{{Short description|Italian politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Viola Carofalo | image = Viola Carofalo.jpg | image_size = | image_caption = | office = | term_start = | term_end = | predecessor = | successor = | office1 = | term_start1 = | term_end1 = | constituency1 = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|6|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Naples, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | party = Power to the People (2017–present) | other_party = | spouse = | children = | profession = Post-doctoral researcher | alma_mater = University of Naples Federico II<br /> University of Naples "L'Orientale" | website = }} '''Viola Carofalo''' (born in Naples, Italy, 30 June 1980) is an Italian politician and former national spokesperson and leader of Power to the People,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://popoffquotidiano.it/2018/01/07/potere-al-popolo-ecco-il-nostro-capo-politico|title=Potere al popolo: "Ecco il nostro capo politico" – Popoff|date=7 January 2018|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://ilmanifesto.it/potere-al-popolo-non-sceglie-il-capo/|title=Potere al popolo "non" sceglie il capo|newspaper=Il Manifesto|date=6 January 2018|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref> a coalition of parties, movements and associations (about a hundred among which Communist Refoundation Party, Italian Communist Party and The Other Europe) which contested the 2018 Italian general election.
== Study == Carofalo graduated in Philosophy and took her first PhD in 2008 in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (SUM, Italian Institute of Human Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.fedoa.unina.it/2608|title=PhD in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy|year=2008|publisher=|doi=10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/2608|last1=Carofalo|first1=Viola}}</ref> and a second Dottorato di Ricerca in 2012 in Philosophy and Politics (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unior.it/index2.php?content_id=5716&content_id_start=1|title=L'Orientale » Amministrazione » Ufficio Dottorato di Ricerca » Dottorato di Ricerca » Anagrafe Addottorati » Filosofia e Politica|website=www.unior.it|access-date=2018-01-07|archive-date=2023-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318194808/https://www.unior.it/index2.php?content_id=5716&content_id_start=1|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mimesisedizioni.it/viola-carofalo|title=Viola Carofalo|website=mimesisedizioni.it|access-date=2018-01-07|archive-date=2020-06-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623054455/http://mimesisedizioni.it/viola-carofalo|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She worked on the theme of bioethics<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ateneapoli.it/news/archivio-storico/laboratorio-di-bioetica-per-sensibilizzare-alla-donazione-degli-organi|title=Laboratorio di Bioetica per sensibilizzare alla donazione degli organi – Ateneapoli.it – L'informazione universitaria online!|last=Ateneapoli|website=www.ateneapoli.it}}</ref> and of the political myth in the thought of Ernst Cassirer and Roland Barthes, on the poetics of Bertolt Brecht and on the themes of recognition and interculturality.
In 2013, she published her first book on Frantz Fanon.
She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" and collaborates with the professorships of Moral Philosophy and Intercultural Ethics.<ref>[https://orientale.ricerca.unior.it/cris/rp/rp01062?sort_byall=2&orderall=ASC&open=all#all Carofalo, Viola<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
== Politics == Carofalo is an activist of Ex OPG "Je so' pazzo" (Former Asylum "I am crazy"), a social centre located in the building of the former Sant'Eframo judicial psychiatric hospital ({{langx|it|ospedale psichiatrico giudiziario}}, OPG) in the Materdei ''rione'' in Naples.
Carofalo<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lantidiplomatico.it/print.php?idx=5496&pg=22719|title="Potere al Popolo" è democrazia assoluta. "Daremo vita al Parlamentarismo de calle"|last=L'antidiplomatico|website=www.lantidiplomatico.it}}</ref> was chosen as national spokesperson on 17 December 2017 and as political leader from 6 January 2018 of Power to the People.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ilmanifesto.it/potere-al-popolo-non-sceglie-il-capo|title=il manifesto|website=ilmanifesto.it|date=6 January 2018}}</ref>
== Bibliography == * Viola Carofalo, ''"Fanon. Lo spettro negro"'', La Casa Usher, Florence, 2013, {{ISBN|9788895065915}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://apocalisselaica.net/libri-sappiamo-di-essere-dannati/|title=Libri: Sappiamo di essere dannati?|date=16 August 2014|publisher=|access-date=7 January 2018|archive-date=4 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304004438/http://apocalisselaica.net/libri-sappiamo-di-essere-dannati/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Viola Carofalo, ''"Un pensiero dannato: Frantz Fanon e la politica del riconoscimento"'', Mimesis, Milan-Udine, 2013, {{ISBN|9788857519593}}<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://opac.sbn.it/opacsbn/opaclib?saveparams=false&resultForward=opac/iccu/full.jsp&x=0&select_db=solr_iccu&y=0&do_cmd=search_show_cmd&searchForm=opac/iccu/free.jsp&db=solr_iccu&nentries=1&rpnlabel=+Tutti+i+campi+=+viola+carofalo+(parole+in+AND)+&rpnquery=%2540attrset+bib-1++%2540attr+1%253D1016+%2540attr+4%253D6+%2522viola+carofalo%2522&&fname=none&from=3|title=Un pensiero dannato: Frantz Fanon e la politica del riconoscimento|first=Viola|last=Carofalo|date=7 January 2018|publisher=Mimesis|via=sbn.it}}</ref> * Viola Carofalo, ''"Le due città: metropoli e identità mutanti"'', Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Naples, 2015, {{ISBN|9788867191024}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://opac.sbn.it/opacsbn/opaclib?saveparams=false&resultForward=opac/iccu/full.jsp&x=0&select_db=solr_iccu&y=0&do_cmd=search_show_cmd&searchForm=opac/iccu/free.jsp&db=solr_iccu&nentries=1&rpnlabel=+Tutti+i+campi+=+viola+carofalo+(parole+in+AND)+&rpnquery=%2540attrset+bib-1++%2540attr+1%253D1016+%2540attr+4%253D6+%2522viola+carofalo%2522&&fname=none&from=1|title=Le due città: metropoli e identità mutanti|editor-first=Viola|editor-last=Carofalo|date=7 January 2018|publisher=Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"|via=sbn.it}}</ref> * Viola Carofalo, ''"Frantz Fanon: dalla liberazione dei popoli alla liberazione dell'Uomo!"'', Hachette, Milan, 2016, ISBN <ref>{{cite web|url=http://opac.sbn.it/opacsbn/opaclib?saveparams=false&resultForward=opac/iccu/full.jsp&x=0&select_db=solr_iccu&y=0&do_cmd=search_show_cmd&searchForm=opac/iccu/free.jsp&db=solr_iccu&nentries=1&rpnlabel=+Tutti+i+campi+=+viola+carofalo+(parole+in+AND)+&rpnquery=%2540attrset+bib-1++%2540attr+1%253D1016+%2540attr+4%253D6+%2522viola+carofalo%2522&&fname=none&from=2|title=Frantz Fanon: dalla liberazione dei popoli alla liberazione dell'uomo|first=Viola|last=Carofalo|date=7 January 2018|publisher=Hachette|via=sbn.it}}</ref> * Viola Carofalo, ''"Dai più lontani margini: J.M. Coetzee e la scrittura dell'altro"'', Mimesis, Milan-Udine, 2016, {{ISBN|9788857536248}}<ref name=autogenerated1 />
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [http://jesopazzo.org Official website] of Ex OPG "Je so' pazzo" * [https://poterealpopolo.org Official website] of Power to the People {{authority control}}
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