AMATO Fabio

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Fabio Amato is full professor since 30th december 2021. He has been a researcher in Geography at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ since 1st November 2002.
After graduating in Political Science at the Universitary Institute of Naples ‘Orientale’ in 1992 with a final dissertation in Political and Economic Geography entitled “Poverty in Naples: a geographical-social analysis of the northern periphery” (supervisor: professor Pasquale Coppola; final mark: ‘110/110 e lode’ (equivalent to first class honours), he obtained a ‘D.E.A.’ (Diploma of Advanced Study) in ‘Nature, Environnement, Sociétés’ at the University of Caen in France (U.F.R. Science de la Terre) after completing a project entitled “L'enjeux des banlieues. Urban politics in Italy and France. Naples and Lille: two case studies of neighbourhoods in crisis” (supervisor: Professor Robert Herin).
In 2000 he obtained his Ph.D. in Economic Geography at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ with a thesis entitled “Migration and the informal economy: the case of Naples” (supervised by Professor Ricciarda Simoncelli).
Before being hired, from 1992 he has collaborated with the ‘Geography’ chair at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, regularly participating in seminars and assisting in teaching activity on a range of themes. During his university career, he has developed a particular concern for political and social themes as well as those specifically referred to the field of Human Geography. His research concentrates on urban and social geography and mainly focusing on the urban area of Naples and generally Southern Italy on the specific issue of poverty. The theme of migration and the transformation of urban space have been a leitmotif in his studies, demonstrated by his direct involvement in numerous publications and research projects as well as his contribution to various training and post-graduate courses. In more recent years he has focused on the questions on the evolution of social geography theory and on issues of cultural geography with reference to the issues of popular geopolitics, by editing a publication and writing articles in journals on image and narrative in the US TV shows (popular geopolitics and generally speaking cultural geography).

ACADEMIC TEACHING
From the academic year 2011/12 he ran the course of Social and Cultural Geography (first level) and Urban and International Migration Geography (second Level).
He provided masterclasses for the “Local Development Master” at the "Stoà Institute" in Ercolano and for the doctoral course at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ (Historical-legal and architectural culture in the Mediterranean area during the modern and contemporary period).
He has been a member of the doctoral board of “Development Geography” cursus at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ ) and, from 2014, he is a member of the doctoral board of “International Studies” cursus, always at University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’.
In the last decades, He had been involved in the follow four Prin (National relevant Research Project):
Local terrritorial systems (2000-2002, coordinator Giuseppe Dematteis, Politecnico di Torino);
Actors, networks and strategies of urban Italian South (2004-2006, coordinator Lida Viganoni, Università degli studi di Napoli L’Orientale);
Tourism and urban policies (2007- 2009 coordinator Francesco Adamo, Università degli studi del Piemonte Orientale).
post-metropolitan territories as emerging urban forms: the challenges of sustainability, habitability and governability (2013-2016, coordinated by Alessandro Balducci, Politecnico di Milano).
Since 2023 he has been PI of the Naples UL of the Prin "Next cities for whom? Imaginaries, resources and inequalities in urban fragments (NEXT-CITIES)", national PI Giovanni Sistu, University of Cagliari.

During the 2007 he has participated at the organization of an exhibition about the bicentenary of Naples’s Provincia.
He has organised and coordinated an international conference on Social Geography, in April 2009 ‘The Society between space and territory. The Role of social geography’. This conference is part of a French-Italian network on social geography which reports a periodic event (every year) and at each meeting he was part of the scientific committee.
He has promoted, organized and coordinated two sessions (on international migration and on media and geography) of XXXIII Italian Geographical Congress (June, 2017).

ORGANISATION AND PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND ACTIVITES

