Marco Armiero
Biographic Data
| ID | 950887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Armiero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Armiero |
| SIGNATURE | ARMIERO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6063-9477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Lithium supply chain metabolism, a conflict-based analysis
This article examines the impacts of the energy transition industry from an environmental justice perspective, proposing to understand supply chain metabolism through environmental conflicts and enhancing socio-metabolic analysis. By revisiting the concept of social metabolism, we explore its evolution and relevance in the current context of global supply chains analysis. Historically, this approach provides tools to understand the flow of energy…
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article aims to frame the state violence and socio-ecological injustice perpetrated against prisoners through the lens of both critical environmental justice studies and the concept of the Wasteocene. We seek to uncover the socio-ecological relationships that have historically shaped the enforcement of the prison and waste systems through a focus on the Italian context during the Covid-19 pandemic. We explore the case of a jail in Campania, …
Trust in disaster resilience
Purpose The erosion of ‘trust’ (among citizens as well as within and between institutional levels) is a worrying aspect of these turbulent times in Europe and beyond. Trust (between citizens and institutions, citizens and experts, policymakers and experts, and among different levels of governance) is crucial in all dimensions of disaster resilience. Risk perceptions stem from a complex web of feedback between individuals, communities, institution…
Questions to Marco Armiero
Eseh Notepad: Reflections on Legacies, Failures, and Successes
Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them.This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents.All theoretical perspectives are welcome.Books in the series typically combine theory with empirical r…
Multispecies Alliances Against the Wasteocene: Counter-Narratives and Commoning Practices
In this article, we will not engage with the scientific Anthropocene, rather, we are interested in challenging what Jason Moore has called the popular Anthropocene, that is, a narrative about the present socio-ecological crisis and its causes. The Wasteocene is part of a wider critique of the Anthropocene narrative that stresses the need to look at inequalities and power relationships to understand the socioecological crisis. Those alternative co…
Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism
This exploration of the environmental practices of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime invites readers to consider the ecological connections of all political projects. In this first environmental history of Italian fascism, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveal that nature and fascist rhetoric are inextricable. Mussolini's Nature explores fascist political ecologies, or rather the practices and narratives through wh…
Urban Climate Insurgency
Urban climate insurgency refers to the ensemble of grassroots initiatives aiming to tackle climate change from a radical point of view. Insurgency in this case does not imply violence but rather refers to the radical rejection of the current socioecological system. While explicitly challenging planetary ecocide and climate-change effects, these forms of insurgency target all policies that make the urban condition yet more precarious, demonstratin…
Climate Insurgency between Academia and Activism
This interview focuses on a spectrum of urgent challenges facing marginalized human and other-than-human communities, including the intersecting crises of global anthropogenic climate disruption and state and institutional racist violence. We discuss and consider the opportunities, limits, and contradictions of pursuing transformative, intersectional political change and scholarship through efforts to bridge community activism and academic labor.…
From Waste to Climate
It has often been said that the problem with climate change is its invisibility. People do not mobilize about climate change because they cannot see it; even less can they see CO2 emissions—that is, the most relevant material element causing climate alternations. Although I would argue that for some people climate change is more visible than for others, it remains a global environmental problem not easily felt on the ground. On the other hand, wa…
Out of steam? A social science and humanities research agenda for geothermal energy
The potential of geothermal energy for energy transition is increasingly recognized by governments around the world. Whether geothermal energy is a sustainable source of heat and/or electricity depends on how it is deployed in specific contexts. Therefore, it is striking that there is only limited attention to geothermal energy from a social science and humanities (SSH) perspective. Geothermal energy is largely conceptualized as a technological a…
Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump
Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in their entanglements with the environment? Looking at this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity, more than the Anthropocene, we will discover the Wasteocene. The imposition of wasting relation…
Seeking justice in risk landscapes. Small data and toxic autobiographies from an Italian petrochemical town (Gela, Sicily)
This paper provides a re-signification of industrial risk as a slow-burning issue (Mah [2017] “Environmental justice in the age of big data: challenging toxic blind spots of voice, speed, and expertise.” Environmental Sociology 3 (2): 122–133.), invisibly and violently diffusing across time and space and affecting relational entanglements between human and non-human components of risk landscapes. As an alternative to a planning approach based on …
Justicia Ambiental: Historias de Opresión, Injusticia y Resistencia desde América Latina
Justicia Ambiental: Historias de Opresión, Injusticia y Resistencia desde América Latina
Of Perpetrators and Victims: Toxicity in Environmental History
This forum unites the articles of six scholars whose different, but complementary, approaches shed light on some key themes of the environmental history of toxicity. One recurrent line of questioning asks who is to blame for the steady increase in poisons in the global environment over the past century. While Marco Armiero identifies capitalism as the main driving force, Michelle Mart and Iris Borowy see more deep-seated social and psychological …
Eseh Notepad: Looking Back and Forward
Society Pages: Eseh Notepad
The Case for the Wasteocene
The Case for the Wasteocene Marco Armiero Marco Armiero Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Environmental History, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2021, Pages 425–430, https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 Published: 14 July 2021
Eseh Notepad: Something I Have Learned from Covid-19
Eseh Notepad
Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of Covid-19
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
Toxic Bios: Toxic Autobiographies—A Public Environmental Humanities Project
In this article, we present Toxic Bios, a public environmental humanities (EH) project that aims to coproduce, gather, and make visible stories of contamination and resistance. To explain the rationale of the project and its potentialities, first we offer a brief reflection on the field of the EH and its (possible) contribution to environmental justice research, then, we illustrate the guerrilla narrative strategy experimented through the project
Wasted Spaces, Resisting People: The politics of waste in Naples, Italy
This article explores how the waste crisis in Naples, which has been occurring since the 1990s, has stimulated the political creativeness of local activists who have started to experiment new ways for participation and community building. In particular, we investigate how environmental justice struggles have evolved in commoning processes (that is, in the creation of participatory institutions and in the defense of commons) by studying the social…
Rights of Resistance: The Garbage Struggles for Environmental Justice in Campania, Italy
Even when we manage to touch on the productive, ontological dimension of the problematic and the resistances that arise there, however, we will still not be in the position ... to point to any alread
Anthropocene: Victims, Narrators, and Revolutionaries
The absence of a reflection on revolutionary practices and subjects is the main weakness of the radical critique of the Anthropocene. The risk is to envision the Anthropocene as a space for villains and victims but not for revolutionaries. It is crucial to challenge the (in)visibility and (un)knowability of the Anthropocene beyond geological strata and planetary boundaries. As the Capitalocene, the Anthropocene has left its traces in the bodies o…
Beyond "Socially Constructed" Disasters: Re-politicizing the Debate on Large Dams through a Political Ecology of Risk
Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe's most emblematic dam disasters – Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain) – and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India, this article argues that the damage caused by dam disasters is often not unavoidable o…
Of Humans, Sheep, and Dioxin: A History of Contamination and Transformation in Acerra, Italy
In the last few years, Acerra, a town in the Neapolitan hinterland in Italy, has become the epicenter of a waste crisis that has engulfed the entire Campania region since 1994 (see Figure 1). Accor
Green Rhetoric in Blackshirts: Italian Fascism and the Environment
In comparison with the significant historiographical work on the German case, specifically on Nazi environmental policies and ideology, studies on such issues for other Fascist regimes are still rather rare. This article attempts partially to fill this gap, at least as regards the Italian case, offering a general overview of the Fascist regime and its environmental politics and narratives. Analysing how Fascists appropriated Italian landscapes th…
Voices, Clues, Numbers: Roaming Among Waste in Campania
