Ricercatrice a tempo determinato L.240\/2010 – Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche | Email: maura.benegiamo@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"168046","unipi-persone-nome":"Maura","unipi-persone-cognome":"Benegiamo","unipi-persone-email":"maura.benegiamo@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"I am an Assistant Professor in Sociology of Economic and Labour Processes. I earned my PhD in 2016 at the IUAV University of Venice with a dissertation on the political ecology of global land grabbing. Since 2012, I have participated in national and international research projects and conducted fieldwork in Southern Europe, Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on extractivism, land and environmental struggles, agricultural development policies, global agro-industry, and the governance of climate change and ecological transitions. From 2014 to 2016, I was a visiting researcher at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. In 2018, I received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Coll\u00e8ge d\u2019\u00c9tudes Mondiales \u2013 Fondation Maison des Sciences de l\u2019Homme. I have worked as a research fellow at the Universities of Milano-Bicocca, Trieste and Pisa and collaborated with diverses European Universities. I serve as co-editor of the Political Ecology book series at Orthotes and I am a member of the Politics-Ontology-Ecology (POE) network.
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\r\nMy research interests include political and decolonial ecology, green capitalism, extractivism and labour-value theory. More broadly, my work examines how the transformations of the value\u2013nature nexus in the context of the climate crisis redefine labour relations, environmental justice and trasform socio-ecological relations of production. My current research focuses on digital agriculture, biocapitalism and the implications of emerging techno-scientific innovations for labour and risk governance in the agribusiness sector. Between 2023 and 2025, I was the Principal Investigator of the PRIN project DiJust. Digital Food and Just Transition. Sustainability and Labour in Agriculture 4.0.
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\r\nI am the author of two monographs:
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\r\n- Land, Capital and Extractive Frontiers. Social Conflict and Ecological Crisis in the Senegal River Delta, Bristol University Press, 2025
\r\n- La terra dentro il capitale. Conflitti, sviluppoe crisi ecologica nel delta del Senegal, Orthotes, 2021
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\r\nJournal Articles (selection):
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\r\n- Agricultural digitalisation and just transition: a framework for the analysis (with A. Corrado and M. Fama), Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, 78(2): 19\u201331.
\r\n- Work and welfare transformations in the climate crisis: A research pathway towards an ecological, just transition, Sociologia del Lavoro.
\r\n- The Labor of the Future, the Future of Labor? A Just Transition Critique of the Digital Agriculture Utopia, The Berliner Gazette.
\r\n- The long reach of commodity frontiers: social reproduction and food procurement strategies among migrant workers in Kenya\u2019s flower farms, The Journal of Peasant Studies.
\r\n- A new food security approach? Continuity and novelty in the European Union\u2019s turn to preparedness (with L. Pellizzoni, L. Centemeri and C. Panico), Agriculture and Human Values.
\r\n- The Target Malaria project and the gene drive experiment: for an ontological politics of the neoliberal bioeconomy and its controversies, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia.
\r\n- A Green Economy Failure? Italian Investors In Senegal Between Green Grabbing And Development Promises, Sociologia Urbana e Rurale.
\r\n- Cheap flowers and social reproduction: migrant workers\u2019 food strategies at the floricultural frontier of Naivasha, Kenya (with G. Volpato and R. Ellena), Journal of Peasant Studies.
\r\n- Agrarian crises and producerist populism in French rural unions (with W. Loveluck), Sociologia del Lavoro, 162: 164\u2013183.
\r\n- Ecology, labour and crises: agrarian development and food security, in Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics, Elgar.
\r\n- Exploring accumulation in the New Green Revolution for Africa, in Accumulating Capital Today, Routledge (2021).
\r\n- Extractivism, exclusion and conflicts in Senegal\u2019s agro-industrial transformation, Review of African Political Economy, 47(166): 522\u2013544 (2020).","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Maura-Benegiamo?ev=hdr_xprf","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"\r\nSi prega di fissare l'appuntamento inviando un'email all'indirizzo maura.benegiamo@unipi.it\r\n\r\n","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"\r\nvia Collegio Ricci 10 (Palazzo Ricci), III Piano\r\non line: piattaforma TEAMS\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"\r\nRicevimento su appuntamento\r\n\r\n\r\n","unipi-persone-telefono":"","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/maura_benegiamo\/","unipi-persone-cariche":"","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=050614","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=050614&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-settore-scientifico":"Sociologia dei Processi Economici e del Lavoro GSPS-08\/A","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Ricercatrice a tempo determinato L.240\/2010 ","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp175960","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"