He was a member of the drafting group and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Master Maem / Mema (Master in business euro-Mediterranean) 2002-2004.
He was one of the coordinators of the European project research group Mila (Equal) on emergence from illegal work in agriculture in Campania (2004).
He coordinated, with Pasquale Coppola, the research project, funded by Campania Region, titled "The settlement areas of foreigners in the Naples area" (2005), research later published. He coordinated a survey on immigrants and the housing issue in the municipality of San Giuseppe Vesuviano (Naples), promoted by the United Trade Union Association (2006). In 2007, he helped to set up the exhibition of the bicentennial of the Province of Naples and the preparation of its catalog. He coordinated with Maurizia Sacchetti the local unit of the national investigation Napoli on psycho-social health of foreign workers, promoted by the company in Milan Synergia of financing from the Ministry of the Interior (2008).
He curated and coordinated research on the housing conditions of migrants as part of the "Sulla Soglia" project promoted by the Alisei cooperative and financed by the Fei, funds from the Ministry of the Interior. This project analyzed the case of the municipalities of Eboli, Mondragone and and Villaricca (2011-12).
On the same subject he was responsible for a regional project (pursuant to Law 5/2002) on the entrepreneurship of migrants and the transformation of public spaces (2014) with reference to the municipalities of Giugliano in Campania and San Giuseppe Vesuviano.
In 2014 he was appointed member of the Scientific Committee of the regional project Com.in2 representing the Campania Region.
In October of 2015 he taught as part of the Yalla training course, sponsored by the NGO Cidis.
Since 2015 he has coordinated the national media and geography working group of the A.Ge.I. (Association of Italian Geographers).
In 2015 he was appointed member of the scientific committee of the Com.in2 regional project (Interreg) representing the Campania Region.
In October 2015 he was trainer of the Yalla course, promoted by the NGO Cidis.
In July 2016 he was a teacher at the summer school of the CGIL union held in Gorè, Senegal.
In March 2017, she coordinated the focus group of the Net.Work anti-discrimination project, promoted by Cidis and IRISS-CNR. Also for the IRSS-CNR he participated in the drafting of a document entitled Regular-undocumented migrants, fundamental rights, decent work and integration in Italy: the case of the Campania region.
In the first months of 2018 it created and coordinated six ThinkThanks on sustainable development in the urban context according to the SDG objectives of the United Nations, promoted by the NGO LTM.
From October 2018 to February 2020 he conducted a research on the working conditions of migrants in Niger, with three field research missions. Research commissioned by the NGO Nexus of Bologna, by the CGIL Emilia Romagna and by the RSMMI Network.
In 2019 he coordinated a survey on migrant entrepreneurship in the Neapolitan area, commissioned by the Cespi of Rome. In 2020 he coordinated laboratory activities within the DEAR SCHOOL project, promoted by the NGO Laici Terzo Mondo.
In 2020 he conducted a Project Impact training course, promoted by the LESS Association.
In 2021 he was the winner, as PI, of the University project “Anthropocene/Capitalocene and international migrations. A critical reading",
In 2023 he is coordinator of the research on Work and social inclusion commissioned by the Less association as part of the Scic project.

OTHERS INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

In the field of international relations he was invited as a teacher in the framework of European exchanges (Socrates / Erasmus) in January 2003 (Université de Paris XII), in September 2008 (Université de Paris VII) and Université de Poitiers (April 2017). He was visiting professor at the Université de Paris VII Diderot, with classroom lessons for classes equivalent to the three-year and master's level and participation in working groups (11-28 April). He was appointed member of the elaboration group and member of the scientific committee of the Master Maem / Mema (Master in Euro-Mediterranean affairs) 2002-2004. He promoted, organized and coordinated with Camille Schmoll the session of the IV Eugeo International Congress entitled: "Repenser les migrations méditerranéens face à la crise économique" (September, 2013). He participates as a researcher in the four-year international research program (2012-2015) France Italy EFR (École Française de Rome) on "L'Italie. Recompositions territoriales du local à l'Europe", coordinated by M.me Dominique Rivière (Université Paris VII, Paris-Diderot) funded by the École Française de Rome.

OTHERS ACTIVITIES

Elected on the Board of Directors of the Society of Geographic Studies of Florence since 2018.
For the three-year degree course Languages, cultures and institutions of the Mediterranean countries (closed in the 2009/10 academic year) he was responsible for updating the data for the ministry and a member of all the teaching and accreditation commissions, becoming the reference point for all students enrolled in this course, including those still running out.
Member of the comparative assessment commission for a post of geography researcher (sector M-GGR / 01) at the University of Basilicata, Potenza (2007). Member of the Erasmus placement commission (2008). Member of the commission of the guidance and tutoring service, (2009-2014).
Member of the inter-university commission of Bioethics in Campania (Cirb), (2009-2017).
Coordinator of the communication commission of the University of Naples L’Orientale (2012-2014)
Reviewer for the national VQR 2011-2014.
Member of the board of anonymous reviewers for national journals (Italian Geographical Review, Historically, Culture, Geotema).
Member of the scientific committee of the series Studies and research in the territory of the Unicopli publishing house.
Member of the scientific committee of the “Uomini e Mondi” series of the Liguori publishing house. He was a member of the scientific committee of the journal Afriche e Orienti.