Melissa Moralli
Biographic Data
| ID | 3809975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Moralli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Moralli |
| SIGNATURE | MORALLI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2589-1826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Margins of Resistance
Migration and socio‐environmental justice are becoming increasingly intertwined as climate change reshapes global mobility patterns while intensifying existing inequalities. In this context, grassroots initiatives that combine mobility justice with socio‐environmental justice are emerging as forms of resistance to the economic, gendered, racial and territorial exclusions experienced by marginalised communities. This contribution highlights the gr…
The right to the discourse
The contribution investigates the role of grassroots urban artistic practices in countering the narrative distortions characterising migration discourses. It integrates recent scholarship in migration studies with insights from two influential feminist and decolonial intellectuals: bell hooks and Gloria Anzaldúa. Drawing upon this theoretical frame, the article presents some key findings that emerged from a three-year fieldwork in Marseille on ar…
Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration
Necropolis is an artistic activistic project that gives rise to a ghostly cartography. The project emerged upon discovering a database recording the deaths of migrants who tried to enter Europe. This list was produced in the last decades by a network of organisations and activists all around Europe. Necropolis is constructed through the search for and the mapping of the burial grounds of those who lost their lives at the gate of the continent. ּT…
Arts-Based Methods in Migration Research. A Methodological Analysis on Participatory Visual Methods and Their Transformative Potentials and Limits in Studying Human Mobility
In the last decades, the growing use of participatory methodologies and creative methods in migration research has opened innovative ways to collect, analyze, and disseminate data. These approaches encourage experimental, interdisciplinary, and collaborative work through artistic methods to study human mobility and expand the community of inquiry and interpretation, often intervening in contexts of social injustice and exclusion. This article is …
Research as care
This article analyses the implications of qualitative research on migration in terms of reflexivity and positionality. In particular, it presents research as care, revolved around three main critical nodes of reflection: the epistemological importance of emotions, intersectional positionality and the ethics of care. Drawing upon the insights concerning a qualitative research on migration in Italian shrinking areas, the contribution underlines the…
“Welcoming Spaces”
The presence of migration in non-urban areas is mainly related to the paradoxical coexistence of both restrictive migration policies and a proliferation of welcoming initiatives. These initiatives are aimed at (co-)creating “welcoming spaces” and are often driven by older residents and migrant people but can equally be the outcome of initiatives by local governments, NGOs, and businesses. This contribution introduces the potentialities and limits…
Opening the black box of social innovation in migration governance
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role played by social innovation inchallenging exclusion and marginality in relation to migration governance. Drawingon some reflections that have emerged fromfieldwork, this contribution proposes ananalytical framework that considers four interwoven dimensions: interculturalrelations, social infrastructures, discourses and imaginaries and forms ofparticipation. On the basis of these dimensions, social …
Connections. Collaborative Imaginaries of Territories in Change across Europe
This contribution presents visual research conducted with local communities in remote areas of five European countries: the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany. By involving both long-term residents and newcomers, this study aimed at amplifying their voices while considering different backgrounds, nationalities, perspectives and life experiences, as well as building up a temporary local space of sociability. The visual research started …
La povertà alimentare tra negoziazione simbolica e processi di empowerment
Il saggio propone una riflessione sui significati sociali e simbolici del cibo grazie ad un confronto tra le pratiche di recupero e redistribuzione dei prodotti invenduti con i risultati di un'etnografia realizzata nelle ‘mense per poveri' del circuito assistenziale italiano. L'obiettivo è quello di colmare il gap nella letteratura esistente sulla povertà alimentare per investigare come il cibo e i suoi significati si ricolleghino ad una riconfig…
From social integration to social emplacement
This contribution presents the results of a qualitative research conducted on migrant settlement in rural Italy. It proposes moving beyond the concept of social integration to explore the potential of social emplacement of asylum seekers and refugees in non-urban areas. From this point of view, the results will be presented in the light of four analytical categories. The first is that of the influences of the specificities of Italian rural contex…
Public policy towards immigrants in poland’s shrinking cities – The case study of the city of Lomza
Some regions and cities in Poland face challenges due to an accelerating depopulation. Simultaneously, Poland is host to more than 2 million immigrants who mitigate the negative consequences of the population outflow and ageing. While bigger Polish cities adopted particular local strategies and measures addressed to migrants, the situation of smaller cities and towns, especially the shrinking ones, has not yet been explored. Therefore, we took a …
Cultural Sustainability, Tourism and Development
this chapter reflects upon the contradictions of the process of globalization and localization through an analysis of the relation between tourism and migration as two interrelated phenomena concerning human mobility. Through a cultural perspective on responsible tourism, it aims to shed light on how tourism plays an essential role in local development processes, as well as in the social and spatial dialectic that gives meaning to places (Rojek a…
