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Roberta Raffaetà - CV
ROBERTA RAFFAETA’ – CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION:
2008, 19th December
Ph.D., Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2006
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis & Collection
2004-2008
Swiss Doctoral School in Anthropology and Ecole Doctorale Romande de Sociologie
2003
B.A. and M.A., Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Siena, Italy
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2014-present Lecturer, Department of Human Sciences and Education, University Milan-Bicocca
2013–2014 Senior Lecturer, Institut des Sciences Sociales, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
2011-present Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Verona, Italy
2010–2013 Marie Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and
Social Research, Trento University, Italy
2010-2011 Visiting fellow, Unit of Social Science and Health, Melbourne Monash
University, Australia
2009–2010 Assistant researcher, Monash Prato Centre, Italy-Australia
TEACHING
2014-2015: Medical Anthropology, master level (56 hours/year), Department of Human Sciences
and Education, University of Milan-Bicocca
2013-2015: Writing seminar, master level (12 hours/year), Trento University, Department of
Sociology and Social research
2011-present: Socio-cultural Anthropology, bachelor level (44 hours/year), University of Verona,
Faculty of Medicine
2013-2014: Advanced Ethnographic Techniques, master seminar (56 hour), University of
Lausanne, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
2013–2014 : Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology, bachelor level (112 hours), University of
Lausanne, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
2013-2014: Anthropology of nature and of the environment, bachelor level (28 hour), University of
Lausanne, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
2011-present: Cultural Anthropology and Anthropology of the Body, (16 hr/year), training for ski
teachers candidates, Collegio dei Maestri di Sci della Provincia di Trento
2012-2013: Ethnographic techniques, bachelor level (30 hours), Trento University, Department of
Sociology and Social research
2010-2011, Introduction to anthropology of health, master level (10 hours), Trento University,
Department of Sociology and Social research
PUBLICATIONS
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MONOGRAPHS
1. Raffaetà, R. (2011) Identità compromesse. Cultura e malattia: il caso dell’allergia, Ledizioni.
Collana di Antropologia peer-reviewed, Milano. ISBN 978-88-95994-75-8
Reviewed by:
-Despont, A., L’allergie: une metaphore de la societé, Uniscope, Lausanne, Novembre 2009, 548,
p.14 (article about the PhD thesis)
-Eugeni, E., 2013, AM: Rivista della società di antropologia medica, 35-36, p. 551-552
JOURNAL’S ARTICLES
1. Raffaetà, R. (forthcoming). Migration and parenting: reviewing the debate and calling for future
research. Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care.
2. Raffaetà, R., Nichter, M. (2015) Negotiating Care in Uncertain Settings and Looking Beneath
the Surface of Health Governance Projects, Anthropology in Action, 22(1), 1-6. ISSN 0967-201X
(Print) ISSN 1752-2285 (Online) doi: 10.3167/aia.2015.220101
3. Raffaetà, R., Baldassar, L., Harris, A. (2015) Chinese Immigrant Youth Identities and Belonging
in Prato, Italy: exploring the intersections between migration and youth studies, Identities:
Global Studies in Culture and Power. DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2015.1024128
4. Raffaetà, R. (2015). Hope emplaced. What happens to hope after arrival: The case of
Ecuadorian families living in Italy. Emotion, Space and Society, 16, 116-122. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2015.04.003
5. Raffaetà, R. (2015). My parents never spent time with me! Migrant parents in Italy and
'competent parenting'. Journal of Family Issues, 36(9), 1192-1211.
DOI:10.1177/0192513X14533544
6. Raffaetà, R., Duff, C. (2013) Putting Belonging into Place: Place Experience and Sense of
Belonging among Ecuadorian migrants in an Italian Alpine Region, City & Society. A Journal of
the American Anthropological Association 25(3), 328-347. ISSN 1548-744X,
DOI:10.1111/ciso.12025
7. Zanini, G., Raffaetà, R., Krause, K., Alex, G. (2013) Transnational medical spaces:
opportunities and restrictions, MMG Working Paper 13-16, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of
Religious and Ethnic Diversity, 9-35. ISSN 2192-2357
8. Raffaetà, R. (2013) Allergy narratives in Italy: 'naturalness' in the social construction of medical
pluralism. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 32(2), 126-144.
