Carlotta MOLFESE

Carlotta is a human geographer with a multidisciplinary background in biology and environmental social science. After completing an undergraduate degree in Marine Biology and Oceanography and a postgraduate degree in Sustainable Environmental Management at the University of Plymouth (UK), Carlotta obtained a 1 + 3 studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK for a master degree and a PhD in Human Geography at the same university.

She completed her PhD in October 2023. Her thesis developed an original theoretical framework that combined more-than-human and anarchist perspectives in geography to examine the affective journeys and everyday doings of countercultural or radical “back-to-the-land” farmers.

Carlotta works at the intersection of cultural and environmental geography using more-than-human and critical perspectives, as well as traditional and innovative qualitative methods. Her research interests include animal and plant geographies, agriculture and rural change, new peasant movements and agroecology, diverse and community economies.

She has presented her research at several prestigious international conferences, including the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IGB) and the American Association of Geographers (AAG). She has published a chapter in the volume “Critical Geographies of Resistance” edited by Sarah M. Hughes (2023) and she acts as a reviewer for several international journals.

She has worked for the Southwest Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP) organising a webinar series on the intersections between research and activism; and she is currently working as a postdoc on a research project financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and led by Prof. Annalisa Colombino entitled “Farms on the move. Rethinking the geographies of transhumance’s community-based economies: a more-than-human approach”.

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