Amedeo Policante (471C-7120-BD2B)

Curriculum Vitae

Amedeo Policante

Amedeo Policante is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History at the Nova University in Lisbon. In previous years, he has worked as researcher and lecturer at the University of Nottingham, the University of Warwick, and the University of Oldenburg’s Helmholtz Centre for Marine Functional Biodiversity. His recent research has focused on political economy, political ecology, and the entangled histories of scientific, legal, and political thought. He is the author of several scientific articles, contributing to critical debates on global issues such as: the history and politics of genomic science, genome editing, and the biotech industry; climate change, forestry, and carbon capture initiatives; ocean politics, maritime security, and the shifting cartographies of the submarine cable web; the politics of logistical systems and global infrastructures. He authored three books. Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital (Pluto Press, 2022 [co-authored with Erica Borg]) is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science, genome editing, and the biotech industry. The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept (Routledge, 2016) focuses on shifting conceptions of ocean spaces in the context of early modern imperialism and the logistical revolution. These interdisciplinary works have contributed to current debates across several disciplines, including global politics, science and technology studies, and the history of political and legal thought. I Nuovi Mercenari: Mercato Mondiale e Privatizzazione della Guerra (Ombre Corte, 2013) investigates the history of the private security industry in Europe since the second half of the nineteenth century. He is currently working on a new research project provisionally titled “Networking the Ocean: Entangled Histories and Geographies of the Submarines Cable Network as a Global Critical Infrastructure” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2021.03779.CEECIND).

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Amedeo Policante

Nomes de citação

Policante, Amedeo

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 471C-7120-BD2B
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xfHSHV8AAAAJ&hl=it

Endereços de correio eletrónico

policante@fcsh.unl.pt (Profissional)

Moradas

Institute of Contemporary History, Nova University of Lisbon, Avenida de Berna, 26 C, 1069-061, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Profissional)

Websites

https://ipri.academia.edu/AmedeoPolicante (Académico)
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=xfHSHV8AAAAJ&hl=en (Académico)
https://www.routledge.com/authors/i9349-amedeo-policante (Académico)
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344522/mutant-ecologies/ (Profissional)

Domínios de atuação

Ciências Sociais - Ciências Políticas
Ciências Sociais - Direito
Ciências Sociais - Geografia Económica e Social
Humanidades - História e Arqueologia - História

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2014/09/01 - 2016/11/17 Concluído	Associate Fellowship to the Higher Education Academy, UK (Postgraduate Certificate) University of Nottingham, Reino Unido	Certificate Awarded with merit
2010/10/01 - 2013/02/28 Concluído	Doctor of Philosophy (Politics and International Relations) (Doctor of Philosophy) Goldsmiths University of London, Reino Unido "Hostis Humani Generis: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	without amendments
2009/10/01 - 2010/10/01 Concluído	Master in Cultural Studies (Master) Goldsmiths University of London Centre for Cultural Studies, Reino Unido "The Logistical Ocean: Shifting Constructions of the Global Commons" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Distinction
2007/10/01 - 2009/10/01 Concluído	MA in History and International Relations (Laurea Specialistica) Università degli Studi di Bologna Scuola di Scienze Politiche, Itália "La Sicurezza come Industria: Mercato Mondiale e Privatizzazione della Guerra" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	110 cum laude
2004/10/01 - 2007/10/01 Concluído	BA in Politics and International Relations (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Bologna Scuola di Scienze Politiche, Itália	110 cum laude

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2022/10 - Atual	Investigador (Investigação)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
	Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Investigador principal (carreira) (Investigação)	Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Alemanha
	Helmholtz-Institut für Funktionelle Marine Biodiversität an der Universität Oldenburg, Alemanha
2017/10/01 - 2020/01/30	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	University of Warwick, Reino Unido
	University of Warwick, Reino Unido
2014/10/01 - 2017/12/31	Investigador (Investigação)	University of Nottingham, Reino Unido

2010/10/01 - 2012/09/30	Assistente de Investigação (carreira) (Investigação)	Goldsmiths University of London, Reino Unido

Docência no Ensino Superior

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2018 - 2021	Leitor (Docente Universitário)	University of Warwick, Reino Unido
	University of Warwick, Reino Unido
2018/01/01 - 2018/01/31	Professor Visitante (Docente Universitário)	Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Alemanha
	Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Alemanha
2016/09/01 - 2017/07/31	Leitor (Docente Universitário)	University of Nottingham Department of History, Reino Unido
	University of Nottingham Department of History, Reino Unido

