Chiara Certomà
Biographic Data
| ID | 270235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Certomà |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Certomà |
| SIGNATURE | CERTOMÀ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7154-0915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
‘Reading for difference' digital social innovation. Critical geography and the non-dualistic thinking of socio-technical agency in augmented cities
Digital Social Innovation initiatives (DSI) are mushrooming in cities around the world. This is both influencing and influenced by urban organizational logics, functional structures and operative processes. Over the last few years, these initiatives have increasingly attracted interest in a wide range of disciplines. However, they remain marginal in critical geography. In this paper, I analyze the reasons underlying this trend and explain how the…
“I felt as someone special today”. Advancing marine citizen science throught participatory and critical geography explorations
The United Nations’ Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development calls for knowledge production and governance plans capable of delivering “the science we need for the ocean we want” [UNDP. 2021. One Ocean. Accessed 10 January 2025 https://oneocean.undp.org/], spurring a wide range of citizen science (CS) initiatives in marine contexts. However, the application of CS to marine research continues to face practical and epistemological limita…
Business responsibility and government complicity in environmental conflicts
Our paper aims at widening political ecology research on business’ responsibility and public governance conditions in cases of violation of Environmental-related Human Rights (ERs), by adopting a quantitative perspective. We focused on a subset of socio-environmental conflicts (SECs) that directly connect with the violations of ERs. We propose a quali-quantitative analysis to explore the country distribution of the incidence of violations of ERs …
Cambiamenti climatici, giustizia ambientale e partecipazione. Piani di adattamento climatico alla luce dell'ecologia politica urbana
L'articolo propone un'esplorazione dei primi Piani locali di Adattamento prodotti in Italia, al fine di verificare se l'uso di strumenti partecipativi possa essere utile per integrarvi criteri di giustizia socio-ambientale. La teoria dell'Ecologia Politica Urbana è assunta come quadro per indagare se i processi partecipativi impiegati nei Piani abbiano permesso di affrontare le questioni di giustizia socio-ambientale relative agli impatti differe…
Dialogic practices of urban gardening in Rome
The paper contributes to the debate on the polyvocal nature of \nsocial innovation via the exploration of one of its principal \nmanifestations: urban gardening. Initially, we wonder whether the \ndualistic reading of urban gardening, as a neoliberal vs \nrevolutionary political initiative, is appropriate and productive, or \nrather, we should recognize its intrinsic ambiguity and boundaryblurring nature as able to produce novelty. Following Gibs…
Beyond Income and Inequality
In each country, the occurrence of energy poverty among resident households is usually related to low income and its unequal distribution. Like other manifestations of material deprivation, however, such a phenomenon is likely to be also correlated with some internal socio-political factors that allow its persistence by preventing effective solutions. In this paper, we build and analyse a dataset for European countries by assessing the role of th…
Digital platforms and socio-spatial justice in the (post-)pandemic city
The Special Issue wishes to contribute to the burgeoning literature on the new urban geographies produced through and by the digital, focusing on how platforms reproduce or alter socio-spatial hierarchies and inequalities, and entangle categories of identity, race, gender, class, and location, particularly in light of the consequences of the Covid-19 and the changing organization of cities and urban life in the (post-)pandemic scenario. The aim i…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Future scenarios of Digital Social Innovation in urban governance. A collective discussion on the socio-political implications in Ghent
Digitally-enabled social innovation. Mapping discourses on an emergent social technology
The growing number of digitally-enabled social innovation initiatives have recently attracted social scholars’ interest; and required an attentive consideration the complex entanglements between innovation, social agency and power. This paper contributes to the debate on this juvenile research field by analysing the different conceptualisations, cultural framing, and socio-political entanglements of digitally-enabled social innovation.It adopts a…
Digital Social Innovation and Urban Space
Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is a new concept referring to social innovation initiatives that leverage digital technologies potentiality to co-create solutions to a wide range of social needs. These initiatives generally take place in urban contexts. However, in the existing literature, scarce attention is devoted to the spatial dimensions and the social, cultural or political space-related effects of DSI practices. This article suggests that …
The City of Digital Social Innovators
The concept of digital social innovation (DSI) refers to a fast-growing set of initiatives aimed at providing innovative solutions to social problems and needs by deploying the potential of the social web and digital media. Despite having been often interpreted as synonymous with digitally enhanced social innovation, we explain here why, in consideration of its epistemological and socio-political potentialities, we understand it as an interdiscip…
