TO MAGNIFICO RETTORE OF UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Lorenzo D’Angelo
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Surname
D’Angelo
Name
Lorenzo
Date of birth
[01, August, 1975]
PRESENT OCCUPATION
Appointment
Structure
Docente
a
contratto Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
(Adjunct professor)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Degree
Course of studies
University
year of achievement of
the degree
Degree
Philosophy (Laurea Università degli
quadriennale)
Studi di Milano
2002
PhD
Human Sciences – Università degli
Anthropology
of Studi di Milanothe Contemporary
Bicocca
2011
Master
Anthropology and Università degli
Ethnology (Laurea Studi di MilanoSpecialistica) – 2 Bicocca
years
2004
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FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Languages
level of knowledge
English
Advanced
Krio (Sierra Leone)
Intermediate
French
Fair
AWARDS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, SCHOLARSHIPS
Year
Description of award
2015/2016 Fellowship – University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
2015
Post-doc fellowship – Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia
University, New York, USA.
2013/2014 Post-doc Fellowship - IGK Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (re:work),
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
2006-2009
PhD Fellowship - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
TRAINING OR RESEARCH ACTIVITY
description of activity
2014- present - Adjunct Professor (docente a contratto), Cultural Anthropology
Department of Human Sciences, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
2014 – present - Adjunct Professor (docente a contratto), Global Labor Studies
Department of Human Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
2012-2015 - Adjunct Professor (docente a contratto), Anthropology of Organizations
Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
2011 - Tutor and Teaching Assistant, Theory of Anthropology
Department of Human Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
2010 - Tutor and Teaching Assistant, Cultural Anthropology
Department of Human Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
2006 - Tutor and Teaching Assistant, Anthropology of Fashion
Department of Industrial Design, Polytechnic of Milano-Bovisa, Italy
PROJECT ACTIVITY
Year
Project
2015
Progetto SEGUICI – Smart tecnologie per la gestione delle risorse idriche ad uso
irriguo e civile (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
2006
Milano come rifugio. Un progetto di ricerca qualitatica sulla realtà quotidiana e le
relazioni di assistenza dei richiedenti asilo (CREAM, Università di Milano-Bicocca)
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CONGRESSES AND SEMINARS
Date
Title
10/11/2016 The sieve,
mining tool
Place
a
neglected
artisanal Workshop: Artisanal and Small-Scale
Mining in Africa: Socio-Economic Change
and new Research Perspectives, The
Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
08/09/2016 Environmental Conflicts and Cultural
Dynamics around Rare Earth Minerals
Extraction. Perspectives from the
Global South
RAMSES. Advanced School on Critical
Raw
Materials
Substitution
for
Energetics and Photonics, University of
Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
22/07/2016 Mining
temporalities:
Ideas, EASA 2016: Anthropological legacies and
experiences and politics of time in human futures, Milan, Italy
extractive industries (panel organizer)
30/06/2015 God’s Gifts. Temporalities of Luck and Workshop: Cosmologies of Destiny. A
Destiny in Sierra Leone’s Mines
one-day workshop on the ethnography of
freedom, temporality and predestination
28/04/2015 Diving and divining. Labour, ritual and Workshop: Mining Encounters. Extractive
plural temporality in Sierra Leone’s Industries in an Overheated World,
diamond mines
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
24/01/2015 From traces to threads. Unravelling Workshop: Translocal and micro-history
the subaltern work in Sierra Leone’s of global labour, 23rd- 24th January 2015,
diamond mines
University of Warwick, Warwick, United
Kingdom
14/01/2014 Worlds Upside Down. Religion and Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin,
Imaginaries
in
Diamond
Mining Germany
(invited lecture)
12/12/2013 Chi sono I minatori? Seguire le tracce SISLAV 2013, 12th-15th December 2013,
del lavoro subordinato nelle miniere University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
della Sierra Leone
04/12/2013 Are Diamond Workers Like Gamblers? Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Institut
The Notion of Luck and Work in Sierra fur
Asien-und
Afrikawissenshaften,
Leone (invited lecture)
Berlin, Germany
06/08/2013 Imaginaries of capitalism in Sierra IUAES 2013, 5th -10th August 2013,
Leone. Linking distant human beings University of Manchester, Manchester,
through the invisible
United Kingdom
29/06/2013 Diamond
mining
is
a
chain. ECAS 2013, 27th -29th June 2013, Lisbon,
Contingency and work ethic in Sierra Portugal
Leone’s artisanal mining
11/04/2013 L’arte
dello
spossessamento.
