Seminario “Geographies of plants and animals: an ethnographic approach” (L’Aquila, 17 marzo 2026)

Ugo Rossi segnala che Michele Bandiera, assegnista di ricerca nell’ambito del progetto PRIN Farms on the Move diretto da Annalisa Colombino (UNIVE), presenterà uno sguardo comparativo piante-animali a partire dalle sue ricerche di dottorato e post-dottorato.

Martedì 17 marzo 2026, ore 11.30-13, saletta Vetrata, Aurora building, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila.
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Michele Bandiera, GSSI
Geographies of plants and animals: an ethnographic approach
Agriculture, animal husbandry, and rural landscapes are currently undergoing transformations that are redefining the boundaries between the human and the non-human. In recent years, more-than-human studies have proposed a reconfiguration of the “social” that includes plants, animals, and environments as co-producers of space. This presentation engages with this debate and asks: how can ethnography grasp the geographies emerging from multispecies relations without reducing plants and animals to mere objects of observation? Drawing on ethnographic research with olive trees in Puglia and Andalucía, and with goats on an extensive farm in the Maritime Alps, I reflect on what it means to conduct ethnography with non-human subjects. Through these cases, I address key theoretical and methodological questions shaping multispecies research.