Currently employed at the Università di Cagliari, Italy Doctorate (Napoli, "L'Orientale", Italy); MA (Durham, UK)
Hello, this is the academic webpage of Ugo Rossi (married to Annalisa, one daughter, Rebecca)
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
My educational path has taken place mainly at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" where I first graduated in Political Sciences in 1998 and then I obtained a doctorate degree in Development Geography in 2003. Both my graduate (laurea) and my doctoral theses were supervised by late Professor Pasquale Coppola. In 2000-01 I spent a year in the UK for a master's degree in urban and regional studies at the Geography Department of the University of Durham. After my doctorate, I had research contracts at the L'Orientale University and I held post-doc fellowships at the University of Amsterdam (Geography and Planning Dept), the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore (Institute for Policy Studies), and more recently at the University of Cagliari (Faculty of Economics, Economic Geography discipline). I've also taught geographical disciplines in a number of Italian universities (more recently in the Urban Planning Programme of the University "Federico II" of Naples). I currently do research and occasionally teach at the University of Cagliari on a non-tenure-track basis (I now hold a two-year postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Regional Government of Sardinia - see below further details on the research project).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My scholarly background is in regional economic develoment studies but since my doctoral research the main focus of my work has shifted to the field of critical urban politics, touching upon a variety of issues and themes, including:
- urban growth politics;
- 'new urban politics';
- entrepreneurial cities;
- the politics of public space;
- creative cities and culture-led urban regeneration;
- logistics, transshipment and the strategies of port cities in the Mediterranean;
- theories of governance and governmentality;
- post-structuralist approaches to urban and regional studies (e.g. network formation, discourse analysis, assemblage theory);
- critical political and social theory.
My research interests, however, still concentrate also on wider geographical economic issues relating to the evolution of post-Fordist capitalism, to regional economic development, and to post-development theories and the geographical concept of 'Global South'.
I also like writing on issues relating to the positionality of transnational social scientists and to the publishing practices of early career geographers, and more generally I am intrigued by the critical sociology and geography of the academe, with special reference to the production of post-national publishing spaces.
PRESENT RESEARCH PROJECT
Since January 2010 I'm recipient of a research fellowship funded by the regional government of Sardinia and administered by the University of Cagliari.
My research project focuses on the process of internationalisation of seaports in the Western Mediterranean as a way to get connected to global value chains, with particular attention paid to the urban governance implications (entreprepreneurialisation, strategies of competitiveness, public-private coalitions). With my economic geography's colleagues at the University of Cagliari we'll analyse these issues in light of the cases of Cagliari, Tangier and Valencia.
WRITING PROJECTS
At present, along with other ongoing writing projects, I'm working (with Alberto Vanolo, University of Turin) on the English version of a book which we have just finished to write in Italian whose title is "Città e globalizzazione. Una geografia politica" (Laterza, Roma, appearing in October 2010).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
I currently act, together with
Barney Warf (University of Kansas), as editor of the book review section
of the new journal Dialogues in Human Geography (SAGE, starting in 2011).
The book review section is organised as a forum, choosing 'important'
books to be reviewed by a panel of up to 6 authors.
I also sit in the editoral boards of the
on-line geographical journals Geography
Compass (Wiley-Blackwell,
http:/www.geography-compass.com/) and ACME: An International
E-Journal for Critical Geographies (independent,
http://www.acme-journal.org/), and I am a corresponding member of the
Italian-language journal Archivio
di Studi Urbani e Regionali
(Franco Angeli publisher, Milan).
Below you can download my CV and some SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
University of Cagliari
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali (Economic Geography Division)
Via Sant'Ignazio da Laconi 17
09123 Cagliari, Italy
Tel. +39-(0)70-6753344
E-mail address: urossi@unica.itUp-dated: February 2010
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