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Il laboratorio oltre la metropoli. Antropologia pubblica della provincia industriale italiana, 2022
Anuac, Anniversary forum, 2022
This Anniversary Forum commemorates Alberto Mario Cirese (1921-2011), a prominent Italian anthrop... more This Anniversary Forum commemorates Alberto Mario Cirese (1921-2011), a prominent Italian anthropologist, on the 101st anniversary of his birth. Cirese’s reading of Gramsci has been highly influential. For this reason, the forum is built around the re-edition of the English translation of Cirese’s essay "Gramsci’s Observations on folklore: Conceptions of the world, spontaneous philosophy and class instinct". The essay is followed by short critical interventions of attentive readers of Gramsci’s anthropology: Kate Crehan, Riccardo Ciavolella, Giovanni Pizza. The forum ends with a contribution by Jorge A. González, who recalls his encounter and relation with Cirese, while offering new historical insights on Cirese’s teaching, study and research activities in Mexico.
Antropologia, special issue, 2021
Da tempo abbiamo ragionato sull'opportunità di rendere omaggio a Giulio Angioni con una raccolta ... more Da tempo abbiamo ragionato sull'opportunità di rendere omaggio a Giulio Angioni con una raccolta di scritti, come è usuale fare nelle grandi o piccole comunità di studio e ricerca che si formano negli ambienti universitari. Nel ragionarci abbiamo però ritenuto altrettanto opportuno non cedere alla tentazione celebrativa, per cogliere invece un'occasione di discussione di temi e problemi che potessero offrire un contributo di riflessione. Quindi non solo memorie, ricordi e scritti di circostanza, ma, direbbe Gramsci, «cose da prendere sul serio», come quelle con cui l'antropologo (ma anche il narratore) che intendiamo omaggiare con questo libro, ha cercato -e ancora cerca -di fare i conti per una vita intera. Da questo punto di vista crediamo che la testardaggine con cui Angioni ha continuato a confrontarsi con "bizzarrie" e cose di poco conto della periferia, contenga un profondo insegnamento al contempo metodologico, intellettuale e civile: ovvero che anche a partire dall'ovvio e dal senso comune si possano (e si debbano) trarre elementi di analisi per comprendere, interpretare e cambiare il «mondo grande e terribile» in cui viviamo. Per operazioni di questo genere occorre avere un pretesto. Noi lo abbiamo voluto trovare in un libro di Angioni, Rapporti di produzione e cultura subalterna. Contadini in Sardegna, che ha compiuto quarant'anni nel 2014. Ci è sembrato utile rileggerlo collettivamente, sia perché oramai di difficile reperibilità, sia perché i problemi e le chiavi di lettura che propone sono in qualche modo utili, ancora oggi, per pensare e leggere il presente.
Articles by Antonio Maria Pusceddu
Focaal — Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2024
Eric Wolf is conventionally credited with reframing the term “political ecology” through the lens... more Eric Wolf is conventionally credited with reframing the term “political ecology” through the lens of political economy in the early 1970s. However, he never engaged with what by the 1980s was already a growing transdisciplinary field. An inspiring book in the genealogy of political ecology, Europe and the people without history said little about the emerging approach. Nevertheless, I argue that despite its limited focus on ecological issues, the book’s vision and method can still provide insights for envisioning an anthropologically minded political ecology of value that combines the heuristic skills of ethnographic research with the systemic analysis of global capitalist-driven environmental change. To this end, the article brings Wolf ’s strategic use of Marxian frameworks into conversation with the Marxian ecological critique of value.
Anthropological Quarterly, 2024
Il de Martino: Storie Voci Suoni , 2022
L'articolo è stato sottoposto a processo di referaggio doppio cieco.
Dialectical Anthropology, 2022
In this article, we examine the mobilization, justification and enactment of ideologies of care a... more In this article, we examine the mobilization, justification and enactment of ideologies of care and social reproduction in the field of religious charity-based social assistance in Italy and Portugal under austerity. Our framework combines the feminist critique of the naturalization of gendered inequalities with Gramsci's notion of common sense. Drawing on ethnographic research in two mid-size cities in Italy (Brindisi) and Portugal (Setúbal), we address, in a comparative perspective, changes in the model of welfare redistribution enhanced by the implementation of austerity policies. We aim to illuminate how the gendered domestic sphere and the expansion of religious charities under austerity are tight together through ideologies of care and social reproduction, becoming operative in the concrete management of welfare redistribution and integral to the implementation and legitimation of emerging austerity welfare regimes. Focusing on the everyday and mundane tasks of charity work, we show the existence of a relational continuum between the gendered domestic sphere and charity voluntary work. We provide evidence of how naturalized visions and patterns of care inherent in family ideologies are transferred into the sphere of social assistance, hence recast as moral and practical regulatory principles of welfare distribution. Finally, we show how the common sense of social reproduction ultimately becomes instrumental in the regressive naturalization of poverty at the core of the exclusionary and discriminatory patterns of welfare distribution.
Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2022
This article focuses on class as a central concept for analyzing the common ground of labor and e... more This article focuses on class as a central concept for analyzing the common ground of labor and environmental struggles. Through the examination of the frictions between industrial workers and environmentalists in Brindisi, an industrial city in the Italian South, the article unravels the socio-ecological dilemmas underlying their valuation frameworks. It addresses the job blackmail as a central element of the framework through which workers and environmentalists understand the contradictory forces at work in the local socio-ecological crisis. The article looks at the critical junctions that underpin the making of the local working class. As concrete determinations of capitalist socio-ecological contradictions, these junctions constitute the focus for the political ecology of class pursued in this article. To illuminate the place-bound experience of these contradictions, the article looks at the tension between value and values in shaping the experience of the work–environment nexus. Assuming the centrality of class for labor and environmental struggles, the article argues for the re-articulation of the fields of workers and environmentalists as a crucial step towards the definition of a common emancipatory socio-ecological project.
Anuac, 2022
Introduction to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklo... more Introduction to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
Anuac, 2022
Introduzione a Anniversary Forum Cirese 101. Rileggere le "Osservazioni sul folclore" di Antonio ... more Introduzione a Anniversary Forum Cirese 101. Rileggere le "Osservazioni sul folclore" di Antonio Gramsci, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
Teaching Anthropology, 2021
This paper reflects upon the relevance of spontaneous anthropologies for the ways anthropological... more This paper reflects upon the relevance of spontaneous anthropologies for the ways anthropological knowledge is produced and circulated, understood, and made relevant in teaching settings and for the broader public audience. Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's observations on spontaneous philosophy and common sense, I consider spontaneous anthropologies the conceptions and views-often fragmentary and contradictory-through which people make sense of the world they live in and act upon. Arguably, spontaneous anthropology provides the rough empirical materials for more analytical understandings and explanations of the social and cultural worlds investigated by anthropologists. Drawing from my own research experience with Greek and Albanian border populations, I discuss the relationship between anthropology and spontaneous anthropologies in fieldwork learning practices. I suggest that closer engagements with spontaneous anthropologies in and across national borders can offer a fruitful basis for strengthening both teaching practices and critical anthropological interventions in the public sphere.
Meridiana. Rivista di Storia e scienze sociali, 2021
Antropologia, vol. 8, n. 3, 2021
Antropologia, vol. 8, n. 3, 2021
In this article, I look at anger and resentment as intertwined feelings underlying popular reacti... more In this article, I look at anger and resentment as intertwined feelings underlying popular reactions to the perception of state failure in tackling social disparities. I adopt a perspective that articulates the anthropological study of the state with the Gramscian theorization of the integral state. I examine how anger and resentment shape the everyday perceptions of politics in the urban periphery of Brindisi. I organize my analysis around the examination of a corruption scandal that led to the arrest of the mayor, which I deploy as the prism to explore popular relatedness to the state, highlighting the "disconnection of feeling" between the political elite and popular classes. I argue that by framing the resentful feelings of the latter through the idea of disconnection, we can advance a useful description of people's relatedness to the state in the current historical conjuncture.
Il laboratorio oltre la metropoli. Antropologia pubblica della provincia industriale italiana, 2022
Anuac, Anniversary forum, 2022
This Anniversary Forum commemorates Alberto Mario Cirese (1921-2011), a prominent Italian anthrop... more This Anniversary Forum commemorates Alberto Mario Cirese (1921-2011), a prominent Italian anthropologist, on the 101st anniversary of his birth. Cirese’s reading of Gramsci has been highly influential. For this reason, the forum is built around the re-edition of the English translation of Cirese’s essay "Gramsci’s Observations on folklore: Conceptions of the world, spontaneous philosophy and class instinct". The essay is followed by short critical interventions of attentive readers of Gramsci’s anthropology: Kate Crehan, Riccardo Ciavolella, Giovanni Pizza. The forum ends with a contribution by Jorge A. González, who recalls his encounter and relation with Cirese, while offering new historical insights on Cirese’s teaching, study and research activities in Mexico.
