MARTINA ANGELA CARETTA, PHD

Birth date : 29th April 1986 Citizenships : Sweden and Italy

Mobile phone: +46 070 534 21 15 Email: martinaangelacaretta@gmail.com

Address : Alviksvägen 112, 16762 Stockholm, Sweden

EDUCATION

2015 Ph.D. in Human Geography, Stockholm University

2010 M.Sc. Environmental Studies & Sustainability Science

Lund University, Sweden

2008 B.A. Development Studies

Universitá gli Studi di Padova, Italy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015 September – November Consultant

World Bank report on “Climate change impacts on Lake Chad Basin Forced Displacement”

2011- present Teaching Assistant

Dept. of Human Geography, Stockholm University

2010 August- December Advisor in Sustainable Development

European Union Delegation at the United Nations, NYC, USA

2010 Jan – March Research attachée

Vi Skogen, Eastern Africa, Kisumu, Kenya

2008 Jan-April Assistant

Casa Rut (NGO shelter for former victims of sexual trafficking), Caserta, Italy

PUBLICATIONS

Caretta, M.A. 2015. East African Hydropatriarchies: An analysis of changing waterscapes in

smallholder irrigation farming. Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department

of Human Geography. ISBN: 978-91-7649-206-2. diva2:853702

Jokinen, J.C. Caretta, M.A. In press. When bodies do not fit: an analysis of postgraduate fieldwork.

Gender, Place & Culture

Caretta, M.A., Vacchelli, E. 2015. Re-thinking the boundaries of the focus group. A reflexive

analysis on the use and legitimacy of group methodologies in qualitative research.

Sociological Research Online DOI: 10.5153/sro.3812

Östberg, W, Caretta, M.A. In press. Kerio Valley, 1973 – 2013: a case study of Kenyan smallholder

agriculture. African Studies

Caretta, M.A. 2015. Member checking: a participatory method to test and analyze preliminary

results in cross-cultural, cross-language research. Online first. Qualitative Research DOI:

10.1177/1468794115606495 ( in a co-edited special issue on “feminist participatory

methodologies” with Prof. Yvonne Riano, Bern University)

Duong, S., Caretta, M.A. 2015.Migration with dignity. En studie om klimatsanpassning i Kiribati.

Geografiska Notiser

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Caretta, M.A. 2015 Managing variability and scarcity. An analysis of Engaruka: a Maasai

smallholder irrigation farming community Agricultural Water Management 189, 318-330.

DOI: doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2015.05.015

Caretta, M.A. and Börjeson, L. 2015. Local gender contract and adaptive capacity in smallholder

irrigation: a case study from the Kenyan dry-lands. Gender, Place & Culture 22, 644–

661. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2014.885888

Caretta, M. A., Cadena Montero, G.Y., Sulbarán, L., Sandoval, R. 2015. ¿La revolución tiene cara

de campesina?” Un caso de estudio de la participación activa de las mujeres en el riego del

páramo venezolano. Revista Latino Americana de Genero y Geografia, Vol. 6 , n. 2. pp. 3-

23. DOI: 10.5212/Rlagg.v.6.i2.0001

Caretta, M. A. 2015. Casa Rut. A multilevel analysis of “good practice” in the social assistance of

sexually trafficked Nigerian women. Affilia. Online First. DOI: 10.1177/0886109915572846

Caretta, M.A. 2014. Situated knowledge in cross-cultural, cross-language research: a collaborative

reflexive analysis of researcher, assistant and participant subjectivities. Qualitative research

(early view) DOI: 10.1177/1468794114543404

Caretta, M.A. 2014. Hydropatriarchies and landesque capital: a local gender contract analysis of two

smallholder irrigation systems in East Africa. The Geographical Journal (early view) DOI:

10.1111/geoj.12102

Caretta, M.A. 2014. '“Credit plus” microcredit schemes: a key to women´s adaptive capacity'

Climate & Development (early view) DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2014.886990

Caretta, M.A., Kuns, B. and Webster, N. 2014. Praktiska, metodologiska och emotionella

utmaningar i fält. En diskurs att utvecklas inom geografi. Geografiska Notiser, 72, 3, 117 –

126.

