9th Edition, 2023
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Convenors: Jacopo Anderlini (University of Genoa), Enrico Fravega (University of Genoa), Daniela Giudici (University of Trento) Abstract:In the last decades, a network of circular seasonal mobility, mostly involving migrants, interlinked with the needs of this labour market has grown in southern Europe. A vast body of research has highlighted the crucial role played by the…
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Convenors: 1) Dr Morena Tartari*Dr Morena Tartari, Research Fellow (PI), University of Paduamorena.tartari@unipd.it [this will be my affiliation from September 1st, 2022] 2) Dr Órla Meadhbh Murray**Research Associate, Imperial College Londonomurray@ic.ac.uk Abstract:Institutional Ethnography (IE) is a sociological approach to research developed by the Canadian sociologist Dorothy Smith (1926-2022) (Smith, 1987, 1990a, 1990b, 2005; Smith and Griffith,…
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Anna Casaglia, University of Trento (contact scholar) anna.casaglia@unitn.it Her main field of research is critical political geography and she deals with borders and mobility, spatial aspects of power relations and injustice, populism and territorial revival, the climate crisis and security, popular geopolitics. Chiara Giubilaro, University of Palermo chiara.giubilaro@unipa.it Her main fields of interest are critical urban studies,…
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Convenors:Ilaria Giglioli – University of San Francisco: igiglioli@usfca.eduTimothy Raeymaekers – University of Bologna: timothy.raeymaekers@unibo.it Abstract:In critical border studies, it is well known that territorial boundaries are not simply lines on the map, but rather complex devises that channel and filter mobile flows (Casas-Cortes, Cobarrubias, and Pickles 2014; Mountz and Loyd 2018; Parker and Vaughan-Williams 2009).…
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Convenors: Frédéric Keck (CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS), Davide Caselli (Università di Bergamo) In the last twenty years, the issue of radical uncertainty has become central to almost every aspect of social life. As a response, techniques of preparedness have emerged in the world of disaster management to mitigate the consequences of unpredictable catastrophic events, such as…
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Convenor:Federica DucaDucafederica22@gmail.comAcademic Coordinator, Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), University of the Witwatersrand. Abstract:The last decades have seen renewed interest in the study of inequality across the globe. Increasing wealth inequality is now a focal point of interest, with particular emphasis devoted to the gap between the 1% and the rest of the population across the…
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Convenors’ biographiesYaël Kreplak works in the field of ethnomethodology, situated action analysis and conversation analysis. Her main area of research is the study of artistic practices and the work of heritage preservation. She has conducted several fieldworks in museums, art centers and art schools, and regularly collaborates with artists and curators. She is a lecturer…
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Covnenors:Silvia Fargion e Teresa Bertotti Abstract:The care and upbringing of children in recent decades has been subjected to strong pressures related in part to the spreading of neoliberal ideologies across the world; in this framework the discourse on child rearing as an indivisible responsibility of individual parents has become dominant. The neologism ‘parenting’ refers more…
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Convenors:Tommaso Frangioni, University of Turin, tommaso.frangioni@unito.itDaniela Leonardi, University of Turin, daniela.leonardi@unito.it Abstarct: Time can be considered one of the driving axes through which we experience the world, a defining feature of everyday life and of societal rhythms (Adam 1990), calling into question individual, institutional, and structural issues (Elias 1993; Emirbayer and Mische 1998). Our everyday experience…
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The actor-network perspective stands out for being an analytical and methodological approach able to looking at the intricate network of relations between human, non-human and more-than-human actors that characterizes research fields such as biomedicine and health (Crabu 2021; Lupton and Willis 2021; Cozza 2021), education (Sørensen 2007; Landri 2018; Schlauch, 2019), environment (Abrahamsson et al.…