Name: 10th ERQ Conference
Start: 2025-07-10T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-07-12T19:00:00+02:00
Location: University of Trento

10th ERQ Conference

from Thursday, 10 July 2025 (09:00) to Saturday, 12 July 2025 (19:00)

Monday, 7 July 2025
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Thursday, 10 July 2025

14:00 Plenary - Taking democracy for granted: Methodological blind-spots and the reframing of women’s empowerment

14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium - Humanities Building - via Tommaso Gar, 14

15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:15
Room: Courtyard - Sociology and Economics Building
16:15 1. Ethnographies of the contemporary far-right: 1a
1a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 14 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Between respectabilization and subversion, the radical extreme-right in the anti-contagion measures mobilization: The case of the Parisian mobilization (2020-2021)

16:40 Mainstreaming the Anti-Gender Crusade. Notes from Pro Vita & Famiglia Onlus in Italy

17:05 The gendered mainstreaming of populist radical right politics in France: embracing the neoliberal gender regime

17:30 To each area, its own radicalism: Lega Salvini Premier’s multiple ideological articulations across localities
11. Imagining future worlds: New ethnographic perspectives on creative approaches to climate change.
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Poggi Room (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Training for a Better Future. Climate activism and individualization processes - Enzo Colombo (Università degli Studi di Milano)

16:40 CreaTures, Evaluation and Encountering the Eco-Social Collective Imagination - Ann Light (University of Sussex and Malmo University)

17:05 Imaginary wor(l)ds: Creative methods to approach future imaginaries of (im)mobilities and borders in a world of changing climate - Elena Giacomelli (Marie- Curie Postdoc Fellow, CIESIN, Columbia University, Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna)

17:30 Creative Climate Change Science? A discourse analysis about conflicting scientific accounts about global warming.

17:55 «“Should I stay or should I go”: Citizens’ perceptions of natural hazards and imaginaries on community futures in Southern Italy - Rocco Scolozzi (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento)
15. Environmental labour ethnographies of workplaces and working-class communities: 15a
15a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 5 (ground floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 The contested terrain of noxious deindustrialisation. Workers’ ecological agency and labour regimes at the Taranto Steel Plant

16:40 Labour, imagination and metamorphosis: The socially integrated factory “ex-GKN For Future” as an industrial real utopia - Julia Kaiser (University of Leipzig)

17:05 Ways of re-imagining labour in the climate transition: The solidarity alliances building GKN for Future - Prerna Bishnoi

17:30 (Un)sustainable work: Pathways for a just transition in two automotive sector plants - Laura Leonelli (Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza) Pierpaolo Mosaico (Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza)

17:55 Manufacturing transition: conflict and consent in two automotive plants in a big city in Southern Italy - Camilla Macciani (University of Bergamo) Domenico Perrotta (University of Bergamo)
16. Theorising ethnography across disciplines and methodological approaches: 16a
16a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 7 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Theorizing Through Interviewing in Ethnographic Encounters

16:40 Alien Encounters: A Plea for a Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Foundation of Ethnography

17:05 Following the money: Ethnographic contributions to understanding public transfers and social ties - Giulio Bertoluzza (Università di Bergamo)

17:30 Ethnography as Healing. Trauma-Informed Approaches to Understanding Space and Memory
17. Comparative ethnographies of borderlands. Everyday practices of bordering and resistance across securitised geographies: 17a
17a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 8 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Politics of (im)mobility and migrants on stand-by at the EU and US borderlands

16:40 "Too busy saving lives": A comparative study of coastal fishing communities and the EU-Tunisian border regime

17:05 Differential inclusion across South Africa’s evolving urban refugee protection regime: Exploring the internal border, informality, and urban space of Cape Town

17:30 Governing at the edge: Brokers, borders, and the gendered logics of informal power - Sara Alemir (Uppsala University)

17:55 Gender on the Move: Women and Gender Dissident Migrants at European Borders
20. Collectivities rule their own lands: Ethnography and interdisciplinary approaches for Territories of Life: 20a
20a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 15 (second floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Against the tyranny of the minority in representative democracy: Collective Domains and conflict with public institutions - Marta Villa (Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento) Mauro Iob (Centro Studi sui Demani Civici e le proprietà collettive - University of Trento)

16:40 Intertwining Territories of Life and Intentional Communities: Life-affirming systems for more-than-human well-being

17:05 The occupation of public space as a way of engaging in the world: Ethnographic study of a peri-urban neighborhood

17:30 Heritage, Indigenous governance and (post)human rights. The craft of multi-sited archaeological ethnography