A region in the Italian South, Campania comprises five provinces: Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Salerno, and Naples, with a total population of almost 6 million people. This population, however, is
The Case for the Wasteocene
The Case for the Wasteocene Marco Armiero Marco Armiero Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Environmental History, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2021, Pages 425–430, https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 Published: 14 July 2021
Cutting the Fence, Sabotaging the Border: Migration as a Revolutionary Practice
What Happened to the Trash? Political Miracles and Real Statistics in an Emergency Regime
The article focuses on waste struggles in Campania, Italy, showing how the state of emergency has been used for years to silence alternative solutions to the waste crisis and favor private economic interests. In Italy, when an event severely jeopardizes human security, the prime minister declares a 'state of emergency' and appoints a commissioner with the power to coordinate actions regarding the catastrophe and rescue of the population. This pro…
Of (not) being neighbors: Cities, Citizens and Climate Change in an Age of Migrations
Borders are back with a vengeance. From the Americas to the Mediterranean, borders cut through the increasingly integrated world in a way that exposes the inside-outside logic of contemporary capitalism. All this happens on a backdrop where cities are becoming the key sites of contestation since borders and levees do not suffice to keep them intact. Cities are also increasingly becoming the focus of international efforts to deal with climate chan…
The politicization of ill bodies in Campania, Italy
The communities affected by toxic contamination in Campania, Italy, have had to confront the challenge of proving a direct causal connection between exposure to pollutants and health issues, given a long history of mismanagement of waste. Medical studies have been conducted, but the social and political debate is static. In September 2014, the Italian Ministry of Health simply repeated earlier statements that Campania's increasing cancer rates ar…
Out of steam? A social science and humanities research agenda for geothermal energy
The potential of geothermal energy for energy transition is increasingly recognized by governments around the world. Whether geothermal energy is a sustainable source of heat and/or electricity depends on how it is deployed in specific contexts. Therefore, it is striking that there is only limited attention to geothermal energy from a social science and humanities (SSH) perspective. Geothermal energy is largely conceptualized as a technological a…
The Nature of Mafia: An Environmental History of the Simeto River Basin, Sicily
This article builds upon a rich scholarship that has proposed, though with different shades, the concept of socionatures, meaning by this the inextricable hybrid of ecological and social facts. In this article, we aim to explore how the Mafia produces particular socionatural formations, entering into landscapes, becoming rivers and cities, penetrating into the bodies of humans and non-humans. We will develop our argument by exploring a specific g…
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article aims to frame the state violence and socio-ecological injustice perpetrated against prisoners through the lens of both critical environmental justice studies and the concept of the Wasteocene. We seek to uncover the socio-ecological relationships that have historically shaped the enforcement of the prison and waste systems through a focus on the Italian context during the Covid-19 pandemic. We explore the case of a jail in Campania, …
Multispecies Alliances Against the Wasteocene: Counter-Narratives and Commoning Practices
In this article, we will not engage with the scientific Anthropocene, rather, we are interested in challenging what Jason Moore has called the popular Anthropocene, that is, a narrative about the present socio-ecological crisis and its causes. The Wasteocene is part of a wider critique of the Anthropocene narrative that stresses the need to look at inequalities and power relationships to understand the socioecological crisis. Those alternative co…
Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of Covid-19
Wasted Spaces, Resisting People: The politics of waste in Naples, Italy
This article explores how the waste crisis in Naples, which has been occurring since the 1990s, has stimulated the political creativeness of local activists who have started to experiment new ways for participation and community building. In particular, we investigate how environmental justice struggles have evolved in commoning processes (that is, in the creation of participatory institutions and in the defense of commons) by studying the social…
The transformative potential of a disaster: A contextual analysis of the 1882 flood in Verona, Italy
Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them.This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents.All theoretical perspectives are welcome.Books in the series typically combine theory with empirical r…
Eseh Notepad: Something I Have Learned from Covid-19
