M Benadusi
Biographic Data
| ID | 50641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Benadusi |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Benadusi |
| SIGNATURE | BENADUSI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Catania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7981-5493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Running amok: Taming, wildness and captivity in legal struggles over elephants’ rights in Sri Lanka
This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Sri Lanka, where I followed animal welfare advocates and legal experts involved in both formal and informal interventions concerning the treatment of captive elephants. It explores how moments of elephant resistance – such as breaking free from chains or running amok – are not only interpreted as expressions of nonhuman agency but are actively mobilised to challenge the legal and moral frameworks that…
Scratching: Sicilian residual landscapes in the afterlife of oil production
Book Forum: Disaster by Choice by Ilan Kelman
Introduction: Refreshing the “Unnaturalness” of Natural Disasters?Kelman, I. (2020) Disaster by Choice: How our Actions Turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes. Oxford University Press.In this Forum we publish a collective discussion on Ilan Kelman’s book Disaster by Choice: How our Actions Turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes, released in February 2020 by Oxford University Press. Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at the Institute for …
La magica romanza della serendipità. Sul campo, l’accidentale e il sapere antropologico
Quella facoltà umana di fare scoperte di valore grazie a eventi inaspettati a cui diamo il nome di serendipità è circondata da un’aura quasi leggendaria che ha contribuito alla popolarità della nozione nelle scienze sociali. È proprio quest’aura che proverò a dissolvere nell’articolo, riflettendo sulle insidie etnografiche che si celano dietro un’incorporazione acritica della scoperta serendipica nella teoria e nella pratica antropologiche. Dopo …
Asian Reservoirs: A Conversation with Frédéric Keck
Blurred memories: War and disaster in a Buddhist Sinhala village
This article analyzes the regimes of truth and efforts at falsification that emerged after the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, where the experience of fear, the blurring of memory, and the fabrication of identity became normalized during the course of a long civil war. By shedding light on the memorialization processes in a Buddhist Sinhala village on the border of the northeastern Tamil zones, the article shows how the tsunami has reinforced governme…
Babbucce, tunica e diadema… ovvero sui vestiti nuovi della DEA
Commento di Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289
Sicilian Futures in the Making
Discourses and practices of anticipation occupy a hypertrophic space in contexts where uncontrolled industrial growth has inflicted grave damage on peoples and territories, even triggering environmental disasters. This article explores the use of nonhuman species as anticipatory devices in a petrochemical terminal in Sicily, focusing on public representations of three species: scavenger bacteria that play a cleansing role and underline citizens’ …
Oil in Sicily: Petrocapitalist imaginaries in the shadow of old smokestacks
By describing the long trajectory of petrochemical industrialization in a Mediterranean area in southeastern Sicily locally known as the triangle of death, this article discusses how the widespread, long-term, and nearly invisible nature of everyday forms of catastrophe generate effects that at times are even more insidious than a major disaster. Indeed, like the fumes rising from an industrial smokestack, oil culture seeps into the imaginaries a…
Esperire con un tocco la Terra: Design dell'informazione e disastri 'naturali
L'articolo analizza i processi di visualizzazione dei rischi che contraddistinguono le politiche globali di riduzione dei disastri, in particolare i manufatti digitali attraverso cui il mondo internazionale coinvolto nella gestione delle catastrofi cerca di visualizzare e rendere esperibile le minacce che incombono sul pianeta. Tali manufatti sono costruiti per facilitare esperienze capaci di offrire al tempo stesso evidenza quantitativa e corpo …
Comporre un mondo comune? Riflessioni intorno alla svolta ontologica in antropologia
Questa sezione tematica s'iscrive all'interno del dibattito sulla cosiddetta svolta ontologica che, a partire dagli anni Novanta del Novecento, ha cercato di rispondere a urgenti pressioni di natura ecologica e socio-politica intensificando lo studio dei modi di identificazione e relazione del mondo umano con quello non umano. Riprendendo in chiave critica alcuni assunti teorici di questo filone di studi, la sezione tematica si propone di sondare…
