GHEZZI SIMONE

Role
Associate professor  
Academic disciplines
Discipline demoetnoantropologiche (M-DEA/01)
Email
[email protected]
Office phone
0264487480
Room:
  • U07, Floor: 3, Room: 3073
Reception hours

By appointment

Biography

Simone Ghezzi (PhD, University of Toronto) is associate professor in economic anthropology and social/cultural anthropology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. He is a member of the editorial board Antropologia (New Series). He is also member of the URBEUR faculty board (PH.D programme in Urban and Local European Studies – Università di Milano-Bicocca and other European partners). His research interests include: family entrepreneurship, informal economies, culture and economy, artisan production, local development and kinship. He is currently continuing his research on the relationship between artisan and industrial production in northern Italian industrial districts. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University (Providence), visiting professor at Huazhong Agricultural University, College of Human Science and Law (Wuhan, China), and at the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto (Canada).

Publications

  • Ghezzi, S. (2023). The Legacy of the Past in Business Families of Northern Italy. In T. Koellner (a cura di), Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective
    Bringing Anthropology Back In (pp. 223-243). Palgrave Macmillan [10.1007/978-3-031-20525-5_9].     Detail

  • Ghezzi, S. (2022). Il passato, il presente e il futuro di un distretto industriale. Riflessioni su un campo di ricerca incerto. ETNOANTROPOLOGIA, 10(1), 51-64. Detail

  • Ghezzi, S., D'Aloisio, F. (2022). Prefigurare il lavoro del futuro. Scenari etnografici tra crisi finanziaria e crisi pandemica. ETNOANTROPOLOGIA, 10(1), 11-32. Detail

  • D'Aloisio, F., Ghezzi, S. (2020). Facing the Crisis: Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism. New York (USA); Oxford (UK) : Berghahn Books. Detail

  • Ghezzi, S. (2020). Crisis of production and crisis of reproduction: The disappearance of woodcarvers in the furniture-making district of the brianza, lombardy. In F. D'Aloisio, S. Ghezzi (a cura di), Facing the Crisis: Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism (pp. 56-79). New York (USA); Oxford (UK) : Berghahn Books. Detail

Full list

Research projects

GHEZZI-Fondo per il finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca
Year: 2017
Call: FFABR 2017
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA - UFFICIO I - Bilancio e Contabilita'. Coordinamento staff della Direzione

Awards

Awards

  • FURS Essay Competition, FOUNDATION FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES, 2002

Scientific fellowships

  • Socio fondatore - Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale, 2018

Editorial boards

  • Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - ANTROPOLOGIA, 2018
  • Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - ANTROPOLOGIA DELLA CONTEMPORANEITÀ, 2018

Research and teaching assignments

  • Attivita' didattica - Research on kinship roles in family business and engage in exchanges with faculty and graduate students - University of Toronto, 2013
  • Attivita' didattica - Insegnamento di un corso intensivo estivo di antropologia per i servizi sociali rivolto agli studenti del secondo anno del corso di laurea in Social Work (24 ore) - Huazhong Agricultural University, 2014

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program committee - 14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures(Italia), 2016

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