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Chiara Certomà is Assistant Professor in political-economic geography at the Excellence Department of Economic, Social, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (ESOMAS), University of Turin.  In the meanwhile, she collaborates as visiting professor with the Institute of Management of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy) and as research fellow with the Centre for Sustainable Development – CDO @ Ghent University (where she worked on a an EU IF-ES Marie-Curie project titled “Crowdsourcing Urban Sustainability Governance”  in 2017-2019). She currently serves as External Collaborator at the Responsible Management Research Center, Pisa University; Alumna of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU, Munich and the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technologies and Society (IAS-STS) at TU Graz, and she is Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Research Network.

At the University of Turin, Chiara is coordinating the work of the research group DIGGEO@ESOMAS_Digital Geographies of socio-political and economic spaces.

Further information on career and research streams at https://crowdusg.net/

Principal research topics:

1. innovative forms of urban governance&planning in the context of pressing environmental challenges and the digital revolution (including social innovation, critical digital&environmental transition, and socially-emancipatory digital processes);

2. collaborative and participatory processes toward knowledge creation and sharing, decision making and do-it-yourself, grassroots plus low-tech solutions for just sustainability;

3. marine social science (including citizen science and transdisciplinary ocean research) and post-modern geography of the sea building upon the material-semiotic and hybridity theory.

 

Publications

Books

C.Certomà, S.Conti, P.Giaccaria, U.Rossi, C.Salone (2022) Geografia economica e politica, Pearson, Torino

C.Certomà (2021) Digital Social Innovation. Spatial Imaginaries and Technological Resistances in Urban Governance, Palgrave McMillan, New York

C.Certomà, M. Sonderman and S. Noori (2019) Urban Gardening and the Struggles of Social and Spatial Justice, Manchester University Press

van der Heijden, H. Bulkeley, and C. Certomà (eds.) (2019) Urban Climate Politics. Agency and Empowerment, Cambridge University Press

C. Tornaghi and Certomà (2018) Urban Gardening as Politics, Routledge, London

(2017) Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City (edited with M. Dyer, F. Rizzi and L.Pocatilu) Spinger, New York

(2016) Postenvironmentalism. A material semiotic perspective on living spaces, Palgrave Macmillan, New York

(2014) Chianti Experiences. Turning a post-rural place into a listening territory, ETS, Pisa

(2012) The Politics of Space and Place:  Exclusions, Resistance and Alternatives (edited with N. Clewer and D. Elsey), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

(2012) Laura Conti. Alle radici dell’ecologia, Edizioni e Ambiente, Milano

Journal articles

 