Crises redefined
This article explores the relationship between the emergence of a ‘crisis society', social innovation and community resilience in Italian inner areas. Arguing that the concept of ‘crisis society' – as a further development of a ‘risk society’ – can help to frame both the increasing of uncertainty and the possibility for social change, the paper outlines a theoretical reflection on how context of crisis can influence social arrangements and forms …
Social innovation in alternative food networks. The role of co-producers in Campi Aperti
Innovazione sociale e turismo
This article aims to investigate the relationship among tourism, social innovation and territorial development in the metropolitan area of Bologna. The city is characterized by a civic and innovative tradition, as well as, more recently, by a growth of tourist flows and tourism development projects. Throughout the analysis of three case studies, the authors highlight how tourist development, whenever it is led in such innovative ways, may support…
L'innovazione sociale tra sviluppo territoriale e trasformazione sociale
The paper aims at analysing the role of social innovation processes within territorial development. Departing from a theoretical examination of the concept of social innovation, the analysis deals with the relations between socially innovative processes and territorial dynamics. In particular, through the analysis of the case of Québec, characterized by a heterogeneous network of socioeconomic and institutional actors, the paper examines the mobi…
Arts-Based Methods in Migration Research. A Methodological Analysis on Participatory Visual Methods and Their Transformative Potentials and Limits in Studying Human Mobility
In the last decades, the growing use of participatory methodologies and creative methods in migration research has opened innovative ways to collect, analyze, and disseminate data. These approaches encourage experimental, interdisciplinary, and collaborative work through artistic methods to study human mobility and expand the community of inquiry and interpretation, often intervening in contexts of social injustice and exclusion. This article is …
Research as care
This article analyses the implications of qualitative research on migration in terms of reflexivity and positionality. In particular, it presents research as care, revolved around three main critical nodes of reflection: the epistemological importance of emotions, intersectional positionality and the ethics of care. Drawing upon the insights concerning a qualitative research on migration in Italian shrinking areas, the contribution underlines the…
Social innovation in alternative food networks. The role of co-producers in Campi Aperti
Public policy towards immigrants in poland’s shrinking cities – The case study of the city of Lomza
Some regions and cities in Poland face challenges due to an accelerating depopulation. Simultaneously, Poland is host to more than 2 million immigrants who mitigate the negative consequences of the population outflow and ageing. While bigger Polish cities adopted particular local strategies and measures addressed to migrants, the situation of smaller cities and towns, especially the shrinking ones, has not yet been explored. Therefore, we took a …
Crises redefined
This article explores the relationship between the emergence of a ‘crisis society', social innovation and community resilience in Italian inner areas. Arguing that the concept of ‘crisis society' – as a further development of a ‘risk society’ – can help to frame both the increasing of uncertainty and the possibility for social change, the paper outlines a theoretical reflection on how context of crisis can influence social arrangements and forms …
From social integration to social emplacement
This contribution presents the results of a qualitative research conducted on migrant settlement in rural Italy. It proposes moving beyond the concept of social integration to explore the potential of social emplacement of asylum seekers and refugees in non-urban areas. From this point of view, the results will be presented in the light of four analytical categories. The first is that of the influences of the specificities of Italian rural contex…
L'innovazione sociale tra sviluppo territoriale e trasformazione sociale
The paper aims at analysing the role of social innovation processes within territorial development. Departing from a theoretical examination of the concept of social innovation, the analysis deals with the relations between socially innovative processes and territorial dynamics. In particular, through the analysis of the case of Québec, characterized by a heterogeneous network of socioeconomic and institutional actors, the paper examines the mobi…
L'innovazione sociale tra sviluppo territoriale e trasformazione sociale
The paper aims at analysing the role of social innovation processes within territorial development. Departing from a theoretical examination of the concept of social innovation, the analysis deals with the relations between socially innovative processes and territorial dynamics. In particular, through the analysis of the case of Québec, characterized by a heterogeneous network of socioeconomic and institutional actors, the paper examines the mobi…
Innovazione sociale e turismo
This article aims to investigate the relationship among tourism, social innovation and territorial development in the metropolitan area of Bologna. The city is characterized by a civic and innovative tradition, as well as, more recently, by a growth of tourist flows and tourism development projects. Throughout the analysis of three case studies, the authors highlight how tourist development, whenever it is led in such innovative ways, may support…
Crises redefined
This article explores the relationship between the emergence of a ‘crisis society', social innovation and community resilience in Italian inner areas. Arguing that the concept of ‘crisis society' – as a further development of a ‘risk society’ – can help to frame both the increasing of uncertainty and the possibility for social change, the paper outlines a theoretical reflection on how context of crisis can influence social arrangements and forms …