Estrazione mineraria e genealogia
coloniale del ‘furto’ della terra in
Sierra Leone
Workshop: Culture e “valori” della
terra: vecchie e nuove contese ed
appropriazioni, Università degli Studi di
Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy,
20/11/2012 The art of governing the ungovernable
Workshop: Colonial practices of law,
police, and punishment, University of
Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,
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18/09/2012 The Ethics of Contingency and Work in African Studies Conference, Pavia, Italy
Sierra Leone
13/07/2012 Mining and social memories in Sierra EASA Biennial Conference, “Uncertainty
Leone
and disquiet”, Paris, France
08/06/2012 Diamond and development. A critical Etnografia
e
Ricerca
Qualitativa,
ethnography of the stereotypes on University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
miners
18/06/2011 Negotiating
artisanal
miners’ ECAS, 15th -18th June 2011, Uppsala,
payments and distributing risks and Sweden
earnings in the diamond mines (Sierra
Leone)
28/03/2011 Governare la Popolazione nelle
Miniere della Sierra Leone (19301991)” [Governing the population in
the Sierra Leone’s mines (1930-1991)
(invited lecture)
Oltre l’inferno. Ricerca, lavoro e
cooperazione in Sierra Leone, Università
degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Urbino,
Italy
25/08/2010 Betting on luck, or how to cope with Chance in time of crisis – 11th EASA
uncertainty in the artisanal diamond Biennial
Conference,
“Crisis
and
mining
Imagination” - Maynooth, Ireland
22/10/2009 L’economia occulta dei soldi facili tra Il Colore dei soldi. Culture – scambi –
i minatori di diamante della Sierra mercati, XII Congresso Nazionale AISEA,
Leone
Università Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Antropologia, risorse e conflitti ambientali [Anthropology, Resources, and Environmental
Conflicts], Milano, Mimesis, pp.197 – co-edited volume
Book chapters
Forthcoming “From Traces to Carpets. Unravelling Labour Practices in the Mines of Sierra
Leone”, in Christian G. De Vito and Anne Gerritsen (eds.), Micro-Spatial Histories of Global
Labour, Palgrave.
Forthcoming “Diamonds in Time. Articulating Temporalities in Sierra Leone’s Mines”, in
Eriksen, T., R. Pijpers (eds.) Mining Encounters, Plutopress.
2014
“L’Arte dello Spossessamento. Un’Archeologia Cloniale del ‘Furto’ della Terra in
Sierra Leone” [The Art of Dispossession. A Colonial Archeology of Land ‘Grabbing’ in Sierrra
Leone] in Ciabarri, L., C. Fiamingo, M. Van Aken (eds.) I conflitti sulla terra. Tra
accaparramento, consumo e accesso indisciplinato, Pavia, Edizioni Altravista, pp. 177-190.
2012 “Capitalismo e Risorse Minerarie in una Prospettiva ‘Sferica’” [Capitalism and Mineral
Resources from a ‘Spheric’ Perspective] in Rossi, A., D’Angelo, L. (eds.), Antropologia, Risorse
e Conflitti Ambientali, Milano, Mimesis, pp. 33-48.
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2011 “Il Duro Lavoro ed i Soldi Veloci. L’Economia Occulta dell’Estrazione Mineraria in Sierra
Leone” [Hard Work and Fast Money. The Occult Economy of Mineral Extraction in Sierra Leone]
in Voltolin, A. (2011), L’ideologia del denaro. Tra psicoanalisi, letteratura, antropologia,
Milano, Bruno Mondadori, pp. 97-129.
2008
“Abitare a Milano” [Living in Milan] in Van Aken, M. (2008), Rifugio Milano. Vie di
Fuga e Vita Quotidiana dei Richiedenti Asilo, Roma, Carta, pp. 102-128.
Articles in reviews
forthcoming “Anthropology as Storytelling. Fetishism and Terror in Michael Taussig’s Early
Works”, Polis. Journal of Political Science.
2016
“The Art of Governing Contingency. Rethinking the Colonial History of Diamond
Mining in Sierra Leone”, Historical Research, 89 (243), pp. 136-157.
2016
“Patologie del potere e metafore dell’epidemia di Ebola in Africa occidentale”
[Pathologies of power and metaphors of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa], Costruzioni
Psicoanalitiche, 1, pp. 73-84.
