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5.05/4/2026

Encourages students to think critically.

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About Antonella

Antonella Maiello is an Assistant Professor of Governance of Sustainability at the Institute of Public Administration, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University (The Hague campus). Her research concerns processes, practices, and experiments of social and economic change in sustainability-related governance domains including waste, water, energy, and food, with a specific interest in waste and circularity. She investigates transformations triggered by collective actions and subjects such as communities, cooperatives, and commoning initiatives. Maiello examines the relations and encounters these publics develop with the state at multiple institutional scales, focusing on values like care and stewardship, and knowledge and skills that drive these interactions and their impact on ecosystems and place livability. Engaging political ecology theories, she employs socio-spatial constructs—scale, networks, boundaries, and infrastructures—as analytical lenses for political relationalities and power dynamics. She favors transdisciplinary methods, including action research, and commits to the societal impact of academic work.