10th Edition, 2025

  • ConvenorsFrancesca Vianello, University of Padova francesca.vianello@unipd.it Omid Firouzi Tabar, University of Padova omid.firouzitabar@unipd.it Ten years after the so-called «refugee crisis», and in the wake of the COVID pandemic (Stierl, Dadusc, 2021; Fabini, Firouzi Tabar, 2023), the intertwining of humanitarian and repressive approaches to migration policy in European countries such as Italy, Germany, France and Greece…

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  • ConvenorsGiorgio Scalici, University of Palermoscalicigiorgio@gmail.com Nives Ladina, University Sapienza of Romenives.ladina@uniroma1.it The proposed session will address ethnographers’ unique challenges when studying death, grief, and funerals, emphasizing both empirical and methodological dimensions. Researchers in this field are faced with ethical and emotional dilemmas, as well as engaging with tangible social phenomena that reveal underlying power structures,…

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  • ConvenorsDaromir Rudnyckyj, University of Victoriadaromir@uvic.ca  Coco Kanters, Utrecht Universityc.l.kanters@uu.nl In recent years social scientists have increasingly conducted fieldwork among economic agents and on practices that would have seemed foreign to our predecessors of just a generation ago. This work can be broadly categorized under «expert capitalism»: the knowledge-intensive, abstract, and often technical pursuit of profit…

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  • ConvenersRoberta Ricucci, University of Turinroberta.ricucci@unito.it Minoo Mirshahvalad, University of Copenhagenmmi@hum.ku.dk This session aims to bring together scholars from sociology, anthropology, religious studies, education, and related fields who have conducted qualitative research on transnational religious educational institutions across Europe. The objective is to explore the factors that influence the study and teaching practices of religions within…

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  • ConvenorsPaolo Boccagni, Università di Trentopaolo.boccagni@unitn.it Eduardo Barberis, Università di Urbino – Carlo Boeduardo.barberis@uniurb.it This session invites reflections and empirical contributions on «domestic ethnography», understood as in-depth fieldwork conducted within ordinary living spaces, encompassing a variety of «homes». Specifically, the session examines domestic ethnography as a method particularly suited for investigating non-mainstream forms of dwelling, including…

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  • ConvenorFabio Quassoli, University of Milano-Bicoccafabio.quassoli@unimib.it Rapid advances in technology and big data have dramatically expanded the opportunities for more widespread, pervasive and sophisticated forms of surveillance than ever before. In the field of security and urban governance, these developments have led to the creation of an array of tools, such as surveillance cameras, facial recognition…

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  • ConvenorsIvana Rapoš Božič, Masaryk University (corresponding author) ivana.rapos.bozic@fss.muni.cz Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Masaryk University jaworsky@fss.muni.cz  Despite the reluctance of many contemporary societies to engage in open discussions about racism, experiences with ethnoracial Othering continue to mark the everyday lives of many immigrants and ethnic minorities. Understanding the different facets of contemporary racism, their impacts on the…

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  • ConvenorsTimothy Raeymaekers, University of Bologna Giuseppe Grimaldi, University of Trieste Over the past decade, anti-gangmastering legislation in Italy has been predicated on the idea that formalizing (i.e., rendering legible and accountable to the state) the production of agri-food commodities will automatically eradicate the most extreme forms of labour exploitation. Pushed forward by an imagery of…

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  • ConvenorsMorena Tartari, Northumbria Universitymorena.tartari@northumbria.ac.uk Órla Meadhbh Murray, Northumbria Universityorla.murray@northumbria.ac.uk Institutional Ethnography (IE) is a sociological approach to research developed by the Canadian sociologist Dorothy Smith (1926-2022) (Smith, 1987, 1990a, 1990b, 2005; Smith, Griffith, 2022). It is a well-established research approach in Canada and the US, with more recent networks of scholars emerging in the Nordic…

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  • ConvenorsEnrico Fravega, University of Genoa115366@unige.it Sebastiano Benasso, University of Genoasebastiano.benasso@unige.it In social contexts characterised by a widespread condition of violence, poverty and oppression, there is an overlooked nexus between the possibilities of migration and the «capacity to aspire» (Appadurai, 2004). Migration questions both the symbolic and material possibility of grasping a better future in an…

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