2015
“Diamond Mining is a Chain. Luck, Blessing, and Gambling in Sierra Leone’s
Artisanal Mines”, Critical African Studies, 7 (3), pp. 243-261.
2014 “Who Owns the Diamonds? The Occult Eco-nomy of Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone”,
Africa. Journal of the International African Institute, 84 (2), pp. 269-293.
2014
“Changing Environments, Occult Protests and Social Memories in Sierra Leone”,
Social Evolution & History, 13 (2), pp. 22-56.
2014
L’economia occulta dei “soldi facili” tra i minatori di diamante della Sierra
Leone”, EtnoAntropologia, 2 (1), pp.57-64.
2013
“Governare il territorio e la popolazione in Sierra Leone (1930-1956)” [Governing
the territory and population in Sierra Leone (1930-1956)], Afriche e Orienti, 3-4, pp. 153-168.
2013
“Diamanti e sviluppo. Un’analisi critica degli stereotipi sui minatori della Sierra
Leone” [Diamonds and Development. A critical analysis of the stereotypes on Sierra Leone’s
miners], Anuac, 1 (2), pp. 87-104.
2013
(co-authored), “Corpi che protestano. Uno sguardo antropologico tra ‘isteria’ e
possessione”, Costruzioni Psicoanalitiche, 26, pp. 131-144.
2012
“Feticismo, violenza e Stato. Passaggi benjaminiani nell’antropologia di Michael
Taussig”, Costruzioni Psicoanalitiche, 23, pp. 121-135.
2008
“Negare l’ovvietà. Identità, violenza e
antropologico”, Costruzioni Psicoanalitiche, 15, pp. 87-97.
razzismo attraverso
il
discorso
2007
“Corpo, legge, verità. Le verità della tortura e le torture delle verità”, I quaderni
del CREAM, VI, pp. 95-120.
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Congress proceedings
2015
“Searching for Diamonds. Time and Contingency in Sierra Leone’s Mines”,
Working Paper, Paper presented at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, 3rd
March 2015, New York, USA.
2014
“The Enigma of the Hippogriff. Following the Traces of the Subaltern Work in
(and from) the Sierra Leone’s Mines”, paper published in proceedings: IGK Work and Human
Lifecycle in Global History, Fifth Annual Conference, 8-9 July 2014, Berlin, Germany, pp. 52-67.
OTHER INFORMATION
MEMBERSHIPS
Anthropology of Mining - EASA Network, founder member / co-convenor, 2014-present.
European Labour History Network (ELHN) – Working group on “Free and Unfree Labour”,
member, 2013-present.
Società Italiana di Storia del Lavoro (SISLav), founder member, 2012-present.
European Association of Social Antropologists (EASA), member, 2009-present.
Società di Psicoanalisi Critica (SPC), Milano, Italy, founder member, 2008-present.
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), member, 2013-2015.
TRANSLATIONS (From English to Italian)
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Anthropologist, 103 (1), pp. 76-95; [it. tr. “Offrire sushi. Merci, mercato e città globale”, in
Ciabarri, L. (ed.), 2014. Cultura Materiale. Oggetti, immaginari, desideri in viaggio tra mondi,
Milano, Cortina, pp. 183-220.]
Graeber, D. 1989. “Beads and money. Notes toward a theory of wealth and power”, Man, 24
(1), pp. 41-56; [it. tr. “Soldi e perline. Note per una teoria della ricchezza e del potere”, in
Ciabarri, L. (ed.), 2014. Cultura Materiale. Oggetti, immaginari, desideri in viaggio tra mondi,
Milano, Cortina, pp. 103-135].
Weiss, B. 1997. “Forgetting your dead”, Anthropological Quarterly, 70 (4), pp. 164-172; [it. tr.
“Dimenticare i propri morti. Oggetti alienabili ed inalienabili nel Nord Ovest della Tanzania”, in
Ciabarri, L. (ed.), 2014. Cultura Materiale. Oggetti, immaginari, desideri in viaggio tra mondi,
Milano, Cortina, pp. 137-156].
Wolfenstein, E. V. 1993. “Mr. Moneybags Meets the Rat Man: Marx and Freud On the Meaning of
Money”, Political Psychology, 14 (2), pp. 279-308 [it. tr. “Il capitalista e l’uomo dei topi. Marx,
Freud e il significato del denaro”, Costruzioni Psicoanalitiche, 21, 2011, pp. 7-44].
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