ISSN: 0145-9740 print/1545-5882 online, DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2012.732632
9. Raffaetà, R. (2012) Conflicting sensory relationships. Encounters with allergic people
Anthropology & Medicine 19(3), 339-350. ISSN: 1364 print/ 1469-2910 online, DOI: 339-350,
0.1080/13648470.2012.692359
10. Raffaetà, R. (2012) When ‘to choose’ is ‘to care’: the case of paediatric vaccinations, Suomen
Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 37(3) 8-23. ISSN 0355-3939
print/1799-8972 online
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11. Raffaetà, R. (2011). Understanding allergy: A review of relevant studies. Curare. Zeitschrift für
Ethnomedizin - Journal of Medical Anthropology, 34(3), 182-192. ISBN 978-3-86135-767-4
12. Raffaetà, R.. (2006). Allergia e tabu. AM. Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Medica,
21-26, 383-411. ISBN 978-88-8234-149-7
EDITED COLLECTIONS
1. Raffaetà, R., Nichter, M. (2015) Negotiating Care in Uncertain Settings and Looking Beneath
the Surface of Health Governance Projects, Anthropology in Action, 22(1), 1-6. ISSN 0967-201X
(Print) ISSN 1752-2285 (Online) doi: 10.3167/aia.2015.220101
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Raffaetà, R. (forthcoming 2016) Environmental pollution and allergy. In Manderson, L., Hardon,
A., Cartwright, E. (eds.) Vital Signs. Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century, Routledge
Handbook Series, Routledge, London.
2. Raffaetà, R., Krause, K., Zanini, G., Alex, G. (forthcoming) Medical Pluralism Reloaded. In
Hörbst, V. and Schirripa, P. (eds.) Diversifying Medical Pluralism: Medical anthropological
perspectives on plurality, Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK.
3. Raffaetà, R. (forthcoming) Is bio-sociality a tautology? The case of Italian parental groups
campaigning against paediatric vaccinations. In Hadolt, B. and Hardon, A. (eds.) New
Socialities and Subjectivities in 21st Century Health Care, Amsterdam University Press,
Amsterdam.
4. Raffaetà, R., Baldassar, L. (2015). Spaces speak louder than words: works and social inclusion
in Prato and its Chinatown. In L. Baldassar, G. Johansson, M. Bressan & N. McAuliffe (Eds.),
Chinese Migration to Europe: Prato, Italy and beyond (pp. 119-137). Basingstoke, UK:
Palgrave.
5. Raffaetà, R. (2014) Multiplicity made simple. Medical pluralism and the treatment of allergies in
Italy. In J. M. Uribe Oyarbide & E. Perdiguero-Gil (Eds.), Antropología médica en la Europa
meridional. 30 años de debate sobre pluralismo asistencial (pp. 71-94). Tarragona: URV.
ISBN: 978-84-697-1717-2
6. Raffaetà, R. (2013) Famiglie immigrate e accesso ai servizi sanitari di pediatria nella Provincia
di Trento: una ricerca antropologica, in Ambrosini, M. & Boccagni, P. (eds.), L’immigrazione in
Trentino, 145-162, Pubblicazioni della Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Trento
7. Raffaetà, R. (2011). The allergy epidemic, or when medicalisation is bottom-up. In S. Fainzang
& C. Haxaire (eds.), On bodies and symptoms. Anthropological perspectives on their social and
medical treatment (pp. 59-77). URV Publicacions, Tarragona. ISBN: 978-84-694-4991-2
COMMENTARIES/REPORTS
1. Raffaetà, R., Ahlin, T. (2015) The Politics of Publishing: Debating the Impact Factor,
Anthropology & Medicine DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2015.1072301
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2. Nollo, G., Raffaetà, R., Caon, M., de Luca, A., Feliziani, C., Andrighettoni, P., . . . Conci, M.
(2015). Smart Citizens for Healthy Cities. Retrieved from http://smartcities.ieee.org/articlespublications/trento-white-papers.html
3. Raffaetà, R., Zanini, G. (2013). I Conferenza del Medical Anthropology Network dell’EASA:
“Medical Pluralism: Techniques, Politics, Institutions”, Roma, 7-10 Settembre 2011. L’Uomo, 12, 275-277. ISSN: 1125-5862
4. Raffaetà, R., Bruni, E., Zanini, G. (2012). 1st Medical Anthropology Network Conference of
EASA: “Medical Pluralism: Techniques, Politics, Institutions”, Rome, 7-10 September 2011.