Antropologia, special issue, 2021
Da tempo abbiamo ragionato sull'opportunità di rendere omaggio a Giulio Angioni con una raccolta ... more Da tempo abbiamo ragionato sull'opportunità di rendere omaggio a Giulio Angioni con una raccolta di scritti, come è usuale fare nelle grandi o piccole comunità di studio e ricerca che si formano negli ambienti universitari. Nel ragionarci abbiamo però ritenuto altrettanto opportuno non cedere alla tentazione celebrativa, per cogliere invece un'occasione di discussione di temi e problemi che potessero offrire un contributo di riflessione. Quindi non solo memorie, ricordi e scritti di circostanza, ma, direbbe Gramsci, «cose da prendere sul serio», come quelle con cui l'antropologo (ma anche il narratore) che intendiamo omaggiare con questo libro, ha cercato -e ancora cerca -di fare i conti per una vita intera. Da questo punto di vista crediamo che la testardaggine con cui Angioni ha continuato a confrontarsi con "bizzarrie" e cose di poco conto della periferia, contenga un profondo insegnamento al contempo metodologico, intellettuale e civile: ovvero che anche a partire dall'ovvio e dal senso comune si possano (e si debbano) trarre elementi di analisi per comprendere, interpretare e cambiare il «mondo grande e terribile» in cui viviamo. Per operazioni di questo genere occorre avere un pretesto. Noi lo abbiamo voluto trovare in un libro di Angioni, Rapporti di produzione e cultura subalterna. Contadini in Sardegna, che ha compiuto quarant'anni nel 2014. Ci è sembrato utile rileggerlo collettivamente, sia perché oramai di difficile reperibilità, sia perché i problemi e le chiavi di lettura che propone sono in qualche modo utili, ancora oggi, per pensare e leggere il presente.
Focaal — Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2024
Eric Wolf is conventionally credited with reframing the term “political ecology” through the lens... more Eric Wolf is conventionally credited with reframing the term “political ecology” through the lens of political economy in the early 1970s. However, he never engaged with what by the 1980s was already a growing transdisciplinary field. An inspiring book in the genealogy of political ecology, Europe and the people without history said little about the emerging approach. Nevertheless, I argue that despite its limited focus on ecological issues, the book’s vision and method can still provide insights for envisioning an anthropologically minded political ecology of value that combines the heuristic skills of ethnographic research with the systemic analysis of global capitalist-driven environmental change. To this end, the article brings Wolf ’s strategic use of Marxian frameworks into conversation with the Marxian ecological critique of value.
Anthropological Quarterly, 2024
Il de Martino: Storie Voci Suoni , 2022
L'articolo è stato sottoposto a processo di referaggio doppio cieco.
Dialectical Anthropology, 2022
In this article, we examine the mobilization, justification and enactment of ideologies of care a... more In this article, we examine the mobilization, justification and enactment of ideologies of care and social reproduction in the field of religious charity-based social assistance in Italy and Portugal under austerity. Our framework combines the feminist critique of the naturalization of gendered inequalities with Gramsci's notion of common sense. Drawing on ethnographic research in two mid-size cities in Italy (Brindisi) and Portugal (Setúbal), we address, in a comparative perspective, changes in the model of welfare redistribution enhanced by the implementation of austerity policies. We aim to illuminate how the gendered domestic sphere and the expansion of religious charities under austerity are tight together through ideologies of care and social reproduction, becoming operative in the concrete management of welfare redistribution and integral to the implementation and legitimation of emerging austerity welfare regimes. Focusing on the everyday and mundane tasks of charity work, we show the existence of a relational continuum between the gendered domestic sphere and charity voluntary work. We provide evidence of how naturalized visions and patterns of care inherent in family ideologies are transferred into the sphere of social assistance, hence recast as moral and practical regulatory principles of welfare distribution. Finally, we show how the common sense of social reproduction ultimately becomes instrumental in the regressive naturalization of poverty at the core of the exclusionary and discriminatory patterns of welfare distribution.
Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2022
This article focuses on class as a central concept for analyzing the common ground of labor and e... more This article focuses on class as a central concept for analyzing the common ground of labor and environmental struggles. Through the examination of the frictions between industrial workers and environmentalists in Brindisi, an industrial city in the Italian South, the article unravels the socio-ecological dilemmas underlying their valuation frameworks. It addresses the job blackmail as a central element of the framework through which workers and environmentalists understand the contradictory forces at work in the local socio-ecological crisis. The article looks at the critical junctions that underpin the making of the local working class. As concrete determinations of capitalist socio-ecological contradictions, these junctions constitute the focus for the political ecology of class pursued in this article. To illuminate the place-bound experience of these contradictions, the article looks at the tension between value and values in shaping the experience of the work–environment nexus. Assuming the centrality of class for labor and environmental struggles, the article argues for the re-articulation of the fields of workers and environmentalists as a crucial step towards the definition of a common emancipatory socio-ecological project.
Anuac, 2022
Introduction to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklo... more Introduction to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
Anuac, 2022
Introduzione a Anniversary Forum Cirese 101. Rileggere le "Osservazioni sul folclore" di Antonio ... more Introduzione a Anniversary Forum Cirese 101. Rileggere le "Osservazioni sul folclore" di Antonio Gramsci, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
Teaching Anthropology, 2021
This paper reflects upon the relevance of spontaneous anthropologies for the ways anthropological... more This paper reflects upon the relevance of spontaneous anthropologies for the ways anthropological knowledge is produced and circulated, understood, and made relevant in teaching settings and for the broader public audience. Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's observations on spontaneous philosophy and common sense, I consider spontaneous anthropologies the conceptions and views-often fragmentary and contradictory-through which people make sense of the world they live in and act upon. Arguably, spontaneous anthropology provides the rough empirical materials for more analytical understandings and explanations of the social and cultural worlds investigated by anthropologists. Drawing from my own research experience with Greek and Albanian border populations, I discuss the relationship between anthropology and spontaneous anthropologies in fieldwork learning practices. I suggest that closer engagements with spontaneous anthropologies in and across national borders can offer a fruitful basis for strengthening both teaching practices and critical anthropological interventions in the public sphere.
Meridiana. Rivista di Storia e scienze sociali, 2021
Antropologia, vol. 8, n. 3, 2021
Antropologia, vol. 8, n. 3, 2021
In this article, I look at anger and resentment as intertwined feelings underlying popular reacti... more In this article, I look at anger and resentment as intertwined feelings underlying popular reactions to the perception of state failure in tackling social disparities. I adopt a perspective that articulates the anthropological study of the state with the Gramscian theorization of the integral state. I examine how anger and resentment shape the everyday perceptions of politics in the urban periphery of Brindisi. I organize my analysis around the examination of a corruption scandal that led to the arrest of the mayor, which I deploy as the prism to explore popular relatedness to the state, highlighting the "disconnection of feeling" between the political elite and popular classes. I argue that by framing the resentful feelings of the latter through the idea of disconnection, we can advance a useful description of people's relatedness to the state in the current historical conjuncture.
Anthropological Theory, 2021
In this article, we examine the making of austerity as common sense, located at the intersection ... more In this article, we examine the making of austerity as common sense, located at the intersection of state interventions and the everyday practices and moral logics through which austerity emerges as an acceptable livelihood possibility for individuals, households and communities. Our argument is based on a comparative analysis of austerity in Italy and Portugal, with a focus on popular austerities among working-class households in two post-industrial towns. With the aim of addressing the conundrum of the pervasiveness of austerity, we emphasise the relevance of Gramsci’s notion of common sense to expand the anthropological theorisation of austerity as a hegemonic project combining coercion and consent, capable of reconfiguring the state, and as a field of contradictions integral to the very making of common sense. We argue that austerity regimes become operative through the deployment of institutional coercive practices, moral arguments and the ideological co-optation of historical legacies of austerity embodied by ordinary people in their livelihood praxis.
Antropologia, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2020
Questo articolo esamina la tensione tra una concezione ideale dello stato come garante del beness... more Questo articolo esamina la tensione tra una concezione ideale dello stato come garante del benessere sociale e la sua problematica, incompiuta e parziale realizzazione, così come si manifesta tra i volontari Caritas in una città del Mezzogiorno. Le politiche austeritarie dell'ultimo decennio hanno indebolito la rete di protezioni sociali del welfare nazionale, delegando ampi settori dell'assistenza sociale ad associazioni di volontariato e organizzazioni del Terzo settore. Attraverso l'etnografia del volontariato Caritas, l'articolo analizza l'interazione tra circuiti formali e informali di distribuzione alimentare nel contesto di trasformazione del welfare. Prendendo in esame il processo di burocratizzazione della distribuzione alimentare, dovuto alla gestione di risorse pubbliche, l'articolo propone di leggere la coesistenza di diverse concezioni redistributive attraverso il concetto di economia morale. I volontari reagiscono ai processi di delega che hanno caratterizzato la decentralizzazione del welfare e il graduale approfondirsi delle diseguaglianze nel contesto della crisi, operando distinzioni tra diversi piani morali delle pratiche redistributive che convivono nella loro azione di volontariato. In tal modo, il coinvolgimento dello stato nelle iniziative caritatevoli e il coinvolgimento dei volontari nella burocrazia dell'assistenza sociale alimentano le contraddizioni tra l'impegno etico dei volontari e le loro aspettative intorno al ruolo dello stato.
Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 2020
Welfare state transformation has resulted in the expansion of private associations and the increa... more Welfare state transformation has resulted in the expansion of private associations and the increased role of religious charities. In the context of the austerity crisis, the paper addresses how Caritas volunteers in an impoverished urban area in southern Italy deal with the bureaucratisation of resource distribution in face of increasing demands of ‘aid’. The categorisation of poverty by welfare agents and the moral evaluations that underlie volunteers’ approach to ‘the new poor’ provide insights to the explanatory frameworks they articulate in order to make sense of their compensatory role in the face of scarcer welfare state provisions. The paper highlights the linkages of formal and informal circuits in charity initiatives in order to analyse the interplay between procedural and moral definitions of poverty. It shows how volunteers adjust to the transfer of the responsibility to care from welfare state to charity and finally how they make sense of social inequality.
Antipode, 2020
In this article I examine socio‐environmental conflicts through the category of value. Drawing fr... more In this article I examine socio‐environmental conflicts through the category of value. Drawing from a single case study, an industrial city in southern Italy, I address the revaluation projects underpinning the conflict around socio‐ecological arrangements that are considered unfair, unsustainable and detrimental to life. Focusing on the trajectory of local environmentalism and the specific case of a women group, the article shows how the intensification of the socio‐ecological crisis prompted the shift of environmental conflicts from the sphere of production to the broader relations of social reproduction. I propose to analyse this shift through the concept of grassroots ecologies of value, which outlines a framework for thinking about how people deal with the socio‐environmental contradictions in which they live, and their struggles for dignity and worth.
Dialectical Anthropology, 2019
This article challenges “regionalist” approaches to spatial transformation and capitalist develop... more This article challenges “regionalist” approaches to spatial transformation and capitalist development. Drawing on the comparative analysis of two mid-size towns in the North and South of Italy, the article brings into light the “critical junctions” articulating local and global processes, showing how people and places are connected to larger fields of power, differently situated in the geography of capital accumulation, and how connectedness and situatedness are intimately coherent with the unevenness and disjuncture of global capitalism. By bringing into comparison a “successful” story of flexible accumulation and a case of “peripheralization” alongside the decline of state-driven industrialization, our goal is to highlight how unevenness and deservingness are mutually produced, as well as how their entanglement is enmeshed in the formation of spatialized cosmologies of difference. Our analysis deconstructs the essentializing notions of the North as “hospitable” and South as “hostile” to capital, by showing, first, the different scales at which unevenness is produced and, second, the interplay of erudite economic models and popular common sense in capital’s unfolding moral geographies. Finally, the comparison points to unevenness and deservingness as the products of geographically larger and historically deeper relations and connections and shows how the state is the fundamental agent translating them into both spatial and cultural differentiation.
Medea. Rivista di studi interculturali, IV:1, 2018
ANUAC, 2017
This piece examines the position of workfare scheme recipients in the municipal administration of... more This piece examines the position of workfare scheme recipients in the municipal administration of a southern Italian city. Looking at the interplay between different regulatory frameworks – from administrative to labour and welfare reforms – in a particular locale, I emphasize the analytical relevance of the formal-informal linkage in understanding the production of spheres of informality and negotiation within a bureaucracy.
![Research paper thumbnail of Antropologia del lavoro e della crisi in Italia e altrove [Review article]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/95172072/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Review article: Sharryn Kasmir, August Carbonella, eds, Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropol... more Review article: Sharryn Kasmir, August Carbonella, eds, Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2014, pp. 298; Fulvia D’Aloisio, Simone Ghezzi, eds, Antropologia della crisi: Prospettive etnografiche sulle trasformazioni del lavoro e dell’impresa in Italia, Torino, L’Harmattan Italia, 2016, pp. 242.
