Elisa Iori
Biographic Data
| ID | 4992449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa Iori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Iori |
| SIGNATURE | IORI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2840-4843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To eat or not to Eat
Food loss and waste are increasingly recognized as the outcomes of complex, interconnected social and environmental dynamics rather than isolated individual choices. In this study, we adopt a complex systems approach to explore how micro-level behaviors and interactions within commercial dining settings give rise to emergent patterns of food waste. We present an agent-based model that integrates a psychologically realistic representation of indiv…
Religious Ambivalences as a Source of Change in Early Buddhism s
This article addresses the formation of Buddhisms against the backdrop of the double ambivalence its practitioners had between (a) the religion of the Buddha and local religious practice, and (b) between the physical and conceptual spaces of the wilderness and the urban. Such tensions internal to the religious field are considered paramount to unpacking and analyzing the transformations of Buddhism, as they hold the potential for religious change…
Religious Ambivalences
Food waste in time of Covid-19
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
An Urban Approach to the Archaeology of Buddhism in Gandhara
By moving beyond the walls of monumental religious architecture, this article adopts a city-lens approach to the investigation of lived Buddhism in the third century cities of northern Gandhara. Based on the evidence available for the city of Barikot (Swat, N Pakistan), the layered complexity of urban religiosity is approached here through a contextual analysis of the built-up environment and intra-site spatial distribution of religious artefacts…
Releasing Urban Religion beyond the City Wall
This paper examines the complexity of the entanglement between rural and urban space in historic South Asia through the lens of urban religion. The article is organized in two stages. First, ancient literature and archaeological evidence are used to rethink the centrality of the agrarian space in the formation and development of ancient cities and urban religions in South Asia. Second, by using the concept of spatial capital as an analytical tool…
Fashion Ware in Mes Aynak, Logar
This paper deals with the presence at Mes Aynak (Logar, Afghanistan) of a luxury ware, which is well known from various Bajaur sites, and stratigraphically well documented in Late Kushan/Kushano-Sasanian phases at the urban site of Barikot (Swat, Pakistan). In the latter site this luxury ware represents a distinct chronological marker for the 3rd century CE phases, and, moreover, it is often associated to cultic contexts. The paper concludes with…
An Urban Approach to the Archaeology of Buddhism in Gandhara
By moving beyond the walls of monumental religious architecture, this article adopts a city-lens approach to the investigation of lived Buddhism in the third century cities of northern Gandhara. Based on the evidence available for the city of Barikot (Swat, N Pakistan), the layered complexity of urban religiosity is approached here through a contextual analysis of the built-up environment and intra-site spatial distribution of religious artefacts…
Releasing Urban Religion beyond the City Wall
This paper examines the complexity of the entanglement between rural and urban space in historic South Asia through the lens of urban religion. The article is organized in two stages. First, ancient literature and archaeological evidence are used to rethink the centrality of the agrarian space in the formation and development of ancient cities and urban religions in South Asia. Second, by using the concept of spatial capital as an analytical tool…
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
Fashion Ware in Mes Aynak, Logar
This paper deals with the presence at Mes Aynak (Logar, Afghanistan) of a luxury ware, which is well known from various Bajaur sites, and stratigraphically well documented in Late Kushan/Kushano-Sasanian phases at the urban site of Barikot (Swat, Pakistan). In the latter site this luxury ware represents a distinct chronological marker for the 3rd century CE phases, and, moreover, it is often associated to cultic contexts. The paper concludes with…
Fashion Ware in Mes Aynak, Logar
This paper deals with the presence at Mes Aynak (Logar, Afghanistan) of a luxury ware, which is well known from various Bajaur sites, and stratigraphically well documented in Late Kushan/Kushano-Sasanian phases at the urban site of Barikot (Swat, Pakistan). In the latter site this luxury ware represents a distinct chronological marker for the 3rd century CE phases, and, moreover, it is often associated to cultic contexts. The paper concludes with…
Food waste in time of Covid-19
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
An Urban Approach to the Archaeology of Buddhism in Gandhara
By moving beyond the walls of monumental religious architecture, this article adopts a city-lens approach to the investigation of lived Buddhism in the third century cities of northern Gandhara. Based on the evidence available for the city of Barikot (Swat, N Pakistan), the layered complexity of urban religiosity is approached here through a contextual analysis of the built-up environment and intra-site spatial distribution of religious artefacts…
Releasing Urban Religion beyond the City Wall
This paper examines the complexity of the entanglement between rural and urban space in historic South Asia through the lens of urban religion. The article is organized in two stages. First, ancient literature and archaeological evidence are used to rethink the centrality of the agrarian space in the formation and development of ancient cities and urban religions in South Asia. Second, by using the concept of spatial capital as an analytical tool…
To eat or not to Eat
Food loss and waste are increasingly recognized as the outcomes of complex, interconnected social and environmental dynamics rather than isolated individual choices. In this study, we adopt a complex systems approach to explore how micro-level behaviors and interactions within commercial dining settings give rise to emergent patterns of food waste. We present an agent-based model that integrates a psychologically realistic representation of indiv…
Religious Ambivalences as a Source of Change in Early Buddhism s
This article addresses the formation of Buddhisms against the backdrop of the double ambivalence its practitioners had between (a) the religion of the Buddha and local religious practice, and (b) between the physical and conceptual spaces of the wilderness and the urban. Such tensions internal to the religious field are considered paramount to unpacking and analyzing the transformations of Buddhism, as they hold the potential for religious change…
Religious Ambivalences
Geography (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Buddhism (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (3 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Food waste (2 works)