  1. C.Certomà, P.Giaccaria (2023) “Dialogic practices of urban Gardening in Rome: “Reading for difference” in Social Innovation”, Urban Geography
  2. M. Gori Nocentini e C.Certoma’ (forth.) “Cambiamenti climatici, giustizia ambientale e partecipazione. I Piani di Adattamento Climatico alla luce dell’Ecologia Politica Urbana”, Geotema
  3. Krupnik, S., Wagner, A., Koretskaya, O., Rudek, T.,  Wade, R., Mišik, M., Akerboom, S., Foulds, C., Smith Stegen, K., Adem, C., Batel, S., Certoma’, C., Chodkowska-Miszczuk, J., Denac, M., Dokupilová, D., Frolova Igatieva, M., Gabaldón-Estevan, D., Horta, H., Karnøe, P., Lilliestam, J., Loorbach, D., Markard, J., Dotterud Leiren, M.,  Mühlemeier, S., Nemoz, S.,  Nilsson, N., Osička, J., Papamikrouli, L., Pellizioni, L., Rabitz, F., Sareen, S., Sarrica, M., Seyfang, G., Sovacool, B., Telesiene, A., Zapletalova, V., von Wirth, T. (2022) “Reaching beyond governance, policies, and markets: A research agenda for Social Sciences and Humanities research on renewable energy”, Energy Research and Social Science, 89, 102536
  4. C.Certomà (2022) “Future scenarios of Digital Social Innovation in Urban Governance. A collective discussion on the socio-political implications in Ghent, Cities, 122, 103542
  5. C.Certomà, F.Corsini (2021) “Digitally-enabled Social Innovation. Mapping discourses on an emergent social technology”, Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research, 34/4, 560-584
  6. C.Certomà (2020) “Digital Social Innovation and Urban Space. A critical geography agenda”, Urban Planning, 5/4, 8-19
  7. C.Certomà, F.Corsini, M. Frey (2020) Hyperconnected, receptive and do-it-yourself city. An investigation into the European imaginary of crowdsourcing for urban governance”, Technology in Society, 61
  8. C.Certomà, L.Chelleri and B. Notteboom (2020) “The ‘fluid governance’ of urban public spaces. Insights from informal planning practices in Rome”, Urban Studies, 57/5, 976-995
  9. M. Battaglia, C. Certomà, M. Frey (2019) “A critical interpretation of the “quality of place”. Between attractiveness and post-rurality”, Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali, 126, 77-96
  10. C.Certomà and F. Martellozzo (2019) “Cultivating justice? A Spatial Exploration of Urban Gardening Crossing Spatial and Environmental Injustice Conditions”, Applied Geography, 106, 60-70
  11. F.Corsini, C.Certomà, M.Dyer and M. Frey (2018) “Participatory Energy: research, imaginaries and practices on people’ contribute to energy systems in the smart city”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142
  12. M. Dyer, F.Corsini and C.Certomà (2017) “Making urban governance, planning and design a participatory goal. A collaborative urbanism agenda”, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning, 170/4, 173-186
  13. C.Certomà and B. Notteboom (2017) “Informal planning in a transactive governmentality. Re-reading informal planning practices through Ghent’s community gardens”, Planning Theory, 16/1, 51–73
  14. C.Certomà (2016) “A New Season for Planning’. Urban Gardening as Informal Planning in Rome”, Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography, 98/2, 109-126
  15. C.Certomà, F. Rizzi and F. Corsini (2015) “Crowdsourcing urban sustainability. Data, people and technologies in participatory governance”, Futures, 74, 93-106
  16. C.Certomà and C.Tornaghi (2015) “Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency”, Local Environment 20/10, 1123-1131
  17. C.Certomà (2015) “Expanding the ‘dark side of planning’. Governmentality and biopolitics in public garden planning”, Planning Theory, 14/ 1, 23-43
  18. C.Certomà (2012) “Biopolitica dello spazio. Popolazione, potere, luoghi”, Revue Internationale d'Ethnographie et territoires, 1
  19. C.Certomà (2011) “Critical Urban Gardening as Post-Environmentalist practice”, Local Environment, 16/1, 51-73
  20. C.Certomà (2011) “Standing-up vineyards. The political relevance of Tuscan wine production”, Environment and Planning D, 29, 1010-1029
  21. C.Certomà (2010) “Spazi locali, luoghi globali: geometrie di potere nella post-modernità”, Sviluppo locale, 34/1, 87-100
  22. C.Certomà (2010) “Diritto al cibo, sicurezza alimentare e sovranità alimentare”, Rivista di Diritto Alimentare, IV/2
  23. C.Certomà (2010) “Ecologia, la creazione di una scienza”, Physis. International Journal for the History of Science, XLV, 1-2/08, 325-342
  24. C.Certomà (2009) “Environmental Politics and place authenticity protection”, Environmental Values, 18/3, 312-342
  25. C.Certomà (2007) “Generazioni future e questioni ambientali”, Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, 1/07, 111-134
  26. C.Certomà (2006) “Ecology, Environmentalism and System Theory”, Kybernetes. The International Journal of Systems and Cybernetics, 35/6

 

Book chapters

 

