Elisa Bosisio

Adjunct professor

Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

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Collaboration with:: Università degli Studi ROMA TRE
Country:: Italy
Description:: Lecturer for the Science Module (https://www.masterstudiepolitichedigenere.it/moduli_didattici/scienze-2024/) in the Master’s Programme in Gender Studies and Policies (https://www.masterstudiepolitichedigenere.it/). What do I do in the programme? I lead a workshop that explores the themes briefly outlined below. "Oikos" is the common Greek root of both economy and ecology—terms that the capitalist mode of (re)production has progressively pulled apart, and that neoliberal restructurings continue to keep strategically distant. How can we inhabit the more-than-human worlds we share by reconfiguring these very real battlegrounds? Feminist theories and practices suggest working within and with eco-logic/eco-nomic contact zones, emerging as experimental spaces for critique and prefiguration—with as much rage as joy—moving toward more breathable presents and futures for humans, environments, animals, and ecosystems. The first, seminar-based part of the course delves into various materialist and ecofeminist traditions devoted to analysing the metabolic entanglements between spaces and bodies through the lens of reproduction as a paradigm (Giardini and Simone). This allows us to investigate the meanings of value, the processes of naturalisation and denaturalisation, and the reappropriation of the space-times of the political—within and beyond the personal/political binary. The second, practice-based part of the course involves the collective elaboration of reflections on the presents we traverse with our marked bodies: how can we inhabit oikos as a dimension of sharing within and beyond the human, while placing at the centre of our inquiries both relations of exchange and instrumental entanglements (Haraway, De La Bellacasa)? How can we make the nonhuman count in these relations (Balaud, Battistoni, Haraway)? How can we begin from the self—that is, from our own needs, desires, habits, and relationships—to weave collective meshes that generate pleasure, empowering affects, and care for transformation in-between? This second part of the workshop includes the exploration of methodologies such as fabulation, collective writing, and prefiguration, and leaves space for diverse modes of engagement, including those that arise from the students’ own passions and technical competences.

Elisa Bosisio

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