Disenchanted modernities: Mega-infrastructure projects, socio-ecological changes and local responses, 2024
A política vivida. Governação, transformações políticas e negociação de quotidianos em Portugal entre 2010 e 2020 (António Pedroso de Lima, Catarina Frois, eds), 2024
Languaging Class: Reflecting on the Linguistic Articulations of Structural Inequalities , 2023
Verso una geografia del cambiamento, dal Mezzogiorno al Mediterraneo. Saggi per un dialogo con Alberto Tulumello, 2022
The Political Ecology of Austerity: Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment, 2021
In Italy, the lack of massive mobilisations against austerity politics can explain the re-awakeni... more In Italy, the lack of massive mobilisations against austerity politics can explain the re-awakening of environmental conflicts as catalysers of social discontent. This chapter explores how austerity intensified already existing environmental conflicts, and how this helped to recast the environmental question in ways through which the intersection of multiple experiences of dispossession were comprehensively understood. I develop the notion of political ecologies of value to illuminate working people’s lived experiences and their reactions to persistent socio-environmental disenfranchisement and devaluation, particularly in times of crisis and austerity. Drawing on a single case study, an industrial city in Southern Italy, I address the revaluation projects underpinning the conflict around socio-ecological arrangements that are considered unfair, unsustainable, and detrimental to life. In the context of the austerity crisis, the environmental question provided the basis for building a politics of articulation between different stances and sectors of society, thus voicing multiple experiences of dispossession in the face of a longstanding history of environmental degradation and lasting socio-economic crisis.
Susana Narotzky (ed) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, London: Pluto Press, 2020
Susana Narotzky (ed) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, London: Pluto Press, 2020
Β. Νιτσιάκος et al. (eds) Τα πολλαπλά σύνορα ενός μεταβαλλόμενου κόσμου. Θεωρητικές προσεγγίσεις και εθνογραφικές δοκιμές στη Νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη, Αθήνα: Κριτική εκδόσεις, pp. 337-354 , 2018
Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe, edited by I. Flaskerud & R. J. Natvig, London: Routledge, 2018.
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](book chapter in Β. Νιτσιάκος, Π. Ποτηρόπουλος (eds), Ανθρωπολογία και Λαογραφία. Μια συμβολή στο ... more book chapter in Β. Νιτσιάκος, Π. Ποτηρόπουλος (eds), Ανθρωπολογία και Λαογραφία. Μια συμβολή στο διάλογο, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης [in Greek: “The study of popular culture: The Italian case”, in V. Nitsiakos, P. Potiropoulos (eds), Anthopology and Folklore: A contribution to the dialogue].
Introduzione a "Oltre Adriatico e ritorno. Percorsi antropologici tra Italia e Sudest Europa", Ro... more Introduzione a "Oltre Adriatico e ritorno. Percorsi antropologici tra Italia e Sudest Europa", Roma, Meltemi, pp. 7-56
Dionigi Albera, Melissa Blanchard (eds), Pellegrini del nuovo millennio. Aspetti economici e politici delle mobilità religiose, 2015
In Gabriella Da Re (ed.), Per un’antropologia dei saperi. Pratiche e dialoghi con la natura in Sa... more In Gabriella Da Re (ed.), Per un’antropologia dei saperi. Pratiche e dialoghi con la natura in Sardegna, Firenze, Olschki, 2015, pp. 245-279.
Cose da prendere sul serio. Le antropologie di Giulio Angioni, 2015
Il seguente promemoria bibliografico delle opere di Giulio Angioni è stato compilato con funzione... more Il seguente promemoria bibliografico delle opere di Giulio Angioni è stato compilato con funzione orientativa e non ha pretese di completezza. Sono state escluse tutte le opere di narrativa e poetiche, tutti gli scritti pubblicati esclusivamente online (tranne quelli contenuti in riviste scientifiche), gli articoli sui quotidiani, le recensioni, le introduzioni (quando non riguardano la cura di edizioni), le prefazioni, le postfazioni e gli scritti didattici o di ricerca elaborati nel corso della carriera accademica e non confluiti in opere a stampa. Le opere sono ordinate secondo l'anno di prima edizione, escludendo le riedizioni e ristampe. Per le pubblicazioni di ogni singolo anno, essendo spesso impossibile risalire all'esatta data di pubblicazione, è stato seguito un ordine alfabetico. Le date di edizione non corrispondenti alle date di stampa sono indicate tra parentesi quadre.
