Federico Venturini is a Research Associate at the University of Udine (Italy). His current research focuses on participatory processes, river contracts, Zero Waste and social ecology. In 2016, he earned his PhD at the University of Leeds. Focusing on the experiences in Rio de Janeiro between 2013-2014, in his research he explored the relations between contemporary cities and urban social movements, utilizing participatory/militant research approaches and through the lens of social ecology. He holds an M.Phil. from the University of Trieste as well as a Master’s in history and European Culture from the University of Udine (Italy). He co-edited with Thomas Jeffrey Miley the book Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Ocalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan's Turkey and with Emet Degirmenci and Inés Morales the volume Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities.
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