Silvia Flaminio
Junior lecturer
At IGD until 2023

After having completed a PhD in geography in 2018, and since 2019, I have been working as a postdoctoral fellow (currently as a junior lecturer) at the University of Lausanne (until August 2023).


Building on social and cultural geography and political ecology, my research focuses on society-nature relationships.
My doctoral thesis, based on different corpora (interviews, archival documents, press articles), focused on the diversity of discourses held on river systems, water and the environment, notably through the example of dams. Inspired by political ecology literature, my thesis also addressed political and social conflicts and scientific controversies related to water and infrastructure.

As a post-doctoral fellow, I have continued to investigate society-nature relationships by diversifying my research sujects (urban ecology and urban animality, as part of two research projects led by Joëlle Salomon Cavin) and by deepening my research on dams and hydropower infrastructure (within a project on the multipurpose use of Swiss dam reservoirs led by Emmanuel Reynard).

As a geography teacher ("agrégée de géographie"), I have taught human geography for several years in different universities in France. At the University of Lausanne, I assist Emmanuel Reynard in his courses, as well as Joëlle Salomon Cavin in her's.