Chiara Feliciani
Geneva Graduate Institute Chiara is a PhD in Anthropology, and works on the topics of territorial stigmatisation and social redemption amongst activists, youths and evangelicals in an urban periphery of Naples identified as a "Camorraland".
About this speaker
I am finishing up my PhD in Sociology and Anthropology at the Graduate Institute of Geneva and was part of an ERC-project led by Dennis Rodgers entitled "Gangs, Gangsters and Ganglands: Towards a Global Comparative Ethnography". I carried out my 14-month fieldwork in a neighbourhood of Naples stigmatized by the presence of the Camorra. I focus on the construction of the long-term history of representations of the Neapolitan urban poor ass a "problematic" population and the degradation of post-WWII housing projects into criminalised spaces. I follow narratives of redemption amongst activists, youths and evangelicals through the way they speak about their past, their present and their future. Organized crime is a contextual elements in my research, as I explore the more private sphere of growing up in neighbourhoods marked by the presence of the Camorra, and the complimentary negligence of the state.
