Carlotta Molfese
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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"The political ecology of hemp: discourses of multifunctionality and 'semi-legal' practices in Italian agriculture" Unpublished MSc Dissertation, University of Plymouth 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 Unpublished MSc Dissertation, University of Plymouth 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.