Created: 2022-03-25 Last updated: 2024-03-18Bibliographically approved
Armiero, M. & De Rosa, S. P. (2022). Climate Insurgency between Academia and Activism: An Interview with David N. Pellow. Social Text, 40(1), 157-164
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2022 (English)In: Social Text, ISSN 0164-2472, E-ISSN 1527-1951, Vol. 40, no 1, p. 157-164Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This interview focuses on a spectrum of urgent challenges facing marginalized human and other-than-human communities, including the intersecting crises of global anthropogenic climate disruption and state and institutional racist violence. We discuss and consider the opportunities, limits, and contradictions of pursuing transformative, intersectional political change and scholarship through efforts to bridge community activism and academic labor. We also critically engage questions concerning the role of the state in the context of racial capitalism and the production of environmental and climate injustice, and how grassroots movements have responded to these concerns. Specific movement formations included in this discussion include the Central Coast Climate Justice Network of California, the Movement for Black Lives/Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion, and multispecies abolition democracy. The importance of radical, multi-issue politics and cross-movement solidarities is also given serious attention.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Duke University Press, 2022
Keywords
environmental justice, climate justice, multispecies, abolition, democracy
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-315690 (URN)10.1215/01642472-9495174 (DOI)000813478800008 ()2-s2.0-85132702900 (Scopus ID)
Note

QC 20220715

Available from: 2022-07-15 Created: 2022-07-15 Last updated: 2022-07-15Bibliographically approved
Armiero, M. (2022). From waste to climate. Social Text, 40(1)
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2022 (English)In: Social Text, ISSN 0164-2472, E-ISSN 1527-1951, Vol. 40, no 1Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

It has often been said that the problem with climate change is its invisibility. People do not mobilize about climate change because they cannot see it; even less can they see CO2 emissions—that is, the most relevant material element causing climate alternations. Although I would argue that for some people climate change is more visible than for others, it remains a global environmental problem not easily felt on the ground. On the other hand, waste appears to be an incumbent presence, almost impossible to avoid; it also seems more localized than global climate change. People mobilize around waste because it stands in front of their eyes and noses. This is how the story has been told so many times. This article instead tells another story, one in which climate activism is rooted in struggles against waste contamination. In Naples, Italy, twenty years of mobilization against toxicity—which, by the way, is much less visible and much more harmful than the urban garbage in the streets—has generated an epistemic community trained to understand the invisible connections linking local problems, global issues, and socioenvironmental inequalities. Their original elaboration of biocide as the theoretical framework explaining the production of toxic communities provided them with an equally original framework to understand climate change and its unequal impacts on people and ecosystems. In moving between waste and climate, local and global, those epistemic communities have not only changed the ways in which climate activism has been conceived but have also changed themselves.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Duke University Press, 2022
Keywords
climate activism, waste, biocide, Naples
National Category
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-310329 (URN)10.1215/01642472-9495117 (DOI)000813478800004 ()2-s2.0-85132784011 (Scopus ID)
Projects
Occupy Climate Change
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2017 – 01962_3
Note

QC 20220330

QC 20220715

Available from: 2022-03-28 Created: 2022-03-28 Last updated: 2022-07-15Bibliographically approved
Armiero, M., Biasillo, R. & Morosini, S. (2022). Introduction: A world that is losing its margins. In: Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Stefano Morosini (Ed.), Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops (pp. 1-8). Informa UK Limited
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2022 (English)In: Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops / [ed] Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Stefano Morosini, Informa UK Limited , 2022, p. 1-8Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The introduction reflects on processes of historical production of marginal environments. In particular, it pays attention to their political components - namely states, nationalism, and imperialism - and to continuities and ruptures. In the context of climate change and in the very years of the popularisation of the ‘conquest’ of the outer space, the following chapters adopt a new approach, stressing the interconnectivity of distant areas and their dialectical relationship and highlighting the colonial and extractivist matrix behind the historic and historiographical concepts of frontiers and exploration. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Informa UK Limited, 2022
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-328929 (URN)10.4324/9781003095965-1 (DOI)2-s2.0-85141523954 (Scopus ID)
Note

QC 20230613

Available from: 2023-06-13 Created: 2023-06-13 Last updated: 2023-06-13Bibliographically approved
Armiero, M., Biasillo, R. & Graf von Hardenberg, W. (2022). Mussolini's Nature.: An environmental History of Italian Fascism. MIT Press
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2022 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this first environmental history of Italian fascism, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveal that nature and fascist rhetoric are inextricable. Mussolini's Nature explores fascist political ecologies, or rather the practices and narratives through which the regime constructed imaginary and material ecologies functional to its political project. The book does not pursue the ghost of a green Mussolini by counting how many national parks were created during the regime or how many trees planted. Instead, the reader is trained to recognize fascist political ecology in Mussolini's speeches, reclaimed landscapes, policies of economic self-sufficiency, propaganda documentaries, reforested areas, and in the environmental transformation of its colonial holdings.

