Dr. Federico Venturini Address: via della viotta 17, 33100, Udine, Italy Tel: +393335273916, +447402505703 E-mail: venturini@inventati.org Profession Researcher Academic Career January 2017 - March 2017 February 2012 - June 2016 February 2011 - June 2011 Associated member, Universidade Federal da Integração-Latinoamericana, Brazil Member of the research project: Triangle-city cooperation: building joint climate-resilient development in the Parana basin Postgraduate teaching assistance, University of Leeds Visiting Tutor - Language Centre Academic Education and Qualifications University of Leeds 2012-2016 PhD in Geography Thesis Title: A Critical Perspective on Social Ecology and Urban Crises: Learning about, with and from Urban Social Movements in Rio de Janeiro. Supervisors: Dr. Sara Gonzalez and Prof. Paul Chatterton 2014-2015 University of Leeds Teaching Award ULTA-1 Institute of Social Ecology January 2013 Intensive Course of Social Ecology University of Udine 2008-2011 MA - Master in European History and Civilization Thesis Title: Leeds: Progetti di Riqualificazione Urbana (Leeds: Urban Regeneration Projects). Supervisor: Prof. Franca Battigelli University of Trieste 2005-2008 MPhil - Master in Theoretical, Moral, Political and Aesthetic Philosophy Thesis Title: La Questione del Gioco in L. Wittgenstein (The Game Theory in L. Wittgenstein). Supervisor: Prof. Pier Aldo Rovatti 2002-2005 BPhil - Bachelor of Philosophy 1
Publications Verlinghieri, E. and Venturini, F. 2017. Exploring the Right to Mobility through the 2013 Mobilizations in Rio de Janeiro. Journal of Transport Geography. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.09.008 Venturini, F. 2015. Social Ecology and Contemporary Urban Struggles. In: Eiglad,E. ed. Social Ecology and Social Change. Porsgrunn: New Compass, 212-222. Venturini, F. 2015. Social Ecology and the Non-Western World. Challenging Capitalist Modernity II. Dissecting Capitalist Modernity - Building Democratic Confederalism, 3th-5th April 2015, Hamburg. [Online]. [Accessed 2 October 2015]. Available from: http://networkaq.net/2015/speeches/pdf/2.5%20english%20-%20federico%20venturini%20- %20Social%20Ecology%20Non-Western%20World.pdf Venturini, F. 2014. Le Proteste Popolari a Rio de Janeiro a Partire da Giugno 2013: Uno Studio Preliminare. In: XIII Coloquio Internacional de Geocrítica El control del Espacio y los Espacios de Control, 5th-10th May 2014, Barcelona. [Online]. [Accessed 10 January 2015]. Available from: www.ub.edu/geocrit/coloquio2014/federico%20venturini.pdf Venturini, F. and Verlinghieri, E. 2014. Scarcity, Post-Scarcity and Local Community: L'Aquila as a Case Study. Planum. [Online]. II(29), 51-69. [Accessed 2 October 2014]. Available from: www.planum.net/download/venturini_verlinghieri-scibe-issue Verlinghieri, E. and Venturini, F. 2014. Disaster Recovery and the Need for Community Participation: the C.A.S.E. Project in L Aquila as a Case Study. In: Calandra, L.M., et al. eds. Multiple Geographical Perspectives on Hazards and Disasters. Rome: Valmar, 95-104. Reports Imrali Peace Delegation 2017. State Terror, Human Rights Violations, And Authoritarianism in Turkey. EU-Turkey Civic Commission. Books review Finley, E. and Venturini, F. 2017. Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin by Janet Biehl. Anarchist Studies. 25(1), 103-105. Forthcoming Venturini, F. Forthcoming. The Value Of Social Ecological Theory in the Struggles to Come. In: Springer, S. et al. eds. Anarchist Political Ecology: Epistemologies and Ontologies of Resistance. Miley, T. J. and Venturini, F. eds. Forthcoming. The Experience of the Imrali Peace Delegation. Montreal: Black Rose books. Venturini, F., Değirmenci, E. and Morales-Bernardos, I. eds. Forthcoming. The Right to the City and Social Ecology: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities. Montreal: Black Rose books. Working in Progress Venturini, F. A Critical Perspective on Social Ecology and Urban Crises: Learning about, with and from Urban Social Movements in Rio de Janeiro. Targeted publisher: Policy Press, Bristol. Venturini, F. Learning about, with and from Urban Social Movements: An Experience of Transnational Activism in Rio de Janeiro. Targeted journal: Antipode. Grupo Popular Pesquisa em Ação. Maraká ná, a Militant Approach to Participatory Video Making. Targeted journal: Area. Conference Presentations Venturini, F. 2017. Urban Social Movements in Rio de Janeiro: The 'Missing' Environmental Question. 5th Annual Workshop of the Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture on Working-class Environmentalism, 9 th - 10 th November, Venice, Italy. 2