Hyperconnected, receptive and do-it-yourself city. An investigation into the European “imaginary” of crowdsourcing for urban governance
The ‘fluid governance’ of urban public spaces. Insights from informal planning practices in Rome
This paper investigates the emergence of informal planning practices and their relationship with the new geometries of power and responsibility that characterise what is here defined and described as ‘fluid governance’; and that leads to co-creative forms of public space governance. In particular, the research explores the key role played by some politically progressive forms of urban gardening in pivoting actions that transform green spaces thro…
A New Season for Planning’
This article investigates the relationship between urban gardening and planning by building upon the results of field research on gardening initiatives in the city of Rome, Italy. The work is aimed at suggesting that, while often associated in geography and planning literature with urban informality practices (e.g. accidental city or self‐made urbanism), urban gardening actually presents the character of a distinctive form of people's interaction…
Informal planning in a transactive governmentality. Re-reading planning practices through Ghent’s community gardens
This article addresses a new mode of planning that involves a collaboration between State, private and community actors in the context of growing urban gardening movements. It questions the view of urban gardening as a manifestation of citizens’ dissensus towards administration’s institutional planning, and the expression of urban ‘counterplanning’ whose aim is to resist the consequences of a neoliberal governmentality. Although this interpretati…
Crowdsourcing urban sustainability. Data, people and technologies in participatory governance
Expanding the ‘dark side of planning
This article analyses Bent Flyvbjerg’s ‘dark side of planning’ theory and proposes to increase its critical strength by including, together with ideas of rationality and power, two further theoretical tools: the Foucauldian concepts of governmentality and biopolitics. The potentiality of this inclusion is exemplified by the analysis provided about the influence of 18th-century colonial governmentality on the real rationality of public garden plan…
Pink Patches
Critical urban gardening as a post-environmentalist practice
This paper investigates the emergence of the urban gardening movement as a form of post-environmentalist political practice. The aim of the paper is to suggest that “re-politicisation” of environmental politics is possible, taking into account the political practices emerging in urban space. The attachment to place materiality can, by means of common practices, make evident forgotten or ignored environmental relations; and it can make them a “pub…
Standing-up Vineyards
This paper investigates the philosophical and political assumptions supporting the commonly held view of 'place identity', exemplarily represented by the Tuscany region in Italy and its wine. It focuses on the production process of one of the most expensive and highly rated Italian wines, the Brunello di Montalcino, produced in the southeast of Tuscany. The Brunello di Montalcino wine area in Tuscany has a leading role in Italian wine production,…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Critical urban gardening as a post-environmentalist practice
This paper investigates the emergence of the urban gardening movement as a form of post-environmentalist political practice. The aim of the paper is to suggest that “re-politicisation” of environmental politics is possible, taking into account the political practices emerging in urban space. The attachment to place materiality can, by means of common practices, make evident forgotten or ignored environmental relations; and it can make them a “pub…
Expanding the ‘dark side of planning
This article analyses Bent Flyvbjerg’s ‘dark side of planning’ theory and proposes to increase its critical strength by including, together with ideas of rationality and power, two further theoretical tools: the Foucauldian concepts of governmentality and biopolitics. The potentiality of this inclusion is exemplified by the analysis provided about the influence of 18th-century colonial governmentality on the real rationality of public garden plan…
Informal planning in a transactive governmentality. Re-reading planning practices through Ghent’s community gardens
This article addresses a new mode of planning that involves a collaboration between State, private and community actors in the context of growing urban gardening movements. It questions the view of urban gardening as a manifestation of citizens’ dissensus towards administration’s institutional planning, and the expression of urban ‘counterplanning’ whose aim is to resist the consequences of a neoliberal governmentality. Although this interpretati…
Beyond Income and Inequality
In each country, the occurrence of energy poverty among resident households is usually related to low income and its unequal distribution. Like other manifestations of material deprivation, however, such a phenomenon is likely to be also correlated with some internal socio-political factors that allow its persistence by preventing effective solutions. In this paper, we build and analyse a dataset for European countries by assessing the role of th…
The ‘fluid governance’ of urban public spaces. Insights from informal planning practices in Rome
This paper investigates the emergence of informal planning practices and their relationship with the new geometries of power and responsibility that characterise what is here defined and described as ‘fluid governance’; and that leads to co-creative forms of public space governance. In particular, the research explores the key role played by some politically progressive forms of urban gardening in pivoting actions that transform green spaces thro…
