Marta Dainesi is a PhD candidate in Political Theory at the University of Geneva. She received an MA in Political Philosophy from the University of Pavia. She has taught Italian Language and Culture at the University IIT of Mumbai and in various educational contexts in France. Her main research interests include themes as recognition, toleration, respect, minority claims, the impact of cultural and linguistic contexts in the development of theories, and the political and ethical questions raised by emergencies. Her doctoral project, entitled “What is an Emergency?”, aims at providing a conceptual disambiguation of “emergency” and to examine the normative implications of this process of conceptual refinement.

Her role within the IDHEA project is to study what constitutes an emergency situation, by questioning the meaning and uses of this notion and identifying the factors that shape its characterization. The aim is to provide the conceptual background for analysing both in ordinary and emergency circumstances the institutional actions and dysfunctions revealed by dirty hands phenomena.