Salvatore Paolo De Rosa

Salvatore Paolo De Rosa is a Ph.D. candidate at the Human Geography Department of Lund University, Sweden, working within the fields of Political Ecology, Environmental Anthropology and Oral History. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropological Sciences (Bologna University, Italy) and a Master's degree in Anthropology and Ethnology (Federico II University of Napoli, Italy). In 2009, he spent one year of study exchange at the Sociology Department of Gaziantep University (Turkey).

In his previous researches he focused on the waste crisis of Campania region, Italy, where he analyzed the production of conflicting discourses and the practices of resistance in the grassroots movement that emerged in the town of Acerra (NA) against the construction of a waste incinerator. He took part for several years in the struggles for environmental justice in Campania, contributing also with a local based narration of the events through his writings for an independent magazine, in which he is also an editor.

Started in September 2012, his doctoral research will focus on the socio-ecological change and on the cultural outcome of the Campania waste crisis, deepening the understanding of the links between the contamination of territories and the rethinking of identities. Part of his project is devoted to the construction of an Oral Archive of the Environmental Conflicts in Campania.