The Archive and the Lake. Labor, Toxicity, and the Making of Cosmopolitical Commons in Rome, Italy. Environmental Humanities, 2019.
Located in the Prenestino neighborhood of Rome, Italy, the former chemical-textile plant Ex-SNIA Viscosa has been a site of labor exploitation, toxicity and struggle since the 1920s. Drawing on archival research and interviews with activists, I argue that the intimacy with past contestations of labor toxicity is key in the production of the Ex-SNIA as a commons.
Ex-SNIA Lake, Rome, Italy, 2017