Giovanna Ricoveri
= Italian advocate of political ecology
Qualifications
• Law Degree in the University of Pisa, Faculty of Law, Italy (1958), major in constitutional law. • PhD in Economics (1965) at Columbia University, New York, Usa, where I was a Fulbright student and majored in development with prof. Albert Hirschman. • Visiting Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz (1985). • Fulbright Fellow for Employment (1990) in Washington DC-Usa, where I was hosted by the Boston University in Boston Mass, by the labor movement in Chicago and by the local Government in Akron-Ohio. • End (European Nuclear Disarmament) activist for the Italian Unions and organizer of several peace conventions in Europe, included that of 1991 in the USSR. • Officer of the Italian Unions monitoring the first democratic elections in South Africa, 1993.
Work experiences
• Founder and editor of the Italian journal «CNS-Ecologia Politica» since its beginning, March 1991, now online (www.ecologiapolitica.it). The journal is linked to «CNS-Usa», founded and edited by James O’Connor, «Ecologia Politica» edited in Spain by Juan Martinez-Alier and <Ecologie et Politique> edited in France by Jean-Paul Deléage. • Trade Unions officer in Cgil (Confederazione generale italiana del lavoro) for twenty years, many of which dedicated to analyze and organize the workers of the textile, clothing and shoe industry. • Consultant for several Italian and European research institutions, unions organizations and NGO’s in matters related to political ecology and Intellectual Property Rights. • Lecturer in political ecology, globalization, neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism in Italy and the Usa. • Translator from English in the fields of: ecology (Vandana Shiva, Monocultures of the Mind; Biopiracy. The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge; Stolen Harvest. The Hijacking of the Glob al Food Supply); economics (Joan Robinson, Economic Heresies; Joseph Shumpeter, Business Cycles, Wolfgang Sachs and Tilman Santarius (editors), Slow Trade-Sound Farming) and politics (Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire. Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East).
Main publications
• Beni comuni vs merci (2010), Jaca Book, Milano, pp.130 • “I beni comuni: un patrimonio da proteggere”, in Agricoltura Istituzioni Mercato, n.1, 2010 • Capitalismo Natura Socialismo (ed.), (2006), Jaca Book, Milano, pp. 280 • Beni comuni tra tradizione e futuro (ed), (2005), Emi, Bologna, pp.160 • AGRI-CULTURA. Terra Lavoro Ecosistemi, with R. Bocci (2006), Emi, Bologna, pp. 192 • “Diritti di proprietà intellettuale e agricoltura nei paesi del Sud”, (2008) in Ricerca e Cooperazione – Cocis, Senza Patente, Roma • La sfida EMAS (1999), Ministero dell’Ambiente, Roma • Sindacato e Processi di internazionalizzazione (1998), Ediesse, Roma • The second contradiction in the Italian experience, with Valentino Parlato, (1996), in Ted Benton (ed.), The Greening of Marxism, Guilford, London • Il pensiero unico (1996), La lumaca, Roma • Culture of the left and green culture. The challenge of the environmental revolution in Italy (1993), in « CNS Usa», n.15 • La Quarta Italia (1989) Ediesse, Roma • Processi di ristrutturazione nelle fabbriche laniere e cotoniere (1974), ESI, Roma
More Information
- Email: (gio.ricoveri@yahoo.it)
- Land phone 39 06 7005519;
- cell. 349 8522368