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Miriam Tola is assistant professor in Environmental Humanities at the University of Lausanne. She specializes in feminist and decolonial theory, political ecology and the study of activist and aesthetic practices for gender, racial and environmental justice. Her current book project focuses on the potential of the commons as path for making futures in the ruins of extractive capitalism. Her articles on the Anthropocene, the politics of the commons and the rights of nature have appeared in journals such as Theory & Event, South Atlantic Quarterly, Feminist Review, Environmental Humanities and Studi Culturali.

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    Publications




    Peer-Reviewed Articles


     

    “Killing Softly: European Whiteness, Black Labor, and African Wildlife in Ulrich Seidl’s Safari,” Studi Culturali, no. 3 (2019):


     “The Archive and the Lake. Eco-memory, Toxic Labor and the Making of the Commons in Rome, Italy,” Environmental Humanities 11, no. 1 (2019): 194-215.


     “Between Pachamama and Mother Earth: Gender, Political Ontology and the Rights of Nature in Contemporary Bolivia,” Feminist Review 118 (2018): 25-40. 


    “Species, Nature and the Politics of the Common: From Virno to Simondon,” South Atlantic Quarterly 116, no 2, (2017): 237-255 (invited).


     “Composing with Gaia: Isabelle Stengers and the Feminist Politics of the Earth,” PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, 11, no. 1 (2016): 1-21.


    “Commoning With/in the Earth. Hardt, Negri and Feminist Natures.”  Theory & Event 18, no. 4 (2015).


    “The Political Ecology of Isabelle Stengers: Displacing the Anthropocene.” Teoria 34, no. 2 (2014):101-118. 


     

     Book Chapters and Entries


     

    Reinventing the Strike in Transnational Feminist Movements and Youth Climate Activism,” in preparation.


    “Geopower” in preparation for The Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics, edited by Luigi Pellizzoni, Emanuele Leonardi and Viviana Asara, Elgar (invited).


     “La città dei corpi indecorosi: femminismi, spazi urbani e politiche securitarie in Italia,” in La libertà è una passeggiata, edited by Chiara Belingardi, Federica Castelli and Serena Olcuire, open access book, IAPh Italia (2019): 109-118.


    Pachamama,” in Loanwords to Live With: An Ecotopian Lexicon Against the Anthropocene, edited by Brent Ryan Bellamy and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, University of Minnesota Press (2019): 194-203.


    “The Common,” in Keywords in Radical Geographical Thought, edited by Tariq Jazeel, Andy Kent, Katherine McKittrick and Nik Theodore, Wiley, Antipode Book Series. Co-authored with Ugo Rossi (2019):  259-263.


     “Planetary Lovers: On Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens’ Art and Activism” in Other Globes. Past and Peripheral Imaginations of the Globe, edited by Simon Ferdinand, Irene Villaescusa and Esther Peeren, Palgrave McMillan (2019): 231-248.


     “Tra storia operaia ed ecologie urbane,” in Historia Magistra. Rivista di storia critica 28. Co-authored with Matilde Fracassi (2018): 158-161.


    “Mirna Cunningham: Indigenous Women’s Rights and Revolutionary Change in Nicaragua,” in Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Social Movements edited by Mary K. Trigg and Alison Bernstein, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Co-authored with Alison Bernstein, (2016): 82-96. 


     Oltre il cyberfemminismo. Micropolitiche nella terra di mezzo,” in Tecnologie di genere: teoria, usi e pratiche di donne nella rete, edited by Patrizia Violi and Cristina Demaria, Bologna: Bononia University Press, (2008): 71-89.


     

     Reviews

    Surplus-Value of Life and Regimes of Valuation,” Book Forum: 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value by Brian Massumi, Dialogues in Human Geography (2020): 1-3.

    “Spinoza and the Politics of the Future,” review of Spinoza for Our Time by Antonio Negri, and Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization by Hasana Sharp. Reviews in Cultural Theory 5, no. 1 (2014).


    “Dispossession: The Performative in the Political,” review of Dispossession: The Performative in the Political by Judith Butler and Athena Atanasiou. Hypatia Reviews Online (2014).




    Selected Public Scholarship

    “Visioni femministe e queer per l’Antropocene,”  Jacobin Italia, Fall 2019.

    “Water Makes Us Wet. An Interview with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens,” Filmmaker Magazine, forthcoming, February 2019.


    “Genealogie femministe oltre il Capitalocene,” Dinamo Press, June 8 (2018).


    “Dentro e contro l’Antropocene: sfide per il post-operaismo,” Effimera and Dinamo Press, June 23 (2017).


    Non Una Di Meno in Italia: un movimento intersezionale? (with Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz), Dinamo Press, April 20 (2017).


     La piazza bollente dei camici bianchi. Interview with Gretchen Goldman, Union of Concerned Scientists,Il manifesto, March 5 (2017).


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