Papers by Giulia Consoli
Antropologia, 2023
ITA Questo articolo riflette su pratiche di cura e recenti traiettorie trasformative di un serviz... more ITA Questo articolo riflette su pratiche di cura e recenti traiettorie trasformative di un servizio dedicato alla minore età nato peculiarmente, sul finire degli anni Novanta, sotto lo stimolo di alcuni giovani cittadini marocchini individuati come privi di adeguati riferimenti parentali. Attraverso un'etnografia condotta tra 2018 e 2022 in una struttura residenziale per minori dell'Italia settentrionale, il saggio approfondisce, a più voci, la "narrazione delle origini" di questa "comunità" destinata a persone di età inferiore agli anni diciotto e le considerazioni sui suoi mutamenti offerte da interlocutori che vi hanno diversamente transitato per un ventennio. Oltre ad ampliare il ventaglio di studi su legami globali di cura stimolati da una mobilità transnazionale, spesso intesi secondo un'univoca direzione geografica, di genere e generazionale, il saggio interroga diverse prospettive su concezioni, aspirazioni e pratiche di autonomia, (in)dipendenza e (il) legittimità.
Antropologia Pubblica, 2021
In Italy, the definition of "unaccompanied foreign minor" was recently reaffirmed by Law 47/2017,... more In Italy, the definition of "unaccompanied foreign minor" was recently reaffirmed by Law 47/2017, which at the same time established the figure of "volunteer guardian". This essay discusses both rhetoric and representations on this figure conveyed by some institutional actors and the performed experiences of a group of volunteer guardians in a northern Italian town. The description of this reshaped guardianship as an expression of "social parenting" calls for an in-depth analysis of the extent of state regulatory intervention in the relational life definition of the foreign minors living in its territory. If volunteer guardianship is asked to fill a part of the alleged void since their not being considered, to some extent, someone's child, I propose to call the practices developed on volunteer guardians "State genealogies". Consisting in the mobilisation of parental lexicon in an attempt to de-bureaucratise and personify the State and its institutions, "State genealogies" involve at once an anthropo-poietic project of de-kinning and resocialization. Drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork that took place from 2018 to 2021, I engaged the progressive difficulties in placing oneself in these genealogies and in acting out the shared parenting when faced with a scarce circulation of knowledge or an often limited conviviality. In the end, it is the call by the guardians themselves for anthropological contributions that closes this ethnographic path and opens up the possibility to outline a deeper involvement of anthropological knowledge and practices in these public spaces.
Conference Presentations by Giulia Consoli
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P09 - (Re)thinking “the social” through relatedness and reproductive practices.
Alessandra Gribaldo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Giulia Consoli (Università di Pavia)
The ethics, aesthetics, practices, and policies of kinship are played out in the interstices of the social, blurring the boundaries of private and public. The fields of relatedness and the lens of (non)reproductive practices are thus exceptionally helpful in attempting to grasp tensions, anxieties, challenges, and imaginaries within societies and societal ideas in their making, unmaking and spreading. Indeed, the very concepts of intimacy, domesticity, sharing of substances, goods, assets, experiences, or memories shape and are shaped through different ways of conceiving kin, relatives and relationships. The aim of the panel is to explore how relatedness practices are “good to think” different ways of conceiving societies or the social fields, confronting major challenges such as migration, climate changes or new technologies and taking into account the plural intersections of gender, generation, citizenship and class.
We welcome contributions on (but not limited to) the following issues:
o The relationship between relatedness and reproductive practices
o Reproductive practices and life histories
o Unnamed family forms and “other intimacies”
o Migration and kinship: strategies, desires, and constraints
o Cultural meanings of reproduction and kinship, public discourses and the production of “the social”
Keywords: kinship, relatedness, reproduction, imaginaries, intimacies
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Papers by Giulia Consoli
Conference Presentations by Giulia Consoli
https://www.siacantropologia.it/english-version/
Deadline: 7 May 2023
P09 - (Re)thinking “the social” through relatedness and reproductive practices.
Alessandra Gribaldo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Giulia Consoli (Università di Pavia)
The ethics, aesthetics, practices, and policies of kinship are played out in the interstices of the social, blurring the boundaries of private and public. The fields of relatedness and the lens of (non)reproductive practices are thus exceptionally helpful in attempting to grasp tensions, anxieties, challenges, and imaginaries within societies and societal ideas in their making, unmaking and spreading. Indeed, the very concepts of intimacy, domesticity, sharing of substances, goods, assets, experiences, or memories shape and are shaped through different ways of conceiving kin, relatives and relationships. The aim of the panel is to explore how relatedness practices are “good to think” different ways of conceiving societies or the social fields, confronting major challenges such as migration, climate changes or new technologies and taking into account the plural intersections of gender, generation, citizenship and class.
We welcome contributions on (but not limited to) the following issues:
o The relationship between relatedness and reproductive practices
o Reproductive practices and life histories
o Unnamed family forms and “other intimacies”
o Migration and kinship: strategies, desires, and constraints
o Cultural meanings of reproduction and kinship, public discourses and the production of “the social”
Keywords: kinship, relatedness, reproduction, imaginaries, intimacies
https://www.siacantropologia.it/english-version/
Deadline: 7 May 2023
P09 - (Re)thinking “the social” through relatedness and reproductive practices.
Alessandra Gribaldo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Giulia Consoli (Università di Pavia)
The ethics, aesthetics, practices, and policies of kinship are played out in the interstices of the social, blurring the boundaries of private and public. The fields of relatedness and the lens of (non)reproductive practices are thus exceptionally helpful in attempting to grasp tensions, anxieties, challenges, and imaginaries within societies and societal ideas in their making, unmaking and spreading. Indeed, the very concepts of intimacy, domesticity, sharing of substances, goods, assets, experiences, or memories shape and are shaped through different ways of conceiving kin, relatives and relationships. The aim of the panel is to explore how relatedness practices are “good to think” different ways of conceiving societies or the social fields, confronting major challenges such as migration, climate changes or new technologies and taking into account the plural intersections of gender, generation, citizenship and class.
We welcome contributions on (but not limited to) the following issues:
o The relationship between relatedness and reproductive practices
o Reproductive practices and life histories
o Unnamed family forms and “other intimacies”
o Migration and kinship: strategies, desires, and constraints
o Cultural meanings of reproduction and kinship, public discourses and the production of “the social”
Keywords: kinship, relatedness, reproduction, imaginaries, intimacies