  1. F.Iapaolo, C.Certomà, P.Giaccaria (forth. 2023) “Do Digital Technologies Have Politics? Imaginaries, Practices and Socio-political Implications of Civic Blockchain”, in T. Osborne, P. Jones (eds) Digital Geographies Research Agenda Book, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
  2. C.Certomà (forth. Jan 2023) “Promises and contradictions of digital sustainability in the post-pandemic city” in H. Haarstad, J., Grandin, K., Kjærås, E., Johnson (eds) Haste: The slow politics of climate urgency, UCL Press, London
  3. C.Certomà (2022) “Questione ambientale e transizione ecologica” in C.Certomà, S.Conti, P.Giaccaria, U.Rossi, C.Salone, Geografia economica e politica, Pearson, Torino
  4. F. Mancebo, C. Certomà (2019) “Planning Urban Futures: Addressing the Sustainability-Justice Nexus in the Light of Urban Agriculture” in J. van der Heijden, H. Bulkeley, and C. Certomà (eds.) “Urban Climate Politics. Agency and Empowerment”, Cambridge University Press, 135-151
  5. J. van der Heijden, C. Certomà and H. Bulkeley (2019) “The politics of urban climate futures: recognition, experimentation, orchestration” in J. van der Heijden, H. Bulkeley, and C. Certomà (eds.) “Urban Climate Politics. Agency and Empowerment”, Cambridge University Press, 231-242
  6. J. van der Heijden, H. Bulkeley, and C. Certomà (2019) "Promises and Concerns of the Urban Century: Agency and Empowerment” in J. van der Heijden, H. Bulkeley, and C. Certomà (eds.) “Urban Climate Politics. Agency and Empowerment”, Cambridge University Press, 1-20
  7. C.Certomà, Sonderman and S. Noori (2019) “Urban gardening and the quest for just uses of space in Europe” in C.Certomà, M. Sonderman and S. Noori (eds.)  “Urban Gardening and the Struggles of Social and Spatial Justice”, Manchester University Press, 1-20
  8. C.Certomà and C. Tornaghi (2019) “Politics and the contested terrain of urban gardening in the neoliberal city” in C. Tornaghi and C.Certomà (2019) “Urban Gardening as Politics", Routledge, London, 1-11
  9. C. Certomà (2019) “A practice-based approach to political gardening. Materiality, performativity and post-environmentalism” in C. Tornaghi and C.Certomà (2019) “Urban Gardening as Politics", Routledge, London, 35-45
  10. C. Tornaghi and C.Certomà (2019) “Political gardening, equity and justice: a research agenda” in C. Tornaghi and C.Certomà (2019) “Urban Gardening as Politics", Routledge, London, 209-215
  11. C.Certomà and F. Rizzi (2017) “Crowdsourcing process for citizen-driven governance” in C.Certomà, M. Dyer, F. Rizzi and L.Pocatilu (eds) “Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City”  Springer, New York, 57-78
  12. C.Certomà, M. Dyer, F. Rizzi and L.Pocatilu (2017) “Preface” in C.Certomà, M. Dyer, F. Rizzi and L.Pocatilu (eds.) Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City, Springer, New York, vii-ix
  13. B. Ioannou, N. Morán, M. Sonderman, C.Certomà and M. Hardman (2016)  “Grassroots movements – toward cooperative forms of green urban development?” in S. Bell et al. (eds.), Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe, Routledge,London, 62-90
  14. C.Certomà and M. Pimbert (2015) “Crowdsourcing and Action Research. Fostering people’s participation in research through digital media” in H.Bradbury-Huang (ed.) Handbook of Action Research, London: Sage, p 512-521
  15. C.Certomà (2015) “Critical Urban gardening” in M. Pimbert (ed), Perspective on Local Food Systems, RCC, Munich, 13-16
  16. C.Certomà (2014; second edition 2020) “Post-environmentalism” in A. Orsini, J. Morin (eds.) Essential concepts of Global Environmental Governance, Routledge, London
