Stati di crisi

Viola Carofalo is associate professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, in the disciplinary area M-Fil/03 (Moral Philosophy). She deals with the themes of ethics, recognition, and the process of subjectivation, and has worked on the question of conflict and the construction of identity in intercultural contexts. She has published monographs on the Martinican philosopher and political thinker Frantz Fanon (Mimesis, 2013), on the South African Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee (Mimesis, 2016) and on the French philosopher Simone Weil (Orthotes 2021); she is currently publishing a monograph on Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy of action.

Lorenzo Cicatiello is a tenure-track assistant professor in Public Finance at the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” His research focuses on the analysis of public policies, particularly on government, administrative, and public budget transparency. He is also interested in conventional and unconventional political participation as well as income inequality. His research strategy primarily relies on the empirical analysis of primary and secondary data. His work has been published in Government Information Quarterly, Public Management Review, Ecological Economics, Administration & Society, and other national and international journals.

Eleonora Guadagno has been a Type A fixed-term researcher in Geography at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, since 2021. In 2014, she received her PhD in “Geography” at the University of Poitiers. Her research interests focus particularly on contexts of socio-environmental risk and vulnerability, their governance, and their perception by local communities; spatial organization at the urban and regional scales in the presence of minorities and socioeconomic inequalities; mobility flows related—directly or indirectly—to the impacts of environmental degradation, including within the context of “commons”; and more recently, political-administrative spaces and historical cartography. She serves on scientific and editorial boards of national and international Class A journals and is a member of relevant geographical associations. Additionally, she participates in national and international research groups and networks.

Alessandro Guida is a researcher in the Department of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” where he teaches History of Inter-American Relations. His fields of research include the history of Chile in the second half of the 20th century and the more recent dynamics of U.S.-Latin American relations. He is a member of the scientific and editorial board of the international political history journal “Processi Storici e Politiche di Pace” and the scientific committee of “Oltrefrontiera. Collana di storia e politica internazionale”. His major works include: with Raffaele Nocera and Claudio Rolle (eds), De la utopía al estallido: Los últimos cincuenta años en la historia de Chile (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2022); Il “nuovo” Cile dei militari. Dottrina della sicurezza nazionale, guerra psicologica e propaganda, 1973-1975 (ombre corte, 2021); La lezione del Cile. Da Unidad Popular al golpe del 1973 nella stampa italiana di sinistra (Università degli studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”, 2015).

Nicoletta Marini d’Armenia is researcher in Modern History at the Department of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” where she teaches Modern History and where, among other things, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Matteo Ripa Study Center, member of the Doctoral College in International Studies, member of the Disciplinary College, member of the Joint Committee of Teachers and Students (CPDS-PR) and member of the Orientation Commission of the Degree Course in Political Science and International Relations. She has maintained her research interests in study topics related to the Napoleonic era, in the broader context of the system of international relations and the legacy of that period in the Romantic Europe of the Restoration, but she has also developed research interests in the Mediterranean and Atlantic areas. She is member of the Scientific Committee and chief editor of RESN, «Rivista Europea di Studi Napoleonici e dell’età delle Restaurazioni», and responsible for the iMEA project (Mediterranean, European, American Encounters) belonging to the Department of Human and Social Sciences of the University L’Orientale.

Marzia Mauriello is a Researcher in Anthropological Disciplines at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” where she teaches Cultural Anthropology. She conducts research in Italy and Africa, primarily focusing on gender, body, health and well-being, as well as food cultures and practices. She is the Scientific Secretary of the Food and Nutrition Studies Center at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and has held teaching positions at national and international universities. She is the author of An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples: Beauty in Transit (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Additionally, she co-edited Italian Trans Geographies (SUNY Press, 2023). Among her latest works, Tornare alla terra: Forme di neoruralismo come strategia di resistenza ed esercizio di sovranità alimentare (L’Uomo società tradizione sviluppo, 2022) and The Taste of Home: Migrants’ Food in the Making between Continuity and Change (Transnational Press London, 2024).

Bruno Mercurio is a researcher of administrative law at the University of Naples “L'Orientale” where he teaches “Digital law for public administrations.” He is a lecturer in masters and advanced courses at various universities and member of scientific and editorial boards of scientific journals of class A. He is the author of numerous publications in administrative law, in particular on participation, urban planning, environment and public services.