Gabriele E. Orlandi

PhD student at Idemec (Aix-Marseille University, French Centre for Scientific Research – CNRS). Joint supervision with Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin, Italy

professional addresses : Idemec, MMSH, 5, Rue du Château de l’Horloge, Aix-en-Provence, 13090 (France)

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professional experience

• January 2022 – ongoing

scientific coordinator of the TransAlp research project, laureate of the “Emerging Research” call for projects by Foundation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris): https://www.fmsh.fr/en/research/TRANSAlps-project

• November 2021 – ongoing

vice-ambassador in Italy for EASA Applied Anthropology Network

• March 2021 – ongoing

journalist at ll Caragliese,

bi-weekly journal on history, culture and news from of the Grana Valley (Western Alps of Piedmont)

• December 2020 – ongoing

member of the « Montagne In Movimento » project

scientific dissemination on anthropology of pastoralism, citizenship and socio-demographic changes in rural and mountain areas. collective ethnographic research and analysis – community-building activities in rural marginalised areas

• December 2020 – March 2021

supervisor of an undergraduate thesis in Anthropology of Complex Societies.

Title of the thesis: New denizens and local communities. Foreign immigration in a mountain context of the south-western Italian Alps. University of Turin

• October 2020 – March 2021

scientific support for Ecomuseum Terra del Castelmagno – Grana Valley (Western Alps of Piedmont)

co-writer of the Western Alpine and Grana Valley Sky Sanctuary case study within the Heritage of Astronomy program of UNESCO organiser of focus-groups within InDiTec (Digital innovation for textile archives) project on collective memory, heritage and social innovation.

• September 2020 – February 2021

Qualitative research for project InnovAree – vieni a vivere in montagna (“join us living in the mountains”), aiming to identify employment and settlement opportunities in two Italian valleys. Project founded by CRC Foundation, SocialFare (Turin), NEMO association.

semi-structured interviews, participatory mapping, focus group, social network analysis, data analysis

• December 2017 – April 2018

fieldwork on forms of social differentiation, new ethnicities and political reconfigurations in Kachchh district, Gujarat State (Western India) > in collaboration with the Department of History of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Vadodara, Western India). Supervision: Ms Adhya SAXENA, Professor of Medieval and Modern South Asian History.

Instruction et formation

• November 2019 – ongoing

PhD program in Anthropology, Aix-Marseille University (France)

provisional title of the thesis: Those up there. An ethnography of subsistence practices and ways of life in an alpine valley Supervisor: Mr. Dionigi ALBERA ( French Centre for Scientific Research – CNRS )

• September 2016 – September 2018

Master Degree in Social Sciences, major in Social Anthropology and Ethnology. Paris School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), France

• January 2016

training in ethnographic research. Subject: Carotte & Coccinelle, a collective garden in a working-class district in La Rochelle (France) > supervised by Mr. Olivier LESERVOISIER and Mr. Philippe CHAUDAT, anthropologists from Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Paris Descartes (Sorbonne), France

• September 2015 – September 2016

Master Degree in Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Paris Descartes (Sorbonne), France

• September 2012 – September 2015

Bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences, major in International Relations, Cooperation and Development studies. University of Turin, Italy. Final mention: 110/110 cum laude

Scholarships, grants, acknowledgments, and awards

• 2021 – WWNA APPLY AWARD (second prize) within the « Social Movements» category, as member of « Montagne In Movimento » project (Aspire Lab), EASA Applied Anthropology Network

• 2021 – “VINCI (chapter III)” grant for scientific cooperation, Université Franco-Italienne, Grenoble-Turin, France/Italy

• 2021 – “LABEL EUROPÉEN” grant, SoMuM Institute – Sociétés en Mutation en Méditerranée (“changing societies in the Mediterranean”), Aix-Marseille University, France

• 2021 – SIAA Award (first prize) for collaborative and applied research, as member of « Montagne In Movimento » project, Italian Society for Applied Anthropology (SIAA)

• 2022 – 2023 – 2-years grant as scientific coordinator of TransAlp – Sustainable Transition And Applied Research in Alpine Territories: Comparative Approaches between France, Switzerland And Italy (https://transalp.hypotheses.org/), research project founded within the “Emerging Research” call by Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (ROR: https://ror.org/0581esp57 ), France

Other academic activities

• February 2022 – ongoing

Peer reviewer for Narrare i gruppi journal (ISSN: 2281-8960)

Affiliations

• September 2021 – ongoing

member of GREEN – Groupe de Recherche en Éducation à l’Environnement et à la Nature (Research Group in Environmental and Nature Education), Université de la Vallée d'Aoste, Italy

• February 2021 – ongoing

member of SoMuM Institute – Sociétés en Mutation en Méditerranée (“changing societies in the Mediterranean”), PhD programme in “Mediterranean Studies”, Aix-Marseille University, France

• May 2020 – ongoing

member of EASA – European Association of Social Anthropologists

1. Mediterraneist Network (MedNet)
2. Applied Anthropology Network (AAN)
3. Anthropology of Labour Network (AoL)

• January 2021 – ongoing

founding** member of the research group Antropologia in quota (“Highland Anthropology”), Doctoral School in Psychological, Anthropological, and Educational Sciences, University of Turin, Italy

• Novembre 2019 – ongoing

member of Idemec – Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University)

Talks (selected)

XX July 2022

International Conference “EASA 2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons” « New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe», EASA 17th Biennial Conference, Belfast

• Convenor of the panel: On public policies, lives, and social spaces: anthropological perspectives from the Mediterranean [Mediterraneanist Network (MedNet)] (with Paula Escribano, Agata Hummel, Panas Karampampas, and Chis Shore)