The authors conclude with an examination of the role of fascist landscapes in the country's postwar reconstruction: Mussolini's nature is still visible today through plaques, monuments, toponomy, and the shapes of landscapes. This original, and surprisingly intimate, environmental history is not merely a chronicle of conservation in fascist Italy but also an invitation to consider the socioecological connections of all political projects.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MIT Press, 2022
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-319822 (URN)9780262544719 (ISBN)
Note

QC 20221010

Available from: 2022-10-08 Created: 2022-10-08 Last updated: 2022-10-10Bibliographically approved
Gerhardt, K., Armiero, M., Sörlin, S., Wickberg, A. & Wormbs, N. (2022). Nog nu – politiker, ta klimatkrisen på allvar. Aftonbladet, 25 August
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2022 (Swedish)In: Aftonbladet, ISSN 1403-9656, Vol. 25 AugustArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: , 2022
National Category
History Social Sciences
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-317429 (URN)
Note

QC 20220913

Available from: 2022-09-10 Created: 2022-09-10 Last updated: 2024-03-18Bibliographically approved
Spijkerboer, R. C., Turhan, E., Roos, A., Billi, M., Vargas-Payera, S., Opazo, J. & Armiero, M. (2022). Out of steam?: A social science and humanities research agenda for geothermal energy. Energy Research & Social Science, 92, Article ID 102801.
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2022 (English)In: Energy Research & Social Science, ISSN 2214-6296, E-ISSN 2214-6326, Vol. 92, article id 102801Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The potential of geothermal energy for energy transition is increasingly recognized by governments around the world. Whether geothermal energy is a sustainable source of heat and/or electricity depends on how it is deployed in specific contexts. Therefore, it is striking that there is only limited attention to geothermal energy from a social science and humanities (SSH) perspective. Geothermal energy is largely conceptualized as a technological and/or geological issue in both science and practice. This perspective article aims to go beyond such conceptualizations by positioning social science research as an important lens to explore the promises and pitfalls of geothermal energy. We first provide an overview of the current state of geothermal energy as a decarbonization strategy. Second, we move on to review the existing literature. This review shows that studies that do address geothermal energy from an SSH perspective tend to be of a descriptive nature and lack analytical diversity. Third, we discuss three complementary theoretical approaches that are used in the social sciences to observe and address other forms of energy and energy transition. We believe that socio-technical assemblages, systems, and imaginaries can provide fruitful analytical lenses to study the promises, pitfalls and spatialization of geothermal energy. We conclude the paper with a research agenda and call for further engagement with this topic in SSH research, with attention to specificities of global South and North contexts.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV, 2022
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Research subject
Energy Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-317327 (URN)10.1016/j.erss.2022.102801 (DOI)000869735500020 ()2-s2.0-85137358765 (Scopus ID)
Projects
Assemblage, Socio-technical systems, Imaginaries, Infrastructures, Narratives Geothermal
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2020-00825
Note

QC 20221116

Available from: 2022-09-09 Created: 2022-09-09 Last updated: 2022-11-16Bibliographically approved
Armiero, M., Biasillo, R. & Morosini, S. (2022). Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops. Informa UK Limited
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2022 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial practises, and scientific experiments.

Concentrating on mountaineering and Arctic exploration between 1880 – 1960, contributors to this volume show how environmental marginalisation has been discursively implemented and materially generated by foreign and local actors. It examines to what extent the status and identity of extreme environments has changed during modern times, moving them from periphery to the centre and discarding their marginality. The first section looks at ways in which societies have framed remoteness, through the lens of commercialization, colonialism, knowledge production and sport, while the second examines the reverse transfer, focusing on how extreme nature has influenced societies, through international network creation, political consensus and identity building. This collection enriches the historical understanding of exploration by adopting a critical approach and offering multidimensional and multi-gaze reconstructions.

This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental history, geography, colonial studies and the environmental humanities.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Informa UK Limited, 2022
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-319823 (URN)10.4324/9781003095965 (DOI)2-s2.0-85141458091 (Scopus ID)9780367559830 (ISBN)
Note

QC 20221010

Available from: 2022-10-08 Created: 2022-10-08 Last updated: 2023-06-13Bibliographically approved
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