17:55 Italian Federation of Collective Domains: recognition, protection and active self-government
22. Observing digital practices: The role of Artificial Intelligence in cultural processes
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 1F (first floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

16:15 Artificial Intelligence as an Epistemological Problem

16:40 Artificial intelligence and ethnographic methods: Analysing User Creativity in Prompting Practices

17:05 Human-Machine Feedback Loops in Research: Leveraging Generative AI for Semi-Structured Interview Development

17:30 Analyzing the outputs of generative AI platforms to uncover gender and social biases

17:55 Moving beyond text: A comparative case study of AI-assisted audio interviews in relation to textual data from mobile diaries in Singapore - Azaleah Mohd Anis (RySense Ltd) Nadia Olisa (RySense Ltd)

18:20 The networked double hermeneutic and reflexive sense making practices in the age of generative artificial intelligence.
24. Institutional ethnography: Researching for social change
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 2D (second floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

16:15 Mapping the workplace support for working family carers: A work in progress - Daniela Perucca Gallegos (University of Edinburgh)

16:40 UNSUSTAINABLE LIVES IN SUSTAINABLE CITIES. Hegemonic struggle on socio-ecological relations in post-political cities.

17:05 Institutional intimacies. Generating social change through day-to-day collaborations with wildlife conservation authorities.

17:30 L'Etnografia Istituzionale come strumento di monitoraggio e trasformazione sociale. Il caso del progetto Afghanistan 2030 - Next Leaders - Rebecca Agnoletti (Centro Ricerche EtnoAntropologiche (CREA))

17:55 Between the opportunities of academic mobility and the struggles of doing family across borders: An ethnographic case study - Morena Tartari (Northumbria University) Alessandro Tartari Marini (Excelsior Academy)
26. Labour exploitation: Beyond existing development paradigms
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 10 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Old and new caporalato Local policies and transnational dynamics in the multicultural context of Capitanata, Northern Puglia

16:40 The criminalization of labor intermediation in the context of Italian agriculture: An analysis of the evolution of rural informal settlements and caporalato in the Foggia province - Camilla Macciani (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)

17:05 “Beyond the ghetto” as territorial logic: Migrant labour in the Foggia area and institutionalised field-forms between imaginaries and policies - Edoardo Ciuffreda

17:30 Weathering Exploitation. Making The Ties Between Climate Change, Migration and Severe Exploitation Visible

17:55 Decolonising Fair Trade Exploring the Space for Indigenous Knowledge
30. Ethnographies of death and grief: 30a
30a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 3G (third floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

16:15 Surviving the field - On the methodology of navigating the care of organ donors

16:40 Covering the Faces of the Dead: Lessons from and for research practice

17:05 The Emotional Labour of Suicide Bereavement

17:30 Ethnography of mobilizations after a death perceived as unjust

17:55 Death in the Terraces. Death, Mourning, Commemorations and Memorials around Italian Stadium
31. Watching the watchers: Policing and ethnography of the coercive state
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 9 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 On patrol with the “Gypsy” police - Ana Ivasiuc (University College Dublin)

16:40 Policing the Segregated City: Insights from a Police Ethnography and Challenges of “Studying Up”

17:05 The uniform of least regard? Prison officers’ frustrations and the effects on everyday prison life

17:30 Between search and rescue, law enforcement and human rights violations. An ethnography of aerial surveillance in the Central Mediterranean Sea.
33. Ethnographies of expert knowledges in mental health, neurodivergence, and disability: 33a
33a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Kessler Room (ground floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 'Doing' Disability 'Right': Rumour, Speculation and Preparatory Practices amongst Disability Benefit Claimants in the UK

16:40 Neurodivergence, urban space and epistemic in/justice. Reflections towards a neuroqueer research approach.

17:05 Challenging the Paradigms of Care and Control: Disability and Migration Intersections

17:30 “Don't depend on the other people”. Anger, care and shadows of normality in an Italian-Bangladesh family in Turin

17:55 “Dearest world, I will be the one to die” Consideration on in/exclusion processes and vulnerability from a research experience on dis/ability, gender and sexuality in Covid time

18:20 The attitude of deaf and hard-of-hearing towards Russian sign language interpreters - Nikita Bolshakov (HSE University)
34. Ethnography of violence in intimate relationships: 34a
34a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 6 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Image work vs. institutional accountability: Analysing the Italian State Police’s digital strategy on IPV A mixed-method analysis of social media strategies and public perceptions - Elisa Begnis