16 December 2021

conference «Next Generation: anthropological perspectives », SIAA – Italian Society for Applied Anthropology

• Panellist: Demographic recomposition and territorial development policies in dwelling the Italian mountains: what resources for anthropology in the highlands? (with Pietro Clemente, Nicola Martellozzo, Maria Molinari, Paolo Viazzo, Manuela Vinai)

24 September 2021

conference «Future – Anthropologies of the Future, the Future of Anthropology », SIAC – Italian Society for Cultural Anthropology

• title of the speech: discourses of authenticity and transmission of building techniques. Some proposal for renewing handbook on the building heritage in the Western Alps through ethnography (with Andrea A. Dutto – RWTH, Aachen University)

17 September 2021

International conference « Labels: What is at stake for the development of our Alpine territories? », Place-forte de Mont-Dauphin, Hautes Alpes, France

• title of the speech: the skies (and what lies beneath): the Heritage of Astronomy UNESCO label as a lever for territorial development in Grana Valley (Western Alps)

13 May 2021

organizer and speaker at the «L'antropologia in quota. Un confronto tra orientamenti, un percorso tra i vuoti » (“Highland anthropology. Comparing orientations, wandering through empty spaces”), University of Turin, Italy

• title of the speech: Eating the mountain: typicalisation and development policies in the case of a Alpine PDO cheese (1890-1984)

21-24 June 2020

International conference « New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe», EASA 16th Biennial Conference

• title of the speech: Restructuring dairy production through cooperatives in the neoliberal food regime: ethnographic glimpses from the Italian Western Alps

Avril – June 2020

organizer and speaker at the** « Ethnographie économique : territoires et mobilités  – Dystopies » (“Economic ethnography: territories and mobilities – Dystopy”), Centre Maurice Halbwachs, École Normale Supérieure de Paris, France

• title of the speech: Communities, goods, know-hows. The Alpine dairy sector between reorganization and development policies

22-23 mar 2019

International conference « People, Politics, Participation. Fragile areas in Italy and Europe » at Department of Political, Economic and Social Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy

• title of the speech: Communities, civism and anti-politics. Thinking institutions in a mountain area

13 Déc 2016

International conference « What’s Up in the Sindhi Devotional », at CEIAS – India and South Asia Studies Centre, (French Centre for Scientific Research, Paris School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences – EHESS)

• title of the speech: Contemporary dynamics of devotional from a marginal point of view: the Muslim māldhārī of Kachchh (Gujarat)

Publications

1. Orlandi, Gabriele. 2021. ‘Mangiare La Montagna, Arginare Lo Spopolamento : Processi Di Tipicizzazione e Prospettive Di Sviluppo Territoriale Nel Caso Di Un Formaggio DOC Cuneese (1890-1985)’. Il Presente e La Storia (99).
2. Orlandi Gabriele, ‘Thomas Delemotte, Francis Kramarz, Benoît Schmutz, L’emploi et le territoire’, Lectures [On-line journal of Department of Social Sciences, ENS of Lyon], 19 november 2021, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/lectures/52620; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/lectures.52620
3. Orlandi, Gabriele. 2021. ‘La renaissance des campagnes: Enquête dans une France qui se réinvente, de Vincent Grimault, aux Éditions du Seuil’. Les cahiers de la LCD N° 14 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3917/clcd.014.0135
   
4. Orlandi, Gabriele, and Francesco Dematteis. 2021. ‘Nomi Della Tradizione, Pratiche Del Quotidiano.  Verso Una Riappropriazione Del Patrimonio Toponomastico in Alta Valle Stura?’ in Montagne in movimento. Metodi e pratiche di ricerca nelle terre alte, edited by A. Campagna, C. Nocentini, and V. Porcellana. Ogliastro Cilento: Licosia. (to be released)
5. Orlandi Gabriele, 2022, ‘Mondes ruraux et classes sociales, di Ivan Bruneau, Gilles Laferté, Julian Mischi e Nicolas Renahy (a cura di), Parigi: Éditions EHESS, 2018, (recensione)’, Narrare i gruppi, 15 février 2022,
6. Orlandi, Gabriele, 2022, ‘Faire de la recherche collaborative dans les Alpes : les apports de l’anthropologie’. La lettre de l’InSHS, n° 76, mars 2022 (Focus “Anthropologie en partage”)

Teaching activity

17 jan 2022

seminar La montagne entre imaginaires et politiques de développement: perspectives historiques et ethnographiques depuis les Alpes occidentales italiennes in École thématique “MontMed” – montagnes méditerranéennes en transition (responsables: Cécilia Claeys et Emeline Hatt), Aix-Marseille Université, Pôle universitaire de Gap, Gap, Hautes-Alpes

17 dec 2021

seminar Représentations de la montagne et politiques de développement : perspectives historiques et ethnographiques depuis une vallée des Alpes occidentales in séminaire de l’Idemec (Axe 1) Altérités et pluralités en Méditerranée (responsables: Katia Boissevain and Séverine Gabry-Thienpont), MMSH, Aix-en-Provence

14 dec 2021

seminar Les dimensions locales et globales du système de caste : « jeux d’échelles » dans le sous-continent indien (in French) in Santé et Société (Responsable: Viviana L.Toro Matuk) L.U.de.S Campus – Lugano

language skills

• Italian : mother tongue
• French: fluid
  
• English: advanced
• Gujarati: limited proficiency
  
• Arabic: elementary knowledge
  

Other skills

• Social network analysis software (Giphi, SocNetV)
• Geographic information software (QGIS)
• Bibliographic metadata processing (Zotero)
• LaTeX