Curare. Zeitschrift für Ethnomedizin - Journal of Medical Anthropology, 35(2012)1+2, pp. 113117
5. Raffaetà, R. (2011). SIEF (International Society of Ethnology and Folklore) Conference: People
Make Places: Ways of feeling the world, Lisbon (P) 17-21 Aprile 2011. Professionaldreamers.
Publishing, research and culture on space and society:
http://www.professionaldreamers.net/?tag=social-research
BOOK REVIEWS
-Raffaetà, R. (forthcoming). Pazienti esperti, consenso informato e libertà di scelta: Una nuova
prospettiva [Expert patients, infomed consent and free choice: A new perspective]. Review of Mol,
AM., 2008, The logic of care. Health and the problem of patient choice, Routledge, London. AM.
Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Medica, 33-34
- Raffaetà, R. (2007). Health and Social Research in Multiethnic Societies. Contemporary
Sociology. A Journal of Review of the American Sociological Association, 36, 4: 379-382
MEDIA
-Raffaetà, R., 11 April 2012, La schizofrenia del popolo leghista. Una lettura antropologica [Lega
Nord’ schizophrenia. Anthropological observations], Spinningpolitics
http://www.spinningpolitics.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=533&Itemid=14
-Interview in local televisions (RTTR, TCA Trentino TV, Telepace Trento) about the results of the
research on migration and parenting: www.webtv.provincia.tn.it/prov_info/pagina194.html
GRANTS AND RESEARCH FUNDING
2013 University of Western Australia - Research Collaboration Award
2013 Incentive Fund Open Access, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
(2’000 euro)
2010-2013 Marie Curie (EU) Felllowship (195’000 euro)
2008 Societè Academique Vaudoise, Lausanne, doctoral funding
2007 Swiss National Science Foundation, postgraduate education funding
2007 Fondation Italo-Suisse, Lausanne
2005-2006 International Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, Italian Minister for Foreign Affaires
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
2012-present Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Working
Group on Medical Diversity, Gottingen, Germany
2013-present Department of Sociology and Social Research, Trento University, Italy
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2013-present School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Australia
PRESENTATIONS
CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED
2013 Stream leader (with Mark Nichter) coordination of 3 panels, 10 chairs and more than 50
papers) at the EASA-AAA Medical Anthropology Network Conference, Tarragona
2013 ‘Politics of publishing in the Academia and Beyond’ (with Tanja Ahlin) at the EASA-AAA
Medical Anthropology Network Conference, Tarragona
2011 ‘Migration and transnational pluralism’ (with Kristine Krause) at the EASA Conference on
Medical Pluralism: Techniques, Politics, Institutions, Rome
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Microbiota: Salute, terme e alimentazione, ‘Microbiota e antropologia medica’, Terme di Comano
(I), 3th October 2015
Conference of the Inter-regional Transplant Association (AIRT), ‘Donation and transplant:
anthropological considerations’, Bolzano (I), 24th April 2015
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE), Smart Cities Initiative, Inaugural Workshop,
‘Smart cities through an anthropological perspective’, 10th-11th December 2014, Trento (I)
Municipality of Condino and Municipality of Cogolo (TN, Italy), Women’s emancipation: a critical
approach, 3 April and 2 March 2014
Monash Prato Centre, Master seminars in ‘European Union Study’, “Migration, ethnicity and
citizenship in Italy”, Prato (I), 15th December 2011
Amsterdam University (NL), Master seminar in Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body,
“Migration and health. Ethnographic cases from Italy”, 2nd December 2011
Amsterdam University (NL), Interdepartmental research group, “Place and wellbeing”, 2nd
December 2011
Università degli Studi di Trento (I), Master in politics of gender, “Research methodology and active
listening”, 14th October 2011
Public Health Services of Trento Province (I), “Female genital cutting between tradition, human
rights and health”, 27th May and 7th October 2011
University of Milano-Bicocca (I), 2010 and 2008, Lecture at the Postgraduate School of
Specialisation in Medical Anthropology
University College of London (UK), Master seminars in medical anthropology, 29th November
2007 “Compromised Identities: Culture and Medical Pluralism”
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Verona University (I), Lifelong Training in Medicine, “Cultural components of pain treatments”, 7th
November 2007
