Michela BONATO

Position
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
michela.bonato@unive.it
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/michela.bonato (personal record)
Office
Department of Humanities (DSU)
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities

Office hours

2° semester a.y. 2025/2026

  • Friday 09:00 am - 11:00 am (online) upon registration via email.

Teaching activity current year

HOSPITALITY INNOVATION AND E-TOURISM [CTR9]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Teaching activity previous years

HOSPITALITY INNOVATION AND E-TOURISM [CT9]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

HOSPITALITY INNOVATION AND E-TOURISM [CTR9]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LANGUAGE AND MANAGEMENT TO CHINA [LM9]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

LANGUAGE AND MANAGEMENT TO CHINA [LMR9]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

HOSPITALITY INNOVATION AND E-TOURISM [CT9]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

MEDIAZIONE LINGUISTICA E CULTURALE [LT5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

HOSPITALITY INNOVATION AND E-TOURISM [CT9]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

MEDIAZIONE LINGUISTICA E CULTURALE [LT5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

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
inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
tedesco (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
spagnolo (scritto: intermedio parlato: avanzato)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Referee for the following journals:
European Spatial Research and Policy;
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Geografia
Area: Studi storici e relazioni internazionali Linea: Cina
Sviluppo urbano-rurale in Cina
Description:
Chinese urban-rural development; green gentrification; liminal spaces
Keywords:
Social geography, Urban policy, Ethnography
Chinese (natural) heritage
Description:
waterscape narratives; water management; Southwest China
Keywords:
Human geography, Semiotics, Ethnography
Decolonial-transfeminist approach to didactics
Description:
active, participatory learning methods; knowledge co-construction; critical-creative thinking
Keywords:
Feminist studies, Experimental education, Chinese studies
Toponomastica critica e spazi della memoria
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)
SSD:
M-GGR/01
“Information Security Awareness - the Employee Experience” at SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany (Nov 2015-Sept 2016)
SSD:
GEOG-01/B
Historical Analysis of Chongqing Water Management (part of the PhD Project; 2013-2015)
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

please see the page in Italian.

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