Role
Associate Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Department of Cultures, Politics, and Society at the University of Turin, delegate for Internationalization and director of the Master's program ICT4D for Development and Social Good.
Bio
Elisa Bignante graduated in Economics from the University of Turin in 2002 and received her PhD in Territorial Planning and Local Development in 2006. She was a university researcher from 2006 to 2017 and is currently an associate professor of economic and political geography at the University of Turin.
Her research focuses on development geographies, social and cultural geography, with a particular focus on participatory visual methods from a decolonial perspective. She has conducted fieldwork in Africa and Latin America, collaborating closely with indigenous communities and leveraging traditional knowledge in resource management and action research processes. She is also a co-founder of the Cobra Collective CIC, a global network for the empowerment of marginalized communities.