Ms Antonella Mazzone
PhD, Msc, BA
Expertise
Current positions
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Contact
Press and media
Many of our academics speak to the media as experts in their field of research. If you are a journalist, please contact the University’s Media and PR Team:
Research interests
I am a social scientist with a background in humanities investigating decolonial feminist intersectional accounts of extreme heat and cooling poverty in rural and urban marginalised communities. My current Leverhulme ECF aims to understand Indigenous thermal epistemologies and co-create graphic digital ethnographies of extreme heat and climate change.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
River comics: understanding Amazonian riverine perspectives on global warming
Principal Investigator
Description
This project’s central aim is to offer new insights into global warming by proposing a theoretical and methodological framework that centres the ecological knowledge of ribeirinhos, riverine dwellers in Amazonian…Managing organisational unit
Department of Anthropology and ArchaeologyDates
01/05/2023 to 30/04/2026
Publications
Recent publications
06/05/2025The forgotten thermal comfort. Lived experiences of cooling poverty from the trans community in Rio de Janeiro
Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
Thermal comfort and gender affirmation
Social Science and Medicine
Understanding thermal justice and systemic cooling poverty from the margins: intersectional perspectives from Rio de Janeiro
Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
Understanding systemic cooling poverty
Nature Sustainability
Gender and Energy in International Development: Is There a Return of the ‘Feminization’ of Poverty Discourse?
Development