Crowdsourcing urban sustainability. Data, people and technologies in participatory governance
A New Season for Planning’
This article investigates the relationship between urban gardening and planning by building upon the results of field research on gardening initiatives in the city of Rome, Italy. The work is aimed at suggesting that, while often associated in geography and planning literature with urban informality practices (e.g. accidental city or self‐made urbanism), urban gardening actually presents the character of a distinctive form of people's interaction…
Hyperconnected, receptive and do-it-yourself city. An investigation into the European “imaginary” of crowdsourcing for urban governance
Dialogic practices of urban gardening in Rome
The paper contributes to the debate on the polyvocal nature of \nsocial innovation via the exploration of one of its principal \nmanifestations: urban gardening. Initially, we wonder whether the \ndualistic reading of urban gardening, as a neoliberal vs \nrevolutionary political initiative, is appropriate and productive, or \nrather, we should recognize its intrinsic ambiguity and boundaryblurring nature as able to produce novelty. Following Gibs…
Digitally-enabled social innovation. Mapping discourses on an emergent social technology
The growing number of digitally-enabled social innovation initiatives have recently attracted social scholars’ interest; and required an attentive consideration the complex entanglements between innovation, social agency and power. This paper contributes to the debate on this juvenile research field by analysing the different conceptualisations, cultural framing, and socio-political entanglements of digitally-enabled social innovation.It adopts a…
Standing-up Vineyards
This paper investigates the philosophical and political assumptions supporting the commonly held view of 'place identity', exemplarily represented by the Tuscany region in Italy and its wine. It focuses on the production process of one of the most expensive and highly rated Italian wines, the Brunello di Montalcino, produced in the southeast of Tuscany. The Brunello di Montalcino wine area in Tuscany has a leading role in Italian wine production,…
Digital platforms and socio-spatial justice in the (post-)pandemic city
The Special Issue wishes to contribute to the burgeoning literature on the new urban geographies produced through and by the digital, focusing on how platforms reproduce or alter socio-spatial hierarchies and inequalities, and entangle categories of identity, race, gender, class, and location, particularly in light of the consequences of the Covid-19 and the changing organization of cities and urban life in the (post-)pandemic scenario. The aim i…
Critical urban gardening as a post-environmentalist practice
This paper investigates the emergence of the urban gardening movement as a form of post-environmentalist political practice. The aim of the paper is to suggest that “re-politicisation” of environmental politics is possible, taking into account the political practices emerging in urban space. The attachment to place materiality can, by means of common practices, make evident forgotten or ignored environmental relations; and it can make them a “pub…
Standing-up Vineyards
This paper investigates the philosophical and political assumptions supporting the commonly held view of 'place identity', exemplarily represented by the Tuscany region in Italy and its wine. It focuses on the production process of one of the most expensive and highly rated Italian wines, the Brunello di Montalcino, produced in the southeast of Tuscany. The Brunello di Montalcino wine area in Tuscany has a leading role in Italian wine production,…
Pink Patches
Expanding the ‘dark side of planning
This article analyses Bent Flyvbjerg’s ‘dark side of planning’ theory and proposes to increase its critical strength by including, together with ideas of rationality and power, two further theoretical tools: the Foucauldian concepts of governmentality and biopolitics. The potentiality of this inclusion is exemplified by the analysis provided about the influence of 18th-century colonial governmentality on the real rationality of public garden plan…
Informal planning in a transactive governmentality. Re-reading planning practices through Ghent’s community gardens
This article addresses a new mode of planning that involves a collaboration between State, private and community actors in the context of growing urban gardening movements. It questions the view of urban gardening as a manifestation of citizens’ dissensus towards administration’s institutional planning, and the expression of urban ‘counterplanning’ whose aim is to resist the consequences of a neoliberal governmentality. Although this interpretati…
Crowdsourcing urban sustainability. Data, people and technologies in participatory governance
A New Season for Planning’
This article investigates the relationship between urban gardening and planning by building upon the results of field research on gardening initiatives in the city of Rome, Italy. The work is aimed at suggesting that, while often associated in geography and planning literature with urban informality practices (e.g. accidental city or self‐made urbanism), urban gardening actually presents the character of a distinctive form of people's interaction…
Digital Social Innovation and Urban Space
Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is a new concept referring to social innovation initiatives that leverage digital technologies potentiality to co-create solutions to a wide range of social needs. These initiatives generally take place in urban contexts. However, in the existing literature, scarce attention is devoted to the spatial dimensions and the social, cultural or political space-related effects of DSI practices. This article suggests that …
