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Profiles
Carlotta Molfese
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Biography
Biography
PhD Student in Human Geography.
PhD working title: Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey through anarchist geographies
Director of Studies: Dr Kim Ward
Second Supervisor: Dr Paul Simpson
Third Supervisor: Prof Geoff Wilson
Qualifications
PhD Candidate in Human Geography with 1+3 ESRC scholarship, University of Plymouth
MSc Human Geography Research, University of Plymouth
MSc Sustainable Environmental Management, University of Plymouth
BSc Marine Biology and Oceanography, University of Plymouth
Research
Research
Research interests
- Nature-Society relations
- Social movements and environmental activism
- The geographies of agriculture and farming
- Activist-research methodologies
- Plant and animal geographies
- Anarchist geographies
Grants & contracts
Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 scholarship at Plymouth University
Publications
Publications
Journals
Molfese C, Beare D, Hall-Spencer JM (2014) Overfishing and the Replacement of Demersal Finfish by Shellfish: An Example from the English Channel. PLoS ONE 9(7): e101506. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101506
Chapters
Molfese C (forthcoming) Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance: reflections on intentionality, political collectives and opposition. In: Critical Geographies of Resistance, Edited Collection by Hughes SM, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Other Publications
Molfese C. (2017) "The political ecology of hemp: discourses of multifunctionality and 'semi-legal' practices in Italian agriculture" Unpublished MSc Dissertation, University of Plymouth
Molfese C. (2016) "Traveling folk and nature: a visual narrative of a counter-cultural reality". Unpublished MSc Dissertation, University of Plymouth
Personal
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
Molfese C (2022) An infrastructure of shit and leaves: the generosity of mulch for farming communities autonomy. Session: “Infrastructural Life and the More-Than-Human” at the American Association of Geographers Conference, 25th Feb – 01st Mar, New York, US
Molfese C (2020) (I’m) Going back-to-the-land: more-than-representational journeys into environmental activism. Session: “Embodied mobile lives” at the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG 2021) Annual International Conference, 1 - 4 Sep 2020, London, United Kingdom.
Molfese C (2019) The end of Nature and Politics in the Anthropocene: anarchist traces and possibilities. RGS-IBG 2019 Conference, session: Environmental and Ecological Justice: Anarchist Contributions and Perspectives, London, UK.
Molfese C and Hall-Spencer JM (13/03/2015) Overfishing and the replacement of demersal finfish by shellfish: an example from the English Channel. South West Marine Ecosystem conference (SWME15), Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK.
Molfese C (2014) Overfishing and the replacement of demersal finfish by shellfish: an example from the English Channel. PEGASES conference, INTERREG IVa cross Channel project, University of Caen, Caen, France.
Conferences organised
Co-organiser of the session “Crossing the boundary between academia and activism: postgraduates stories and practices of resistance” at the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG 2021) Annual International Conference, 1 – 4 Sept 2020, London, United Kingdom.