Vocational Training for General Practitioners of Trento Province (I), May 2006, “Anthropology and
medicine”
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Raffaetà, R. “Gli studi sul microbioma: verso una vision relazione della salute?” Bolzano (I), 7th-8th
November 2015, ANUAC Conference
Raffaetà, R. “The Biopolitics of Gluten Sensitivity in Italy”, Food markets and cultures of
consumption: are we being served?”, Monash Prato Center, Prato (I), 1-2 July 2015
Raffaetà, R. “Immigrant children’s health care, hope and citizenship: Moroccan and Ecuadorian
families in Italy”, From Suffering to Hope: Sociology of Health Beyond Medicalization, Monash
Prato Centre (I), 15-16 July 2013
Raffaetà, R. “The skiing body: reflections from experimental ski teaching courses in Trentino
(Italy)”, Practices and their Bodies. What Kind of Artifact is the Lived Body? Transdisciplinary
Conference, April 25th-27th 2013, University of Mainz (D)
Raffaetà, R. “Immigration and parental care in Trentino”, Land of Strangers. Migration, gender and
intersections of citizenship, Università degli Studi di Padova (IT), 12-13 October 2012
Raffaetà, R. “Emplaced emotions: Hope explored”, 2nd ISA (International Sociological Association)
Conference: Social Justice and Democratization, Buenos Aires (RA), 1-4 August 2012
Baldassar, L., Raffaetà, R. “Traditional public performances and their link to ethnicity and
citizenship. a comparison between Italy and Australia”, 2nd ISA (International Sociological
Association) Conference: Social Justice and Democratization, Buenos Aires (RA), 1-4 August 2012
Raffaetà, R. “‘My parents never spent time with me!’: migrants’ parents in Italy and ‘competent
parenting’”, 12th EASA Conference, Nanterre (FR), 10th-13th July 2012
Raffaetà, R. “Stepping outside bio-sociality. The case of paediatric vaccination”, VII MAAH
(Medical Anthropology at Home) Conference: New Socialities and Subjectivities in 21st Century
Health Care, Landgoed de Horst (NL), 22-24 June 2012
Raffaetà, R., “Notes on a scandal: on Berlusconi”, AAA (American Anthropological Association)
Conference, Montreal (CA), 14-21 November 2011
Baldassar, L., Raffaetà, R., “Citizenship, community and belonging in Prato”, China in the world
conference, Monash Prato Centre, Prato (I), 20-23 September 2011
Baldassar, L., Raffaetà, R., “Citizenship in transition: Italy”, (IUES) International Union of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Conference: Knowledge and Value in a Globalising
World: Disentangling Dichotomies, Querying Unities, Perth (AU), 5-8 July 2011
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Raffaetà, R., “Space for identity : parenting among immigrants”, SIEF 10th Conference : People
make places: ways of feeling the world, Lisbon (PT), 17-22 April 2011
Raffaetà, R., “The allergy epidemic, or when medicalisation is bottom-up”, VI MAAH (Medical
Anthropology at Home) Conference: Transformations of the body and social uses of symptoms
between local and global, organized by, Abbaye de Royaumont (FR), 7-9 May 2010
Raffaetà, R., “Appropriation of heterodox practices and meanings in European context”,
Conference of the Société Suisse d’Ethnologie: Health on the Move – Health and Illness in a
Globalising World, Basel (CH), 1-3 December 2007
Raffaetà, R., “Allergy and environmentalist concerns”, jointly organised by University of Southern
Denmark, University of Perugia (I), McGill University (CDN): Embodiment and the State, Middelfart
(DK), 27-28 October 2006
Raffaetà, R., “Allergy and Contemporary Media Production and Historic Itinerary of the ‘Horror
Autotoxicus’”, International Forum of Social Science and Health, Istanbul (TR), 25-28 August 2005
Raffaetà, R., “Predizione e test diagnostici: il caso dell’allergia”, jointly organized by AMADES
(Association d’Anthropologie Mèdicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé), Université de
Lausanne, Swiss Medical Anthropology Association, Université Paul Cézanne Aix-en-Pce, Società
Italiana di Antropologia Medica (SIAM), Università degli Studi di Genova, Ascona (CH) : Prévoir et
predire la maladie. De la divination au pronostic: savoirs, pratiques, technique, Ascona (CH),
March 2005
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER
Food, Culture and Society
Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
Anthropology and Medicine
Curare. Zeitschrift für Ethnomedizin - Journal of Medical Anthropology
Collecion de Antropología Médica
Mondi Migranti
LANGUAGES
Italian: mother tongue
English: spoken: fluent; written: fluent
French: spoken: fluent; written: school level
German: spoken: fluent; written: school level
Spanish: spoken: fair; written: poor
Russian: basics
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