The City of Digital Social Innovators
The concept of digital social innovation (DSI) refers to a fast-growing set of initiatives aimed at providing innovative solutions to social problems and needs by deploying the potential of the social web and digital media. Despite having been often interpreted as synonymous with digitally enhanced social innovation, we explain here why, in consideration of its epistemological and socio-political potentialities, we understand it as an interdiscip…
Hyperconnected, receptive and do-it-yourself city. An investigation into the European “imaginary” of crowdsourcing for urban governance
The ‘fluid governance’ of urban public spaces. Insights from informal planning practices in Rome
This paper investigates the emergence of informal planning practices and their relationship with the new geometries of power and responsibility that characterise what is here defined and described as ‘fluid governance’; and that leads to co-creative forms of public space governance. In particular, the research explores the key role played by some politically progressive forms of urban gardening in pivoting actions that transform green spaces thro…
Digitally-enabled social innovation. Mapping discourses on an emergent social technology
The growing number of digitally-enabled social innovation initiatives have recently attracted social scholars’ interest; and required an attentive consideration the complex entanglements between innovation, social agency and power. This paper contributes to the debate on this juvenile research field by analysing the different conceptualisations, cultural framing, and socio-political entanglements of digitally-enabled social innovation.It adopts a…
Digital platforms and socio-spatial justice in the (post-)pandemic city
The Special Issue wishes to contribute to the burgeoning literature on the new urban geographies produced through and by the digital, focusing on how platforms reproduce or alter socio-spatial hierarchies and inequalities, and entangle categories of identity, race, gender, class, and location, particularly in light of the consequences of the Covid-19 and the changing organization of cities and urban life in the (post-)pandemic scenario. The aim i…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Future scenarios of Digital Social Innovation in urban governance. A collective discussion on the socio-political implications in Ghent
Cambiamenti climatici, giustizia ambientale e partecipazione. Piani di adattamento climatico alla luce dell'ecologia politica urbana
L'articolo propone un'esplorazione dei primi Piani locali di Adattamento prodotti in Italia, al fine di verificare se l'uso di strumenti partecipativi possa essere utile per integrarvi criteri di giustizia socio-ambientale. La teoria dell'Ecologia Politica Urbana è assunta come quadro per indagare se i processi partecipativi impiegati nei Piani abbiano permesso di affrontare le questioni di giustizia socio-ambientale relative agli impatti differe…
Dialogic practices of urban gardening in Rome
The paper contributes to the debate on the polyvocal nature of \nsocial innovation via the exploration of one of its principal \nmanifestations: urban gardening. Initially, we wonder whether the \ndualistic reading of urban gardening, as a neoliberal vs \nrevolutionary political initiative, is appropriate and productive, or \nrather, we should recognize its intrinsic ambiguity and boundaryblurring nature as able to produce novelty. Following Gibs…
Beyond Income and Inequality
In each country, the occurrence of energy poverty among resident households is usually related to low income and its unequal distribution. Like other manifestations of material deprivation, however, such a phenomenon is likely to be also correlated with some internal socio-political factors that allow its persistence by preventing effective solutions. In this paper, we build and analyse a dataset for European countries by assessing the role of th…
Business responsibility and government complicity in environmental conflicts
Our paper aims at widening political ecology research on business’ responsibility and public governance conditions in cases of violation of Environmental-related Human Rights (ERs), by adopting a quantitative perspective. We focused on a subset of socio-environmental conflicts (SECs) that directly connect with the violations of ERs. We propose a quali-quantitative analysis to explore the country distribution of the incidence of violations of ERs …
‘Reading for difference' digital social innovation. Critical geography and the non-dualistic thinking of socio-technical agency in augmented cities
Digital Social Innovation initiatives (DSI) are mushrooming in cities around the world. This is both influencing and influenced by urban organizational logics, functional structures and operative processes. Over the last few years, these initiatives have increasingly attracted interest in a wide range of disciplines. However, they remain marginal in critical geography. In this paper, I analyze the reasons underlying this trend and explain how the…
“I felt as someone special today”. Advancing marine citizen science throught participatory and critical geography explorations
The United Nations’ Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development calls for knowledge production and governance plans capable of delivering “the science we need for the ocean we want” [UNDP. 2021. One Ocean. Accessed 10 January 2025 https://oneocean.undp.org/], spurring a wide range of citizen science (CS) initiatives in marine contexts. However, the application of CS to marine research continues to face practical and epistemological limita…
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