Irene Peano
Irene Peano received a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2011). She held post-doctoral positions at the University of Bologna (including a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship) and a visiting professorship at the University of Bucharest's Research Centre. For more than 15 years she has been carrying out research on the exploitation of migrant labour, with a focus on sexual and farm work, and on forms of resistance to migration and labour regimes, conducting extensive fieldwork in Nigeria, Italy and Romania. Such research has entailed the active support of collective forms of organisation and struggle. More recently, she has been researching the genealogies of forms of mobility containment and the development of agribusiness in Italy's agro-industrial districts, by means of in depth archival and oral-history research. She has been assistant researcher at ICS-ULisboa since 2021, after having worked at the same institute as a member of the ERC project "The Colour of Labor: the racialized lives of migrants (led by Cristiana Bastos), since 2017.
Publicações:
Artigo em Revista
Peano, I.(2024)The camp, the zone, and sovereign sediments: querying paradigms through the politics of made-in-Italy agribusiness operationsAnthropological Theory Vol. 24, 3, pp.258-281Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2023)Imbrigliamento e fuga nell’Italia contemporanea. Il lavoro agricolo dipendente nel Tavoliere e nella Piana di Gioia Tauro in prospettiva genealogicaCartografie sociali Vol. ANNO VIII, 15, pp.49-74Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2023)Dentro gli archivi dell’imbrigliamento, leggendo le fughe in controluceCartografie sociali Vol. ANNO VIII, 15, pp.188-194Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.Sacchi, M.(2023)Editoriale: Lavoro, mobilità, migrazioni. Ripartire dal concetto di salariato imbrigliatoCartografie sociali Vol. ANNO VIII , 15Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2022)Spatiotemporal Stratifications: Engaging Containment and Resistance in Italian Agrifood DistrictsPublic Culture, 9937297 [Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2021)Ethno-racialisation at the intersection of food and migration regimes: Reading processes of farm-labour substitution against the grain of migration policies in Italy (1980-present)Social Change Review Vol. 18, 1, pp.78-104Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2021)Turbulences in the encampment archipelago: conflicting mobilities between migration, labour and their logistics in Italian agri-food enclavesMobilities Vol. 16, 2, pp.212-223[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2021)Within and Against Racial Segregation: Notes from Italy’s Encampment ArchipelagoLateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association Vol. 10.2 (Fall 2021), pp.1-12Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2021)Spectres of Eurafrica in an Italian agroindustrial enclavee-flux architecturee-flux, Sternberg Press and the University of Minnesota PressOnline[Artigo em Revista]
Esposito, F.Murtaza, A.Peano, I.Vacchiano, F.(2020)Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routesCitizenship Studies Vol. 24, 5, pp.625-641Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2020)Conflitti e sinergie della logistica: Enclavi agro-industriali, migrazioni e ZESQuaderni di Scienza & Politica Vol. 11, pp.135-154Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2019)Gender, utopias and the savage slot: The role of anthropology in the (de)construction of a conceptEthics in Progress Vol. 10, 1, pp.112-128Online[Artigo em Revista]
Puglia, E.Peano, I.(2018)Tony Duvert: A political and theoretical overviewWhatever Vol. 1, pp. 183-197Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2017)Global care-commodity chains: Labour re/production and agribusiness in the district of Foggia, southeastern ItalySociologia Del Lavoro, 146, pp.24-39Online[Artigo em Revista]
Casas-Cortes, M.Cobarrubias, S.De Genova, N.Garelli, G.Grappi, G.Heller, C.Peano, I.et al.(2015)New Keywords: Migration and BordersCultural studies Vol. 29, 1, pp.55-87[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2013)Migrant Nigerian women in bonded sexual labour: The subjective effects of criminalisation and structural suspicion, beyond the trafficking paradigmAfrica e Mediterraneo Vol. 79, 2, pp.44-47Online[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2013)Escaping the exception: Migrant sex workers between subjectification and excess. Special Issue on "Migration, gender, and precarious subjectivities in the era of crisis", ed. by A. Athanasiou and Y. TsimourisGreek Review of Social Research, 140-141 B-C, pp.119-132[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2013)Opaque loves: Governance and escape in the intimate sphere of Nigerian sex workersEtnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, 3, pp.359-384[Artigo em Revista]
Peano, I.(2012)Excesses and double standards: Migrant prostitutes, sovereignty and exceptions in contemporary ItalyModern Italy Vol. 17, 4: The politics of sexuality in contemporary Italy, pp.419-432Online[Artigo em Revista]
Revista/Editor
Peano, I.Sacchi, M.(2023)Lavoro, mobilità, migrazioni. Ripartire dal concetto di salariato imbrigliatoCartografie sociali Vol. ANNO VIII, 15[Revista/Editor]