Venturini, F. 2017. Azione diretta militante e Trabalho de Base come pratiche innovative di resistenza, il caso di Rio de Janeiro. Città, spazi abbandonati, autogestione, 3 th October, Bologna, Italy. Venturini, F. 2017. Militant Direct Action and Trabalho de Base as Innovative Practices of Resistance, the case of Rio de Janeiro. 1 st International Conference of Anarchist Geographies and Geographers (ICAGG) Geography, social change and antiauthoritarian practices, 21 st - 23 rd Septeber, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Lupieri, G. and Venturini, F. 2017. Networks, Libertarian Practices and Social Centre in the Experience of Udine s Student Movement.1 st International Conference of Anarchist Geographies and Geographers (ICAGG) Geography, social change and antiauthoritarian practices, 21 st - 23 rd September, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Venturini, F. 2017. Reconceptualising the Right to the City and Spatial Justice through Social Ecology. The Right to the City and Social Ecology Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities, 1 st - 3 rd September, Thessaloniki, Greece. Venturini, F. and Widehammar, M. 2017. The Relevance of Social Ecology for Urban Social Movements, Workshop. The Right to the City and Social Ecology Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities, 1 st - 3 rd September, Thessaloniki, Greece. Venturini, F. and Verlinghieri, E. 2016. A Lesson from Kurds and Zapatistas: Building a Culture of Resistance. Emancipatory Transformations: Engaging Radical Democracy in Kurdistan, 3 rd - 4 th November, Brighton, UK. Venturini, F. 2016. Building Decolonized Movement - Relevant Theory: Next Steps for Transnational Activism. Congreso Internacional Contested_Cities, 4 th - 7 th July, Madrid, Spain. Venturini, F. and Verlinghieri, E. 2016. The Indigenous Struggles in the Urban Space: Learning from the Aldeia Maracana Experience. Congreso Internacional Contested_Cities, 4 th - 7 th July, Madrid, Spain. Verlinghieri, E. and Venturini, F. 2016. Exploring the Right to Mobility through the 2013 Mobilizations in Rio de Janeiro. 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 29 th March 1 st April, San Francisco, USA. Venturini, F. 2015. The Social Ecology and the City. Third Seminar of Transnational Institute of Social Ecology, 28 th - 31 st August, Patras, Greece. Venturini, F. 2015. Workshop: Social Movements and Research in Action for Social Change. Third Seminar of Transnational Institute of Social Ecology, 28 th - 31 st August, Patras, Greece. Venturini, F. 2015. Between Research and Activism: the Role of Photography. Contested Cities Conference, 12 th - 17 th April 2014. Mexico City, Mexico. Venturini, F. 2015. Aldeia Marakana Experience: an Anarchist Perspective. 6 th Annual North American Anarchist Studies Conference, 20 th - 22 nd March, San Francisco, USA. Venturini, F. 2014. Urban Struggles and Urban Social Movements: a Social Ecology Perspective. The Ecological Challenges 2014 Conference, 25 th - 27 th September, Oslo, Norway. Grupo Popular Pesquisa em Ação. 2014. Towards a Production of Knowledge from the Movements for the Movements: the Experience of 'Grupo Popular Pesquisa em Ação' in Rio de Janeiro. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2014, 26 th - 29 th August, London. Venturini, F. 2014. Being in Brazil in a Revolutionary Time: Notes from a Fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro. Contested Cities Week, 16 th - 19 th February, University of Leeds. Venturini, F. 2014. Methodology in Research: Looking at Social Movements. Second Conference of Transnational Institute of Social Ecology, 23 rd - 27 th April, Marathon-Athens, Greece. 3
Venturini, F. 2014. Being in Brazil in a Revolutionary Time. Second Conference of Transnational Institute of Social Ecology, 23 rd - 27 th April, Marathon-Athens, Greece. Venturini, F. and Verlinghieri, E. 2013. Disaster Recovery and the Need of Community Participation: The C.A.S.E. Project in L'Aquila as a Case Study. EUGEO 2013 Congress. Session: Multiple Geographical Perspectives on Hazards and Disasters. 5 th - 7 th September 2013, Università la Sapienza, Rome. Venturini, F. and Verlinghieri, E. 2013. A Social Ecological Approach to the Reconstruction of L Aquila. First Conference of Transnational Institute of Social Ecology, 21 st - 24 th March, Mirtos, Greece. Venturini, F. and Verlinghieri, E. 2013. Scarcity, Post-Scarcity and Local Community: L Aquila as a Case Study. SCIBE PhD Conference: Within the Limits of Scarcity, Rethinking Space, City and Practices. 26 th - 28 th February. University of Westminster, London. Ergin, B.N. and Venturini, F. 2013. [Hetero]-[U]-[Eco]topias and the Urban Space. 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 9 th - 13 th April, Los Angeles, USA. Other Publications and Presentations Venturini, F. 2017. Public Forum Peace Delegation Calls for the Return to the Peace Process, 23 th January, House of Commons, London, UK. Venturini, F. 2016. The Situation in North Kurdistan. A Discussion with Abdullah Ocalan's Translator, Havin Guneser, 27 th October, Manchester, UK. Venturini, F. 2016. La Detenzione di Öcalan, il Processo di Pace e il Ruolo della Delegazione di Imralı. Incontro Pubblico con Mazlum Dinç, 1 st October, Florence, Italy. Venturini, F. 2016. Public Forum The Kurdish Question and the Chaos in the Middle East, 9 th May, House of Commons, London, UK. Venturini, F. 2016. Public Forum Democratic Confederalism and the Kurdish Case in Turkey, 18 th April, House of Commons, London, UK. Venturini, F. 2015. Bookchin: Living Legacy of an American Revolutionary: An Interview with Debbie Bookchin. ROAR Magazine. [Online]. [Accessed 10 March 2015]. Available