Borgnino

Emanuela Borgnino teaches Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Turin and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Hawaii in Mānoa. After obtaining a degree in Oriental Languages and a Doctorate in Cultural and Social Anthropology, she was involved in fieldwork in Japan first, and then in the Hawai'i archipelago, where she conducted extensive research on the topic of ecological responsibility. She has also collaborated with the Indigenous Terra Madre project of Slow Food International and with the UN Subcommittee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.