Current and Past Projects
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Everyday Suffering and the Abstract Time-Reckoning of Law (Creeping Death II)
June 2020
How does time structure the allocation of responsibility in the context of large-scale industrial disasters? Focusing on the Processo Eternit bis, the follow-up case brought against the former main investor in Europe’s largest asbestos-processing factory in Casale Monferrato (Italy), this project compares the temporal order of the lived experience of the asbestos disaster in the affected community with the abstract time-reckoning of law. [...] -
TSANTSA: Digital Relaunch
August 2019
Since 2018, I am the co-editor of TSANTSA – Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association SAA. Together with my two co-editors, I was responsible for the reorganisation and digitalisation of the editorial process. [...] -
Transformation of Remote Rural Areas in the Alps
June 2018
This photographic long-term project documents the retreat of the human presence from remote rural areas in the Alps It studies the human/ non-human relationship in a landscape shaped by human labour for centuries. [...] -
Creeping Death. Asbestos Victims and the Allocation of Moral and Legal Responsibility in the Aftermath of an Industrial Disaster
June 2017
At the intersection between legal anthropology and environmental anthropology, this research project examines how responsibility for the consequences of asbestos-related diseases and the pollution of the environment is negotiated in the courtroom and beyond, and it asks how moral and legal responsibility are intertwined. [...] -
The Limits of Control. Transnational Migration Trajectories of Clandestine Tunisian Migrants and Assisted Return Between Governed Voluntariness and Repression
October 2012
The PhD project took Switzerland's programmme of so-called assisted voluntary return migration (AVR) for Tunisian migrants as a case study to examine the contradictions of the modern liberal nation state that emerge in the governance of transnational mobility. [...]