Beatrice is a PhD candidate at University of Perugia and will be a visiting scholar at the CEH this fall from August to December 2023 to work on her dissertation and to explore new topics of interests, such as multispecies ethnography. 

Her PhD project, entitled ”Networks, knowledge and productive chains at Trasimeno lake,” is centered on the activities of a fishing cooperative in Trasimeno Lake (Umbria, Italy). Her research interests concern the politics of ecology and heritage making, focusing in particular on how locality is constructed through negotiations between different perspectives. Questioning the concept of “local knowledge” and the risks of its essentialisation in certain narratives, Beatrice is investigating through ethnographic methods how people make sense of a changing environment in an endangered ecosystem like Lake Trasimeno, and how different thought-styles and power dynamics intersect and create situated knowledge and horizons in sight of the uncertainties brought by climate change.