16:40 "Navigating Divorce: Ethnographic Insights into Gender-Based Violence, Patriarchal Norms, and Systemic Inequality Among Arab Women in Jaffa, Israel”

17:05 Shedding light on hidden forms of domestic violence: Towards a harm-based approach

17:30 Patriarchal violence as Gender Violence: Resistance and Challenges of women empowerment through Aurat March (Women Movement) in Pakistan
35. Ethnographies of migrant detention, new forms of confinement and the securitarian turn in migration policies: 35a
35a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 11 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 "Saving Lives", Securing Borders: Anti-trafficking Narratives and Border Practices in Southern Italy

16:40 Real or Fake Border Crosser

17:05 Policies of Eviction : An Ethnography of Informal Housing Settlements and New Forms of Local Confinements in Western Sicily

17:30 Confined mobilities: Racial carcerality and resistance along the Balkan Route in Bihać, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Sara Marilungo (PhD candidate Sapienza University of Rome)
4. Civil society and care practices: 4a
4a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 2F (second floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

16:15 NGOs and the Italian welfare system. Civic care amidst crises and transformations

16:40 Elites and the "suffering others". Teaching care and solidarity in a privileged Parisian school.

17:05 Pro-refugee volunteering as neoliberal self-care

17:30 “It’s not about you!” Solidarity as practical intervention: an alternative reception framework? Exploring the structure, operations and “offers” of self-defined solidarity groups, organisations and projects in the context of migrant reception.

17:55 Civic care, radical care, and underlying inequalities: An analysis of civil society activism and care practices towards, by, and with migrants across ethnographic contexts

18:20 «It's not just the relationship (...) it's the whole community around it». The experience of volunteers in buddy programs between care and brokerage
6. Despicable public personas: Dynamics of infamy in digital culture: 6a
6a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 2E (second floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

16:15 Beyond the alt-right infamy: Disinformation and hate speech from medical professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy

16:40 Nationalism as Moral Redemption: Celebrity Transgressions and Public Forgiveness in China

17:05 «“It’s a shithole, but I loved the people”: Passport bros and the socio-linguistic construction of nationality in the manosphere

17:30 Make men great again: Manfluencers and the art of despicable reputation

17:55 Ashes of decency: On irony, infamy and digital contestation during collective tragedy
19:15 Welcome buffet reception
Welcome buffet reception
19:15 - 21:00
Room: MUSE - Museo delle Scienze - C.so del Lavoro e della Scienza, 3
Friday, 11 July 2025
09:30 10. Labour market insertion of young migrants.
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 1F (first floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

09:30 Lives after reception. Life and work trajectories of young male migrants in Genova

09:55 Trapped on low-skilled paths: analysing obstacles to up/re- skilling for young migrants in Italy

10:20 Producing integration. Work as a tool for the normalization of asylum seekers.
15. Environmental labour ethnographies of workplaces and working-class communities: 15b
15b
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 5 (ground floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 Integrating pieces of green transition along different segments of the food value chain: contradictions and challenges within and outside the workplaces

09:55 Work and working conditions in organic farms

10:20 Workers of the urban depths, sentinels of the environment
17. Comparative ethnographies of borderlands. Everyday practices of bordering and resistance across securitised geographies: 17b
17b
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 8 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 Nationalism, securitization and cross-border integration: evidences from three Italian borderscapes

09:55 Security of Borderlander Identities: Exploring the Narratives of Young Minority Members in Border Regions

10:20 From homeland to the motherland: cross-border coping strategies and the role of citizenship in the experiences of displaced Hungarian ethnic minorities

10:45 What happens when a whole frontier governorate is “turned into a prison”?: Understanding borders as elastic and interrogating their impact on the communities inhabiting, crossing or stranded at the Tunisian-Libyan border - Chiara Pagano (University of Graz)

11:10 Confined mobilities: Racial carcerality and resistance along the Balkan Route in Bihać, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Sara Marilungo (PhD candidate Sapienza University of Rome)
18. Aesthetics and imaginaries of eco-activist movements
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 14 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 On climate activism aesthetics: The teens’ view between traffic blocks and dialogue - Elisa Virgili (Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca) Lorenzo Pedrini (Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca)

09:55 The changing of eco-activists’ representations and imaginaries overtime: The case of the criminalised NoTAP movement in southeast Italy

10:20 Inhabiting the ruins of the present. On social movements defending wastelands in Montreal

10:45 Feeding Nationalism: Building Anti-Ecological Imaginaries through Culinary Traditionalism

