Astrid Safina
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Astrid Safina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Astrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Safina |
| SIGNATURE | SAFINA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Torino |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8204-3324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social Innovation and Human Mobility in Left Behind Areas
This paper examines the reciprocal relationship between social innovation and human mobility in two Italian left-behind areas: Southern Cilento (Campania) and Viù Valley (Piedmont). Drawing on 104 in-depth interviews with stakeholders, newcomers, returnees, out-migrants, and long-term residents, it investigates how different mobility patterns interact with locally grounded forms of social innovation. Interviews were analysed through thematic codi…
Centring the Inconspicuous
The (in)visible face of global infrastructures
Global infrastructures are often analyzed and interpreted under a specific framework that highlights the visible infrastructural nodes where flows and capital accumulation reach maximum intensity. This article, in contrast, moves away from infrastructural nodes and offers a grounded and exploratory perspective of global infrastructures focusing on their invisible face: the spaces, practices, economies, ways of inhabiting, and flows that, despite …
Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China
This study of the infrastructure-led developments and urban–rural relations in Liangjiang New Area (Chongqing municipality), Lanzhou New Area (Gansu province) and Zhengbian New District (Henan province) reveals the complex and multifaceted interactions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with specific contexts and pre-existing trends. Far from depicting a homogenizing dynamic deriving from participation in a project often conceived in monolithi…
Breaking the distance
In this commentary, we reflect on the limitations, somber difficulties, and possibilities of new geographies of care that have emerged as a result of our limited personal geographies during the time of COVID-19
Breaking the distance
In this commentary, we reflect on the limitations, somber difficulties, and possibilities of new geographies of care that have emerged as a result of our limited personal geographies during the time of COVID-19
Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China
This study of the infrastructure-led developments and urban–rural relations in Liangjiang New Area (Chongqing municipality), Lanzhou New Area (Gansu province) and Zhengbian New District (Henan province) reveals the complex and multifaceted interactions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with specific contexts and pre-existing trends. Far from depicting a homogenizing dynamic deriving from participation in a project often conceived in monolithi…
The (in)visible face of global infrastructures
Global infrastructures are often analyzed and interpreted under a specific framework that highlights the visible infrastructural nodes where flows and capital accumulation reach maximum intensity. This article, in contrast, moves away from infrastructural nodes and offers a grounded and exploratory perspective of global infrastructures focusing on their invisible face: the spaces, practices, economies, ways of inhabiting, and flows that, despite …
Breaking the distance
In this commentary, we reflect on the limitations, somber difficulties, and possibilities of new geographies of care that have emerged as a result of our limited personal geographies during the time of COVID-19
Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China
This study of the infrastructure-led developments and urban–rural relations in Liangjiang New Area (Chongqing municipality), Lanzhou New Area (Gansu province) and Zhengbian New District (Henan province) reveals the complex and multifaceted interactions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with specific contexts and pre-existing trends. Far from depicting a homogenizing dynamic deriving from participation in a project often conceived in monolithi…
Centring the Inconspicuous
The (in)visible face of global infrastructures
Global infrastructures are often analyzed and interpreted under a specific framework that highlights the visible infrastructural nodes where flows and capital accumulation reach maximum intensity. This article, in contrast, moves away from infrastructural nodes and offers a grounded and exploratory perspective of global infrastructures focusing on their invisible face: the spaces, practices, economies, ways of inhabiting, and flows that, despite …
Social Innovation and Human Mobility in Left Behind Areas
This paper examines the reciprocal relationship between social innovation and human mobility in two Italian left-behind areas: Southern Cilento (Campania) and Viù Valley (Piedmont). Drawing on 104 in-depth interviews with stakeholders, newcomers, returnees, out-migrants, and long-term residents, it investigates how different mobility patterns interact with locally grounded forms of social innovation. Interviews were analysed through thematic codi…
Sociology (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Centring (1 works) · China (1 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (1 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 works)