Livro/Editor
Le Petitcorps, C.Macedo, M.Peano, I.(2023) Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, AfterlivesSpringerOnline[Livro/Editor]
Cuppini, N.Peano, I.(2019)Un mondo logistico. Sguardi critici su lavoro, migrazioni, politica e globalizzazioneLedizioniOnline[Livro/Editor]
Avramopoulou, E.Peano, I.(2016)Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics: Desire, Affect, and Representation in Pornography, pp.102Punctum[Livro/Editor]
Capítulo de Livro
Peano, I.(2025)A space on the side of the port: Inhabiting the ruins of infrastructural projects in the Plain of Gioia Tauro. In : Bredella, N., Erben, D. & Bailey, G. (eds.) Desire and denial: On constructing and contesting infrastructuresDistanz[Capítulo de Livro]
Peano, I.(2024)Before and after fascist bonifiche: spaces of occlusion and recursion in contemporary tavoliere. In : Heywood, P. (ed.) New anthropologies of Italy: politics, history and culture, pp.136-156Berghahn BooksOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Peano, I.Macedo, M.Le Petitcorps, C.(2023)Introduction: Viewing Plantations at the Intersection of Political Ecologies and Multiple Space-Times. In : Le Petitcorps, C., Macedo, M., Peano, I. (Eds.)Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives, pp.1-32SpringerOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Peano, I.(2023)"New Slavery", Modern Marronage and the Multiple Afterlives of Plantations in Contemporary Italy. In : Le Petitcorps, C., Macedo, M., Peano, I. (Eds.)Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives, pp.285-311Springer[Capítulo de Livro]
Macedo, M.Peano, I.Le Petitcorps, C.(2023)Colonial Plantations and Their Afterlives: Legal Disciplines, Indian Historiographies and Their Lessons. An Interview with Rana Behal. In : Le Petitcorps, C., Macedo, M., Peano, I. (Eds.)Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives, pp.339-349Springer[Capítulo de Livro]
Esposito, F.Murtaza, A.Peano, I.Vacchiano, F.(2022)Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routes. In : Amelung, N., Gianolla, C., Ribeiro, J. S., Solovova, O. (Eds)Material Politics of Citizenship: Connecting Migrations with Science and Technology Studies, pp.56-68RoutledgeOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Peano, I.(2020)Ways of making a human otherwise: After-ethnography with migrant labourers in Italian agro-industrial enclaves. In : Jorge, V. O. (Ed.)Modos de Fazer/Ways of Making, pp.219-230CITCEM. Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e MemóriaOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Peano, I.(2019)The (im)possibilities of transgression, or, reflections on the awkward relation between Strathern and queer politics. In : P. Boyce, E.J. Gonzalez-Polledo and S. Posocco (Eds.)Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn StrathernRoutledgeOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Cuppini, N.Peano, I.(2019)Introduzione . In : Cuppini, N., Peano, I. (Eds.) Un mondo logistico. Sguardi critici su lavoro, migrazioni, politica e globalizzazione, pp.7-14LedizioniOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Peano, I.(2019)Supply chain affettive tra agro-industria e migrazioni, contenimento e rifugio. In : Cuppini, N., Peano, I. (Eds.)Un mondo logistico. Sguardi critici su lavoro, migrazioni, politica e globalizzazione,, pp.63-76LedizioneOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Peano, I.(2017)'Migrants' struggles? Rethinking citizenship, anti-racism and labour precarity through migration politics in Italy. In : Sian Lazar (Ed.)Where are the unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and EuropeZed books[Capítulo de Livro]
Avramopoulou, E.Peano, I.(2016)Introduction. Challenging pornography, challenged by pornography: from monstrous tactics to enactments of poiesis. In : E. Avramopoulou and I. Peano (Eds.)Porno-graphics and porno-tactics: Desire, affect and representation in pornography, pp.13-28Punctum[Capítulo de Livro]
Peano, I.(2016)Emergenc(i)es in the fields: Affective composition and counter-camps against the exploitation of migrant farm labour in Italy. In : O. Alexandrakis (Ed.)Impulse to Act: A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social JusticeIndiana University Press[Capítulo de Livro]
Peano, I.(2013)Bondage and help: Genealogies and hopes in trafficking from Nigeria to Italy. In : J. Quirk and D.Wigneswaran (Eds.)Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa, pp.225-251Africa World Press[Capítulo de Livro]
Dicionário/Editor
Tazzioli, M.De Genova, N.Fontanari, E.Peano, I.Stierl, M.(2016)Humanitarian CrisisEurope / Crisis: New Keywords of 'the Crisis' in and of 'Europe'Zone BooksOnline[Dicionário/Editor]
Recensão
Peano, I.(2023) Review: Belloni, Milena. The big gamble: the migration of Eritreans to EuropeJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol. 29, 4, pp.983-985Online[Recensão]
Acta
Peano, I.(2022)Genealogies of containment: migrant labour,bonifica integraleand bio-carceral regimes in an Italian agro-industrial enclave Vol. SHS Web of Conferences, 136, 02009 (2022)MATTERS OF CONTAINMENT. Material approaches to the handling of threats in the modern world. 3rd International Conference of the Quarantine Studies Network (QSN)Online[Acta]
