are you working on local food systems and their sustainable transformation? 🍓

then consider applying for the 2025 SISP Conference in Naples: submit your abstract to panel 5.11 🔍

📅 the CFP is open until May 25

#SISP2025 #PoliticalSociology #Participation #SocialMovements #Research #Conference

today at #JMU James Madison University in Florence we worked with #workshops to brainstorm how extreme climate events are not only affecting food production and agrarian economies, but impact our communities and political decision making.

@eurovia.org the European Coordination Via Campesina is streaming today 👇🏻

a 2-days conference to bring together farmers and researchers in discussing agroecology and the need to radically transform our food systems!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=VPyM...

the best part of doing research with food activists is that there is always good food before and after scientific talks 🥑
#communityagriculture #foodmovements #DEMETRA

if 40 days is enough to build a habit, what are the effects of our family's #eating habits on our future #food choices and #political participation in general? 🍅

in this work, #lifehistories are a fundamental research method, especially if they can be visualised through virtual tools like #Mural

to teach Buddhist contemplation, Kondañña stated “everything that has the nature of arising also has the nature of ceasing” 🪷

the #impermanence of reality was one of the key elements of my #PAR approach and I discussed its implications this morning to the Associazione Italiana di Sociologia 🥕

I have started following @cowoftheday.bsky.social and it is by far the only thing that will keep me going through the winter: please keep posting your 🐮🐮

1/4 today I held one of the orientation lessons at the Scuola Normale Superiore 🎓 we worked with three activities inspired by action research.

academia is based on precarious workers. on the eve of yet another university reform that plans linear cuts to research in Italy, we joined the march in Florence to protest against a war economy that finds money only to finance the genocide of the Palestinian people #generalstrike

it was exciting to be part of this year’s POE seminar 🌍 I had the opportunity to discuss @mgschmelzer.bsky.social and Olimpia Malatesta work on democratic planning

👉🏻 stay in the loop and follow POE - an interdisciplinary research program on politics, ontologies, and ecologies

this morning is 2 degrees on the hills in Impruneta ❄️

yesterday we had the pleasure to list to @eleftheriafm.bsky.social presenting some of her latest research about promotional culture and subvertising 🙏🏻

find out our next events here: cosmos.sns.it/all-events/t...

2024 was a milestone year!
among others (💍🎓) because I published my very first solo-article where I present land commoning for food production as a repertoire of collective action for local communities ✊🏽🍉

#PoliticalSociology #HistoricalSociology #CommunityAgriculture #FoodSystems #BlueskyScholars

hey #academicsky 🎓
I am Irina, a political sociologist working with local farmers’ communities to support their struggles for #agroecology and #foodsovereignty 🥕

I am currently working on DEMETRA 👇🏻 and eager to know more about other projects on agriculture and food! follow along and let’s connect