11:10 Reclaiming Alpine Lands from Big-Money Tourism Development

11:35 “This Zapatista Coffee Tastes Even Better if You Drink it in the Struggle”: Imaginaries and Aesthetics of Rebel Coffee Distribution
19. Rethinking the role of ethnography in more-than-human participatory research and design: 19a
19a
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 12 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 Multispecies speculative ethnography in the ruins/ruinings of the Anthropocene

09:55 Antispeciesist Perspectives in Rural Development: A Critical Approach in More-Than-Human Participatory Research

10:20 Collaborative and sensory ethnographic film to explore the pluriverse: Human and more-than-human encounters in the Chacahua Lagoon, Mexico - Clara Kleininger Wanik (University of Exeter)

10:45 OWLing as an ethnographic practice - Ana Carvalho (University of Limerick) Cristiano Storni (University of Limerick)
20. Collectivities rule their own lands: Ethnography and interdisciplinary approaches for Territories of Life: 20b
20b
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 15 (second floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 Highlands, Public Goods, and Collective Domains: The Management of Alpine Pastures as a Tool for Economic and Social Development of the Territory in the Perspective of Environmental Sustainability

09:55 Rules and practices in rice production in Piedmont: legal and anthropological aspects

10:20 «“La robe dal comùn ’a jè di duc’ e di nissùn”: Collective domains in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) - Luca Nazzi (Centro Studi sui Demani Civici e le proprietà collettive - University of Trento)

10:45 The Collective Domains of Monte Bondone: the self-management of a Territory of Life

11:10 Inhabiting Collective Domains: community and sustainability through the case of the Caseificio Turnario di Pejo
21. Examining the controversial social space of female genitals
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 2F (second floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

09:30 Bodies and Words on Fire. Pelvic and Vulvar Pain on TikTok and Instagram Between Invisibilization and Voices that Fight.

09:55 Is the Vagina ‘Good To Think With?’ A qualitative analysis of the meanings of the vagina among people with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) and their medical teams

10:20 Like a Seeker. A Story of a Body Struggling for its Existence

10:45 Embodied, Fluid and Clandestine. Notes on the Space of Queer Womxn and their Affects in Accra, Ghana
23. The everyday lives of platform workers: Migration, precarity and resistance
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 2E (second floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

09:30 Claiming Mediation. Moroccan Workers Navigating Agriculture and Digital Platforms in Inland Sicily

09:55 Navigating Invisible Labors: Unpaid Work, Housing Struggles, and Resilience Among Migrant Women in Italy

10:20 Between Formalization and Precarity: Migration, Legal Status and Everyday Work in the Platform-Mediated Cleaning Sector in Switzerland

10:45 Reconfiguring Digital Work An Ethnographic Study of Migrant Workers at TaskRabbit in Milan, Italy
25. Surveillance imaginaries and practices
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 10 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 Identifying Hidden Mechanisms of Social Control

09:55 Amphibious detention: New bordering ethnography of safe countries of origin and the use of digital data and devices in the governance of migration in Europe - Matteo Buffa (Università degli Studi di Milano)

10:20 The plural police dream: Reproduction of social order by non-state actors in the Nordic states - Björn Karlsson (IT University of Copenhagen) Katarina Winter (Stockholm University) Vasilis Galis (IT University of Copenhagen)

10:45 Digital Surveillance and Big Data Policing: Local Security Governance in the Global Digital Age

11:10 DES DISPOSITIFS DE SÉCURITÉ HORS NORME POUR DES SCÉNARIOS HORS NORME: AI-Powered Security and the Normalization of Algorithmic Surveillance during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris
30. Ethnographies of death and grief: 30b
30b
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 3G (third floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

09:30 Technology-led teaching of anatomy: Will an absence of cadavers increase accessibility to the new medicine course in North Wales?

09:55 The Materialization of Grief: An Ethnographic Study of Cemeteries as Spaces for Emotional Processing

10:20 Archive Alter(c)ations

10:45 The contagion of suicide. Good and bad death in ethnoclinical context

11:10 Giving voice and body to the deceased, An anthropological approach to the liminal phases of mourning through mediumistic interlocutions.

