Cecilia Pasini is currently a research fellow in social geography at the University of Florence. Her research interests are: social responses to energy plants, industrial decline, environment and loss, industrialisation and deindustrialisation processes, noxious deindustrialisations, energy transitions, environmental justice, animal geographies, slow mobilities. She defends her PhD thesis in May 2024, her work is titled “Fossil territories in the light of industrial decline. A long-term reading of the relationship between energy, society and the environment in the case of the Eni refinery in Lomellina”. For this research she carried out field research with qualitative methodology in and around the Eni petrochemical refinery of Sannazzaro de Burgondi on the long term, analysing private, public and firm archives and doing semi-structured interviews with local stakeholders. During her PhD she established international academic ties: with the department of regional studies of the University of Tübingen through two research stays, and with the laboratoire Mesopolhis, with two stays at the Université de Aix-Marseille.