Francesca Forno

Francesca FORNO (PhD University of Strathclyde) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Research (University of Trento). Her main interests include sustainable consumption, alternative food networks and sustainable community movement organizations. A special focus in these areas is on the consequences of the spread of market-based forms of action for citizens’ participation and mobilisation. She has published papers and books on civic participation and social movements, conducting research on political consumerism, collaborative consumption, grassroots initiatives on social eco-innovation and alternative food networks. Her work has appeared in leading journals including, among others: the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Journal of Consumer Culture, the International Journal of Consumer Studies, South European Politics and Society, European Societies, the British Food Journal and Geoforum, as well as in collections of essays published by Oxford University Press, Wiley-Blackwell, Zed Books and Routledge.

In her research professor Forno has always used research methods and practices able to enhance knowledge exchange and production between academia, civil society, business and institutional actors with the aim to promote and assist healthier and ecologically sustainable forms of production and consumption. At Bergamo University, She was the founder members of CORES research group that in 2017 developed the Bergamo Green participatory map (http://www.bergamogreen.net), a project in collaboration between the University of Bergamo and the Municipality of Bergamo aiming to increase the collaboration among local food actors through a digital platform. Moving to Trento, she has continued to work in this field keeping embracing a community-engaged research approach, with the goal of contributing both to the discipline and to strengthening the well-being of the community. In Trento she in charge of the Nutrire Trento (Feeding Trento) project (https://www.nutriretrento.it/).

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