Projetos

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2022/09/15 - 2028/09/14	Networking the Ocean: Entangled Histories and Geographies of the Submarines Cable Network as a Global Critical Infrastructure 2021.03779.CEECIND/CP1657/CT0025 10.54499/2021.03779.CEECIND/CP1657/CT0025 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista	Borg, Erica; Policante, Amedeo. "The Gene Editing Business: Rent Extraction in the Biotech Industry". Review of Political Economy (2024): 1-36. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09538259.2024.2401480. Acesso aberto • 10.1080/09538259.2024.2401480 Policante, Amedeo. "Boring stories: What connects 18th-century shipping to today’s global media network?". The Sociological Review Magazine (2024): https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.chdk2322. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.51428/tsr.chdk2322 Policante, Amedeo. "Cybergenetics: Life in the Control Loop". Lo Squaderno: Explorations in Space and Society 68 (2024): 9-14. http://www.losquaderno.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/losquaderno68.pdf. Acesso aberto • Publicado Policante, Amedeo; Borg, Erica. "Engineering Living Infrastructures: The Biopolitical Economy of Poplar Architectures in the Anthropocene". Scienza & Politica 35 69 (2024): 89-112. https://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/19052/17536. Acesso aberto • Publicado • https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-9618/19052 Policante, Amedeo; Borg, Erica. "CRISPR futures: Rethinking the politics of genome editing". Human Geography 16 2 (2023): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19427786231215673. Acesso aberto • Publicado • https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786231215673 Policante, Amedeo; Borg, Erica. "Mining the Ocean Genome: Global Bioprospecting Expeditions and Genomic Extractivism on the Oceanic Frontier". Archivio antropologico mediterraneo 25 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/aam.6994. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.4000/aam.6994 Policante, Amedeo. "Ursine Wars: Alpine Imaginaries and Animal Genealogies in the Trentino Region". Anima Loci: A Journal of Images in Place 2 1 (2020): https://animaloci.org/ursine-wars-alpine-imaginaries-and-animal-genealogies/. Acesso aberto • Publicado Policante, Amedeo. "Narcocapitalism and its Discontents: Towards a Biopolitical Economy of the Opioid Crisis". Radical Philosophy 2 5 (2019): 63-67. https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/individual-reviews/narcos-and-their-discontents. Publicado Policante, Amedeo. "The Return of the Pirate: Post-colonial Trajectories in the History of International Law". Política Común 5 20200129 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0005.005. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.3998/pc.12322227.0005.005 Policante, Amedeo. "The New Pirate wars: the World Market as Imperial Formation". Global Discourse 3 1 (2013): 52-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2013.804760. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1080/23269995.2013.804760 Policante, Amedeo. "Foucault, Subjectivity and flight: Witchcraft, possession and the resistance of the flesh". Materiali Foucaultiani 1 1 (2012): 235-259. http://www.materialifoucaultiani.org/images/pdf/policante%20en.pdf. Acesso aberto • Publicado Policante, Amedeo. "Of Cameras and Balaclavas: Violence, Myth, and the Convulsive Kettle". Globalizations 8 4 (2011): 457-471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2011.585848. Publicado • 10.1080/14747731.2011.585848 Policante, Amedeo. "Vampires of Capital: Marx's Gothic Metaphors". Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice 17 1 (2010): 1-20. https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/article/view/191528. Acesso aberto • Publicado • https://doi.org/10.14288/clogic.v17i0.191528 Amedeo Policante. "War against Biopower - Timely Reflections on an Historicist Foucault". Theory & Event 13 1 (2010): http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tae.0.0123. Acesso aberto • 10.1353/tae.0.0123
Artigo em revista (magazine)	Policante, Amedeo. "Power Relations: Where the personal becomes political (an interview with Amedeo Policante)", Pharos: University of Warwick's Philosophy Magazine, 2020, https://pharosmagazine.org/2020/04/20/power-relations-where-the-personal-becomes-political/. Policante, Amedeo. "Game of Drones: Cubicle Warriors and the Drudge of War", Nyx, 2014, https://www.scribd.com/document/140868433/Nyx-a-noctournal-Issue-7-Machines.
Capítulo de livro	Policante, Amedeo. "The Pirate States: Oceanic Orientalism and the Shifting Boundaries of the International Community". In Corsairs and Pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean, 15th-19th century, editado por David Starkey; Harlaftis, Gelina; Dimitris Dimitropoulos. Athens, Grécia: ADSA, 2016. Publicado Policante, Amedeo. "The New Pirate Wars: Imperial Control Over the Oceanic Commons". In The Crisis of the Twenty-First Century: Empire in the Age of Austerity, editado por Russell Foster; Matthew Johnson; Mark Edward. London, Reino Unido: Routledge, 2014. Publicado Policante, Amedeo. "After the event: Securitization and the Mythical Representation of Violence". In Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent, editado por Lara Montesinos Coleman; Karen Tucker. London, Reino Unido: Routledge, 2013. Publicado
Livro	Policante, Amedeo; Erica Borg. Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital. LONDON, Reino Unido: Pluto Press. 2022. Publicado Policante, Amedeo. The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept. London, Reino Unido: Routledge. 2015. Publicado • https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315757223 Policante, Amedeo. I Nuovi Mercenari: Mercato Mondiale e Privatizzazione della Guerra. Verona, Itália: Ombre Corte. 2012. Publicado