Seeing the Nation for the Trees: At the Frontier of Italian Nineteenth-Century Modernity
In this article we analyse the emergence and the transformation of three different socio-natural spaces in a particular historical context - that is, the establishment of a modern state. We explore this issue by researching the relationship between forests and modernisation from Unification in 1861 to the 1890s. Over this period Italy experienced a radical change connected with the state-building process, and forests represented a material place …
Andrew Denning. Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History
There must be some kind of fatal attraction between environmental historians and mountains. Many books and articles are dedicated to that subject. Mountains are also—or also might be—a crucial laboratory of multidisciplinary studies where environmental historians, anthropologists, geographers, and sociologists, just to mention some of the disciplines, can work together in order to understand the complexity of that environment. Coping with this in…
Enclosing the Sea
At the end of nineteenth century, the city of Naples, Italy was hit by a cholera epidemic that affected the fishers' neighborhoods that lined the seaboard with special intensity. As a consequence of the epidemic, the area was transformed from a poor neighborhood inhabited by fishers into a residential and leisure area for the upper-middle class. Fishers were forced to leave the area, thereby cutting the socio-ecological connections between this u…
Environmental History in Europe from 1994 to 2004: Enthusiasm and Consolidation
This review presents European scholarship in environmental history by highlighting a limited number of works which have proved significant in their respective countries. The decade from 1994-2004 saw the development of a new scholarly network for environmental history in Europe. Members of this network have contributed to an overview about important work done in their region during the last ten years. A series of case studies on the UK, Sweden, F…
Seeing Like A Protester: Nature, Power, and Environmental Struggles
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Enclosing the Sea
At the end of nineteenth century, the city of Naples, Italy was hit by a cholera epidemic that affected the fishers' neighborhoods that lined the seaboard with special intensity. As a consequence of the epidemic, the area was transformed from a poor neighborhood inhabited by fishers into a residential and leisure area for the upper-middle class. Fishers were forced to leave the area, thereby cutting the socio-ecological connections between this u…
Rights of Resistance: The Garbage Struggles for Environmental Justice in Campania, Italy
Even when we manage to touch on the productive, ontological dimension of the problematic and the resistances that arise there, however, we will still not be in the position ... to point to any alread
Green Rhetoric in Blackshirts: Italian Fascism and the Environment
In comparison with the significant historiographical work on the German case, specifically on Nazi environmental policies and ideology, studies on such issues for other Fascist regimes are still rather rare. This article attempts partially to fill this gap, at least as regards the Italian case, offering a general overview of the Fascist regime and its environmental politics and narratives. Analysing how Fascists appropriated Italian landscapes th…
What Happened to the Trash? Political Miracles and Real Statistics in an Emergency Regime
The article focuses on waste struggles in Campania, Italy, showing how the state of emergency has been used for years to silence alternative solutions to the waste crisis and favor private economic interests. In Italy, when an event severely jeopardizes human security, the prime minister declares a 'state of emergency' and appoints a commissioner with the power to coordinate actions regarding the catastrophe and rescue of the population. This pro…
Voices, Clues, Numbers: Roaming Among Waste in Campania
A region in the Italian South, Campania comprises five provinces: Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Salerno, and Naples, with a total population of almost 6 million people. This population, however, is
On History, Nature and Nation: An Interview with David Blackbourn
Peter H. Hansen. The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment
Journal Article Peter H. Hansen. The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment. Get access Peter H. Hansen. The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. x, 380. $35.00. Marco Armiero Marco Armiero KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hi…
Andrew Denning. Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History
There must be some kind of fatal attraction between environmental historians and mountains. Many books and articles are dedicated to that subject. Mountains are also—or also might be—a crucial laboratory of multidisciplinary studies where environmental historians, anthropologists, geographers, and sociologists, just to mention some of the disciplines, can work together in order to understand the complexity of that environment. Coping with this in…
