Marta SCAGLIONI

Current research position

ERC Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice (GA n. 949742 ERC-HealthXCross)

Publications

2014: Translation of Munn, N. D. “Costruire mondi regionali nell’esperienza. Lo scambio kula, la stregoneria e gli eventi locali a Gawa”, in Ciabarri, L. (ed.) 2014. Cultura materiale. Oggetti, immaginari, desideri in viaggio tra mondi, Libreria Cortina: Milano.

2015: Review of Edward E. Curtis IV, 2014, “The Call of Bilal: Islam in the African Diaspora”, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, Antropologia, vol. 2, n. 2, 2015. Available at: http://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/article/view/385/311.

18/07/2016: “Emancipation and Music: post slavery among black Tunisians”, Open Democracy. Available online at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/marta-scaglioni/emancipation-and-music-post-slavery-among-black-tunisians.

2017: “Black Tunisians and racism in the discourse of national media, urban élites and local rural actors: the case of ‘Abid Ghbonton”, in Gusman, A.; Pennacini, C. (eds.) 2017. L'Africa delle Città/Urban Africa, Academia University Press: Torino, pp. 40-52.

1/2017: ““I wish I did not understand Arabic!” Living as a black migrant in contemporary Tunisia”, SWAB-WPS. Available at: http://www.shadowsofslavery.org/publications/SWAB-WPS_2017-1_I_wish_I_did_not_understand_Arabic_Living_as_a_black_migrant_in_contemporary_Tunisia.pdf.

9/02/2017: “Forgotten Refugees at the Tunisian Border with Libya”, allegralaboratory.net. Available at: http://allegralaboratory.net/forgotten-refugees/.

2018: “Challenging Tunisia’s ethnic homogeneity after 2011. Blacks’ quest for recognition and full citizenship rights”, in Melfa, D. (ed.) 2018. Statualità e periferie nel Maghreb contemporaneo, Aracne, pp. 71-88.

2018: ““She is not an ‘Abid”: blackness among slave descendants in southern Tunisia”, in Bellagamba, A.; Gardini, M.; Menin, L. (eds.) 2018. Shadows of slavery. Refractions of the past, challenges of the present, Open Democracy.

2018: “Emancipation and Music: post-slavery among black Tunisians”, in Bellagamba, A.; Gardini, M.; Menin, L. (eds.) 2018. Shadows of slavery. Refractions of the past, challenges of the present, Open Democracy.

14/02/2018: ““She is not a ‘Abid”: blackness among slave descendants in southern Tunisia”, Open Democracy, Available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/marta-scaglioni/she-is-not-abid-blackness-among-slave-descendants-in-southern-tunisia.

03/2019: Der Lange Schatten der Sklaverei, Welt-Sichten, “Rassismus”, März 3 2019.

2020: “’She is not an ‘Abid’ Meanings of Race and Blackness in a Community of Slave Descendants in Southern Tunisia”, in Menin, L. (ed.) Racial Legacies: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics in West Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Antropologia, vol. 7, n. 1.

2020: Becoming the ‘Abid. Lives and Social Origins in Southern Tunisia, Milano: Ledizioni.

2020: Review of Robert Launay (ed.), Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), African Studies Review, 1-3.

2020: Review of Gregory Feldman, The Gray Zone. Sovereignity, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe (Stanford University Press, 2019), Public Anthropologist 2 (2020), 227-251.

2021: co-edited with Francesco Diodati, Antropologia dell’invecchiamento e della cura. Prospettive globali, Milano: Ledizioni.

2021: “Care in (Eastern) Germany: From Socialism to the Privatization of Social Welfare/La cura in Germania (Orientale). Dal socialismo alla privatizzazione dei servizi sociali” [review of Tatjana Thelen, Care/Sorge. Konstruktion, Reproduktion und Auflösung bedeutsamer Bindungen (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag (2014)], AM, 52, 261 – 266.

2022: “Genere e generazioni: questioni di cura nella diaspora egiziana a Milano al tempo del COVID-19”, in Quattrocchi, P.; Cozzi, D. (eds.) 2022. Antropologia medica e invecchiamento. Esperienze e prospettive di un dialogo interdisciplinare, Antropologia, vol. 9, n. 1.

2022: "Race and racism in post-2011 Tunisia: between skin colour and genealogy", Rivista degli Studi Orientali, Volume XCV, fasc. 1-2, 31 - 39.

Previous research positions

1/11/2021 – 31/10/2022: Post-Doc at the University of Milan in the frame of the project HMBV (Heavy Metal Bio-Recovery and Valorization - Fondazione Cariplo) at the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences.

1/11/2018 - 31/10/2021: Post-Doc at the University of Milan-Bicocca in the frame of the project TAAD (The Ageing in the African Diaspora) – Fondazione Cariplo. Research areas: anthropology of migration, research on ageing trajectories and care practices among the Egyptian diaspora in Milan.

Education

1/04/2014 - 15/10/2019: PhD in Ethnologie at BIGSAS (Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies) at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) in co-Tutelle with the University of Milan-Bicocca. Title of the dissertation project: Becoming the ‘Abid: Lives and Social Origins in Southern Tunisia under the supervision of Prof. Georg Klute, University of Bayreuth and Prof. Alice Bellagamba, University of Milan-Bicocca. Scholarship from 1/05/2014 to 31/08/2018 in the research group SWAB (Shadows of Slavery in West Africa and Beyond, ERC Grant 313737) under the direction of Prof. Alice Bellagamba at University of Milan-Bicocca.

10/2008 – 21/11/2012: Master degree in Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy).

10/2005 - 11/2008: Bachelor Degree in Cultural Heritage, Archeological and Anthropological Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Perugia (Italy). Thesis in Physical Anthropology.

Qualifications and prizes

2021: First Prize Giovani Talenti, University of Milan-Bicocca in collaboration with Accademia dei Lincei.

2014: European project-writing and fund-raising course “EU Young Researchers Open Stage”, CEERNT Centre Européen d’Etudes Recherche et Nouvelles Technologies, Bruxelles.

Languages

English C1

German C2

Egyptian Arabic B2

French B2

Standard Arabic B1