11:35 Living the space of the dead. Fieldnotes on the death rituals of a Romá Xoraxané community in Italy
32. Tasting and judging "natural" wines and artisanal agri-food products.
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Poggi Room (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 Mathesis singularis The issue of singularity in wine tasting

09:55 Tasting singularity or the unfinished taste of natural wines

10:20 The return of nature in the bottle: The making of a peasant economy in the Swiss vineyards - Flavian Pichonnat

10:45 Natural wine bars in neocraft atmoculture: A Lisbon case study - Andrea Pavoni (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) Gianmarco Peterlongo (Università di Milano)

11:10 A ‘singularity’ without ‘typicality’? The case of a Sicilian native coffee
33. Ethnographies of expert knowledges in mental health, neurodivergence, and disability: 33b
33b
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Kessler Room (ground floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 Just a little more different than the others: neurodivergence and the re-articulation of diagnostic practices and knowledge production in autism research

09:55 Recovery Narratives and Participation Practices in Mental Health Services: Perspectives from Experts in Peer Support

10:20 Integrating experiential knowledge into mental health services in Friuli Venezia-Giulia: A qualitative and interdisciplinary analysis of the role, benefits, and challenges of peer support workers - Giulia Pollice (Department of Biomedical, Metabolic, and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Luca Negrogno (Istituzione Gian Franco Minguzzi)

10:45 Talking to social care: people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as experts in the production of social care

11:10 «“And then what exactly is your experiential expertise?”: Performing professionalism and madness in Dutch welfare landscapes - Charlotte van der Veen (University of Amsterdam)

11:35 Navigating uncertain assumptions in a research project on housing for persons with complex mental health needs

12:00 The observation of mandatory health treatments (TSO) in the City of Turin: forcing care to protect society
34. Ethnography of violence in intimate relationships: 34b
34b
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 6 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 Reflections on the configurations of domestic violence in the penal and penitentiary field

09:55 Challenges in Researching Police Practices: Studying Police-Sex Worker Interactions in Poland

10:20 “You Drive Me Crazy!” Representations of Masculinities, Femininities and Intimate Violence in Italian Popular Music
5. Lines, traces, streets. Writing urban ethnography: 5a
5a
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 9 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

09:30 Night rhythms ethnography against official narrations: Exploring intimate writing and rhythmic conflicts in Palermo’s nocturnal public spaces

09:55 Walking with urban tales: Collecting icono-textual, graphic and art-based narratives in the city

10:20 True love is to die for. Tattooing and its professionalisation between resistance, subcultures and urban contexts

10:45 Lines, traces, streets. Ghosting the city.
7. "Work is not just work": Ethnographies on migrant workers' health in Europe
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Room 2D (second floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

09:30 Layered responsibility for migrant workers´ health condition and health care provision under seasonal recruitment programmes. The daily practices in rural clinics in Huelva.

09:55 Occupational health and violence in greenhouses: an ethnographic study of migrant workers’ experiences in the Fascia Trasformata/ Transformed Littoral Strip (Sicily)

10:20 Navigating the care crisis: Regulatory changes, work organisation, and the well-being of care workers in long-term care facilities
12:30 Buffet lunch
Buffet lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Courtyard - Sociology and Economics Building

14:00 Plenary - A view from nearby: Ethnography as sociable people writing

14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium - Humanities Building - via Tommaso Gar, 14

15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:15
Room: Courtyard - Sociology and Economics Building
16:15 1. Ethnographies of the contemporary far-right: 1b
1b
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 14 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Shifting Alignments and Strategic Positioning of Victory Party’s Ideology Among Young Voters in Türkiye

16:40 Two Roads to Anti-Muslim Radicalization: Culturalized Semi-Liberalism and Conservative Identitarianism Within the Far Right-Wing Youth in France

17:05 The Cultured Thug: The Far-Right, Physical Culture and Masculinity

17:30 When the Leader Falls: Charisma, God’s Hand, and Invincibility as Interpreted by the Far Right
13. Creative/Inventive methods in contemporary ethnographic inquiry: 13a
13a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 10 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Exploring narratives of exclusion/inclusion through participatory methods: migrants', refugees' and asylum seekers' experiences in Greece

16:40 Going mobile: Methodological reflections on go-along interviews in studying the ethnoracial Othering of immigrants - Radka Klvaňová (Mendel University)

17:05 Cultural-affective spaces of resistance: Using an art-based ethnography with sketches to study the Iranian diaspora in Italy - Somita Sabeti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

17:30 Methodological Inventiveness and Challenges. A Multimodal Qualitative Approach to Investigating Cultural (Re)Production in Complex Settings.