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2024/11/04	“Climate-Smart” Poplars and the Carbon Plantation: Genomic Forestry and the Real Subsumption of the Forest Commons	Comuns: Encontro De Ecologia Política Icste - Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/06/12	Genomic Forestry in the Anthropocene	The Political Ecology Network conference (POLLEN24) Lund University (Lund, Suécia)
2024/05/09	Bioengineering the Earth: The Global Politics of Genome Editing	Bioengineering the Earth: The Global Politics of Genome Editing CES - Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/02/07	"Communism is the Scream of Life". Fragments of a Workerist Political Ecology in Antonio Negri's Writings	Ao Encontro de Antonio Negri Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/11/12	Naturally Cool Cattle? Metabolic Rifts, Climate Shifts and Genomic Fixes in the Global Factory Farm	Historical Materialism Conference School of Oriental and African Studies (London, Reino Unido)
2023/06/09	Oceanic Infrastructures: Submarine Cables and the Internet	Global Infrastructures: The Production of the Modern World Bologna University (Bologna, Itália)
2023/04/20	Mutant ecologies: manufacturing capitalogenic life-forms and securing the reproduction of capital	Historical Materialism Confererence, Athens Panteion University of Athens (Athens, Grécia)
2022/07/27	‘Technofixes and Carbon Sinks: Geoengineering the Anthropocene Ocean’.	European Association of Social Anthropologists, 17th Biennal Conference. 26-29 July 2022. University of Belfast
2020/05	Genomic Post-Ecologies: Biopolitical Economy and Real Subsumption after CRISPR’	Genomic Political Ecology Conference King's College, Geography Department (London, Reino Unido)
2020	The Biopolitical Economy of AquAdvantage: Manufactured Metabolisms, Genome Editing and the Real Subsumption of Life at Sea	Seminar of the Contemporary Marxism Research Group King's College, London (London, Reino Unido)
2019/10/16	Capital, Biopower and the Anthropocene: Critical Reflections on the Earth Bank of Codes¿	Marx Nu University of Copenaghen (Copenaghen, Dinamarca)
2019/10	Capital, Biopower and Genomic Big Data: Critical Reflection on the Earth BioGenome Project	Historical Materialism Conference School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, Reino Unido)
2019/06/06	The Biopolitical Economy of the Opioid Crisis: Towards an Archeology of the Permanent State of Exception	What is Philosophy? University of Warwick (University of Warwick, Reino Unido)
2019/05	Birth of Anthropolitics: Geo-security, Earth-System, Bio-capital’	5th World Ecology Conference University of San Francisco (San Francisco, Estados Unidos)
2019	Producing Cramped Spaces: Logistical and Counter-Logistical Networks in the Mediterranean	8th International Conference of Critical Geography University of Athens (Athens, Grécia)
2018	Marginal Lives: Biopolitical Security in the Wider Mediterranean	Margins of Europe: Histories of the Border École Normale Supériore (Paris, França)
2016/04/24	Securing Logistics, Fostering Circulations: Foucault's Reflections on Ocean Space in Security, Territory and Population	”, International Relations, Capitalism and the Sea: The Historical Sociology of Oceans and Inner Seas. Sponsored by the British International Studies Association at the University of London, Birkbeck College (London, Reino Unido)
2016/04	The Work of Logistics: Privatization of Security and Fragmegration of Global Space’	Logistics&Power: A Symposium University of Nottingham (Reino Unido)
2015/12/12	Plunder as Primitive Accumulation? Reflections on Piracy and Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century	La Pirateria fra Storia e Diritto Università di Firenze (Firenze, Itália)
2015/05	Rogue State: Travels and Misadventures of an International Political Concept	First Conference on ‘Ideologies in Translation University of Nottingham & International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, (Kuala Lumpur, Malásia)
2015/04/01	Neo-Liberalism and Its Discontents: (Dis-)embedding the World Market in the 21st century	Keynote Address to the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Kuala Lumpur, Malásia)
2014/08	Pirate Legends on the Mediterranean Frontier: Orientalism and the Shifting Borders of the International Community’	Corsairs and Pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean, 15th-19th century Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens and University of Athens (Athens, Grécia)