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Collectanea islamica, edited by Nicola Melis, Mauro Nobili, Nov 2012
Sciami di cavallette invadono la piana di Konitsa, 1 una piccola cittadina greca del Pindo. Inuti... more Sciami di cavallette invadono la piana di Konitsa, 1 una piccola cittadina greca del Pindo. Inutilmente i musulmani invocano l'intervento divino per scongiurare la distruzione delle colture. I cristiani sono allora chiamati ad intervenire. Non appena compare una croce miracolosa, da loro portata in processione (timidamente seguita dai musulmani), le cavallette abbandonano i campi. Meravigliati e sorpresi dal prodigio della croce, i musulmani esclamano: "Voi sì che avete una religione, noi no!"
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](F. Bachis, A. M. Pusceddu (eds.), Storie di questo mondo. Percorsi di etnografia delle migrazioni, Roma, CISU, 2013, pp. 155-175, 2013
Hana Horáková, Andrea Boscoboinik (Eds.). From Production to Consumption: Transformation of Rural Communities, Berlin, Lit, 2012
Eckehard Pistrick, Nicola Scaldaferri and Gretel Schwörer (eds.), Audiovisual Media and Identity Issues in Southeastern Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011
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](Duilio Caocci, Ignazio Macchiarella (a cura di), Progetto Incontro: Materiali di ricerca e analisi, Edizioni ISRE, Nuoro, 2011
Il de Martino. Storie Voci Suoni, 2024
Nota su Carmine Conelli, Il rovescio della nazione. La costruzione coloniale dell’idea di Mezzogi... more Nota su Carmine Conelli, Il rovescio della nazione. La costruzione coloniale dell’idea di Mezzogiorno, Napoli, Tamu Edizioni, 2022, 206 pp.
Anuac. Rivista dell’Associazione Nazionale Universitaria Antropologi Culturali, vol. II, n. 2, pp. 221-222, Dec 2013
Anuac. Rivista dell’Associazione Nazionale Universitaria Antropologi Culturali, vol. II, n. 1, pp. 194-197, Jun 2013
Sono trascorsi quasi tre decenni da quando Alberto Mario Cirese, valutando l'allora già cospicua ... more Sono trascorsi quasi tre decenni da quando Alberto Mario Cirese, valutando l'allora già cospicua produzione di ricostruzioni storiche della demoetnoantropologia italiana (nelle sue diverse declinazioni), considerava oramai maturi i tempi per una riflessione sulla "storia della storiografia delle discipline demoetnoantropologiche" in Italia. In quest'arco temporale non sono certamente mancati gli approfondimenti critici, dedicati a singole figure o specifiche parentesi temporali. Tuttavia mancava una visione d'insieme, così come la propone il libro di Enzo Vinicio Alliegro, che cerca di tracciare una prospettiva generale sulla storia degli studi, muovendo proprio dall'esigenza condivisibile di "superare l'inevitabile frantumazione a cui la preziosa letteratura specialistica è approdata" (p. 6).
Workshop "Precarious states advice, governance and care in settings of austerity", Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, 31 May-1 June 2018, 2018
"Grassroots Economics: Meaning, Project and Practice in the Pursuit of Livelihood", final international conference of the GRECO Project, Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica, Oñati, Gipuzkoa (Spain), 23-27 June 2018, 2018
15th EASA Conference, Staying, Moving, Settling, panel: Marx @200: Historical Materialism for Today's World [IUAES Commission on Global Transformations and Marxian Anthropology], Stockholm, 14-17 August., 2018
Workshop "Financialization and the Production of Nature: new frameworks for understanding the capital-society-nature nexus", Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Germany) 7 February 2019, 2019
Paper presented at the workshop "Reciprocity, solidarity, debt: anthropological, sociological and... more Paper presented at the workshop "Reciprocity, solidarity, debt: anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives on exchange relations" (joint workshop of the research projects “Grassroots Economics” and “The debt”), Faculty of Economy and Business, University of Barcelona, 13 February 2018.