from: http://roarmag.org/2015/02/bookchin-interview-social-ecology/ Venturini, F. 2014. Anarquismo, uma Introdução. Sociology Department, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil. Venturini, F. 2014. Ecologia Social e a Cidade. Sociology Department, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil. Grupo Popular Pesquisa em Ação. 2014. MARAKÁ NÀ. Documentary. [Online]. [Accessed: 10 February 2015]. Available from: contested-cities.net/blog/marakana/ Venturini, F. 2011. The Use of Reflective Journals in Language Teaching. Training day at the Language Centre, 20 th May, University of Leeds, Leeds. Teaching experiences Istituto Comprensivo II - Udine May 2017 - June 2017 Teaching assistant University of Leeds 2015/2016 Postgraduate teaching assistant for the modules: Globalisation from Above and Below - GEOG3025 Research Methods - GEOG2551 4
Urban Living - GEOG1320 2014/2015 Postgraduate teaching assistant for the modules: Political and Development Geographies - GEOG2020 2013/2014 Postgraduate teaching assistant for the modules: Qualitative Research Methods - GEOG2070 Population and Health Geographies - GEOG2030 2012/2013 Postgraduate teaching assistant for the modules: Autonomous Geographies Sustainable Futures - GEOG3920 Leeds: From Local to Global - GEOG1035 February 2011 - June 2011 Internal Examiner for FLTU Italian Modules - Language Centre February 2011 - June 2011 Visiting Tutor - Language Centre Reviewer 2015. Anonymous reviewer for Disasters Journal International Experiences July - August 2016 March 2016 April 2015 March - August 2013, September 2013 - January 2014, May - July 2014 February 2011 - June 2011 September 2010 - December 2010 Contested Cities - fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fieldwork in Turkey/North Kurdistan Contested Cities - fieldwork in Mexico Contested Cities - fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Erasmus Placement at the Language Centre, University of Leeds Erasmus Scheme. School of Modern Languages & Cultures, University of Leeds Contested Cities network conferences 4 th - 7 th July 2016. Madrid, Spain 12 th - 17 th April 2014. Mexico City, Mexico 1 st - 5 th September 2014. Leeds, UK 20 th - 23 rd May 2013. Buenos Aires, Argentina Grants Awarded Conference Grants November. 2017 June 2017 5th Annual Workshop of the Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture on Working-class Environmentalism, Venice, Italy Fearless Cities: International Municipalist Summit, Barcelona, Spain 5
November 2016 April 2015 September 2014 Emancipatory Transformations: Engaging Radical Democracy in Kurdistan, Brighton, UK Challenging Capitalist Modernity II. Dissecting Capitalist Modernity - Building Democratic Confederalism, Hamburg, Germany The Ecological Challenges 2014 Conference, Oslo, Norway EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) April 2017 February 2017 February 2017 April 2016 February 2016 Peace delegation, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France Peace delegation, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France Peace delegation Diyarbakir and Istanbul, Turkey Peace delegation, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France Peace delegation Istanbul, Turkey Contested Cities (UE project-ga-2012-318944) July 2016 April 2015 May 2014 June 2013 Fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fieldwork in Mexico Conference grant, Barcelona, Spain Fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil University of Udine February 2012 January 2011 September 2010 Supporting Human Assets in Research and Mobility Project S.H.A.R.M. Scholarship Erasmus Placement Scholarship Erasmus Scholarship Industrial Experiences Social Research Associates Ltd. December 2014 December 2014 March - April 2014 Assistant Researcher. Leeds Focus groups organizer and assistant. Leeds Workshop organizer and facilitator. Shrewsbury 6
International Peace Delegation Experiences EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) and Leeds 24 th - 28 th April 2017 Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France 28 th February 2017 Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France 13 th - 19 th February 2017 Diyarbakir and Istanbul, Turkey 19 th - 23 th April 2016 Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France 14 th - 16 th February 2016 Istanbul, Turkey Languages knowledge Italian: Mother tongue English: Fluent Portuguese: Fluent Spanish: Intermediate Other relevant information Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy - Recognition reference: PR100748 Member of Contested Cities Network, international research network that involves the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Buenos Aires, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the University of Chile, the Autonomous National University of Mexico and the University of Leeds. Founder and Board Member of the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology TRISE Planning for Real trained organiser PGR Rep for 2013-2015 academic year, Schools of Geography, University of Leeds Qualified Ski Teacher and Personal Trainer References: Available on request 7