Elephants Never Forget: Capturing Nature at the Border of Ruhuna National Park (Yala), Sri Lanka
Yala National Park, in south-eastern Sri Lanka, is a complex of adjoining natural reserves covering a large forested area partly open to tourists (Figure 1). The park is surrounded by a wide swath
The Two-Faced Janus of Disaster Management: Still Vulnerable, YetAlready Resilient
Adopting an ethnographic approach, this paper traces the various forms thatresilience and vulnerability took in a post-tsunami Sri Lankan village, as wellas the interpretations of these two ‘action devices' by bothhumanitarian operators and the survivors themselves. The author shows that thepractices of community-based disaster management involved approaches, visionsand modus operandi that were highly ambiguous and divergent. Indeed, thesepractic…
The Two-Faced Janus of Disaster Management: Still Vulnerable, YetAlready Resilient
Adopting an ethnographic approach, this paper traces the various forms thatresilience and vulnerability took in a post-tsunami Sri Lankan village, as wellas the interpretations of these two ‘action devices' by bothhumanitarian operators and the survivors themselves. The author shows that thepractices of community-based disaster management involved approaches, visionsand modus operandi that were highly ambiguous and divergent. Indeed, thesepractic…
La magica romanza della serendipità. Sul campo, l’accidentale e il sapere antropologico
Quella facoltà umana di fare scoperte di valore grazie a eventi inaspettati a cui diamo il nome di serendipità è circondata da un’aura quasi leggendaria che ha contribuito alla popolarità della nozione nelle scienze sociali. È proprio quest’aura che proverò a dissolvere nell’articolo, riflettendo sulle insidie etnografiche che si celano dietro un’incorporazione acritica della scoperta serendipica nella teoria e nella pratica antropologiche. Dopo …
Oil in Sicily: Petrocapitalist imaginaries in the shadow of old smokestacks
By describing the long trajectory of petrochemical industrialization in a Mediterranean area in southeastern Sicily locally known as the triangle of death, this article discusses how the widespread, long-term, and nearly invisible nature of everyday forms of catastrophe generate effects that at times are even more insidious than a major disaster. Indeed, like the fumes rising from an industrial smokestack, oil culture seeps into the imaginaries a…
Scratching: Sicilian residual landscapes in the afterlife of oil production
Blurred memories: War and disaster in a Buddhist Sinhala village
This article analyzes the regimes of truth and efforts at falsification that emerged after the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, where the experience of fear, the blurring of memory, and the fabrication of identity became normalized during the course of a long civil war. By shedding light on the memorialization processes in a Buddhist Sinhala village on the border of the northeastern Tamil zones, the article shows how the tsunami has reinforced governme…
Comporre un mondo comune? Riflessioni intorno alla svolta ontologica in antropologia
Questa sezione tematica s'iscrive all'interno del dibattito sulla cosiddetta svolta ontologica che, a partire dagli anni Novanta del Novecento, ha cercato di rispondere a urgenti pressioni di natura ecologica e socio-politica intensificando lo studio dei modi di identificazione e relazione del mondo umano con quello non umano. Riprendendo in chiave critica alcuni assunti teorici di questo filone di studi, la sezione tematica si propone di sondare…
Elephants Never Forget: Capturing Nature at the Border of Ruhuna National Park (Yala), Sri Lanka
Yala National Park, in south-eastern Sri Lanka, is a complex of adjoining natural reserves covering a large forested area partly open to tourists (Figure 1). The park is surrounded by a wide swath
The Two-Faced Janus of Disaster Management: Still Vulnerable, YetAlready Resilient
Adopting an ethnographic approach, this paper traces the various forms thatresilience and vulnerability took in a post-tsunami Sri Lankan village, as wellas the interpretations of these two ‘action devices' by bothhumanitarian operators and the survivors themselves. The author shows that thepractices of community-based disaster management involved approaches, visionsand modus operandi that were highly ambiguous and divergent. Indeed, thesepractic…
Elephants Never Forget: Capturing Nature at the Border of Ruhuna National Park (Yala), Sri Lanka
