Workshop 2025

POE-Politics Ontologies Ecologies-8
Ecology and War: Between Nationalism, Capitalism and Class

Scuola Normale Superiore, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Altana
30-31 October 2025

Abstract

Program
30 October, 15:00-19:00 – War, Capitalism and Ecology

Introduction to the workshop
Luigi Pellizzoni (SNS)
Chair: Ivano Scotti (University of Naples Federico II)
Munira Khayyat (New York University Abu Dhabi)  After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon

Discussants
Maura Benegiamo (University of Pisa)
Sarah ElMasry (SNS)
Jimmy Matar (SNS)

Break

Andrea Genovese (University of Sheffield) Not All Circular Futures Are Green: On Ecological Transitions, Militarism, and Autarky

Discussants
Irina Aguiari (SNS)
Dario Minervini (University of Naples Federico II)
Mario Pianta (SNS)

General discussion

 

31 October, 9:30-13:00

Round Table: Rethinking Class Conflict in a Post-Globalized World

Introduction and moderation
Alice Dal Gobbo (University of Trento), Emanuele Leonardi (University of Bologna)

Speakers
Alfredo Agustoni (University of Chieti-Pescara)  The incredible and sad story of Hitler’s posthumous victory and its (potential) disastrous consequences. World ecologies, military escalation and changing socio-technical paradigms

Anna Berti Suman, Paolo Giardullo (University of Padova) Resisting and promoting peace through practices of “civil science” in contexts of war

Nicola Cavallotti (University of Milan) The path of weapons: the genesis of capitalism in Valtrompia. Ecological notes for the study of weapons and the places where they are manufactured

Luigi Doria (Ca’ Foscari University Venice) The possible change in the status of the climate emergency

Break

Speakers
Giovanni Fava, Antonia Majaca (Ca’ Foscari University Venice) Weaponizing the smart earth: the “Palazzo” paradigm, and the road toward planetary sovereignty

Torsten Geelan (University of Bristol) Labour-environmental coalitions in Denmark and UK

Orazio Gnerre (University of Perugia) Political geo-ecology: a different perspective
Alberto Manconi (University of Lausanne) Eco-social convergence in Europe: notes toward a renewed internationalism in times of war

Dario Padovan (University of Turin) Metabolic rifts and global conflicts: the crisis of the nature/capital nexus and the new cycle of accumulation

Lindsay Parkhowell (University of Basel) The Zong! Case and melancholy ecology

General discussion