Submitted

Caretta, M.A., Riaño, Y. Feminist participatory methodologies in geography. Editorial for the

special on feminist participatory methodologies in Qualitative Research.

Caretta, M.A., Jokinen, J.C. Approaching, Being Probed and Enduring the Field. Reflections on

Postgraduates´ Ethnography. The Professional Geographer.

Andersson, L., Caretta, M.A. Arsenic poisoning in rural Bangladesh: an intersectional analysis of

impacts on women. wH2O

Forthcoming

Caretta, M.A., Webster, N. “Women in groups can help each and learn from each other”. The role

of homosocial practices in shaping and renegotiating the local gender contract.

Caretta, M.A., Jokinen, J.C., Drozdewski, D. and Falconer, E. The systematic impact of neoliberal

university trends. Four lived experiences of early careers women geographers. To be

submitted to Dialogues in Human Geography.

Porsani, J. and Caretta, M.A. Feminization of agriculture through land grabbing? A case study of the

Lower Limpopo Valley, Mozambique. To be submitted to Journal of Peasant Studies.

Caretta, M.A., Cheptum J.F. Leaving the field: an emotional and life course analysis through the

eyes of the researcher and the assistant/gatekeeper. To be included in the Special Issue in

Area (see below).

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Wimark, T., Lewis, N. M., Caretta, M.A. (Eds.) Fieldwork and the interactions of life course and

research. Special issue in Area

Caretta, M.A., Börjeson, L. An ethical imperative: reporting back findings and knowledge exchange

through multi-language booklets. To be submitted to Action Research

Caretta, M.A. The discursive representation of “modern” irrigation development: an analysis of a

Kenyan project.

Westerberg, L.O., Börjeson, L., Caretta, M.A., Mburu, D. Soil dynamics, soil management and

sustainability: a comparison of two East African smallholder irrigation systems.

Higgins, R.L., Caretta, M.A. Linking lake extent variations, climate, and human activity in Basotu,

Tanzania.

POPULAR SCIENCE PUBLICATION

Caretta, M. A. et al. 2015. Labour, climate perceptions and soils in the irrigations systems in Sibou,

Kenya & Engaruka, Tanzania. Popular scientific publication from the dept of Human

Geography in English, Swahili and Marakwet. ISBN: 978-91-87355-15-8 (English); 978-91-

87355-17-2 (Kiswahili); 978-91-87355-16-5 (Marakwet)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Emotional Geographies – June 2015, Edinburgh Above and beyond fieldwork: a reflexive analysis

on postgraduate studies in geography in neoliberal academia

AAG – April 2015, Milwaukee Gender pre-conference Session organizer - Geography & post-

graduate studies in the neoliberal university

AAG – April 2015, Chicago Ownership does not equate with decision making. A case study of

women´s participation in water users´ groups in the Venezuelan paramo. Session:

Micropolitics of environmental governance, institutional arrangements and grassroots

development

IGU – August 2014, Krakow Session organizer - Feminist Participatory Methodologies: Creating

Spaces of Inclusion? Sponsored by the Gender & Geography IGU Commission

NGM – June 2013, Reykjavik Gender contract negotiation: the role of women´s communities of

practice. A theorethical analysis of two case studies from Eastern Africa and Thai migrants in

Sweden. Session: Spatialising gender relations

AAG – April 2013, LA Member checking and interviews in the taskscape: emerging feminist

geographical method. Panel: Critical Participatory Action Research and Feminist Geography

IGC August 2012, Köln Adaptation to climate variability in small holder irrigation farming: a

component of the gender contract. Session: Contextualizing gender and climate change.

