Department of Cultures, Politics and Society

Selected research products

Forthcoming:

Heritage, Community and Future Generations. The Transgenerational Quest for Justice, Rivista di Estetica, 2023

Erased, Emerging, Engraved. Nazi architecture, heritage and public memory, with Liza Candidi, in The Afterlife of Fascist-Era Architecture, Monuments and Works of Art in Italy, ed. by C. Belmonte, Milano, Silvana Editoriale, 2023

The People’s Communes in Rojava and North-Eastern Syria. Characters, Evolution and Contradictions of an Institution of Self-Government, Études Kurdes, 16, 2023

Women’s transformation of family law in war scenarios: the case of juristic action of women’s movements in north-eastern Syria, Volume of the Proceedings of the International Conference, The Role of Women’s Civil Society Organizations in Peace Processes, University of Siena, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and University of Milan, 2023

Published:

Zahrat Al-Sahra’. Thawrat Al-Nisa’ wal-Kumiuwnat min Al-Eiraq wa-Shamal Suria, Shiler Publishing, Al-Qamishli, Syria, 2022 (Book; Il fiore del deserto. La rivoluzione delle donne e delle comuni tra l'Iraq e la Siria del nord, translated by Amani Fawzi Habshi, Ahmed Ismail, Ronak Haji and Ismail Ismail)

Autorité/avant-garde/autogestion: une tension incomprise dans la révolution confederale, in Crétois, Pierre, Jourdain, Édouard, “La démocratie sous les bombes. Syrie-Le Rojava entre idéalisation et répression”, Bordeaux, Le Bord de l'Eau, 2022

Gender Equality or Legal Pluralism? An Ostensible Puzzle in Syrian Rojava’s Legal System, Syrian Studies Association Bulletin, 2, 2021

Agamben, o coronavírus e o estado de exceção (Agamben, the Coronavirus and the state of exception), in Vozes do Fronte. Considorações sobra lo irromper do Covid-19 na Itália (Voices from the Frontline. Considerations on the Outbreak of Covid-19 in Italy), with Donatella Di Cesare, Giorgio Agamben, Jonnefer Barbosa, Massimo Cacciari, Raffaele Alberto Ventura, Vinícius Nicastro Honesko, Venezia, Editora Âyiné, 2020

La rivoluzione come scienza-donna: una fragile eccezione nel deserto delle alternative (Revolution as Woman-Science: a Fragile Exception in a Desert of Alternatives), Spazio filosofico, 4, 2019

La città e il fantasma. Dal muro di Berlino ai nuovi muri (The City and the Ghost. From the Berlin Wall to the New Walls), Book, Rome, Castelvecchi, 2019

Omaggio al Rojava. Il fronte siriano, la rivoluzione confederale e la lotta contro il jihadismo (Homage to Rojava. The Syrian Front, the Confederal Revolution and the Fight Against Jihadism), Edited volume, Rome, Redstarpress, 2019

Artefatti, ostensione e realtà istituzionale. Le Unità Anti-Terrore nella guerra siriana (Artifacts, Ostension and Institutional reality. The Anti-Terror Units in the Syrian War), Giornale critico di storia delle idee, 2, 2018

Il fiore del deserto. La rivoluzione delle donne e delle comuni tra l'Iraq e la Siria del nord (The Flower of the Desert. The Revolution of Women and Communes Between Northern Iraq and Syria), Book, Milan, AgenziaX, 2018

Nuovi colori del Medio oriente (New Colors of the Middle East), in E. Battaglia, I nuovi volti del Mediterraneo. Dalle guerre altrui in terra di nessuno alla resistenza del popolo curdo (New faces of the Mediterranean. From the ‘War of Others’ in a No Man’s Land to the Kurdish Resistance), Edizioni erranti, Cosenza, 2016

Travestimento della bellezza/Disguise of beauty, with Margot Pellegrino, in Amirante, R., Piscopo, C., Scala P. (dir.), La bellezza per  il rospo, Clean, Napoli, 2014

Incarnazioni dell'intangibile. Idealità e scrittura tra memoria e progettazione (Incarnations of the Intangible. Ideality and Writing between Memory and Project), Rivista di estetica, 2, 2012

Tutela, stile, autografia. Ontologia dei beni culturali e architettura (Style, Autography, Preservation. Ontology of the Cultural Heritage and Architecture), in Rivista di estetica, 1, 2012

Ontologia dei beni culturali (Ontology of Cultural Heritage), Aphex – Rivista on line di filosofia, 4, 2011

Filosofi in archivio. Appunti di lavoro (Philosophers in the Archive. Work Notes), Historia Magistra. Rivista di Storia Critica, 6, 2011

Quale verità per la storia? Conoscenza, prassi linguistica e contesti sociali (What Truth for History?Knowledge, Linguistic Praxis and Social Contexts), Historia Magistra. Rivista di Storia Critica, 1, 2009

Memoria e conservazione. La Rückfrage delle istituzioni (Memory and Preservation. The Rückfrage of Institutions), Rivista di Estetica, 3, 2007

 

 

 

 

2023, International University College,
Partner Institution, University of Turin

Pre-Doctoral School in Comparative Law, Economic and Finance
Second Term
Course: Law and Ethics in Time of War II
Module I: Philosophy, Violence and Authority
Module II: Ethics and the Deconstruction of Law

Pre-Doctoral School in Comparative Law, Economic and Finance
First Term
Course: Law and Ethics in Time of War I
Module I: The Revolution and Its Specters
Module II: Social Acts and Legal Systems

2023, Scuola di perfezionamento in Teoria critica della società, University of Milano Bicocca

Course: Diritto e Stato (State and Law)
Seminar: Diritto, Stato e Rivoluzione. Che cosa possiamo apprendere dalla Guerra in Siria
(Law, State and Revolution. What we can learn from the Syrian War)

2022, International University College, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università di Torino

Ll.m. in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance
Second Term
Course: Political Philosophy and the Deconstruction of Law
Module I: Authority and power in relation to violence
Module II: Criteria of normative legitimation and deconstruction

Ll.m. in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance
First Term
Course: Institutions and Politics in Time of Conflict
Module I: Syria: A Multi-faceted Civil War
Module II: Diversity of de facto legal systems

2021, International University College (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università di Torino)

Ll.m. in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance
First Term
Course: Institutions and Politics in Time of Conflict
Title: Contexts, Violence and Power: the Syrian Civil War

Research topics

 

Current Project

Providing Operational Economic Appraisal Methods and Practices for Informed Decision-Making on Climate and Environmental Policies (PATTERN)

European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme 101056734

Length: July 2022 - July 2025

Team membership: University of Turin

Consortium

Academic: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Turin, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, University of Antwerp, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology

Other: Euroquality, ISMERI Europa, Vlaamse Landmaatschappij, Netherlands Enterprise Agency, IRES Piemonte, Trøndelag County Authority, City of Lappeenranta

Research Involvement

Work Package 1: Creation of the framework for the bridging of ex post and ex ante analysis

Work Package 2: Creation of the interdisciplinary and participatory approach

Task 2.1: Stakeholder analysis and engagement

Task 2.2: Building a Theory of Change to identify evaluation needs

Task 2.3: Social side of policy impact

Work Package 3: Ex post evaluation of past policies

 

 

 

 

Research projects

• Providing operational economic appraisal methods and practices for informed decision-making in climate and environmental policieS