17:55 Podcasting as a creative and transformative research method

18:20 At the intersection of teaching and research: a creative and participatory project on gender, perceptions of safety, and right to the city.
16. Theorising ethnography across disciplines and methodological approaches: 16b
16b
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 7 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Exploring the Intersections of Ethnography and Law: From Users of the Law to Legal Education

16:40 The “behind the scenes” of negotiation choices. The ethnographic method to understand the dynamics and choices of the social partners underlying the negotiation clauses of the collective labor agreement

17:05 How the rights of nature reshape ethnography

17:30 Ethnography for Copycats The normativity of ethnographic inquiry

17:55 Mixed Methods in Medicalized Spaces: Analyzing NICU Social Dynamics by Harmonizing Ethnographic and Survey Techniques
17. Comparative ethnographies of borderlands. Everyday practices of bordering and resistance across securitised geographies: 17c
17c
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 8 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Border rituals: interrogating the borders of Europe through performance and solidarity

16:40 Multi-sited distribution: compare everyday solidarity along the Western Balkan route

17:05 Borders as Walls, Borders as Pathways: Ethnographic Insights from the Panama-Costa Rica and Mexico-Guatemala Borderlands

17:30 Inside Border Solidarity. An Ethnographic Analysis of De-Bordering Practices and Networks along the Balkan Routes.
19. Rethinking the role of ethnography in more-than-human participatory research and design: 19b
19b
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 12 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Tracking large carnivores in the Anthropocene. An ethnographic proposal for exploring more-than-human worlds

16:40 Exploring socio-material undercurrents – post-human performativity in situated participatory design work

17:05 Re-tracing Milanese air pollutants’ data journey.

17:30 Playing with food - Using arts-based methods to “retrace” the socialities of the asparagus plant
2. Migration and the transition to adulthood: 2a
2a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 5 (ground floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 ‘Talking About Love with Daughters of the Community’: Interviews and Ambivalence in the North-London Bangladeshi Community

16:40 The «capability to become an adult»: young people's constrained freedom to leave Emilia-Romagna for Germany and the UK

17:05 Migration and subjectivation: The biographical trajectory of young entrepreneurs from South Italy

17:30 Migration and health in Italy: A Call for Action in the Era of Institutional Racism and Healthcare Exclusion
28. Transnational religious education in Europe: Between integration and differentiation
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 1F (first floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

16:15 Religious education among Albanian Muslims in Italy - Chiara Anna Cascino (Università di Verona)

16:40 Counter Radicalization through Peaceful Dialogue as non-violence education: Building intra cultural narratives of hope among Muslim women in Islamic centres/mosques as a model for gender empowerment - TEHSEEN NISAR (Independent Research)

17:05 Transnational education and Global Islam: The Arabic schools in the province of Salerno - Salvatore Senatore (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies (DREST), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

17:30 Al-Mustafa University in Western Europe
33. Ethnographies of expert knowledges in mental health, neurodivergence, and disability: 33c
33c
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Kessler Room (ground floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Cripping ethnography

16:40 Queering Neurodivergence: Practices of resistance in a neuronormative urban space.

17:05 Intersecting Frameworks of Care: Indigenous and Biomedical Approaches to Disability in Sierra Leone

17:30 Fractured Selves, Fractured Wills? Constructing the Eating Disordered Patient in an Italian Treatment Centre

17:55 Performing Care: A Digital Ethnography of Masculinities, Mental Health, and Embodiment on TikTok.

18:20 ”I find myself in a rather tricky situation”: Vulnerabilities, support and knowledge sharing within a network of PhD students with disabilities

18:45 Disrupting Ethnographic and Expert Knowledge Hierarchies through Gnosis: Beyond the Vulnerable Binary of Care and Control
35. Ethnographies of migrant detention, new forms of confinement and the securitarian turn in migration policies: 35b
35b
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 11 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Punishments without crimes: A legal ethnography of migrants' administrative detention - Federica Borlizzi (Università di Roma Tre)

16:40 Clinical Gaze and Colonial Continuum. Preliminary theoretical and methodological considerations for an ethnography of administrative detention

17:05 Interstitial spaces and trespassing practices in administrative detention: Resistance experiences of migrants and non-security state agents in Italy - Francesca Cimino

17:30 Punishing Irregular Migration: The Role of Detention in Italy

17:55 Between borders and bars: An insider perspective on the criminalization of marginalized adolescents under the shadow of the Caivano Decree - Elton Kalica (University of Padua)
36. Ethnographies of Translocality and Transnationalism
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Poggi Room (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 Mafia ubiquity: ethnography of radicalisation in 'ndrangheta transnational families and communities from Calabria to TikTok

16:40 Navigating intersection of difference: A Qualitative sociological study with adult autistic migrants in the UK - Anya Ovcharenko

17:05 Space, place, and taste in a Las Vegas megachurch: An interpretive continuum of place and sensorial immersion - Josiah Kidwell (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

