Writer and researcher Laura Lo Presti examines the Mediterranean as a contested cartography where colonial legacies, geopolitical tensions, and the public intimacies of migration (hi)stories intersect.
Biography
Laura Lo Presti is a writer and researcher whose work explores critical mobilities across land and sea, framing the Mediterranean as a cartographic amphibian space where histories of movement, displacement, and resistance are continuously mapped and remapped. She is the author of Cartografie (In)esauste (Franco Angeli, 2019) and co-editor of Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and The Handbook of Cartographic Humanities (Routledge, 2024). Her recent article, 'The Mediterranean Hypersea: Mapping Troubled Waters' (The Architectural Review, 2024), expands on her exploration of the Mediterranean as a hyperobject, entangled in ecological, political, and historical processes. Lo Presti is a cultural geographer at the University of Padua (Italy) and also a board member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities.
