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Profiles
Miss Carlotta Molfese
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
PhD Researcher in Human Geography and scholar-activist exploring the Back-To-The-Land movement and its more-than-human practices through the lense of anarchist geographies.
Supervisors: Dr Kim Ward and Prof. Geoff Wilson
Qualifications
PhD Candidate in Human Geography with 1+3 ESRC scholarship, Plymouth University 2017-2021
MSc Human Geography Research, Plymouth University, 2017-2018 (Distinction)
MSc Sustainable Environmental Management, Plymouth University, 2015-2016 (Distinction)
BSc Marine Biology and Oceanography, Plymouth University, 2010-2013 (First)
Research interests
Active research interests: Social movements (particularly rural/peasant movements), environmental policy and politics, political ecology, plant and more-than-human geographies, agriculture and farming, anarchism.
Latent research interests: marine ecosystems, fisheries and aquaculture.
Other research
Before embarking on my post-graduate journey in geography, I specialised in human impacts on the marine environment with a particular interest in fisheries and marine ecosystem change over time.
Grants & contracts
Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 scholarship at Plymouth University
Project Title: The Back-To-The-Land movement and nature in the Anthropocene: a personal journey through anarchist geographies
Supervisors: Dr Kim Ward and Prof Geoff Wilson
Molfese C. (2017) "The political ecology of hemp: discourses of multifunctionality and 'semi-legal' practices in Italian agriculture" Unpublished MSc Dissertation, Plymouth University
Molfese C. (2016) "Traveling folk and nature: a visual narrative of a counter-cultural reality". Unpublished MSc Dissertation, Plymouth University
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
Additional information
While I conduct my PhD research, I also help co-manage a small-scale ecological restoration and farming project in the South of Italy with my partner. Our more-than-farming project "Niter" has been built on principles of agroecology/permaculture, energy and water self-sufficiency and what I call "ecological mutual aid". Hence, unlike the focus of organic farms and practices on 'bio' and non-human entities generally understood as "living", we extend our efforts to ecological relationships between bio and geo, including soils, energy and water.