Of Humans, Sheep, and Dioxin: A History of Contamination and Transformation in Acerra, Italy
In the last few years, Acerra, a town in the Neapolitan hinterland in Italy, has become the epicenter of a waste crisis that has engulfed the entire Campania region since 1994 (see Figure 1). Accor
Anthropocene: Victims, Narrators, and Revolutionaries
The absence of a reflection on revolutionary practices and subjects is the main weakness of the radical critique of the Anthropocene. The risk is to envision the Anthropocene as a space for villains and victims but not for revolutionaries. It is crucial to challenge the (in)visibility and (un)knowability of the Anthropocene beyond geological strata and planetary boundaries. As the Capitalocene, the Anthropocene has left its traces in the bodies o…
The politicization of ill bodies in Campania, Italy
The communities affected by toxic contamination in Campania, Italy, have had to confront the challenge of proving a direct causal connection between exposure to pollutants and health issues, given a long history of mismanagement of waste. Medical studies have been conducted, but the social and political debate is static. In September 2014, the Italian Ministry of Health simply repeated earlier statements that Campania's increasing cancer rates ar…
Beyond "Socially Constructed" Disasters: Re-politicizing the Debate on Large Dams through a Political Ecology of Risk
Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe's most emblematic dam disasters – Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain) – and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India, this article argues that the damage caused by dam disasters is often not unavoidable o…
Cutting the Fence, Sabotaging the Border: Migration as a Revolutionary Practice
Of ghosts, waste, and the Anthropocene
Once there was a spectre haunting Europe and maybe the world. Now other fears and invisible presences have occupied the space of imagination, above all CO 2 emissions and “the Anthropocene,” projecting their shadows and diminishing what we can imagine for the future. Building on my experience as a researcher on waste in Naples, Italy, I reflect on our own presence as radical scholars among activists and argue that the figure of the ghost might he…
Seeing the Nation for the Trees: At the Frontier of Italian Nineteenth-Century Modernity
In this article we analyse the emergence and the transformation of three different socio-natural spaces in a particular historical context - that is, the establishment of a modern state. We explore this issue by researching the relationship between forests and modernisation from Unification in 1861 to the 1890s. Over this period Italy experienced a radical change connected with the state-building process, and forests represented a material place …
The Land Beneath Our Feet/Alchemy Films
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
Toxic Bios: Toxic Autobiographies—A Public Environmental Humanities Project
In this article, we present Toxic Bios, a public environmental humanities (EH) project that aims to coproduce, gather, and make visible stories of contamination and resistance. To explain the rationale of the project and its potentialities, first we offer a brief reflection on the field of the EH and its (possible) contribution to environmental justice research, then, we illustrate the guerrilla narrative strategy experimented through the project
Wasted Spaces, Resisting People: The politics of waste in Naples, Italy
This article explores how the waste crisis in Naples, which has been occurring since the 1990s, has stimulated the political creativeness of local activists who have started to experiment new ways for participation and community building. In particular, we investigate how environmental justice struggles have evolved in commoning processes (that is, in the creation of participatory institutions and in the defense of commons) by studying the social…
The Nature of Mafia: An Environmental History of the Simeto River Basin, Sicily
This article builds upon a rich scholarship that has proposed, though with different shades, the concept of socionatures, meaning by this the inextricable hybrid of ecological and social facts. In this article, we aim to explore how the Mafia produces particular socionatural formations, entering into landscapes, becoming rivers and cities, penetrating into the bodies of humans and non-humans. We will develop our argument by exploring a specific g…
The transformative potential of a disaster: A contextual analysis of the 1882 flood in Verona, Italy
Of (not) being neighbors: Cities, Citizens and Climate Change in an Age of Migrations
Borders are back with a vengeance. From the Americas to the Mediterranean, borders cut through the increasingly integrated world in a way that exposes the inside-outside logic of contemporary capitalism. All this happens on a backdrop where cities are becoming the key sites of contestation since borders and levees do not suffice to keep them intact. Cities are also increasingly becoming the focus of international efforts to deal with climate chan…
Eseh Notepad: Something I Have Learned from Covid-19
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