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2024/02/07 - Atual	Ao encontro de Antonio Negri (2024/02/07) Simpósio (Coorganizador)	Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Portugal
2023/06/09 - Atual	Global Infrastructures: The Production of the Modern World (2023/06/09) Conferência (Coorganizador)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Università degli Studi di Bologna, Itália CoLABOR, Portugal
2019/05 - Atual	Main Organiser of the Conference - Philosophy and the Critiques of Security, University of Warwick, May 2019 (2019/05/09 - 2019/05/09) Conferência (Coorganizador)	University of Warwick, Reino Unido
2018/06/14 - Atual	Margins of Europe: Histories of the Border (2018/06/14 - 2018/06/15) Conferência (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)	Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne, França University of Warwick, Reino Unido
2015/05 - Atual	First Conference on ‘Ideologies in Translation' (2015/05/05 - 2015/05/06) Conferência (Coorganizador)	University of Nottingham - Malaysia Campus, Malásia University of Nottingham, Reino Unido
2019/11/07 - 2019/11/10	Chair&Panel Organiser at the 16th Annual Historical Materialism Conference for the following panels: 'Imperialism Today'; 'Subaltern Natures'; 'The Working Class in the Ecological Crisis' (2019/11/07 - 2019/11/10) Conferência (Outra)	SOAS University of London, Reino Unido
2019/04/21 - 2019/04/21	Panel co-organizer at the 8th International Conference of Critical Geography (Panel: Spatial crises: The production of cramped spaces in the Mediterranean) (2019/04/19) Conferência	Ethniko Metsobio Polytechneio, Grécia

Arbitragem científica em revista

	Nome da revista (ISSN)	Editora
2020 - Atual	Maree: Anthropological Itineraries	Prospero

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2017 - 2019	Convenor of the second and third-year BA class ‘Contemporary Biopolitical Thought’	BA Philosophy (Bachelor)	University of Warwick, Reino Unido
2018/01 - 2018/01	Convenor of the Undergraduate Seminar ‘Genealogies of the Concept of Violence’	(Bachelor)	Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Alemanha
2016/01 - 2016/07	Convenor of the Research-led module: Piracy, Imperialism and the Global History of Ocean Space¿	BA History (Bachelor)	University of Nottingham, Reino Unido
2014 - 2016	Convenor of the modules 'History of International Politics', 'World History' and 'International Politics at Sea'	BA History and International Politics (Bachelor)	University of Nottingham - Malaysia Campus, Malásia

Entrevista / Programa (rádio / tv)

	Programa	Tema
2023/11/09 - Atual	Red Medicine Podcast	The Politics of Science and Technology: Genome Editing
2023/05/27 - Atual	Radio Radicale	The Politics of Genome Editing
2021/01/05 - Atual	Rewilding Europe: Battaglie politiche del movimento antispecista, Interview on Radio Radicale [January 2021].	Radio Radicale

Membro de associação

	Nome da associação	Tipo de participação
2019 - Atual	Member of the Editorial Group of Anima Loci: A Journal of Images in Place
2017 - Atual	Editor of Philosophy in a Time of Crisis: Journal of Contemporary Thought (https://www.philosophyx.co.uk/)
2016/04 - Atual	Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK
2011 - 2021	Editor of Finzioni Magazine: Letteratura, Storia e Filosofia

Distinções

Prémio

2020	Anima Loci Writing Fellowship Anima Loci Association, Itália
2018	Early Career Innovation Fund University of Warwick, Reino Unido
2017	Meyer Postdoctoral Research Fellowship University of Warwick, Reino Unido
2015	Official Nomination to the Lord Dearing Awards for high quality teaching and the support of learning, University of Nottingham, UK University of Nottingham, Reino Unido
2013	Institute of Contemporary Arts, London: Best Magazine of the Month for Nyx: A Nocturnal [Editor] Institute of Contemporary Arts, Reino Unido
2010	Prometeo Scholarship for Best Young Author Cassa Rurale Alto Garda e Ledro, Itália
2009	Full Doctoral Studentship Goldsmiths University of London, Reino Unido
2008	Diploma di Studio del Collegio Superiore [Degree from the Bologna School of Excellence] Università di Bologna - Università di Bologna, Itália