17:30 The politics of belonging in Milan youth centers - Giovanni Antonio Albertinale (Università degli Studi di Milano)

17:55 Intergenerational “Family-like” Ties, Intercultural Community and Care. The Role of Shared Care Practices in the Growth Pathways of Preteens with Migration Backgrounds
5. Lines, traces, streets. Writing urban ethnography: 5b
5b
16:15 - 19:15
Contributions

16:15 Archives of errant refuge. Site-writing in Silos/Khandwala, Trieste

16:40 The political choice of clarity, writing to communicate. Making an urban ethnography in Manfredonia

17:05 Reflection, Fifty Years After His Death, on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Interpretation of the Phenomenon of the Roman Borgate Between the 1950’s and 1970’s

17:30 Psychogeographic Analysis of Walking and Spatial Appropriation at University Campuses in Turkey: Walking Interviews as Ethnographic Tools to Compare the Alle at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University and Ankara Middle East Technical University
6. Despicable public personas: Dynamics of infamy in digital culture: 6b
6b
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 2E (second floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

16:15 The Rising of Bandito Influencers: Fame and Criminality in the Cross-Platform environment

16:40 I Am Yilong Ma: Deepfakes, doppelgangers and despicability in global media circuits

17:05 Despicable therefore demonetized: How anti-mainstream icons solicit support

17:30 Partisan Comedians, Cancel Culture, and Outrage as Platform Currency
8. Labour and exploitation in the contemporary waste industry.
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 2F (second floor) - Economics Building - via Inama, 5
Contributions

16:15 Waste sinners and waste crimes: An ethnography of labour, plastic waste, and the politics of circularity in Minh Khai, Vietnam

16:40 Untouchables: The intersection of caste-based exclusion, economic exploitation, and ecological neglect of Solid Waste Workers in Pakistan

17:05 Recyclage des rebuts textiles à Lomé : organisation du travail et contradictions de l’économie verte
9. Distant neighbours. Urban ethnography through temporary practices and digital connections: 9a
9a
16:15 - 19:15
Room: Room 6 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

16:15 A netnographic analysis of the effects of digital associationism on urban relations: the case of the residents’ committee STOP Degrado Padova

16:40 The material politics of key boxes: Labor and placemaking in the Airbnb city

17:05 Neighbourhoods in Digital Mobile Times: The Case of Le Lignon's Former Residents

17:30 (Re)imagining urban belonging through networked gift-giving: Ethno-racial minoritized youth, identity, and community in the digital neighborhood

17:55 Distant neighbours in the same neighbourhood. The contribution of urban ethnography to the study of conflicts in transforming neighbourhoods
Saturday, 12 July 2025
10:00 13. Creative/Inventive methods in contemporary ethnographic inquiry: 13b
13b
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 10 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

10:00 Images as Power Reflecting on Photo elicitation and Photovoice Visual Tools

10:25 Situated Knowledge in Motion: Examining the Limits of Feminist Methodologies and Creative Participatory Methods in Urban Spaces

10:50 Re-figuring Le Cascine. More-than-human experiments as counternarrative of urban green in Florence

11:15 Creative methods in collaborative urban planning: Pisticci village and Alta Irpinia inner areas experimentations - Gaia Daldanise (CNR IRISS)

11:40 Creative Methods for Urban Regeneration and Territory Valorization: A Multidisciplinary Approach

12:05 Fieldnotes. Composing ethnography through photographic lenses
16. Theorising ethnography across disciplines and methodological approaches: 16c
16c
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 7 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

10:00 Multimodal Ethnography and Team Reflexivity A Methodological Journey into Wild Urban Nature

10:25 Interdisciplinary Team-Based (Linguistic) Ethnography: Operational Challenges and Critical Reflections

10:50 Team patchwork ethnography: Rethinking ethnography in a comparative study on reproductive health in Europe - Marcin Smietana (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)

11:15 Doing ethnography between anthropology of science and STS. Genealogies, differences and gifts

11:40 Life Stories. A Transdisciplinary Genre between Anthropology and Literature

12:05 Ethnography Between Anthropology and History: Dwelling Across the Archive and the Field
20. Collectivities rule their own lands: Ethnography and interdisciplinary approaches for Territories of Life: 20c
20c
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 15 (second floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

10:00 The Italian network of Territories of Life and global challenges of Rural Commons.

