Miriam Tola
Biographic Data
| ID | 914510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Tola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Tola |
| SIGNATURE | TOLA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6844-513X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crafting and maintaining socio-ecological commons
Once dismissed as a model of resource management that is doomed to fail, over the last three decades the commons have been taken up in academic research and social practices as a form of self-governance providing paths away from profit-oriented development in urban and rural settings. This article draws on research on a situated commoning project in a post-industrial area in Rome, Italy, to explore how contemporary activist practices complicate p…
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media are in and about the environment, and environments are socially and materially mediated. \n \nThe book gives form to this new area of study and brings together diverse scholarly contributions to explore and give definition to the …
Voyage dans l’espace du (M)Anthropocène blanc avec Elon Musk
Cet article s’intéresse à Elon Musk en tant qu’icône culturelle populaire liée à l’environnementalisme. L’auteure soutient que la manière dont Musk met en scène sa masculinité puise dans le registre de la masculinité écomoderne qui propose des solutions technologiques aux problèmes environnementaux tout en préservant les rapports de pouvoir de sexe et de race de la modernité capitaliste. L’article réfléchit également à la manière dont la masculin…
Surplus-value of life and regimes of valuation
Reinventing Socio-Ecological Reproduction, Designing a Feminist Logistics
The Archive and the Lake
Located in the Prenestino neighborhood of Rome, Italy, the former chemical-textile plant Ex-SNIA Viscosa has been a site of labor exploitation, toxicity, and struggle since the 1920s. Comprising postindustrial ruins, an urban lake, and myriad species, the area has been reclaimed by activists engaged in a project of governance from below. This essay begins by exploring how the entwinement of fascist biopolitics and the chemical industry that occur…
Between Pachamama and Mother Earth
Focusing on contemporary Bolivia, this article examines promises and pitfalls of political and legal initiatives that have turned Pachamama into a subject of rights. The conferral of rights on the indigenous earth being had the potential to unsettle the Western ontological distinction between active human subjects who engage in politics and passive natural resources. This essay, however, highlights some paradoxical effects of the rights of nature…
Species, Nature, and the Politics of the Common
This essay discusses Paolo Virno's anchoring of the common in the linguistic faculties of Homo sapiens. It explores how Virno's figure of the anthropos intersects the hegemonic model of Man that largely underwrites the Anthropocene concept. In particular, it suggests that Virno engages species thinking without sufficiently addressing how it emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries within global circuits of exploitation that shaped the c…
Composing with Gaia
This essay brings the work of Isabelle Stengers into the fold of feminism to propose a feminist politics of the earth that disrupts the fantasy of human exceptionalism underpinning much Anthropocene discourse. I begin by situating Stengers's political use of Gaia theory in current debates on the Anthropocene. Next, I show how Stengers's reworking of Gaia helps in reconsidering the relations between two bodies of feminist theory-Deleuzian feminism…
Between Pachamama and Mother Earth
Focusing on contemporary Bolivia, this article examines promises and pitfalls of political and legal initiatives that have turned Pachamama into a subject of rights. The conferral of rights on the indigenous earth being had the potential to unsettle the Western ontological distinction between active human subjects who engage in politics and passive natural resources. This essay, however, highlights some paradoxical effects of the rights of nature…
Composing with Gaia
This essay brings the work of Isabelle Stengers into the fold of feminism to propose a feminist politics of the earth that disrupts the fantasy of human exceptionalism underpinning much Anthropocene discourse. I begin by situating Stengers's political use of Gaia theory in current debates on the Anthropocene. Next, I show how Stengers's reworking of Gaia helps in reconsidering the relations between two bodies of feminist theory-Deleuzian feminism…
Crafting and maintaining socio-ecological commons
Once dismissed as a model of resource management that is doomed to fail, over the last three decades the commons have been taken up in academic research and social practices as a form of self-governance providing paths away from profit-oriented development in urban and rural settings. This article draws on research on a situated commoning project in a post-industrial area in Rome, Italy, to explore how contemporary activist practices complicate p…
Composing with Gaia
This essay brings the work of Isabelle Stengers into the fold of feminism to propose a feminist politics of the earth that disrupts the fantasy of human exceptionalism underpinning much Anthropocene discourse. I begin by situating Stengers's political use of Gaia theory in current debates on the Anthropocene. Next, I show how Stengers's reworking of Gaia helps in reconsidering the relations between two bodies of feminist theory-Deleuzian feminism…
Species, Nature, and the Politics of the Common
This essay discusses Paolo Virno's anchoring of the common in the linguistic faculties of Homo sapiens. It explores how Virno's figure of the anthropos intersects the hegemonic model of Man that largely underwrites the Anthropocene concept. In particular, it suggests that Virno engages species thinking without sufficiently addressing how it emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries within global circuits of exploitation that shaped the c…
Between Pachamama and Mother Earth
Focusing on contemporary Bolivia, this article examines promises and pitfalls of political and legal initiatives that have turned Pachamama into a subject of rights. The conferral of rights on the indigenous earth being had the potential to unsettle the Western ontological distinction between active human subjects who engage in politics and passive natural resources. This essay, however, highlights some paradoxical effects of the rights of nature…
The Archive and the Lake
Located in the Prenestino neighborhood of Rome, Italy, the former chemical-textile plant Ex-SNIA Viscosa has been a site of labor exploitation, toxicity, and struggle since the 1920s. Comprising postindustrial ruins, an urban lake, and myriad species, the area has been reclaimed by activists engaged in a project of governance from below. This essay begins by exploring how the entwinement of fascist biopolitics and the chemical industry that occur…
Surplus-value of life and regimes of valuation
Reinventing Socio-Ecological Reproduction, Designing a Feminist Logistics
Voyage dans l’espace du (M)Anthropocène blanc avec Elon Musk
Cet article s’intéresse à Elon Musk en tant qu’icône culturelle populaire liée à l’environnementalisme. L’auteure soutient que la manière dont Musk met en scène sa masculinité puise dans le registre de la masculinité écomoderne qui propose des solutions technologiques aux problèmes environnementaux tout en préservant les rapports de pouvoir de sexe et de race de la modernité capitaliste. L’article réfléchit également à la manière dont la masculin…
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media are in and about the environment, and environments are socially and materially mediated. \n \nThe book gives form to this new area of study and brings together diverse scholarly contributions to explore and give definition to the …
Crafting and maintaining socio-ecological commons
Once dismissed as a model of resource management that is doomed to fail, over the last three decades the commons have been taken up in academic research and social practices as a form of self-governance providing paths away from profit-oriented development in urban and rural settings. This article draws on research on a situated commoning project in a post-industrial area in Rome, Italy, to explore how contemporary activist practices complicate p…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Anthropocene (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art (2 works)