Daniela Giudici
Biographic Data
| ID | 106158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela Giudici |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela |
| FAMILY NAME | Giudici |
| SIGNATURE | GIUDICI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5769-2728 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Wasteland Activism: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials. I focus on a seemingly marginal topic—urban weeds—to explore how human–weed relations can help us situate contemporary environmental concerns within longer histories of spatial violence, ecological degrada…
(Un)sustainable futures and the “vulnerable other: Rethinking conditional inclusion in times of climate change
Vulnerable others”, such as forced migrants, are often perceived and presented as problematic subjects, in that they would not easily conform to western, privileged notions of environmental sustainability. Grounded on ethnographic insights from refugees and social workers in the North of Italy, this article explores imaginaries, institutional encounters, and everyday experiences of refugees’ participation in the so-called sustainable transition. …
Who Feels Safe? Uncertain Futures and Enduring Aspirations in Italy
In an attempt of going beyond a simple opposition between those conceived as agents and those seen as subjects of disciplinary power, this article engages with a reflection on differential states of precariousness and (un)safety, which involve both ‘forced migrants’ and ‘citizens’. Drawing on ethnographic research in Milan (Italy), I outline some recent institutional changes in the Italian asylum system, which led to the political abandonment of …
Entering into domestic hospitality for refugees: A critical inquiry through a multi-scalar view of home
Grassroots refugee hospitality is an innovative, if still little investigated field of practices, which illuminates and reshapes the native/immigrant divide. It also sheds light on ‘domestic humanitarianism’, as a range of everyday modes of helping that take place even in the domestic space. Drawing on a case study in Northern Italy, this article develops a framework on the societal implications of refugee hospitality, based on a multi-scalar vie…
Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation
By bringing together scholarship on affective (non)citizenship and critical geographies of public space, in this article we examine how the exposure of refugees’ intimate lives, private relationalities and personal histories mediate their conditional access to “the public”. Drawing on long-term ethnographic engagement in the field of asylum in Italy, we show how asylum seekers are confronted with changing patterns of obligation and dependency in …
Beyond Compassionate Aid: Precarious Bureaucrats and Dutiful Asylum Seekers in Italy
In this article, I track shifting paradigms of refugee management in Italy in times of austerity and welfare state restructuring. Drawing on an ethnographic analysis of asylum-related bureaucratic work in Bologna, the essay explores paradoxical and violent effects of welfare decline both on reception workers' labor conditions and on the dynamic of aid that they end up providing to asylum seekers. On the one hand, recent developments in asylum man…
The list. On discretion and refusal in the Italian asylum system
Drawing on the ethnographic account of the everyday functioning of an asylum support service in the North of Italy, this article explores contradictory tasks and thorny dilemmas of caseworkers engaged in the assistance to asylum seekers. In the name of the constraints imposed by a system on ‘permanent crisis’, asylum caseworkers find themselves engaged in discretionary processes of aid distribution, embedded in blurred subjective criteria. By doi…
Beyond Compassionate Aid: Precarious Bureaucrats and Dutiful Asylum Seekers in Italy
In this article, I track shifting paradigms of refugee management in Italy in times of austerity and welfare state restructuring. Drawing on an ethnographic analysis of asylum-related bureaucratic work in Bologna, the essay explores paradoxical and violent effects of welfare decline both on reception workers' labor conditions and on the dynamic of aid that they end up providing to asylum seekers. On the one hand, recent developments in asylum man…
The list. On discretion and refusal in the Italian asylum system
Drawing on the ethnographic account of the everyday functioning of an asylum support service in the North of Italy, this article explores contradictory tasks and thorny dilemmas of caseworkers engaged in the assistance to asylum seekers. In the name of the constraints imposed by a system on ‘permanent crisis’, asylum caseworkers find themselves engaged in discretionary processes of aid distribution, embedded in blurred subjective criteria. By doi…
Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation
By bringing together scholarship on affective (non)citizenship and critical geographies of public space, in this article we examine how the exposure of refugees’ intimate lives, private relationalities and personal histories mediate their conditional access to “the public”. Drawing on long-term ethnographic engagement in the field of asylum in Italy, we show how asylum seekers are confronted with changing patterns of obligation and dependency in …
Who Feels Safe? Uncertain Futures and Enduring Aspirations in Italy
In an attempt of going beyond a simple opposition between those conceived as agents and those seen as subjects of disciplinary power, this article engages with a reflection on differential states of precariousness and (un)safety, which involve both ‘forced migrants’ and ‘citizens’. Drawing on ethnographic research in Milan (Italy), I outline some recent institutional changes in the Italian asylum system, which led to the political abandonment of …
The list. On discretion and refusal in the Italian asylum system
Drawing on the ethnographic account of the everyday functioning of an asylum support service in the North of Italy, this article explores contradictory tasks and thorny dilemmas of caseworkers engaged in the assistance to asylum seekers. In the name of the constraints imposed by a system on ‘permanent crisis’, asylum caseworkers find themselves engaged in discretionary processes of aid distribution, embedded in blurred subjective criteria. By doi…
Beyond Compassionate Aid: Precarious Bureaucrats and Dutiful Asylum Seekers in Italy
In this article, I track shifting paradigms of refugee management in Italy in times of austerity and welfare state restructuring. Drawing on an ethnographic analysis of asylum-related bureaucratic work in Bologna, the essay explores paradoxical and violent effects of welfare decline both on reception workers' labor conditions and on the dynamic of aid that they end up providing to asylum seekers. On the one hand, recent developments in asylum man…
Entering into domestic hospitality for refugees: A critical inquiry through a multi-scalar view of home
Grassroots refugee hospitality is an innovative, if still little investigated field of practices, which illuminates and reshapes the native/immigrant divide. It also sheds light on ‘domestic humanitarianism’, as a range of everyday modes of helping that take place even in the domestic space. Drawing on a case study in Northern Italy, this article develops a framework on the societal implications of refugee hospitality, based on a multi-scalar vie…
Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation
By bringing together scholarship on affective (non)citizenship and critical geographies of public space, in this article we examine how the exposure of refugees’ intimate lives, private relationalities and personal histories mediate their conditional access to “the public”. Drawing on long-term ethnographic engagement in the field of asylum in Italy, we show how asylum seekers are confronted with changing patterns of obligation and dependency in …
Who Feels Safe? Uncertain Futures and Enduring Aspirations in Italy
In an attempt of going beyond a simple opposition between those conceived as agents and those seen as subjects of disciplinary power, this article engages with a reflection on differential states of precariousness and (un)safety, which involve both ‘forced migrants’ and ‘citizens’. Drawing on ethnographic research in Milan (Italy), I outline some recent institutional changes in the Italian asylum system, which led to the political abandonment of …
(Un)sustainable futures and the “vulnerable other: Rethinking conditional inclusion in times of climate change
Vulnerable others”, such as forced migrants, are often perceived and presented as problematic subjects, in that they would not easily conform to western, privileged notions of environmental sustainability. Grounded on ethnographic insights from refugees and social workers in the North of Italy, this article explores imaginaries, institutional encounters, and everyday experiences of refugees’ participation in the so-called sustainable transition. …
Wasteland Activism: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials. I focus on a seemingly marginal topic—urban weeds—to explore how human–weed relations can help us situate contemporary environmental concerns within longer histories of spatial violence, ecological degrada…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Business (2 works)