Yala National Park, in south-eastern Sri Lanka, is a complex of adjoining natural reserves covering a large forested area partly open to tourists (Figure 1). The park is surrounded by a wide swath
Esperire con un tocco la Terra: Design dell'informazione e disastri 'naturali
L'articolo analizza i processi di visualizzazione dei rischi che contraddistinguono le politiche globali di riduzione dei disastri, in particolare i manufatti digitali attraverso cui il mondo internazionale coinvolto nella gestione delle catastrofi cerca di visualizzare e rendere esperibile le minacce che incombono sul pianeta. Tali manufatti sono costruiti per facilitare esperienze capaci di offrire al tempo stesso evidenza quantitativa e corpo …
Comporre un mondo comune? Riflessioni intorno alla svolta ontologica in antropologia
Questa sezione tematica s'iscrive all'interno del dibattito sulla cosiddetta svolta ontologica che, a partire dagli anni Novanta del Novecento, ha cercato di rispondere a urgenti pressioni di natura ecologica e socio-politica intensificando lo studio dei modi di identificazione e relazione del mondo umano con quello non umano. Riprendendo in chiave critica alcuni assunti teorici di questo filone di studi, la sezione tematica si propone di sondare…
Oil in Sicily: Petrocapitalist imaginaries in the shadow of old smokestacks
By describing the long trajectory of petrochemical industrialization in a Mediterranean area in southeastern Sicily locally known as the triangle of death, this article discusses how the widespread, long-term, and nearly invisible nature of everyday forms of catastrophe generate effects that at times are even more insidious than a major disaster. Indeed, like the fumes rising from an industrial smokestack, oil culture seeps into the imaginaries a…
Babbucce, tunica e diadema… ovvero sui vestiti nuovi della DEA
Commento di Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289
Sicilian Futures in the Making
Discourses and practices of anticipation occupy a hypertrophic space in contexts where uncontrolled industrial growth has inflicted grave damage on peoples and territories, even triggering environmental disasters. This article explores the use of nonhuman species as anticipatory devices in a petrochemical terminal in Sicily, focusing on public representations of three species: scavenger bacteria that play a cleansing role and underline citizens’ …
Asian Reservoirs: A Conversation with Frédéric Keck
Blurred memories: War and disaster in a Buddhist Sinhala village
This article analyzes the regimes of truth and efforts at falsification that emerged after the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, where the experience of fear, the blurring of memory, and the fabrication of identity became normalized during the course of a long civil war. By shedding light on the memorialization processes in a Buddhist Sinhala village on the border of the northeastern Tamil zones, the article shows how the tsunami has reinforced governme…
Book Forum: Disaster by Choice by Ilan Kelman
Introduction: Refreshing the “Unnaturalness” of Natural Disasters?Kelman, I. (2020) Disaster by Choice: How our Actions Turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes. Oxford University Press.In this Forum we publish a collective discussion on Ilan Kelman’s book Disaster by Choice: How our Actions Turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes, released in February 2020 by Oxford University Press. Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at the Institute for …
La magica romanza della serendipità. Sul campo, l’accidentale e il sapere antropologico
Quella facoltà umana di fare scoperte di valore grazie a eventi inaspettati a cui diamo il nome di serendipità è circondata da un’aura quasi leggendaria che ha contribuito alla popolarità della nozione nelle scienze sociali. È proprio quest’aura che proverò a dissolvere nell’articolo, riflettendo sulle insidie etnografiche che si celano dietro un’incorporazione acritica della scoperta serendipica nella teoria e nella pratica antropologiche. Dopo …
Running amok: Taming, wildness and captivity in legal struggles over elephants’ rights in Sri Lanka
This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Sri Lanka, where I followed animal welfare advocates and legal experts involved in both formal and informal interventions concerning the treatment of captive elephants. It explores how moments of elephant resistance – such as breaking free from chains or running amok – are not only interpreted as expressions of nonhuman agency but are actively mobilised to challenge the legal and moral frameworks that…
Scratching: Sicilian residual landscapes in the afterlife of oil production
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)