alexandra.dangelo@unipd.it
Alexandra D’Angelo is a researcher in Sociology at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) at the University of Padua, working within the project PersoNa – Personal Narratives in Climate Litigation. Trained in both anthropology and sociology, her research examines the socio-cultural and political dimensions of natural, environmental, and climate-related disasters, with a particular focus on socio-ecological justice and social inequalities.
Within the PersoNa project, she leads ethnographic research on the personal narratives of individuals and communities affected by climate change impacts, and on the role these narratives play in climate litigation.
(2026) Capano, G. & D’Angelo, A. Local responses to the threats of dramatic crises: Do institutional leaders make a difference, and if so, how? «Disasters» 50(3). DOI: 10.1111/disa.70059
(2026) Toth, F. & D’Angelo, A. The essence of crisis decisions. The “rescue” of Ravenna during the 2023 flood. «Risk, Hazard, Crisis» 17(2). DOI: 10.1002/rhc3.70057
(2025) Michetti, M. & D’Angelo, A. Enabling informed decisions for climate risk and crisis management: The BRACE review protocol. «MethodX» Vol. 15: 103672. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2025.103672
(2025) D’Angelo, Alexandra. The Vajont disaster. Political ecology of a disaster. Four readings with a summary by the author. In De Pretto, S. & Riegler, A. (eds.), The Alps: modernization and resources. Geschichte und Region / Storia e Regione, 33(2024). ISBN 978-3-7065-6450-2
(2024) D’Angelo, A. & Castelli, P. Deconstructing imaginaries: the pandemic disaster beyond the center–periphery dichotomy. «Tracce Urbane – Italian Journal of Urban Studies» 11(15). DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562/18677
(2024) D’Angelo, Alexandra. Disasters and socio-environmental justice. Pathways toward a convergence of knowledge. In Leonardi, E. & Manghi, S. (eds.), Unequal climate. Toward a new political culture between environmental conflicts and social justice. Unicopli.
(2023) Braucher, C. – D’Angelo, A. – Marzo, A. – Sabatini, F. Crater and consumption. Consequences of tourism monoculture in territories affected by the 2016–2017 earthquake. In Beyond tourism monoculture. Towards an atlas of resistances and counter-projects, ed. Agostini, I. – Attili, G. – De Bonis, L. – Esposito, A. – Salerno, G.M. Edifir (Florence). ISBN 978-88-9280-139-4
(2022) Armiero, M. – D’Angelo, A. – Tarabini, S. – Torre, S. Environmental conflicts in the Mediterranean region. In Capasso, S. & Canitano, G. (eds.), Mediterranean Economies 2021–2022, ISMED-CNR – Il Mulino. ISBN 978-88-15-29463-0
(2021) D’Angelo, A. & Berti, F. Food first and housing later? Gastrotourism and post-disaster recovery in Amatrice and Castelluccio di Norcia. In Tracing a changing Apennines (ed. Emidio di Treviri), Il Bene Comune.
(2021) D’Angelo, A. & Diamanti, E. Emidio di Treviri: a collective research experience on post-disaster recovery in the Central Apennines (2016–17). When research is public: toward a shared ethnography. «Antropologia Pubblica» 5(2), pp. 119–124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1473/anpub.v5i2.162
(2018) D’Angelo, A. – Della Valle, C. – Franchini, A. – Olori, D. Chronicles of an exodus. Temporary housing and displacement measures in the post-earthquake context in Central Italy. In Emidio di Treviri (ed.), On the earthquake front. A militant research on the post-earthquake in Central Italy (2016–2017). DeriveApprodi.
(2017) D’Angelo, Alexandra. Returning lands in the Colombian post-conflict framework: an analysis of the Indigenous Wiwa case of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. «Perifèria: Journal of Research and Training in Anthropology», Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 22(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/periferia.618
(2014) D’Angelo, Alexandra. The Circle of Words of Life: a space of cultural resistance. Identity issues among Indigenous students in Bogotá. «Iberoamérica Social: Social Studies Network Journal», 2(2). ISSN-e 2341-0484