Michela BONATO
- Position
- Adjunct Professor
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michela.bonato@unive.it
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/michela.bonato (personal record)
- Office
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Department of Humanities (DSU)
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Office hours
2° semester a.y. 2025/2026
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Friday 09:00 am - 11:00 am (online) upon registration via email.
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Activities and research skills
- Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
- Geografia economico-politica [GEOG-01/B]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Estremo Oriente,Europa
- Known languages
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inglese
(scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
tedesco (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
spagnolo (scritto: intermedio parlato: avanzato)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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Referee for the following journals:
European Spatial Research and Policy;
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Storia e Antropologia Linea:
Geografia
Area: Studi storici e relazioni internazionali Linea: Cina
- Sviluppo urbano-rurale in Cina
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- Description:
- Chinese urban-rural development; green gentrification; liminal spaces
- Keywords:
- Social geography, Urban policy, Ethnography
- Chinese (natural) heritage
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- Description:
- waterscape narratives; water management; Southwest China
- Keywords:
- Human geography, Semiotics, Ethnography
- Decolonial-transfeminist approach to didactics
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- Description:
- active, participatory learning methods; knowledge co-construction; critical-creative thinking
- Keywords:
- Feminist studies, Experimental education, Chinese studies
- Toponomastica critica e spazi della memoria
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- Description:
- Crtitical place naming; memoryscapes; China studies
- Keywords:
- Human geography, Social anthropology, Chinese studies
- Historical Analysis of Chongqing Water Management (part of the PhD Project; 2013-2015)
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- Funding body:
- 2014 China Scholarship Council and Italian Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (funding body: China Scholarship Council)
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2014 Length in months: 11
Publication highlights
Bonato, Michela Chinese Green Gentrification: Gaze and Ethics in Local Discourses of Sustainable Development in THE DEVELOPING ECONOMIES, vol. 64, pp. 22-39 (ISSN 0012-1533)
DOI 2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5105847
Francesca Acetino; Annachiara Autiero; Noemi Bergesio; Michela Bonato; Barbara Brollo; Francesca Colla; Laura Eccher; Giulia Ferrante; Erika Garozzo; Martina Loi; Roberta Mingo; Mariasole Pepa; Francesca Sabatini; Alice Salimbeni Blank(et) Spaces: Weaving a Transfeminist Geography of Precarity in Academia in ACME, vol. 24, pp. 488-498 (ISSN 1492-9732)
DOI 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5101591
Michela Bonato In/out of China: Exercising Positionality through Mental Maps in J-READING, JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND DIDACTICS IN GEOGRAPHY, vol. 14, pp. 83-99 (ISSN 2281-4310)
DOI - URL correlato 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5108507
Michela Bonato Informal Learning Spaces: Mediated Virtues and Development Practices in a Peri-Urban District of Chongqing, Southwest China in ACME, vol. 24, pp. 595-612 (ISSN 1492-9732)
DOI 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5107827
Bonato, Michela Semiotic ideology and mutable sense of place: Chinese ecological urban renewal through the lens of advertising codes in POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, vol. 115 (ISSN 0962-6298)
DOI 2024,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5081906
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
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