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Latest peer-reviewed publications (since 2022):

BOOKS 

Geografie critiche della cooperazione internazionale (2024)

Plurinationality and epistemic justice. The challenges of intercultural education in Ecuadorian Amazonia (2024)

Plurinacionalidad y justicia epistémica: retos de la educación intercultural en la Amazonía ecuatoriana (2023) 

Platform-mediated tourism: social justice and urban governance before and during Covid-19 (2022) 

 

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

- Introduction: Education as Cultural and Ecological Revitalization Among Amazonian Nationalities (2024)

- Educational experiential calendars: creating links between Indigenous communities and high school (2024)

- Public Education Policies and the Struggle of the Indigenous Movement for a Decolonial Interculturality (2024)

- Participatory Design Interventions: Supporting University Student Care Networks During Covid (2024)

- Cultivating postdevelopment from pluriversal transitions and radical spaces of engagement (2023)

- Decoloniality and critical interculturality in higher education: experiences and challenges in Ecuadorian Amazonia (2023) 

- Introducción: La educación como revitalización cultural y ecológica para las nacionalidades amazónicas (2023) 

- Políticas públicas educativas y lucha del movimiento indígena por una interculturalidad decolonial (2023)

- Calendarios vivenciales: creando vínculos entre las comunidades indígenas y el bachillerato (2023)

- Intervenciones de diseño participativo: apoyando redes de cuidado universitarias en tiempos de Covid (2023) 

- How can research projects be strategically designed to challenge the North-South Divide? (2023) 

- Understanding epistemic erasures of local & indigenous communities: Decolonizing research and re-imagining alternative partnerships in Development Studies (2023) 

- Spatial modeling of water erosion vulnerability and mapping potential sites of control measures using GIS and MCDM: a case study from the drylands of southeastern Morocco (2023) 

- Mobilità e movimenti: metodologie qualitative di ricerca geografica intersezionale (2023) 

- What Is a “Development” Research Project? Transforming Ideas of Development through Development Research (2023)

- Territorial and mobility justice for Indigenous youth: accessing education in Ecuadorian Amazonia (2022)

- Refugee camps as spaces of rescue in times of Covid-19: invisible mobilities in Bourj Albarajenah (2022) 

- Platform-mediated tourism: social justice and urban governance before and during COVID-19 (2022) 

Insegnamenti

• COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE: SPAZI, APPROCCI, POLITICHE (CPS0135)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• DOING RESEARCH AND FIELDWORK IN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION M-Z (CPS0372)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• GEOGRAFIA POLITICA ED ECONOMICA (M-Z) (SCP0182)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• QUALITATIVE METHODS IN GLOBAL SOUTH STUDIES M-Z (CPS0372A)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH (CPS0538)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Temi di ricerca

I am interested in (post)development, postcoloniality and decoloniality, critical geography, political ecology, participatory research and qualitative methods applied to the following themes: international aid, environmental politics, water and natural resource management, local/indigenous knowledges, local evaluation of the environment and climate change, environmental justice, civil society dis/empowerment, environmental migration, and tourism gentrification. Research areas: Sudan, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, Ecuador, and Italy.

Current projects:

Eco-cultural Pluralism in Ecuadorian Amazonia (2018-2022) https://blogs.helsinki.fi/ecocultures-ecuador/

Cost Action Decolonizing Development (2020-2024) https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19129/

Leap-RE Geothermal Village (2022-2023) https://www.leap-re.eu/geothermal-village/

PRIN PNRR Postdevelopment geographies of Local Food Systems: Community-based networks addressing food insecurity (2023-2026) 

Progetti di ricerca

• CA19129 - DECOLONISING DEVELOPMENT: RESEARCH, TEACHING AND PRACTICE

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Organi

• Consiglio di Dipartimento
• Giunta di Dipartimento

• Commissione Monitoraggio e Riesame CdS Area and Global Studies for International Cooperation - AGIC

Terza missione

• Africa on the move
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Ricevimento studenti

La docente riceve su appuntamento: paola.minoia@unito.it
Ufficio: Campus Einaudi 3D240
Webex https://unito.webex.com/meet/paola.minoia
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ISTRUZIONI PER LA RICHIESTA DI TESI DI LAUREA
Posso offrire supervisione su tesi che riguardino le discipline geografiche e gli studi critici sullo sviluppo globale.
Aree tematiche di interesse: geografía postcoloniale e decoloniale, politiche ambientali, teorie dello sviluppo, aree di estrattivismo, aree indigene e conservazione ambientale, segregazione urbana di migranti e rifugiati, ecología política dell´acqua, movimenti ecofemministi, educazione interculturale, aree turistiche.
SI PREGA DI CONTATTARE LA DOCENTE CON UNA PROPOSTA STRUTTURATA COME SEGUE:
Titolo provvisorio e breve abstract che introduca:
a. Il tema e la sua rilevanza;
b. Fondamenti teorici basati su due o tre riferimenti bibliografici significativi;
c. Caso di studio giustificato;
d. 5-6 parole chiave
e possibilmente:
e. Domanda di ricerca
f. Proposta di metodi qualitativi (fonti e metodi di raccolta e analisi)
Il contenuto della proposta sarà discusso e approvato da entrambe le parti e costituirà la base del processo di ricerca.
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HOW TO FORMULATE A REQUEST TO RECEIVE SUPERVISION OF A FINAL THESIS
These guidelines are directed to students interested on theses concerning geographical disciplines and critical global development studies; and more particularly, on the following thematic areas: postcolonial and decolonial geography, environmental policies, development theories, areas of extractivism, indigenous areas and environmental conservation, urban segregation of migrants and refugees, political ecology of water, ecofeminist movements, intercultural education, tourist areas.
PLEASE CONTACT THE TEACHER WITH A STRUCTURED PROPOSAL CONTAINING HE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
A provisional title and abstract introducing:
a. The theme and its relevance;
b. Some key concepts based on two or three significant references (articles or books);
c. A justified case study
d. 5-6 keywords
and possibly:
e. A research question
f. Proposed methodology (sources and qualitative methods for data collection and analysis).
The content of the proposal will be discussed and approved by both parties and will form the basis of the research process.