Social innovation in alternative food networks. The role of co-producers in Campi Aperti
Cultural Sustainability, Tourism and Development
this chapter reflects upon the contradictions of the process of globalization and localization through an analysis of the relation between tourism and migration as two interrelated phenomena concerning human mobility. Through a cultural perspective on responsible tourism, it aims to shed light on how tourism plays an essential role in local development processes, as well as in the social and spatial dialectic that gives meaning to places (Rojek a…
Public policy towards immigrants in poland’s shrinking cities – The case study of the city of Lomza
Some regions and cities in Poland face challenges due to an accelerating depopulation. Simultaneously, Poland is host to more than 2 million immigrants who mitigate the negative consequences of the population outflow and ageing. While bigger Polish cities adopted particular local strategies and measures addressed to migrants, the situation of smaller cities and towns, especially the shrinking ones, has not yet been explored. Therefore, we took a …
“Welcoming Spaces”
The presence of migration in non-urban areas is mainly related to the paradoxical coexistence of both restrictive migration policies and a proliferation of welcoming initiatives. These initiatives are aimed at (co-)creating “welcoming spaces” and are often driven by older residents and migrant people but can equally be the outcome of initiatives by local governments, NGOs, and businesses. This contribution introduces the potentialities and limits…
Opening the black box of social innovation in migration governance
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role played by social innovation inchallenging exclusion and marginality in relation to migration governance. Drawingon some reflections that have emerged fromfieldwork, this contribution proposes ananalytical framework that considers four interwoven dimensions: interculturalrelations, social infrastructures, discourses and imaginaries and forms ofparticipation. On the basis of these dimensions, social …
Connections. Collaborative Imaginaries of Territories in Change across Europe
This contribution presents visual research conducted with local communities in remote areas of five European countries: the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany. By involving both long-term residents and newcomers, this study aimed at amplifying their voices while considering different backgrounds, nationalities, perspectives and life experiences, as well as building up a temporary local space of sociability. The visual research started …
La povertà alimentare tra negoziazione simbolica e processi di empowerment
Il saggio propone una riflessione sui significati sociali e simbolici del cibo grazie ad un confronto tra le pratiche di recupero e redistribuzione dei prodotti invenduti con i risultati di un'etnografia realizzata nelle ‘mense per poveri' del circuito assistenziale italiano. L'obiettivo è quello di colmare il gap nella letteratura esistente sulla povertà alimentare per investigare come il cibo e i suoi significati si ricolleghino ad una riconfig…
From social integration to social emplacement
This contribution presents the results of a qualitative research conducted on migrant settlement in rural Italy. It proposes moving beyond the concept of social integration to explore the potential of social emplacement of asylum seekers and refugees in non-urban areas. From this point of view, the results will be presented in the light of four analytical categories. The first is that of the influences of the specificities of Italian rural contex…
Arts-Based Methods in Migration Research. A Methodological Analysis on Participatory Visual Methods and Their Transformative Potentials and Limits in Studying Human Mobility
In the last decades, the growing use of participatory methodologies and creative methods in migration research has opened innovative ways to collect, analyze, and disseminate data. These approaches encourage experimental, interdisciplinary, and collaborative work through artistic methods to study human mobility and expand the community of inquiry and interpretation, often intervening in contexts of social injustice and exclusion. This article is …
Research as care
This article analyses the implications of qualitative research on migration in terms of reflexivity and positionality. In particular, it presents research as care, revolved around three main critical nodes of reflection: the epistemological importance of emotions, intersectional positionality and the ethics of care. Drawing upon the insights concerning a qualitative research on migration in Italian shrinking areas, the contribution underlines the…
Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration
Necropolis is an artistic activistic project that gives rise to a ghostly cartography. The project emerged upon discovering a database recording the deaths of migrants who tried to enter Europe. This list was produced in the last decades by a network of organisations and activists all around Europe. Necropolis is constructed through the search for and the mapping of the burial grounds of those who lost their lives at the gate of the continent. ּT…
Margins of Resistance
Migration and socio‐environmental justice are becoming increasingly intertwined as climate change reshapes global mobility patterns while intensifying existing inequalities. In this context, grassroots initiatives that combine mobility justice with socio‐environmental justice are emerging as forms of resistance to the economic, gendered, racial and territorial exclusions experienced by marginalised communities. This contribution highlights the gr…
The right to the discourse
The contribution investigates the role of grassroots urban artistic practices in countering the narrative distortions characterising migration discourses. It integrates recent scholarship in migration studies with insights from two influential feminist and decolonial intellectuals: bell hooks and Gloria Anzaldúa. Drawing upon this theoretical frame, the article presents some key findings that emerged from a three-year fieldwork in Marseille on ar…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Collective action (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)