Maria Vasile
PhD candidate
- Name
- M. Vasile
- Telephone
- +31 6 2829 8900
- m.vasile@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2443-2433
Maria Vasile is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. She is part of the ERC project led by Professor Cristina Grasseni "Food citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scales", investigating emerging forms of food citizenship. She is also a researcher at the University of Pisa.
Short CV
Maria previously worked as a social protection consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She holds a MSc in Rural Development (Gent University). Maria is also a researcher at the University of Pisa.
Awards
Best paper written by an early career scholar on a topic related to the Global South in the fall 2017 open access special issue of the Built Environment journal on Planning for Equitable Urban and Regional Food Systems.
Supervisors
Relevant links
PhD candidate
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Vasile M. & Grasseni C. (2022), Visions of the urban green: interrogating urban renewal in Turin’s Periphery, Anthrovision 8(1): 4.
- Vasile M. (2022), Book Review. Review of: Narotzky S. (2020) Grassroots economies. Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements 13(2): 543-545.
- Vasile M. (24 May 2021), PhD candidate Maria Vasile presents her research in the talk show Weekly Seeds. Food Citizens. Leiden: Universiteit Leiden [blog entry].
- Vasile M. & Pisano A. (4 January 2021), A multi-disciplinary conversation about urban transformation in Turin: the case of Mirafiori Sud. Food Citizens. Leiden: Universiteit Leiden [blog entry].
- Vasile M. & Cruz F. Thomé da (2021), Construção de identidade, capacitação mútua e negociação política em uma feira de agricultores/as: o caso da feira ecológica do Menino Deus em Porto Alegre/rs [Identity-construction, mutual enskilment and political negotiation at the farmers’ market] (translation: Vasile M. & Thomé da Cruz F.). In: Menezes S. de Souza Mendonça & Almeida M.G. de (Eds.) Vamos às feiras!: Cultura e ressignificação dos circuitos curtos. Aracaju, SE: Criação Editora. 214-236.
- Mari V. Vasile M. (2020), From recipe to collective improvisation : an ethnographic vignette about food assistance in Barriera di Milano, Turin, lo Squaderno 56: 43-46.
- Del Bello C., Periccioli A. & Vasile M. (9 June 2020), Torino: from food to demands [blog entry].
- Gracjasz A. & Vasile M. (12 June 2019), Local resistance for sustainable farming and climate justice. Local resistance for sustainable farming and climate justice [blog entry].
- Vasile M. (3 May 2019), Celebrating the World Anthropology Day 2019 in Milan, Italy. Discovering the city, discussing public anthropology. Leiden University [blog entry].
- Vasile M. & Thomé da Cruz F. (2019), Identity-construction, mutual enskilment and political negotiation at the farmers' market, Revista do Desenvolvimento Regional 24(1): 212-226.
- Vasile M. (21 December 2018), Peasants of Wallonia in action! [blog entry].
- Vasile M. (21 May 2018), “But where the danger is, also grows the saving power”: A short account of the conference Storie del possibile, Rome, Italy, April 2018. “But where the danger is, also grows the saving power”: A short account of the conference Storie del possibile, Rome, Italy, April 2018 [blog entry].
- Vasile M. & Duncan J. (2017), 'We want to be part of the broader project': Family Farmers and Local Food Governance in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Built Environment 43(3): 390-401.
- Vasile M. (2017), Book review. Review of: Gaarde I. (2017) Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space - La Via Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security, Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements 9(2).
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