AWARDS

2015 K & A Wallenbergs Stiftelse 2500USD

2015 Vitterhets akademi 1600 USD

2014 Mannerfelt 1200 USD; Ahlmans 1700 USD

2013 Mannerfelt 1350USD; K & A Wallenbergs Stiftelse 1000USD

2012 Josephson HS&Emmy 800USD ; Rhodin scholarship 550USD;Nordic Africa Institute

scholarship for fieldwork in Africa 3400USD; Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

3000USD

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2011 A o M Bergströms scholarship 6500USD

2010 United Nations Legal Empowerment of the Poor research grant 3400USD

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

MA courses (in English): Planning and Policy (race and gender in urban planning);

Globalization & Environment (feminization of poverty; qualitative research methods; feminist

epistemology); Advanced qualitative methods in geography.

Thesis supervision on feminist, gender topics in the global south: 13 BA

students and 6 MA students in total.

BA Courses (in Swedish): Development and Environment (political

ecology; development theories; post-colonial theory; WID; GAD); Migration and global processes;

Theory and Methods (qualitative research methods; geographical field methods; participatory

methods; feminist epistemology).

Invited talks

2015 Kvinna till Kvinna (Swedish NGO supporting women´s organizations in post-war situations)

Gender contracts, with Natasha Webster

2015 The Geographical Society of Uppsala, Sweden

Methods and emotions while doing field work, with Natasha Webster

2014 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Qualitative and field methods in human geography; Local gender contract

2012 Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Qualitative methods in human geography; Gender and Planning; Gender and Landscape

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

2012 – present peer reviewer for Water Resources & Rural Development, ACME, Climate Policy,

Journal of Agricultural Science, The European Journal of Development Research

2012 – present Founder and web redactor of departmental blog

http://farminglandscapesociety.blogspot.se/

2012 – present Officer in charge of selecting MA students recipients for the Minor Field Studies

scholarship at the Dept. of Human Geography, Stockholm University

2011- 2013 Assistant and web redactor of the PLATINA– people land and time in Africa – network

at Stockholm University

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2011- 2015 a total of 7 months resident ethnographic fieldwork in remote locations of Kenya and

Tanzania

2013 University pedagogy courses at Stockholm University

2013 PhD courses on Discourse Analysis and GIS

2012 English for professionals research course at Stockholm University

2011 United Nations University course on Climate Change science, impacts and vulnerability,

Tokyo, Japan

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2014 - 2015 Representative at the Swedish National PhD Council

2013 – 2015 Vice chair of the Central Doctoral Council at Stockholm University

2012 – 2015 Representative at the Central Student Council at Stockholm University

2011 – 2012 Vice chair at the Department Doctoral Council

LANGUAGES

Italian- mother tongue

English, Swedish, Spanish - speak fluently and read/write with high proficiency

French, German, Portuguese and Swahili – speak, read, and write with basic competence

COMPUTER SKILLS

ECDL European Computer License, MS Office (Word, Excel,PowePoint)

STELLA®

Polopoly 9

MEMBERSHIPS

Geographical Perspectives on Women

Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

Association of American Geographers

REFERENCES

Prof. Emeritus Mats Widgren, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden,

+46 (0) 81 648 52, Mats.Widgren@humangeo.su.se

Prof. Emerita Maria-Dolors Garcia Ramon, Department of Geography, Universidat Automa de

Barcelona, Spain, +34 93 581 1514, MariaDolors.Garcia.Ramon@uab.es

Prof. William Doolittle, Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, USA.

dolitl@austin.utexas.edu

Dr. Yvonne Riaño, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Geography University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland,

+411 631 52 63, yvonne.riano@unine.ch

Thibault Devanlay, First Secretary, EU Delegation at the UN, NYC, USA

+1 (212) 371 3804, Thibault.DEVANLAY@ec.europa.eu

Prof. William Doolittle, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas, Austin,

USA, dolitl@austin.utexas.edu