Linda ARMANO

Linda Armano’s research focuses on extractive anthropology, specifically mining industrialisation, value chains, corporate ethics, Indigenous studies within the Canadian context, and Alpine anthropology. She addresses these themes using ethnographic methods and multi-level analysis. She holds a joint PhD from Université Lumière Lyon 2 (in Anthropology and Sociology) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (in European Social History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era), where she conducted research on mining culture in the Alps. In 2018, she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (https://pric.unive.it/projects/diaethic/home), through which she developed interdisciplinary research at the intersection of mining anthropology and consumption analysis. In this context, she investigated how various actors and stakeholders – from diverse sociocultural, political, and economic backgrounds (such as Indigenous communities, multinational mining staff, jewellers, and consumers)—interpret the concept of “ethics” in relation to certifications for diamonds mined in Canada’s Northwest Territories. She is currently collaborating on a project involving the active engagement of Canadian Indigenous communities in the tourism sector in British Columbia. In 2025, she co-founded the Secondary Extraction Association, which aims to rethink extractive practices and epistemologies through traditional knowledge and interdisciplinary perspectives. In 2026, the government of British Columbia recognised the association’s new configuration as the Re-Con-Figure Foundation, dedicated to supporting research and social entrepreneurship projects developed in collaboration with local communities.

MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH

Extractive anthropology; Indigenous studies; business ethics; global value chains; Alpine anthropology.

• 11/02/2011: PhD in Anthropology-Sociology, under a joint supervision agreement between Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Sociology-Anthropology) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Social History from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era). Thesis title: “La Culture de la mine. Étude comparative d’autoreprésentation d’une catégorie professionnelle en perspective synchronique et diachronique”. Awarded the “Doctor Europaeus” (European Doctorate) title.

• 01/07/2019–30/06/2022: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Management / University of British Columbia, Faculty of Management: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship. Project acronym: DiaEthic. Project title: Mapping value transformations in a global interconnection: how sensory experiences and cultural interpretations shape concepts of “ethical diamond” and “mining work ethic”. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/837190
Total score: 90.40%

• 25/10/2023 – : Member of EPIC – Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community (https://www.epicpeople.org/tag/business-anthropology/)

• 23/05/2023 – : Member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (https://www.mariecuriealumni.eu/)

• 01/02/2025 – 31/01/2026: iNEST – Interconnected North-East Innovation Ecosystem. Thematic area: Digital, Industry, Aerospace; Spoke 6.

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCES (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL)

• 25–27/09/2025, 5th SIAC National Conference, Matera. Panel 12: *The Body that Hopes and Despairs: Individual ethics and market deontologies in the circulation of consumer goods and services through the prism of embodiment*. Armano L. Paper title: “Ethical discrepancies between global consumerist narratives, transient workers, and Indigenous community fragmentation in the fly-in/fly-out model of Northwest Territories diamond mines.”

• 23–27/06/2025, ISEE-Degrowth Conference 2025, Oslo. Bosco M.G. & Armano L. Paper title: “Green extractivism and colonial legacies in Sardinia (Italy).”

• 19–21/12/2024: The Anthropology of Work / The Applied Work of Anthropology. 12th SIAA Conference, University of Messina. Armano L., Catanzaro B., Valle A.M., Altobelli D., Marzo P.L., Contadini L. Title of contribution: “WS 4 – ‘Living in the Box’: weaving new experiential dimensions of academic work.”

• 17/07/2024: Online workshop on “Ambivalence in global production: conceptual and empirical insights”, Teixeira T., Faigen E., Wanjiru R. (eds.). Armano L. & Bosco M.G. Title of contribution: “Overcoming the ambivalence of ethics in diamond certification schemes in global production: an Indigenous proposal concept for a space of systemic ethical interrelationships.”

• 22–25/10/2023: EPIC People 2023 – Friction: a force of resistance, creativity & change, Chicago. Title of contribution: “Friction between reticence and narrative in local and global interconnections along the Canadian ethical diamond supply chain.”

• 21–23/09/2023: SIAC, Fourth National Conference of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology, Sapienza University of Rome. Panel 28, Human, All Too Human: “Towards a critical anthropology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Armano L. Title of contribution: “DNA as a platform for big data storage: the concept of ‘data’ as a driver for the digitalisation of the human.”

• 23–25/02/2023: MCAA Annual Conference 2023, Córdoba. Armano L. Paper title: “Mining ethical ambiguities within global interconnections” (results of the Marie Curie project).

• 27–29/10/2021: International Conference *Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age* – Bronwyn Carlson's lecture. Armano L. Paper title: “The cultural online archives of Tåîchô and Dene communities in the Northwest Territories of Canada.”

• 12–14/12/2018: 6th SIAA Conference, University of Milan, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cremona. Armano L., Cukon R. Workshop: “Crossing boundaries: anthropological concepts embodied in artistic work. Communicative experiments between art and anthropology.”

• 06–08/06/2018: Measuring Behavior 2018, 11th International Conference on Methods and Techniques, Manchester. Mauri M., Bazzan E., Benedetto S., Armano L. Paper title: “Assessment of storefront display with a multidisciplinary approach based on neuroscientific method, self-reports and anthropological marketing.”

ART EXHIBITIONS:

• 12/2022: Armano L., Tubia C. “Friction: encounter in a global interconnection”, Palazzo Costantino, Palermo.

• 24/09/2021: Armano L., Tubia C.L. “Friction: encounter in a global interconnection”. Veneto Night, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

• 12/2016: Tubia C., Armano L. “Is that what we call identity?”. Palazzo Marchesale, Arnesano, Lecce, Italy.