  17. C.Certomà (2013) “Spazio post-globale” in S.Gianfaldoni (ed.) Lessico interculturale, Franco Angeli, Milano
  18. C.Certomà (2013) “Identità locale” in S.Gianfaldoni (ed.) Lessico interculturale,  Franco Angeli, Milano
  19. C.Certomà (2013) “On the possibility of values translation in the global world”, in A. Loretoni, J. Pauchard and A. Pirni (eds.), Questioning Universalism. Western and New Confucianist Conceptions and Their Implications, ETS, Pisa, 115-122
  20. B. Henry and C.Certomà (2013) “Social Sciences as Sciences and Hermeneutics” in A. Loretoni, J. Pauchard and A. Pirni (eds.), Questioning Universalism. Western and New Confucianist Conceptions and Their Implications, ETS, Pisa
  21. C.Certomà and L. Greyl (2012) “Non-extractive policies as a main road to Environmental Justice? The case of the Yasunì Park in Ecuador” in Haarstad H.(ed.) New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 199-216
  22. C.Certomà (2012) “Exploring the crisis of contemporary environmental politics”, in W. Jackson, B. Jeffery, M. Marino and T. Sykes (eds) Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety: An Interdisciplinary, Examination of Historical and Contemporary Human Challenges, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 175-190
  23. C.Certomà (2012) “The death of Environmentalism”, in P. Robbins, J. Newman, J. G. Golson (eds) Green Series Volume 8: Green Ethics and Philosophy, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, 99-101
  24. C.Certomà (2012) “La retorica del locale”, in Cristiani E., Strambi G. (eds.), Regole delle produzioni locali e mercato globale, ETS, Pisa, 113-122
  25. N. Clewer, D. Elsey and C.Certomà (2012) “Introduction” in C.Certomà  N. Clewer and D. Elsey (eds.) (2012) The Politics of Space and Place:  Exclusions, Resistance and Alternatives, Cambridge Scholarly Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1-17
  26. C.Certomà, P. Migliorini (2011) “The evaluation of sustainability of organic farms in Tuscany”, in Gökcekus H., Türker Umut T., LaMoreaux J.W. (eds.) Environment: Survival and Sustainibility, Springer, New York
  27. C.Certomà (2011) “Riflettendo sul Paesaggio. Brevi considerazioni su territorio, appartenenza e cambiamento”, in Cristiani E., Strambi G., Alabrese M. (eds.), La convenzione Europea del Paesaggio, ETS, Pisa, 69-78
  28. C.Certomà (2010) “Territori e produzioni alimentari tra locale e globale”, in Pellecchia E. (eds), Cibo e Conflitti, Plus-Pisa University Press, Pisa, 293-302
  29. C.Certomà (2009) “Human Rights” in Fagan G. H., Munck R. (eds.), Globalisation and Security, Westport, Greenwood Publishing Group, Praeger Press, Santa Barbara
  30. C.Certomà (2009) “Produzione alimentare e identità del territorio”, in Cristiani E., Massart A. (eds.), Prodotti tipici e turismo sostenibile come strumento di sviluppo del territorio, ETS, Pisa, 27-30
  31. C.Certomà (2008) “Authentic Place, Local Identities and Environmental Discourses”, in Hillerbrand R.C., Karlsson R. (eds.), Beyond the Global Village. Environmental Challenges inspiring Global Citizenship, The Interdisciplinary Press, Oxford
  32. C.Certomà (2005) “Valutare l’agricoltura sociale”, in Noferi M. (ed.), Agricoltura sociale e agricoltura di comunità, Arsia - Regional Agriculture Office of Tuscany, Firenze
  33. C.Certomà (2005) “La tela di Penelope”, in Foschi A.D. Imprenditrici, Edizioni Camera di Commercio di Livorno, Livorno, 17-20
  34. C.Certomà (2005) “Sale su Cartagine: guerra e ambiente”, in Pellecchia E., Consorti P. (eds.), Diritti, tolleranza, memoria. Una città per la Pace, Plus-Pisa University Press, Pisa, 337-341

 

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