Mr Emanuele Amo

Mr Emanuele Amo

Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Qualitative, Rural-Spatial-Justice)

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

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Emanuele Amo is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University's Department of Geography and Earth Sciences. Prior to this, he was an Associate Lecturer in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University and an Associate Researcher at the University of Eastern Piedmont – Department of Economics and Business Studies.

 

Emanuele's research focuses on rural and political geography, with a particular interest in how rural spaces are produced, contested, and mobilized in relation to political and social processes. He is currently working on the Rural Spatial Justice Project, a five-year European Research Council Advanced Grant funded under the UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee. The project investigates how rural discontent and perceptions of spatial injustice shape dynamics of disruptive politics, analyzing the impact of rural grievances on local social dynamics and advancing the study of electoral geographies through new conceptual and methodological approaches.

 

Emanuele has a PhD in Human Geography from Aberystwyth University, funded by the AberDoc Scholarship, a MSc in Human Geography from the University of Bristol, and a BA in Humanities from the University of Turin.

Additional Information

Awards:

  • Awarded University of Bristol Outstanding Research Prize 2017- 2018
  • Awarded Dudley Stamp Memorial Award 2021. Royal Geographical Society
  • Award nominee Postgraduate Teacher of the Year – Aberystwyth University Student Awards 2021

Research

  • Rural Development 
  • Globalization 
  • Rural-Urban relations 
  • Spatial Justice 
  • Disruptive Politics 
  • Populism 
  • Social Movements
  • Agri-food Systems 

Publications

Pettenati, G, Amo, E & Woods, M 2025, 'Assembling mountains through food: Typical cheese and politics of mountainness in the Italian Alps', Geoforum, vol. 159, 104210. 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104210
Amo, E 2024, 'Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo', Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 111, 103415. 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103415
Amo, E 2023, 'The Slow Food Movement and the Terra-Madre project: Food sovereignty and translocal assemblages', Globalizations, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 644-660. 10.1080/14747731.2022.2149158
Pettenati, G, Amo, E & Colombino, A 2023, 'Transumanza, Qualità Del Cibo, Qualità Dei Luoghi: Pratiche E Discorsi Intorno Ad Alcuni Formaggi Alpini', Documenti Geografici, vol. 3, pp. 141-162. 10.19246/DOCUGEO2281-7549/20230307]
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