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Her research interests range from political anthropology and social movements to the anthropology of fascism, the ethnography of neo-fascism and racism, and the local impact of immigration management in a logic of 'emergency response'. She has studied the peasant movements that arose in 90s India to defend food autonomy, carrying out field research in the Himalayan region in 2007 for her Master's thesis. She then focused on the emergence of political sentiments and cultures associated with the re-appropriation of fascist history in contemporary Italy, conducting ethnographic research among neo-fascist militants in Rome in 2010. Since 2015 she has also been investigating the local impact of Extraordinary Reception Centers for asylum seekers and the relationship between the emergency management of migration processes and the diffusion of hostility towards migrants. She is currently an Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin.
His interests of research are between the fields of History and Linguistics and are focused on the rhetorical tools to tell and manipulate history and the public use of history in contemporary Italian society. His investigations focus primarily on traumatic memories in Italy such as the Fascism dictatorship, the Italian colonial experience, the 1943-45 civil war, and their legacies from the 1970s onward. For his research, he employs different types of sources, with a preference for the analysis of mass media – above all television and cinema.
Her research interests lie in the fields of historical anthropology and memory studies. For her doctoral dissertation, she conducted ethnographic fieldwork and historical research in the area of the Vajont Dam disaster (Italian Alps), with a focus on memorialization, monumentalization practices, and the use of oral history for studying the past and its representations. Besides her current position, she is also an adjunct professor in Antropologia della Contemporaneità at the University of Milano-Bicocca. For the F-Word project, she's working on historical anthropology, memories, and cultures of fascism in Portugal.
Her research interests encompass medical and political anthropology, with a focus on the anthropology of trauma and violence in post-conflict settings. Her fieldwork experience includes research conducted in Mexico and Northern Ireland. She worked as a Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast on the ESRC Project Echoes of suffering: Violence, trauma, and social work in post-conflict Belfast. This project represented a continuation of her PhD research. Additionally, she has held Visiting Researcher positions at Leiden University and Tulane University.
Her main interests lie in Gender and Postcolonial studies, with a focus on racism, feminisms, colonialism, gendered Islamophobia, intersectionality, and new and old right-wing movements. Together with Marie Moïse, she translated Sara R. Farris' book In the Name of Women's Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press, 2017). Besides her current position, she is also an adjunct professor in Politics of the Middle East at the Department of Political and International Science at the University of Genoa.
His research interests are situated in the fields of medical-political anthropology and cultural history, with particular attention to the construction of imaginaries, representations, and social and cultural relations in the context of economic globalization and its crises, moral economies, and the production of knowledge in the wake of socio-economic, political, epistemic, and spiritual uncertainty. He graduated at the University of Turin in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology with a thesis on vaccine dissent and hesitancy during the pandemic caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
She completed her Bachelor's degree in Management and Organization of Cultural Events at University of Florence in 2021, and she is currently pursuing a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. During the first year of her Master's degree, she developed a keen interest in Political Anthropology. She is now working on her MA thesis, which focuses on far-right music dissemination among Gen Z activists in Italy.
F-WORD ADVISORY BOARD
| Name | Institution | Expertise/Specialization |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Martina Avanza | University of Lusanne, Switzerland | Anthropologist Politics and Gender expert, Political Ethnographies specialist |
| Prof. Mimmo Franzinelli | Fondazione "Ernesto Rossi-Gaetano Salvemini" Florence, Italy | Historian |
| Prof. Douglas R. Holmes | University of Binghamton, New York, US | Anthropologist Neo-fascism and European Integralism expert |
| Prof. Anna Horolets | Institute for Ethnologic Research, University of Warsaw, Poland | Anthropologist Contact person in Poland |
| Prof. Don Kalb | University of Bergen, Norway | Anthropologist Political and Economic Anthropology expert, specialized in Eastern Europe |
| Prof. Dána Ain-Davis | Queens College, New York, US | Anthropologist Feminist Research Methodology expert |
| Dr. Paola Pisciottano | bolognaprocess (asbl), Brussels, Belgium | Stage Director Contact person in Belgium |
| Dr. Barbara Berruti | Istoreto, the Institute for the History of the Resistance and the History of the Contemporary Italian Society, Turin, Italy | Historian Didactic Expert |
| Prof. Bruno Riccio | University of Bologna, Italy | Anthropologist Migration Policies and Racism expert |
| Prof. Claudio Sopranzetti | Central European University, Vienna, Austria | Anthropologist Authoritarianisms expert Contact person in Marche Region |