Andrea Judith Boscoboinik Bourquard

Doctor in Social Anthropology

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 andrea.boscoboinik@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 7845
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6513-972X

Mobility, imaginaries, rural space, mountains, urbanisation

 

Senior Researcher
Department of Social Sciences

PER 21 bu. G333
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
PER 21, G333
+41 26 300 7845

Lecturer
Department of Geosciences

PER 21 bu. G333
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
PER 21, G333
+41 26 300 7845

Biography

I began my studies in anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires before joining the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, first as a student and later as a research collaborator. My undergraduate thesis, completed in 1995, focused on social transformations in Bulgaria during the so-called "transition" to a post-socialist society. I later continued with a doctoral project in Honduras, which addressed discourses and the social consequences following a disaster situation.

Since 2009, I have been working on transformations in rural areas, particularly those driven by tourism. These processes of landscape transformation led me to focus on new mobilities and mobile populations living in mountain regions, especially in the Swiss Alps. My latest project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2017–2021), is entitled "Becoming Local in Mountain Regions: Diversification, Gentrification, Cohabitation. A Comparison of the Swiss Alps and the Spanish Pyrenees", in collaboration with Prof. Viviane Cretton (HES-SO Valais-Wallis), Dr. Andrea Friedli (Uni FR), Prof. Montserrat Soronellas (URV), and Dr. Maria Offenhenden (URV).

I have presented the results of my research at several EASA, SIEF, and IUAES conferences, as well as at various universities (Lyon II, Rovira i Virgili, Messina, Timisoara, Trondheim, Kaunas, among others). I have also published numerous articles and books on the various topics I have studied.

Research and publications

  • List of Publications
    30 publications

    A “magic bubble” and a “place of strength”. When images and connections shape the Swiss Alps , in New Horizons for the Alps – Ethnographies, Reshaping Challenges, and Emerging More-Than-Alpine Relations
    Viviane Cretton, Andrea Boscoboinik (2024) | Book chapter

  • Research projects

    Becoming local in mountain areas : diversification, gentrification, cohabitation. A comparison between Swiss Alps and Spanish Pyrenees
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.10.2017
    End 30.06.2021
    Funding SNSF 

Teaching and courses

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