Cecilia Pasini

After a multidisciplinary academic background, she obtained her PhD in Social and Political Change at the universities of Florence and Turin. She defended a thesis in geography focusing on environmental issues and the industrial production, industrial decline, deindustrialization, and energy transition in Lomellina (PV).

During her PhD, she established significant international academic connections: she collaborated with the Department of Regional Studies at the University of Tübingen, where she completed two research stays, and with the Mesopolhis laboratory at the University of Aix-Marseille, where she spent two more research periods. Over the years, she has lived in Turin, Florence, Leipzig, Tübingen, Rabat, Casablanca, and Marseille.

She is currently a research fellow in Social Geography at the SAGAS department of the University of Florence. Here, she is working on the PRIN project “The city, outdoors, an investigation on urban outdoor practices in Florence as a legacy of the pandemic”, adopting a feminist, embodied, and performative perspective on the city’s heritage and image.