Please note that Donatella is no longer working for the Institute for Geography, hence she is no longer teaching nor is available to supervise theses.
Donatella’s research focused on reimagining what "the economy” means and is, starting in and from the rural areas of the South of Italy, particularly inland Molise, where she carried out engaged ethnographic research. She looked at existing diverse economic practices, with a focus on subsistence and self-production, community economies, and traditional or renewed peasant knowledges. She is interested in exploring the potential of a radical re-valuation of rural peripheries and of ways of life geared around subsistence (understood as local and direct production for needs), that put social reproduction at the centre instead of industrial capitalist growth.
Research Foci
- Degrowth and alternative economies
- Rural areas and economies, traditional and new peasantries, peasant agroecology, rural social movements
- Social reproduction, subsistence economies, materialist ecofeminism
- Political ecology
- Mediterranean Southern Europe, Southern Italy
Other Non-Scientific Publication
- Gasparro, Donatella. . "L'economia di paese oltre la mercificazione del territorio", in Saperi Territorializzati, Vol. 5. Edited by CISAV - Centro Indipendente Studi Alta Valle del Volturno, Italy.
Talks
- Gasparro, Donatella : “Memories and hunches of life otherwise: re-valuing rurality and subsistence for degrowth futures, learning from the Souths-within-the-North. ”. 9th International Degrowth Conference, Zagreb, .
- Gasparro, Donatella : “Memories and glimpses of life otherwise: revaluing rurality and subsistence for degrowth futures.” 3rd European Rural Geographies Conference, "Rural Geographies in Transition", University of Groningen, .
- Gasparro, Donatella : “Salvaging the Future: an Introduction to Degrowth”. Limits to Growth. Lecture in preparation for the PINK! Congress, Amsterdam, .
- Gasparro, Donatella : “Degrowth: an ecofeminist perspective”. Rethinking our Routines. Day of Sustainability 2022, Delft University of Technology, .