After my degree in Geography (1992) at the University of Bologna, I took a Ph.D. in “Uomo e Ambiente” under the supervision of Franco Farinelli at the University of Padua (1994-1997)
ACADEMIC CAREER
From 2000 to 2005, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna.
From 2005 to 2018, I was an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna
In 2011 I obtained the National Scientific Qualification as a Full professor in the subject area 11/B (M-GGR-01)
Since 2018, I have been a Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication of the University of Bologna.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Undergraduate programmes, University of Bologna
See the list of courses (from 2004-2005 academic year to the present) published in the Didactic [https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandra bonazzi/didattica] section of this web site .
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Over the last several years, I have been carrying out my research along these main lines:
1) I continued my previous research in the field of Epistemology and History of Geographical Thought.The results of this research led to the monograph A. Bonazzi, Manuale di geografia culturale [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/112214], ROMA, Laterza, 2011.
2) Informal economy, urban space, foodification. The results appeared in
Bologna: breve geografia di una "città à la carte" [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/712834], in: A. Bonazzi, E. Frixa, a cura di, Mercati Storici, rigenerazione e consumo urbano. Il caso di Bologna, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2019.
Alessandra Bonazzi, Bologna City Branding [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/815306], «BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA», 2020, 14, pp. 59 - 67.
3) The construction of European space and the sea. The results appeared in Il piano dell'Oceano: James Cook e Immanuel Kant [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/653229], «SEMESTRALE DI STUDI E RICERCHE DI GEOGRAFIA», 2018, XXX, pp. 55 - 67; Bonazzi, La piega del Mediterraneo [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/668565]; Geografia, Modernità e Mare. Breve storia di uno spazio globale e delle sue carte, Carocci.
4) BANDO PRIN 2022 PNRR
Codice progetto: “P2022WMKRP”
Titolo progetto: “Next cities for whom? Imaginaries, resources and inequalities in
urban fragments” -As part of the PRIN project Who Is the City of the Future For?, she is conducting research on Bologna’s urban transformations associated with the City and the Path of Knowledge, the DAMA Technopole, and the Digital Twin. The research critically examines the relationship between material infrastructure, platform urbanism, and narratives of the future, developing the concepts of “speculative infrastructure” and “algorithmic suturing.” The findings will be presented in the volume Urban Infrastructuring: The Case of Bologna, featuring artistic contributions by Gianluca Costantini.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Comitato scientifico per la progettata collana Classics in Human Geography (Ashgate)
Referee della Rivista Geografica Italiana
Comitato Memorie Ricerche e Studi della Società Geografica Italiana.
2022 Chief Editor Casa editrice A.ge.I
2018-Board member, Doctoral Program in Philosophy, Science, Cognition, and Semiotics (PSCS), University of Bologna, IT – Dipartimento FILCOM, Università di Bologna
2022-Current, Board member, Doctoral Program in “Semiotica: Studi su Testi, Discorso, Media e Cultura” - A.A. 2022/2023 (XXXVIII ciclo) -Università di Palermo