10:25 Governance partecipativa e gestione sostenibile dei Territori di Vita. Un’indagine etnografica sugli usi civici nelle Madonie - Giorgio Scalici (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

10:50 Self-ruling, governing and managing the lands

11:15 Reclaiming collective property: Co-research as a tool for strengthening communities and resisting extractivism in the Apuan Alps - Chiara Braucher (Università degli studi di Trento) Samuele Andreoni (Universidad Autonòma de Barcelona)

11:40 A self-government to humanity future: the case of collective ownership Consorzio Uomini Massenzatica (Ferrara-Italy)
27. New ethnographic perspectives on racialization processes
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 14 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

10:00 When the postcolonial gaze is not enough: The new popular schools between neoliberal welfare support and counter-hegemonic resistance to racialized dominant culture - Fiorenzo Parziale (Sapienza Università di Roma)

10:25 Roma women serving community sentences in Italy: An analysis through the lens of critical Romani studies and critical criminology - Claudia Mantovan (Università di Padova)

10:50 Understanding Jewish racialization: musing from the field

11:15 An analytical framework for the study of essentialized notions of descent-based groups

11:40 Navigating tensions between ethnoracial Othering and belonging in the urban space of Brno
29. Ethnographies of expert capitalism
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 12 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

10:00 Critique in purgatory: Or, how to study ‘Capitalism’ in econographic detail

10:25 Facilitation and transformations of capitalism: Towards a reconfiguration of the field of business consultancy

10:50 Intermediation between Markets and Society in the Realm of Monetary Affairs

11:15 Frontiersmen: Making people and places legible to extractivist capitalism
3. Domestic ethnography in marginalized and shared dwelling spaces: Relationships, dilemmas, and the micro-macro link.
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 8 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

10:00 Domestic ethnography in state-run reception: Control, resistance, and (self)representation in shared dwelling spaces for asylum seekers and refugees

10:25 Homesick while still at home. What are the potentials of conducting domestic ethnography in a potentially lost home?

10:50 The Methodological Dilemmas of Including “Vulnerable” Populations in Marginalized Shared Housing Research: Case Study of Roma Women in Private Hostels

11:15 Homesharing as humanitarian labour during wartime: Life-making temporalities of voluntary accommodation of displaced people in private households

11:40 The full house and the empty house: Spectral masculinities and conflicting styles of domesticity in a low-income neighborhood of urban Chile

12:05 What forms of shared living? Methodologies for researching domestic cultures of precarity
33. Ethnographies of expert knowledges in mental health, neurodivergence, and disability: 33d
33d
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Kessler Room (ground floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

10:00 Over a Decade of Stigma: Living with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder in the UK.

10:25 TSO- the voice of psychiatrized people and their caregivers

10:50 Amor fati: How patients learn to embrace the institution that subjectivated them. Ethnographic insights from a forensic psychiatric facility in Italy

11:15 Negotiating Care and Control: Ethnographic Perspectives on Expert Knowledge in Italy’s Forensic Mental Health System

11:40 Defying absence. Managing juvenile offenders: At the crossroads of control policies and systemic abandonment - Lorena La Fortezza

12:05 Women in prison Study of mental health conditions of women prisoners
4. Civil society and care practices: 4b
4b
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 9 - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

10:00 Caring for the homeless. A transformative civic care practice in Brescia.

10:25 Between Space Care and Memory Valorization. The Pionta Case

10:50 Care as a policy approach to housing justice and health equity

11:15 «”Beyond friendly listening”: Online peer support within local service settings as entanglement of civic care and public responsabilities

11:40 Challenging Institutional Abandonment. Grassroots Solidarity and Care Practices in Athens and Thessaloniki.
9. Distant neighbours. Urban ethnography through temporary practices and digital connections: 9b
9b
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 6 (first floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26
Contributions

10:00 Civic Engagement and The Urban Politics of Biodiversity: A qualitative inquiry on grassroots initiatives in Milan - Riccardo Emilio Chesta (Politecnico di Milano)

10:25 Mapping inequality and community-based tourism: Conducting urban ethnography in Las Vegas’ Westside - Marta Soligo (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

10:50 I am in their groupchat, but am I in their group? Moving from outside to inside digital spaces and why it is different (and the same) to analog spaces. - Marco Sassaro (Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca)

11:15 Sustaining creativity? Institutional narratives and grassroots cultural practices in a UNESCO creative city - Massimiliano Raffa (University of Insubria)
13:00 Closing
Closing
13:00 - 13:30
Room: Kessler Room (ground floor) - Sociology Building - via Verdi, 26

15:00 Meet the Board
Meet the Board
15:00 - 17:00
Room: Room 20 (second floor)

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