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First Name
Julia
Last Name
Prakofjewa
Country
Italy
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Affiliation
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Keywords
Environmental History, Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine, Wild Food Plants, Environmental Knowledge, Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge, Coloniality, Border Studies, Temporality, Narratives, Resilience, Complexity, Systems Thinking
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PhD

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About Me

Julia Prakofjewa holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and an MA in History. She has a substantial background in conducting interdisciplinary research across the diverse cross-border regions of Central and Eastern Europe. Her fieldwork, conducted extensively among diverse ethnic groups, underscores the significance of grassroots-level scientific research in unravelling complex environmental and historical dynamics. This approach is marked by cultural sensitivity and a systemic perspective, especially vital in regions with histories of colonialism or external influence. She is committed to working in partnership with communities, prioritising their insights and experiences to guide the research process. Her research primarily centres on the circulation of ecological knowledge and practices over time and across space. She explores the development and dissemination of plant-related knowledge among different ethnic groups, emphasising the importance of ecological perspectives in understanding the interactions between people and nature across both historical and contemporary contexts.

Recent Publications

Prakofjewa, J., Sartori, M., Šarka, P., Kalle, R., Pieroni, A., & Sõukand, R. (2024). Knowledge in motion: temporal dynamics of wild food plant use in the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian border region. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 20(1), 65.

Prakofjewa, J., Sartori, M., Kalle, R., Łuczaj, Ł., Karbarz, M., Mattalia, G., … & Sõukand, R. (2024). “But how true that is, I do not know”: the influence of written sources on the medicinal use of fungi across the western borderlands of the former Soviet Union. IMA fungus, 15(1), 22.

Sartori, M., Prakofjewa, J., & Moreira-Muñoz, A. (2024). Decolonizing Mountain Studies. In Mountain Lexicon: A Corpus of Montology and Innovation (pp. 35-41). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Conte, L., Prakofjewa, J., Floridia, T., Stocco, A., Comar, V., Gonella, F., & Lo Cascio, M. (2024). Learning from farmers on potentials and limits for an agroecological transition: a participatory action research in Western Sicily. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12, 1347915.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Poland, Lithuania, Belarus
Expertise by Geography
Eastern Europe
Expertise by Chronology
20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Book History, Colonialism, Environment, Food History, Indigenous Peoples, Local & Regional, Medicine, Migration & Immigration, Rural & Agrarian History, Science