Paper presented at the workshop "Ten Years of Crisis: The Ethnography of Austerity" (joint worksh... more Paper presented at the workshop "Ten Years of Crisis: The Ethnography of Austerity" (joint workshop of the projects “Care as sustainability in crisis situations”, “Household survival in crisis: austerity and relatedness in Greece and Portugal”, “Grassroots Economics: Meaning, Project and Practice in the Pursuit of Livelihood”), ISCTE – University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 10-12 January 2018
Paper presented at the 116th Annual Meeting of the AAA – American Anthropological Association; pa... more Paper presented at the 116th Annual Meeting of the AAA – American Anthropological Association; panel: "Surviving Austerity in Europe: Autonomy and dependencies between entrepreneurship and solidarity", Washington (USA), 29 November – 3 December 2017
(co-authored with Giacomo Loperfido), 116th Annual Meeting of the AAA, panel: ‘Global North’ and... more (co-authored with Giacomo Loperfido), 116th Annual Meeting of the AAA, panel: ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ revisited: Putting core-periphery relations in context, Washington (USA), 29 November – 3 December;
Paper presented at the workshop "Capitalism for anthropologists", University of Bergen (Norway), ... more Paper presented at the workshop "Capitalism for anthropologists", University of Bergen (Norway), 25-28 June, 2017
Paper presented at the international conference "Capitalist development in hostile environment: 3... more Paper presented at the international conference "Capitalist development in hostile environment: 30 years later," University of Calabria & John Hopkins University, Cosenza (Italy) 6-8 June 2017
Paper presented at the 13th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, University of London,... more Paper presented at the 13th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, University of London, London, 10-13 November 2016
Paper presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the AAA – American Anthropological Association, "F... more Paper presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the AAA – American Anthropological Association, "Familiar & Strange"; invited session: "Has the crisis become 'organic'? Breakdown of expectations and the transformation of the political", Denver (USA), 18-22 November 2015;
Paper presented at the 14th EASA Conference Anthropological legacies and human futures, panel: V... more Paper presented at the 14th EASA Conference Anthropological legacies and human futures, panel: Value(s) of labour in austerity-era Europe, Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), 20-23 July, 2016
Paper presented at the International Conference "Lieux saints en Méditerranée: entre partage et p... more Paper presented at the International Conference "Lieux saints en Méditerranée: entre partage et partition", MuCEM/IDEMEC/IMéRA, MuCEM – Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, 3-5 June 2015;
PhD thesis, Methodologies of Ethno-Anthropological Research, University of Siena (IT), 2010
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cagliari (IT), 2004
Anthropology Talk Seminars, University of Bern, 2019
This workshop addresses the relevance of a social reproduction framework for approaching the cont... more This workshop addresses the relevance of a social reproduction framework for approaching the contemporary socio-ecological crisis. Based on research conducted in southern Italy, it will examine the reproductive struggles, livelihood dilemmas and valuation practices that underlie environmental conflicts in the context of heavy industrialization.
Talk at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (PhD seminars), 17th ... more Talk at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (PhD seminars), 17th February 2017
Questa raccolta di scritti rendere omaggio all'antropologo Giulio Angioni: senza cedere alla tent... more Questa raccolta di scritti rendere omaggio all'antropologo Giulio Angioni: senza cedere alla tentazione celebrativa ma cogliendo l'occasione per discutere temi e problemi, offrendo un contributo di riflessione. Non solo memorie, ricordi e scritti di circostanza, quindi, ma - direbbe Gramsci "cose da prendere sul serio", come quelle con cui l'antropologo (ma anche il narratore) che si omaggia con questo libro, ha cercato - e ancora cerca - di fare i conti per una vita intera.
Tsantsa. Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association, 2020
Europe, the ERC project's research foci are utterly timely and allowed members and students of th... more Europe, the ERC project's research foci are utterly timely and allowed members and students of the Institute of Social Anthropology to debate contemporary economic practices, models and valuation struggles with Susana Narotzky and parts of the GRECO team.
Collectanea islamica, edited by Nicola Melis, Mauro Nobili, Nov 2012
The aim of the series Fut ūḥ al-buld ān/Sources for the Studiy of Islamic Societies societies is ... more The aim of the series Fut ūḥ al-buld ān/Sources for the Studiy of Islamic Societies societies is to publish original works with a multidisciplinary approach to Islamic history and societies, spanning from the ancient past to the present. The focus is on the plurality of Muslim experiences, in different times and places, and on the importance of sources written in Islam's different languages. Accordingly, this first issue illustrates the variety of Islamic experiences that have characterized, and still characterize, the Muslim world. It collects 12 essays in English, French and Italian, by authors from different countries. The contact zone is represented by their focus on primary sources written in Islamic languages, classical Arabic (fuṣḥa) and Moroccan dialect, as well as in four other Islamic languages (Persian, Ottoman, Tajik and Greek). The methodology employed by the authors reflects different disciplines and scholarly traditions, ranging from philology, anthropology to textual criticism.
Pol04: This panel brings together historical and ethnographic perspectives on the politics of hum... more Pol04: This panel brings together historical and ethnographic perspectives on the politics of human vulnerability, focusing on how different ideologies of care and 'nature' prevent or enhance forms of embodied agency within, beyond, and against state regulations.