Paula Serafini is a Creative and Cultural Industries Lecturer at the Queen Mary University of London. Her research is situated in cultural politics, and her interests include extractivism, social movements, art activism, cultural labour and policy, and socioecological transitions. In her work, she employs interdisciplinary approaches, drawing from cultural and media studies, political ecology, political ontology, sociology, anthropology and art theory. In addition to her research, over the last decade, she has developed a collaborative practice of pedagogy and organising alongside autonomous collectives in London, where she is currently based. She is the author of Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism (Routledge, 2018) and Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism (Vanderbilt University Press, 2022) and co-editor of artWORK: Art, Labour, and Activism (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017) and Arte y Ecología Política (IIGG-CLACSO, 2020).
BIO
Paula Serafini is a Creative and Cultural Industries Lecturer at the Queen Mary University of London. Her research is situated in cultural politics, and her interests include extractivism, social movements, art activism, cultural labour and policy, and socioecological transitions. In her work, she employs interdisciplinary approaches, drawing from cultural and media studies, political ecology, political ontology, sociology, anthropology and art theory. In addition to her research, over the last decade, she has developed a collaborative practice of pedagogy and organising alongside autonomous collectives in London, where she is currently based. She is the author of Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism (Routledge, 2018) and Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism (Vanderbilt University Press, 2022) and co-editor of artWORK: Art, Labour, and Activism (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017) and Arte y Ecología Política (IIGG-CLACSO, 2020).