Letizia Bonanno
Letizia Bonanno earned her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester in 2019. Since then she has held diverse teaching and research positions across Europe and the UK. She conducted long-term fieldwork in Greece, looking at gendered impact of economic austerity and the reconfiguration of care practices across the state, the household and the grassroots voluntary sector.
Since 2024 she been working on processes on de-industrialisation, steel plants dismissal and industrial job loss in Italy and Romania. For these projects she received the Wenner Gren Post PhD Grant and the Seed Money Grant from RECET (University of Vienna).
In January 2026 she joined the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna is a MSCA Post-doctoral fellow. Her new project “Imagining the Future in Post-Industrial Taranto” is an ethnographic and multimodal exploration of how Tarantini envision sustainable and dignified futures in the shadow of the most polluting steel plant of Europe.
Letizia is a member of the editorial collective of Anthropology of Work Review, and of ANUAC, the journal of Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology (SIAC).
Research
Reconfigurations of Care in Austerity-burdened Athens
Recent Publications
Book Review: Nadia Seremtakis: Sensing the everyday. Dialogues from austerity Greece.
Eerie desires for an authoritarian state. Covid 19 updates from Italy.
Contact
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Link: https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/post-docs/bonanno-letizia/